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The Push to “Deactivate” Students for Justice in Palestine

Civil liberties experts say a law banning “material support for terrorism” is being used to quash pro-Palestine speech.

Alex Kane November 21, 2023

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Israel’s War on Journalists

By casting reporters as Hamas accomplices, Israel seeks to discredit critical coverage—and to justify unprecedented violence against Palestinian journalists.

Jonathan Shamir November 15, 2023

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The Wisdom of the Shiva

A letter from the publisher of Jewish Currents.

Daniel May October 19, 2023

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A Visa Program Exception for Israel

The US has admitted Israel into the Visa Waiver Program even though the country continues to discriminate against Palestinian American travelers.

Alex Kane October 3, 2023

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An Anti-Migrant Offensive In Israel

Recent police violence against Israel’s Eritrean minority is a window into the government’s escalating hostility towards non-Jewish immigrants.

Alex Kane September 12, 2023

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Chile’s Documentarian of Dashed Dreams

Fifty years after a coup ended Chile’s socialist experiment, the films of Patricio Guzmán—now on view in a New York retrospective—offer a guide to the era and its long shadow.

Mitchell Abidor September 7, 2023

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The End of Widady

Settler attacks are rapidly depopulating Palestinian communities in Area C of the West Bank.

Joshua Leifer September 6, 2023

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Israel’s TikTok Extremists

Far-right content has taken Israeli TikTok by storm, rallying the country’s youth in support of Jewish supremacy.

Sophia Goodfriend August 22, 2023

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Israel’s Anti-Miscegenation Law

A new law classifies some sexual crimes as “terrorism,” signaling an intent to target Arabs—and a goal of preventing racial mixing.

Elisheva Goldberg August 15, 2023

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The New Debate Over Aid to Israel

Once a consensus position, US funding of Israel now has new detractors from the heart of the political establishment.

Alex Kane August 8, 2023

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Abolishing Israel’s Reasonableness Standard: An Explainer

The Knesset just passed the first step in the controversial judicial overhaul plan. What does it mean and what happens next?

Elisheva Goldberg August 1, 2023

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The PA’s Slow-Motion Collapse

In the aftermath of Israel’s attack on Jenin, the Palestinian Authority’s efforts to regain legitimacy risk hastening its potentially terminal decline.

Joshua Leifer July 18, 2023

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“We Are in a Daily Battle for Survival”

Abandoned by the Israeli government, the country’s Palestinian citizens live at the mercy of organized crime.

Elisheva Goldberg July 11, 2023

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Recent Polls of US Jews Reflect Polarized Community

Trying to keep up with shifting opinion on Israel/Palestine, surveys of American Jews are beginning to ask new questions.

Caroline Morganti June 29, 2023

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Under a Settler Government, Violence Grows

Haaretz’s West Bank correspondent Hagar Shezaf discusses why settler attacks on Palestinians are becoming bolder.

Alex Kane June 27, 2023

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The US Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Modi

In pursuing a strategic alliance with India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister, Biden has betrayed his promises to uphold human rights.

Aparna Gopalan June 22, 2023

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Fatima Mohammed Has No Regrets

The CUNY Law graduate, who delivered a commencement address criticizing Israel, gives her first interview since becoming the target of a national smear campaign.

Alex Kane June 21, 2023

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Settlers’ Triumphant Return to Homesh

By granting Israeli citizens legal access to a disbanded settlement in the West Bank, the government has fulfilled one of the settler movement’s central demands.

Alex Kane June 13, 2023

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Netanyahu’s Salami Method

Using a classic authoritarian strategy, the Israeli right has quashed dissent and entrenched the occupation slice by slice.

Joshua Leifer June 6, 2023

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National Plan Reflects the Debate Over Antisemitism

While generally promising more of the same, the Biden plan signaled in multiple ways that progressive groups have succeeded in making Jewish politics a contested space.

Mari Cohen June 1, 2023