Roundtable
Roundtable
On Homes for All
In the short term, we need to cancel rent and mortgages. In the longer term, we need to decommodify housing.
Ilhan Omar October 23, 2020
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On Redistributing Vacant Housing
It’s never been more urgent to turn our cities’ vacant living spaces into housing for the homeless.
Jenny Akchin and Lynn Lewis October 23, 2020
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On Preventing Pandemic Displacement
We must improve the housing that helps illness spread—without displacing the people who live there.
Samuel Stein October 23, 2020
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On Avoiding the New Foreclosure Crisis
Avoiding another foreclosure crisis means pressuring lawmakers to put the brakes on speculative behavior.
Oksana Mironova October 23, 2020
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“We Had to Meet Our Peers Where They Were”
A defense of IfNotNow’s controversial Birthright walk-offs.
Danielle Raskin November 21, 2019
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“Responsible Travel in the Region Is Possible”
The anti-occupation movement urgently needs ambassadors who have been on the ground.
Frima “Merphie” Bubis November 21, 2019
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“Reimagine and Reclaim the Concept of Birthright”
Young Jews, regardless of means, should have the opportunity to invest in strengthening our Jewish lives however we see fit.
Michael Zanger-Tishler November 21, 2019
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“Really See, Not From a Bus Window”
American Jews have a responsibility to visit the West Bank on an alternative trip, meet with Palestinians, and hear their stories.
Sam Bahour November 21, 2019
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“Mere Disruption Won’t Alter Birthright’s Agenda”
Going on the trips, even to challenge them, undermines the BDS movement and solidarity with Palestinian activists.
Alex Verman November 21, 2019
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An Opportunity for Jews to Reconsider Our Trauma
The JVP statement asks Jews to make new meaning out of our losses.
Manijeh Nasrabadi March 25, 2019
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Brave, Historic, and Long Overdue
A Palestinian professor weighs in on the JVP anti-Zionism statement.
Sherene Seikaly March 25, 2019
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Fundamentally Inward-Looking
A rabbi and longtime activist argues against the wisdom of JVP declaring itself anti-Zionist.
Rabbi Michael Davis March 25, 2019
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Is Anti-Zionism the Only Option?
Shaul Magid asks whether opposition to Zionism is the only morally viable path forward.
Shaul Magid March 25, 2019
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Let’s Deal in Reality, Not Theory
Rabbi Jill Jacobs argues against “diving back into political theory.”
Rabbi Jill Jacobs March 25, 2019
