Newsletter

The Bird of Sorrow

“A bullet passes through my neck / my blood / begins to speak through my feathers”

Garous Abdolmalekian June 12, 2020

Stealing Away in America

Vicky Osterweil, author of the forthcoming book In Defense of Looting, discusses the ways that looting contests the racial capitalist logics at the heart of American empire.

Zoé Samudzi June 10, 2020

Against Analogy

To build solidarity in this moment, white Jews should resist the impulse to highlight similarities between histories of antisemitism and anti-Blackness.

Ben Ratskoff June 9, 2020

Waging Lawfare

Trump’s executive order on antisemitism caps a decades-long fight to make Palestine solidarity activism all but illegal.

Natasha Roth-Rowland June 8, 2020

Taking Care

In the Twin Cities over the past week, protesters refused the state’s mythic monopoly on care, and thus its thin alibi for its violence.

Nathan Goldman and Claire Schwartz June 5, 2020

Translating Black Lives Matter into Yiddish

Amid an eruption of protests over police brutality, a Black performer of Yiddish music reflects on an attempt to “touch Blackness from inside Yiddish.”

Anthony Russell June 5, 2020

Exodus: Yitro

What does it mean that we do not consent to our ethical obligations?

Jacob Plitman June 4, 2020

Police State Procedural

The new season of Fauda takes the denigration of Palestinians to new depths.

Mitchell Abidor June 2, 2020