Newsletter

Training for NYPD Officers Categorized the Keffiyeh and Watermelon as Antisemitic Symbols

Experts say the training reinforced a police culture that treats Palestinians and their supporters with suspicion and brutality.

Alex Kane April 24, 2025

Prisoners and Activists Push Back on HALT Act Suspension in New York

The pause of a landmark state reform to solitary confinement exemplifies today’s backlash to the fight against mass incarceration.

Christopher Blackwell and Sarah Sax April 22, 2025

“All He Draws Is Monsters!”

Understanding Zionist forefather Max Nordau’s vision of “degenerate” art and his attitudes toward diaspora Jews can illuminate our present-day crisis.

Eli Valley April 18, 2025

“A Void Only the Houthis Are Filling”

Yemen scholar Helen Lackner explains how the rebel group, once unpopular among its subjects and peripheral in the region, has seen its legitimacy grow due to its action on Gaza.

Jonathan Shamir April 15, 2025

The Four Ivies

Eli Valley April 11, 2025

Against Zionist Realism

Is “Not In Our Name” Jewish organizing around Palestine inflating our culpability as Jews—and downplaying our complicity as Americans?

Jon Danforth-Appell April 9, 2025

Canary Mission’s Newest Funders

Two Jewish American philanthropists supported the group in 2023, including the foundation of a board member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Alex Kane April 4, 2025

Chuck Schumer Cannot Meet the Moment

In his new book on antisemitism, the minority leader offers a vision of progress without popular struggle that profoundly underestimates the Trump threat.

Peter Beinart April 3, 2025