May
13
2024
This week: Labor historian Jeff Schuhrke writes about how claims of antisemitism are providing ammunition for the latest corporate-backed attempt to dismantle unions.
Executive editor Nora Caplan-Bricker speaks to constitutional law scholar Aziz Rana on the echoes of leftist internationalism of the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s in today’s student movement for Palestine.
We are also sharing a strikingly prescient exchange about violence and Zionism from a Yiddish anarchist newspaper following the 1929 massacre in Hebron, introduced and translated by Eyshe Beirich.
An exchange in the anarchist newspaper Di fraye arbeter shtime after the 1929 Hebron massacre offers a case study in Jewish discourse and political reaction after immense violence.
Before you go: Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel wrote an op-ed in The Guardian about how Jewish fears over campus protests are being marshaled to advance an illiberal agenda in the US. Read the article here.
