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Jan
27
2025

Weekly Roundup - 1/27/25

This week: In a deep-dive feature from our new issue, now out from behind the paywall, associate editor Mari Cohen explores the crisis facing the field of genocide studies, as an academic discipline born from the study of the Holocaust confronts Israel’s devastation of Gaza.

In a new episode of On the Nose, senior reporter Alex Kane speaks with political analysts Zaha Hassan and Youssef Munayyer about why Israel accepted the recent ceasefire deal, whether the agreement is likely to last, and Gaza’s political future.

In a new comic, “Portrait of ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt,” contributing writer Eli Vallely comments on the Anti-Defamation League’s response to Elon Musk’s apparent Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration.

And in light of the slew of anti-immigrant moves advanced by Trump this week, we are also sharing Greg Afinogenov’s 2019 essay making the Jewish case for open borders.

Report
Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?
A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”
Mari Cohen
Scrutinizing the Gaza Ceasefire Deal
Comic
Portrait of ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt
Eli Valley

From the Archive

Essay
The Jewish Case for Open Borders
How center-left immigration proposals lead to far-right policy.
Greg Afinogenov