Jan
20
2025
Weekly Roundup - 2/3/25
This week: In the first installment of a new series in which writers return to works of Palestinian literature that speak to them now, scholar Ussama Makdisi reflects on Edward Said’s understanding of historical Jewish victimhood in the context of the genocide in Gaza.
From our recent Florida issue, we are sharing a piece by writer Monica Uszerowicz about the herbalist traditions shared between Indigenous and diaspora communities.
And in honor of Martin Luther King Day, we are sharing writer Rachel Cohen’s 2018 review of Marc Dollinger’s Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, which challenges the sanitized narrative of Black-Jewish relations during the Civil Rights era.

Rereadings
On the “Victims of the Victims”
Revisiting Edward Said’s ethical humanism in the context of the Gaza genocide
Ussama Makdisi

Materia Medica
Buenezas of South Florida
How plant wisdom connects Indigenous communities and the diasporas that make their homes in the region
Monica Uszerowicz

From the Archive

Review
What Happened to the Black-Jewish Political Alliance?
Challenging the sanitized history of blacks and Jews during the Civil Rights era.
Rachel Cohen