Hillel Uses the Pro-Israel Playbook on Socialists
The campus organization’s dispute with Georgia Tech’s YDSA chapter might be a sign of things to come.
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The Lives of Animals in Wartime
Penny Johnson's book argues that thinking about the suffering of animals under occupation can actually reveal a great deal about humanity.
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Let’s Deal in Reality, Not Theory
Rabbi Jill Jacobs argues against "diving back into political theory."
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An Opportunity for Jews to Reconsider Our Trauma
The JVP statement asks Jews to make new meaning out of our losses.
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Ahed Tamimi Sentenced
by Noah Kulwin Photo: Haim Schwarczenberg, https://schwarczenberg.com AHED TAMIMI WILL BE GOING TO JAIL for 8 months, as part of a plea bargain announced by the 17-year-old’s lawyer on Wednesday. According to her lawyer, Tamimi was staring down a three year sentence for 12 charges, stemming from a December viral video in which Tamimi was filmed slapping […]
Read MoreInside the Israeli-Government-Sponsored Settler Party Too Extreme for AIPAC
by Noah Kulwin Image credit: Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com CRAMMED INSIDE THE BASEMENT of the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. on Monday afternoon, the leading lights of the Israeli settler movement and their allies had a little celebration. Just a few blocks from the comparatively moderate 2018 AIPAC Policy Conference, the Israeli Ministry of […]
Read MoreFive Days in Palestine
by Dina Heisler and Susan Nobel PEOPLE around the world and across time crave similar things. They want the chance to raise their families within a peaceful and fair environment, one that affords a decent quality of life without fear of one’s fellow man. This was the main takeaway from our voyage into another world: […]
Read MoreQuick Takes: Whither the Democratic Socialists of America?
by Ralph Seliger BACK IN 1982, I witnessed the merger of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC — usually pronounced “dee-sock”) with the New American Movement to form the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Nearly ten years before, DSOC had split from the Social Democrats USA (SD), itself the main remnant of the old […]
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