Jordan Goldwarg, Aneela Afzali: Progressives Must Stop Weaponizing Charges of Anti-Semitism Against Critics of Israel
We need to accept in our American political discourse that anti-Zionism does not equate to anti-Semitism. When we fail to do this and instead conflate the two, the American Jewish community becomes less safe.
Medea Benjamin: 10 Good Things About 2018
Yes, you could say I’m trying to put lipstick on a pig. 2018 was a year of whiplash, a never-ending series of assaults on our environment, immigrants, people of color, … Continue reading
Andrew Hanin: Congratulations (Response to Tree of Life Massacre)
Congratulations on your victory. My fear of G-D redirected toward You. . You’ll never see me set foot in that depressed sacred space. Those armed guards aren’t ready for You. … Continue reading
Shalom Lappin: On the Tree of Life Shooting
In a particularly poignant scene of Spike Lee’s superb new film BlacKkKlansman, Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer in Colorado Springs in the 1970s, who infiltrates the local Klan … Continue reading
Video: Nazi vs. Nazi
. Small Town Tricks Neo-Nazi Marchers Into Raising Thousands Of Euros To Combat Extremism. In preparation for an upcoming neo-Nazi march in the small Bavarian town of Wunsiedel, local residents … Continue reading
George Yancy: Is Your God Dead?
I don’t mean the God of the philosophers or the scholars, but, as Blaise Pascal said, the “God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob.” With no disrespect, I … Continue reading
W. H. Auden: Refugee Blues
Say this city has ten million souls,
Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:
Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
David Ades: In Response to the Accusation that I am Part of a Vast Jewish Conspiracy to Control the World
If I could stop wrestling with entropy long enough to consider this notion raised over and over the years like a scaffold, like a hangman’s noose and dangled … Continue reading
Glenn Greenwald: The Greatest Threat to Campus Free Speech
There is no shortage of American pundits who love to denounce “PC” speech codes that restrict and punish the expression of certain ideas on college campuses. What these self-styled campus-free-speech … Continue reading
Daniel Burston: What is Zionism?
Zionism is a movement for Jewish emancipation and self-determination that arose in response to the rising tide of anti-Semitism that engulfed Europe in the mid-19th century, which resulted in a … Continue reading
Daniel Burston: What is Anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism is an old and remarkably persistent form of ethnic and religious prejudice. Scholars have found strong evidence of anti-Semitic attitudes in Hellenistic and Roman authors up to three centuries … Continue reading
Phyllis Chesler: My Jewish Feminist Problem
Why my sisters can’t think straight about Israel. These days, Israel is far too dangerous a word to pronounce in a Western intellectual or social setting. Say it—and you risk … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Anti-Semitism or Anti-War?
Let’s distinguish between sentiment against the actions of the Israeli government and pure anti-Semitism The current wave of anti-Semitism in Western Europe is much more complicated than traditional European hatred … Continue reading
Myriam Miedzian: Chasm on the Left — Blame Israel vs. Blame Both
IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN when I am careful not to utter the words “Israel, Palestinians, Gaza” to a certain number of my leftwing friends and acquaintances. We agree on just … Continue reading →