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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
The Tangled Knot of Anti-Zionist Violence - Doubling down on the conflation of Zionism and Judaism won’t stop violent attacks.
Friday, June 6, 2025
The Era of Unconditional Support for Israel Is Ending - Trump’s redefinition of America’s imperial role is emboldening US officials to distinguish American interests from Israeli ones—and freeing European governments to challenge the Jewish state.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Trump’s Illegal Cuts to University Funding, Explained - The administration is using Title VI to justify the suspension of federal grants, while completely leapfrogging the legal process.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Marketing Authoritarianism - Mimicking his Salvadoran ally Nayib Bukele, Trump is using spectacles of disappearance to project a total power he does not yet possess.
Friday, May 30, 2025
The End of the Marty Peretz Era - At a controversial event at the Center for Jewish History, Trump donor Bill Ackman held his own against an exhausted brand of liberalism.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Staying in Motion - The JVP national members meeting was a show of force at a moment of alarming vulnerability to repression.
Friday, May 23, 2025
Translation - "he says I want to get the get out of here / By here he means your world / not his"
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Unpacking the Rift Between Trump and Netanyahu - The president has sought to separate US interests from Israeli interests abroad, even as he represses Israel critics at home.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
The Group Forging a “Judeo-Christian” Zionism for the New MAGA Age - Israel365’s decades of outreach to Christian Zionists has made it a power player from the World Zionist Congress to the White House.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
How Should Activists Relate to Risk? - An investigation through Jewish text, in the wake of escalating violence in the West Bank against Palestinians and their allies
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
The Destruction of Khalet a-Daba’ - The largest demolition in the history of Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank portends an escalation of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the region.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Wrestling with Martin Buber - The Zionist philosopher couldn’t escape a colonial mindset, but his binationalist vision offers a way forward in Israel/Palestine.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
A Leftist’s Guide to Tariffs - Despite purporting to “bring back jobs,” Trump’s trade war continues the capitalist offensive of the free trade regime.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Training for NYPD Officers Categorized the Keffiyeh and Watermelon as Antisemitic Symbols - Experts say the training reinforced a police culture that treats Palestinians and their supporters with suspicion and brutality.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Prisoners and Activists Push Back on HALT Act Suspension in New York - The pause of a landmark state reform to solitary confinement exemplifies today’s backlash to the fight against mass incarceration.
Friday, April 18, 2025
“All He Draws Is Monsters!” - Understanding Zionist forefather Max Nordau’s vision of “degenerate” art and his attitudes toward diaspora Jews can illuminate our present-day crisis.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
“A Void Only the Houthis Are Filling” - Yemen scholar Helen Lackner explains how the rebel group, once unpopular among its subjects and peripheral in the region, has seen its legitimacy grow due to its action on Gaza.
Friday, April 11, 2025
The Four Ivies -
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Against Zionist Realism - Is “Not In Our Name” Jewish organizing around Palestine inflating our culpability as Jews—and downplaying our complicity as <em>Americans</em>?
Friday, April 4, 2025
Canary Mission’s Newest Funders - Two Jewish American philanthropists supported the group in 2023, including the foundation of a board member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Chuck Schumer Cannot Meet the Moment - In his new book on antisemitism, the minority leader offers a vision of progress without popular struggle that profoundly underestimates the Trump threat.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
The Deportation Dragnet - With universities’ collaboration, the Trump administration is targeting noncitizens on campus—and paving the way for an expansive immigration crackdown.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Parsing Anti-Hamas Protests and Pro-Israel PR - Political analyst Muhammad Shehada discusses the cynical exploitation of Gazans’ demonstrations, and Israel’s investment in keeping Hamas in power.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Palestinian Hostage Families’ Long Wait - For the loved ones of some Palestinian captives, the short-lived ceasefire offered a painful road to reunion.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
ADL Shutters Flagship Anti-Bias Program - Former employees say the organization is shifting away from educational content on racism and the LGBTQ experience and focusing more exclusively on antisemitism.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
On the Squeezing - The Parable of the Lemons
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
A Progressive Education Nonprofit’s Silence on Gaza - Facing History & Ourselves, which is known for its model lessons on genocide, has angered staff and disappointed teachers with its refusal to provide resources about Gaza.
Monday, February 24, 2025
Hey Chubbs! -
Friday, February 14, 2025
The Perils of Universities’ Unscholarly Antisemitism Reports - By relying on pro-Israel organizations’ analysis of antisemitism—rather than recruiting the scholars on their own campuses—university antisemitism task forces are enabling the assault on academic freedom.
Friday, February 7, 2025
After the Ceasefire - Three Palestinians from northern Gaza reflect on returning to their devastated homes.
Monday, February 3, 2025
The Settler Strategy Accelerating Palestinian Dispossession - By establishing dozens of new pastoral outposts, Israeli settlers are hastening land seizures in the Jordan Valley.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
A Reconstructionist Reckoning - Clashes between a liberal Zionist rabbinical school and its heavily anti-Zionist student body encapsulate a broader fight over the Jewish future.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Portrait of ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt -
Friday, January 17, 2025
On the “Victims of the Victims” - Revisiting Edward Said’s ethical humanism in the context of the Gaza genocide
Friday, December 20, 2024
Inside the Yale Police Department’s War on Student Protesters - Exclusive documents reveal the YPD’s use of counterterrorism tactics in suppressing pro-Palestine activism.
Friday, December 20, 2024
The Algeria Analogy - We must turn to histories of decolonization not in order to predict
outcomes, but to expand our sense of how to fight without knowing the future.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Sonic Bloom - The film <em>The Klezmer Project</em> suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of Zionism and the sentimental dream of recovering a Yiddish past.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
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.”
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Closer - "A perfect day // Can be a backdrop so calm"
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Defunding Dissent - Philanthropists have quietly withdrawn funding from grassroots groups that spoke out for Gaza, imperiling a broad range of social justice movements.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Merle Favis - “There are cracks that exist in our communities, and we need to build from them.”
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Rochelle - "Our friendship was the ideology of my life."
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Difference Without Power - In her recent book, <i>The Reeducation of Race</i>, Sonali Thakkar excavates the mid-century roots of contemporary liberal anti-racism.
Saturday, December 14, 2024
No Exit - Rachel Kushner's <em>Creation Lake</em> cedes the sense of possibility that animates her earlier novels.
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Things Not Seen - Since October 7th, 2023, fault lines around Palestinian solidarity have changed the landscape of visual art.
Monday, December 9, 2024
Bernard-Henri Lévy Speaks the American Media’s Lingua Franca - In a new book, the French intellectual exemplifies a liberal Zionist discourse that has fewer and fewer spokespeople to choose from.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Trump’s Israel Instincts Don’t Matter - In his second term, as in his first, Trump may criticize Netanyahu—but his advisers will outmaneuver him to ensure that Israel enjoys a free hand.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Euro Trip -
Friday, November 15, 2024
The Civil Rights Law Shutting Down Pro-Palestine Speech - Pro-Israel groups have remade Title VI into a tool of repression—and a second Trump term will supercharge their crusade.
Friday, November 15, 2024
Chattahoochee - "She’s taken the law into // her own hands, the narrative’s / taken a turn."
