Tag: Israel

• The Wrestling Itself is the Point: A Response to Joshua Leifer | Political Theology Network

  For Political Theology Network, I wrote a review of Joshua Leifer’s new book Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life— and a…

  

• The Anti-DEI Movement and the Jewish Right | Political Research Associates

  Weaponizing Antisemitism to Defend White Supremacy “For at least two decades, defenders of Israel’s unjust policies have sought to repress the growing movement for Palestinian rights, especially on college campuses,…

  

• The Right Is Increasingly Exploiting the Horror of Genocide | In These Times

  “As the risk of all-out regional war looms in the Middle East, a less noticed move away from decades of pro-Israel consensus is beginning on parts of the Right.  While U.S. military…

  

• The New Antisemitism and Neo-McCarthyism | Political Research Associates

  “As Israel’s genocidal siege on Gaza deepens since Hamas’s October 7thattack, an inspiring wave of Palestine solidarity organizing has swept the U.S. Most recently, the establishment of student encampments on hundreds of college…

• The Right’s Anti-Israel Insurgents | Jewish Currents

  “As Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip approaches its eighth month—bolstered so far by $17 billion in emergency supplemental aid from the US, on top of the regular $3.8 billion yearly aid…

• I’m A Jew And A Member Of JVP. Israel Just Banned Me.

  (Originally published in the Jewish Daily Forward) In 2011, I visited the land of Israel on a trip for American Jews, organized by an orthodox yeshiva- kind of like Birthright,…

• Soon, opposing the occupation will be fashionable for American Jews- but is that a good thing?

  Here’s a nightmare fantasy of mine. Before long, mainstream Democrat-voting American Jews won’t be afraid to talk about the occupation. Quite the contrary- they’ll insist at social gatherings that they’ve…

• For American Jews, The Era of Trump Marks the End of the Zionist Dream

  Originally published at +972Mag For most American Jews, the regime of Donald Trump has ushered in the most profound and destabilizing existential crisis since the Holocaust. We watch in horror…

• In The Age of Trump, Progressive Jews Can Learn From the 20th Century’s Radical Yiddish Tradition

  (first published at In These Times) The official, textbook history of any nation or group of people, writes radical historian Howard Zinn in A People’s History of the United States,…