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The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity

An interview with Benjamin Balthaser Jacobin
The kind of Jewish identity on display in Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations organized by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace is part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.

Tidbits – May 8- Reader Comments: 50 Years After Vietnam War End; Largest May Day in US; Birth Rates Falling; Israel War Cabinet Approved Plan To Seize Entire Gaza Strip; “It’s Time” People’s Peace Summit of Palestinians and Jews in Jerusalem; More

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Reader Comments: 50 Years After Vietnam War' End; Largest May Day in US; Birth Rates Falling; Israel War Cabinet approved plan to seize entire Gaza Strip; “It’s Time” People’s Peace Summit of Palestinians and Jews in Jerusalem and 15 cities worldwide

Trump Has Ordered a Hit on Judaism

Dave Zirin The Nation
Under the guise of “fighting antisemitism,” Trump is shredding our rights and telling us we are safe. "The truth is that they hate us. We should have some pride and return the favor. Jew, not a Jew? Once a joke. Now an open threat."

We Need an Exodus From Zionism

Naomi Klein The Guardian
This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name

The Shoah After Gaza

Pankaj Mishra London Review of Books
The dark meaning the Israeli state has drawn from the Shoah, and then institutionalized in a machinery of repression. Anyone calling attention to the spectacle of Washington’s blind commitment to Israel is accused of antisemitism, ignoring the Shoah.
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