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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."

Getting out the vote in Pennsylvania

Elections elsewhere

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 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.

My research shows this tradition runs deep. The American Jewish establishment did not always view anti-Zionism as inherently antisemitic. Some Jewish community leaders considered themselves “non-Zionist” until years after Israel’s founding.

Oscar fever

In a world beset by war and counterrevolution, resistance is happening

In an Israeli war that has been retrofitted onto a Holocaust template, it is obscene that a plea to stop further killing is now read as moral failure.