Amid the outrage over Hasan Piker’s remarks, a Jewish professor of Israel studies at UCLA argues that it’s important to acknowledge how Israel’s actions fuel a lot of the anger directed at Jews.
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The American Jewish establishment is in a bind. An organized community that cannot tolerate any dissent will lose its dissenting members, deepening its resistance to alternate views and making it less able to exert any influence outside the community
In the early 1900s, the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order fought for multiracial democracy and Yiddish culture, building solidarity across ethnic and racial lines — until it was destroyed by the Red Scare. Review of From Popular Front to Cold War
Some members of the Cuban and Jewish diasporas have used their painful histories to gain power in U.S. politics and advance imperialism. But many are pushing back
A new history of the 113-year-old advocacy group highlights its lifelong history of Zionist antagonism toward the left. Early on there was an antagonism by German Jewish leaders already here to the mass of Jewish immigrants newly arriving
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The Bund has always placed its cards on socialism, which means a better future for all humanity, for all peoples.
Molly Crabapple's inspirational history of the Bund reminded me of the many ways in which the self-styled "Jewish State" is a monument to hatred (of Jews as well as of Palestinians).
After a rowdy protest outside a real estate event at Park East Synagogue, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was widely criticized for supporting the protest by condemning the sale of West Bank properties. But the criticisms don’t stand up to scrutiny.
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