Discourse about antisemitism in America has become a hopeless, meaningless mess. Particularly in the last few years, pro-Israel and right-wing organizations and politicians have insisted
Tag: Anti-Zionism
Every week seems to bring news of another attempted massacre of diaspora Jews. This week, it was outside Detroit, Michigan, where an armed man rammed
From Socialists Against Antisemitism A Green Party [of England and Wales] conference motion, described as declaring “Zionism is racism” and rejecting both IHRA and JDA,
About a decade ago, I was invited to a small private gathering of Jewish studies scholars to talk about the future of Zionism. One of
Benjamin Balthaser’s Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left will be published by Verso in July. Balthaser is
From Liberties, by Arash Azizi. A friend of mine once asked me why I get so worked up about Jewish Currents, a left-wing American magazine known for
This chapter is based on a short argument between two Marxian academics, Andreas Malm and Anselm Jappe, which broke out on a leftist Zoom panel,
“My grandpa didn’t survive Auschwitz to bomb Gaza”, reads a placard held by a Jewish woman at a protest in Mexico against a previous Israel