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
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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
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:04:46 Speaker introduction 00:06:55 Bill’s political biography 00:11:30 African Americans and the US labour movement 00:15:53 Race and class in the
From Notes from the World The Democratic Socialists of America Travel to Cuba and Happily Meet With the Island’s Jailers On 25 November – the
Tereza Hendl is a political philosopher based at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Selbi Durdiyeva is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Conflict Studies,
From New Labor Forum Commentators right and left survey today’s political landscape and conclude, with historian Matt Karp, that “the political story of the 21st
For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism. In countries across the capitalist world, trade union movements are being challenged to their very core by
Historian David Roediger discusses some of the people who’ve influenced him,white workers and Black struggles in the U.S., and some aspects of anti-racisttheory and politics
A friend shared a social media post to me: Liberalism is not anti-fascist as it is coupled with an economic system (capitalism) that leads to
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 K. The Magazine Since the attack on October 7 and Israel’s war in Gaza, the word “genocide” has become a touchstone in public debate.
From New Lines Magazine. Reactions from both the left and the right to the shooting of the diplomatic staffers in Washington reveal a troubling ideological
The double bind of left antisemitism At the end of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Volume 2, the titular Bill delivers an extended monologue to his
00:00:00 Background information00:03:37 Start of Ben’s talk, introduction00:04:20 Theoretical background00:06:14 Thematic overview00:07:00 Real and imagined Jews in the history of European colonialism00:12:45 Activist settler colonialism
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
The seduction of speaking as a Jew – and why I will not do it Of the many indignities Jews have been forced to endure
Introduction Fetishized Weakness: The Denial of Agency Within Palestinian Solidarity Movements by Keith Kahn-Harris Terror Versus Emancipation by Marcel Stoetzler Ambiguous Terms in Palestine Activism by Texas Kossovskii
There’s a new essay being passed around by Megan Wachspress on “The ‘New Antisemitism and the Logic of Whiteness.” As one might imagine,* I have thoughts.
From Tempest, by Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom In the midst of Israel’s horrific slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, it would seem ill-timed to
This article takes the assassination of Qasem Soleimani as a case study that manifests the schism between the realities of those in revolutionary struggle and
A recent exposé in the New York Times on tech multimillionaire Roy Singham, who funds various tankie media outlets, organizations, and institutions such as the
The Ukraine Solidarity Network believes that the victims of aggression have every right to defend themselves and should receive the support of those who support
A New Lines investigation reveals a network of charities funneling millions into left-wing platforms that take Beijing’s side on the genocide allegations — and they’re
At this late stage in the game, one should not be surprised at how incredibly poor the western left’s understanding of China is. Many western
Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Catherine Liu on the political spectrumThis essay
During his recent tour of Europe, disgraced former Trump strategist Steve Bannon declared “Italy is in the lead.” Amid the historic resurgence of the Italian far right that returned
From Viewpoint Magazine “Imperialism,” David Harvey announced at a roundtable last year, should be seen as a “sort of metaphor, rather than anything real.” This
This long post started as an investigation about the Left and Syria which I started after I read the Sol Process blog’s publication of three
In an essay on “Left strategy after Charlottesville”, Max Elbaum makes “an argument for the left to interact with the post-Charlottesville surge of resistance by
This piece is a response to the wider debates continually raging around identity politics and class. It tackles the writing of Adolph Reed Jr., not