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Articles written by Lewis R. Gordon

An Afro-Jewish Critique of Jews Against Liberation

Lewis R. Gordon
March 26, 2021March 31, 2021

Identification with whiteness leaves no recourse from being identified with the enslaver and master. White Jewish evocation of Exodus thus reeks of hypocrisy so long as such a Jew insists on being white.

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White Supremacists Among Us—Discomfiting but True

Series: Policing Analogies
Lewis R. Gordon
February 2, 2021February 3, 2021

The idea that “real Jew” must be white is a feature of unfortunate misrepresentations of Jewish people primarily during the twentieth century, with steam gathered in its support since the late 1960s.

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