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Articles written by Shaul Magid

Amalek, Hamas, and Kant: Thoughts on Evil in the Time of War

Shaul Magid
March 26, 2025

Likening Hamas to Amalek is self-serving. It is as if saying, “we are good people who can act badly, but they are simply evil.”

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Zionism and the Politics of Domination: On Protest, Liberty, and the Status Quo

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity
Shaul Magid
June 28, 2023

There is no dignity granted to a population living under domination; and domination remains the state policy in Israel.

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The Price of (non) Whiteness

Series: Policing Analogies
Shaul Magid
September 18, 2020September 25, 2020

Are American Jews willing to forfeit some of that privilege, whatever that might mean, as a gesture to those whose who cannot “pass” into the space of whiteness?

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On Disloyalty and Dual Loyalty: Is President Trump a Brandeisean Zionist?

Series: Trump and Dual Loyalty
Shaul Magid
August 28, 2019September 16, 2019

Trump’s comment on Jews’ “great disloyalty” wasn’t accusing Jews of dual loyalty; in fact, he was suggesting Jews are not exercising dual loyalty enough.

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Gold-Plated Jerusalem

Series: Jerusalem
Shaul Magid
December 14, 2017July 9, 2020

In the real world, west Jerusalem is the capital of Israel; east Jerusalem is a city in waiting. Jerusalem the holy city is in exile.

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