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Introduction to Zombie Nationalism

Jason Springs
June 16, 2021February 1, 2024

The Trump-infused ethno-religious nationalism of White evangelicals is but the most recent upsurge of a political and cultural current that is traceable back at least sixty years, and indeed, much further.

An Afro-Jewish Critique of Jews Against Liberation

Lewis R. Gordon
March 26, 2021January 27, 2024

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.

Buddhist Studies Has a Whiteness Problem

Constance Kassor
March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

Buddhist studies, on the whole, has not acknowledged, let alone addressed, issues of colonization, white supremacy, and the erasure of Asian people and cultures within the field.

On the Rhetoric of Jewish Solidarity: A Hebrew-Israelite’s Perspective

Series: Policing Analogies

Rabbi Walter Isaac
February 9, 2021

In the desire to demonstrate that Jews are on the right side of history, the (white and non-white) Jewish community’s problems with racism are often ignored.

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.

Radical Free Speech

Series: Secularism in France

Nadia Fadil
December 2, 2020December 2, 2020

Now anti-racist views, including academic ones, are also being charged with instigating hate and polarization.

France: A Sacred Union against Terrorism or against Muslims?

Series: Secularism in France

Houria Bouteldja
November 24, 2020November 25, 2020

The main aim of the establishment becomes clear: to foreclose the emergence of other interpretations of the tragic murder. To use all means possible to prevent the meeting of the two angers (white anger and the anger of racialized populations) and the possibility of their convergence. These must be separated and partitioned.

From Danish Cartoons to French Separatism: Mobilizing Culture Wars

Series: Secularism in France

H. A. Hellyer
November 19, 2020November 22, 2020

The question was never about free speech per se; it was about what we, as Europeans, considered to be sacred in the public sphere, and how we, as Europeans, continually redraw the lines of inclusion and exclusion in our political, social, and cultural spaces.

Black Jews Matter: Solidarity Begins Beyond the Limits of Whiteness

Series: Policing Analogies

Amanda Mbuvi
September 16, 2020September 22, 2020

The problem is not my sense of self or belonging, but the way that my very existence unsettles the carefully circumscribed categories that for so many people pass for reality.

Between Minneapolis and East Jerusalem

Ruth Carmi
July 10, 2020January 27, 2024

Understanding that racism, sexism, imperialism, globalization, capitalism, and militarism are interlinked means we cannot myopically call to eradicate one while upholding the other.

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