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Re-Entangling Palestine

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions

Nadia Fadil
August 30, 2021August 30, 2021

While the notion of solidarity assumes a separation in the struggles, and a tactical alliance and support, the vocabulary of entanglement forces us to reckon with the interdependency of these different struggles.

Interrogating Modernity and Egalitarian Binationalism in Palestine/Israel

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions

Bashir Bashir
August 26, 2021January 27, 2024

“The question of Palestine,” “the Jewish question,” and “the Muslim question” are conceptually and historically linked, and their entanglement continues to fuel tensions in the Middle East, Europe, and the USA.

Eichmann Is Still in Jerusalem

Atalia Omer
June 22, 2021February 1, 2024

It is as if Eichmann’s own tactics and exclusionary and eliminative ideology are alive and well, only now being used against Palestinians.

The Apocalypse is Human-Made: Playing with Fire from Al-Aqsa to Gaza

Atalia Omer
May 14, 2021February 1, 2024

The confluence of sacred times and spaces (national and religious) is explosive, and those pulling triggers and making decisions targeting religious celebrations may well be lighting the fuse.

The IHRA’s Careless Conflations on Antisemitism (and Few Alternatives)

Moshe Behar
March 25, 2021August 19, 2022

Branding as “antisemitic” criticism of Israeli actions pertaining to its occupation—on the ground that this applies a double standard—is Orwellian.

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.