Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
White supremacy, under the pretense of fighting antisemitism, is mounting an assault on minoritized communities. Understanding how antisemitism works is central to fighting back.
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The difference between the Jewishness of Sanders’s candidacy and Shapiro’s has less to do with who is more Jewish; it has a great deal to do with the way the idea of Jewishness has been constructed in the last few decades.
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Norton’s book illuminates the dynamics of sexual politics and how they operate to exclude, securitize, and otherize Muslims.
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Ultimately, politicians are not able to initiate peace from the top down. Peace can only come from the bottom up.
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The birth of a morally “improved” German collective necessitates the memory of the Holocaust to remain in vivid proximity, but also requires a sense of perpetual vulnerability of Jews in the present and future.
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The political realm must be tightly woven into every historical and contemporary reflection on Arab Jews.
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Suggesting that Jews are disloyal to the modern state of Israel is a form of antisemitism, thinly veiled in terms of caring about Jews.
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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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Can a Jew speak about Palestine not as a Jew, but in the name of solidarity? Can the question of Palestine ever become more than essentially a Jewish question?
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The Shabbat massacre is not only a hate crime. It is also the latest expression of racialized Christian construction of boundaries.
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