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Marc H. Ellis, an Aesthetic Jew of Conscience in the New Diaspora

Keunjoo Christine Pae
July 23, 2024July 24, 2024

By walking, writing, painting, and taking photographs, Ellis took his whole person into the deepest solitude and found the fear there not to lose the prophetic voice.

Marc H. Ellis (Z”L): Living the Prophetic

Series: Remembering Marc H. Ellis

Santiago Slabodsky
July 18, 2024July 19, 2024

The legacy of Dr. Ellis in American Jewish movements in solidarity with Palestine—in liberationist, decolonial, or other forms—is hard to overestimate.

Black Internationalist Dissent and the Black Sacred-as-Maroon Enclave

Taurean J. Webb
July 16, 2024September 30, 2024

To wrestle with this Morehouse-Biden-Palestine moment is to wrestle with the management of a Black internationalist thought project, already presumed fugitive, within a US higher education landscape.

The “Miraculous” Nature of the Israel Exception in International Law: Israel’s Nationality Laws

Mohammad H. Fadel
June 4, 2024June 12, 2024

In order to create a Jewish state, the Israeli judiciary performed the miraculous/magical act of imagining Israel’s establishment as though it were an act of self-generation.

Antisemitism and Other Hates

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel

Dania Straughan
May 23, 2024September 30, 2024

The contemporary weaponization of antisemitism is the realization of an ethno-religious state project that purports the only way to imagine Jewish community is as an exclusionary political project predicated on the domination of Palestinians.

For “A Civilian Truce”: Why We Need the Humble Humanism of Albert Camus

Christian Golden
April 16, 2024April 17, 2024

A human-centered ethic means nothing if not solidarity with every child.

Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr Amidst Famine in Gaza

A. Rashied Omar
March 25, 2024March 26, 2024

Despite the challenges posed by Gaza’s precarious situation, the people of Gaza will come together to celebrate Eid al-Fitr with resilience and solidarity.

Rabbis for Ceasefire at the United Nations

Rebecca T. Aplert
February 8, 2024February 8, 2024

Our conversation moved us beyond words, for this Secretary General follows in the path set by former Secretary General Hammarskjöld and the other men who preceded him as rodfei shalom, seekers of peace.

Restricting Free Speech for Palestine: Nine Responses to Prof. Claire Finkelstein’s Call

Ahmed Bouzid
January 27, 2024February 12, 2024

Calls for limits to free speech advocated by people like Claire O. Finkelstein are part of a wider ideological project in support of an Israeli propaganda war (Ebrahim Moosa).

Christian Zionism and the Apocalyptic Landscape of Gaza

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures

Tristan Sturm
January 24, 2024February 1, 2024

This nationalism is religious at its core, sprung from a set of interpretations of the Bible that identifies the Jewish return to Israel as a prophetic sign of the imminence of the apocalypse.

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