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Weaponizing Antisemitism is Bad for Jews, Israel, and Peace

Atalia Omer
January 21, 2021January 27, 2024

Antisemitism, like other forms of racism and bigotry, should be rejected by appeals to human rights and justice, not through the closure of critical thinking and blind acceptance of official Israeli state policies.

Beyond Analogy

Series: Policing Analogies

Keith Feldman
November 18, 2020November 19, 2020

Solidarity is a practice, an action, whose condition of possibility is the messy materiality of social difference, not its flattening.

Introduction to Policing Analogies

Series: Policing Analogies

Atalia Omer and Santiago Slabodsky
September 16, 2020September 25, 2020

The interrogation of normative representation and the creation of multi-racial and multi-gendered spaces are inadvertently rendered invisible and inaudible within the anti-analogizing stance.

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.

In Search of a Game Changer

Moshe Behar
June 16, 2020January 18, 2024

While anti-apartheid mobilization vis-à-vis Lilliputian Israel/Palestine is obviously needed, a considerably broader anti-war movement, whose scope is explicitly regional, seems equally critical, if not more so.

Something Else A’Comin’ . . .

J. Kameron Carter
May 31, 2019January 25, 2024

What might the future-now mean, where both “the now” and “the future” are unmoored from liberal humanist progressive narratives or temporalities (of death), unhooked from time schemes that presume the settler, or the sovereign, individuated subject?

From “Shooting and Crying” to “Shooting and Singing”: Notes on the 2019 Eurovision in Israel.

Gil Hochberg
May 17, 2019May 17, 2019

The days of shooting and crying are over. Shooting continues, but crying has stopped. It has been replaced with laughter: hysterical, cynical, crude, perhaps even desperate laughter.

Freedom of Speech? Palestine as an Exception

Gil Hochberg
January 26, 2019February 20, 2019

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?

Our Jerusalem of Unspoken Stories

Series: Jerusalem

Stephanie Saldaña
January 17, 2018January 19, 2018

For Palestinians, the loss is real and sustained, mostly spoken of privately, like a wound you would not like to expose openly.