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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).

Turning Away: White Nationalism and a Paraphenomenology of Darkness

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age

Biko Gray
November 15, 2023January 26, 2024

A paraphenomenology of darkness allows us to see the brutality of history, the violence not simply of statues, but of the fight over statues.

Where the Path of Denial Leads

Susannah Crockford
February 11, 2022

Conspiracy theories flourish in systems of thought that have no place for systemic thinking, in which there are only individuals with agency, operating either for the good or the bad.

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.

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.

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.

Ending Exile with the Prophetic Voice of the Diasporic Jew

Series: Policing Analogies

Susannah Heschel
September 25, 2020September 25, 2020

Can there be a prophetic voice today without diaspora?

On Disloyalty and Dual Loyalty: Is President Trump a Brandeisean Zionist?

Series: Trump and Dual Loyalty

Shaul Magid
August 28, 2019September 16, 2019

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.

Turkey, White Supremacy, and the Clash of Civilizations

Series: Christchurch and Beyond

Perin Gürel
July 10, 2019August 7, 2019

At the intersection of civilizational discourses and obsession with reproductive purity, one finds a toxic passion for an imagined Medieval past and an obsession with the Ottoman Empire/Turkey that echoes the “Clash of Civilizations” rhetoric.

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