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Narrating the History of the American Anti-Zionist Jewish Left (Part 2)

Series: CM Conversations
Francesca Freeman and Benjamin Balthaser
July 1, 2026

The old oppositions between “secular” and “religious” Jewish life are breaking apart, at least on the left, and perhaps, were never really what we imagined them to be to begin with.

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Narrating the History of the American Anti-Zionist Jewish Left (Part 1)

Francesca Freeman and Benjamin Balthaser
June 24, 2026

What does the history of American Jewish anti-Zionism look like if one puts left-wing social movements at the center of that story?

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Burning Human Rights Books, Part I: Modern International Law, War, and Colonialism

Lena Salaymeh
March 17, 2026March 19, 2026

Law does not exist in legal sources, but in the interpretation and application of legal sources.

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Judaism as an Occupied Territory

Moshe Behar
February 10, 2026March 6, 2026

Can the creeping occupation of Judaism by militant ethnonationalist Zionism be disrupted somehow?

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Weaponizing Indigeneity: Zionist Media Discourse on Possessing Palestine

Series: Weaponizing Religion: Critical Perspectives on Palestine/Israel
Sabina Ali
January 29, 2026January 29, 2026

Indigenous peoples articulate Land as part of an interconnected web of relations and responsibilities, a mode of relating that cannot be reconciled with the structural violence of modern nation-states.

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Letter from Scholars of the Holocaust, Jewish History, and Antisemitism Against the Adoption of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism in New Jersey

Raz Segal
January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

Targeting Jews for the way they express themselves as Jews is very clearly not part of a struggle against antisemitism, but antisemitic itself.

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The Urgency of Idolatry Critique: A Synthetic Response to Yadgar and Cavanaugh

Series: CM Conversations
Atalia Omer
July 22, 2025July 22, 2025

Decolonial scholarship pushes the critique of the secular/modern beyond the analysis of idolatry by engaging with the question of religion and colonialism through a robust interrogation of racialization.

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Nation Statism and the Jewish Tradition: William Cavanaugh Interviews Yaacov Yadgar

Series: CM Conversations
Yaacov Yadgar and William Cavanaugh
July 16, 2025July 23, 2025

I think it is a given that the multiplicity of human languages, traditions, practices, etc. diversify and enrich our ways of being in the world; this multiplicity is a good thing.

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After Gaza, Standing Again at Sinai

Series: Theology after Gaza
Atalia Omer
October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

Returning to Sinai after Gaza amounts to a restorative justice praxis.

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A Letter to the President of Tel Aviv University

Khaled Furani
September 19, 2024September 30, 2024

Ultimately, when you fear violence that is against “the law” yet normalize the violence of “the law,” my safety is not the only casualty. Yours is too.

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