It is in this sense that we can understand why JFREJ has chosen to call their pamphlet An Offering to Our Movement. The authors hope to provide both Jews and non-Jews on the left a means to theorize antisemitism that will allow them to confront it confidently in both speech and action, without worrying that they are running afoul of “good leftist” understandings of privilege and intersectionality, or falling into right-wing traps. I think they succeed in this necessary and admirable goal to a great degree, and therefore any criticisms I offer should be understood in reciprocal fashion, as an offering to their offering, for the strengthening of their efforts.
San Jose Mercury News reports: Growing complaints about Israel-bashing plus Jews being increasingly compared to Nazis during political rallies has spurred the Anti-Defamation League to
I’ll be on WBAI’s Beyond The Pale in an hour and a half (12PM EST/7PM Israel) to discuss the American Jewish Committee’s paper “‘Progressive’ Jewish
Left-wing antisemitism is really pissing me off these days. Last week I found myself backed into a corner on a Myspace forum, putting forth a
Facing a Challenge Within A Progressive Scholars’ and Activists’ Conference on Anti-Semitism & The Left Wyndham Newark Airport in Elizabeth NJ Sat. March 25 –
On August 21-23 at the Downtown Marriot in Oakland, California, Catalyst to Coalition will be holding a progressives’ conference on antisemitism and the Left for
Meryl Yourish quite effectively demonstrates anti-Israel bias at the BBC, I find antisemitism in Adbusters, and The Jewish Press pegs Pacifica.
Photo Description: Former Trump advisor Candace Owens and Ye (FKA Kanye West), from behind, wearing “White Lives Matter” shirts at Paris Fashion Week. Taken from
By any measure – well, by any measure except one – Huwaida Arraf is a Congressional candidate who should be of strong interest to the
On Friday, July 30, President Biden announced his nomination of Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University professor and Holocaust historian, for the position of US Special