New documentary film “Forever Pure” isn’t really about soccer. It’s really about extremism, told via the lens of the game, the players, and its fans.
Documentary film “Freedom Runners” tells the stories of young African asylum seekers in Israel competing for a slim hope at Israeli citizenship.
If Donald Trump had proposed banning all Jews from coming to the United States, would he have been giving the platform to speak at the AIPAC conference? The answer is undoubtedly no. If today banning Jews was a policy proposal from a presidential candidate and a policy conference led by a minority group invited the speaker in order to “hear him out”, we would have no sympathy; we would say they turned their backs on Jews. By allowing Donald Trump to speak at a major Jewish event, we have turned our backs on marginalized communities. It is that simple. We are not neutral, we are complicit.
Jews must reject the cynical use of anti-Semitism by two Jewish professors at Wheelock College to obscure their own racist actions. If we are to be a “light unto the nations,” we cannot ignore the mess in our own backyard.
You are not counter-hegemonic movements. You are the incarnation, par excellence, of hegemony. You have, in the most racist of ways, co-opted the language of a real counter-hegemonic movement entrenched in battle with the American state.
There’s no reason to doubt the existence of real crossover appeal between the growing neo-Confederate movement and ultra-Zionism, and there shouldn’t even be anything all that surprising about it.
A brief passage in this week’s Torah portion, while enumerating a census, adds a side note: “But Korach’s children did not die” — ” וּבְנֵי קֹרַח
After attacks on churches in the US and Israel, a young Jew asks why American Jews aren’t more outspoken on ending racism in America and Israel too.
Nationalism and racism in Europe is real, growing and dangerous. But we’re being far too literal about it if we’re mainly worried about the fate of European Jews.
Continuing my post from yesterday, here is part two of my six-part suite of poems about the South Side of Chicago, White Flight, home, and