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For @newrepublic.com , I wrote about about the Jewish Labor Bund—who predicted the evils of Zionism from the very invention of the philosophy—and the new book by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2121...
The Jewish Radicals Who Wanted Equality for All
In her history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Molly Crabapple tells the story of workers who opposed prejudice, tyranny, and nationalism.
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A lot of people seem to be under the impression that Haley is Jewish
Alex@purplechrain.bsky.social · 6d agoDear Haley Stevens, Please stop using Jews as a political prop in your gross attacks on El Sayed. You are a Protestant. Jews are not a shield for you to say weird and fucked up things about your Michigan-born opponent not being a real Michigander or other anti-Arab and Islamophobic dogwhistles.
I don't think people understand how thin the line between "deportation" and "extermination" really is - not just in Europe, but everywhere the topic comes up. Many people feel comfortable with the idea of deportation because it obscures the underlying violence that is necessarily implied.
Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈@chimeracoder.bsky.social · last wk.And to spell it out: when DHH says "deport Romani people", those are people who are citizens of the country they live in. Where would they be deported to? When the Nazis ran into this same question, they created extermination camps. bsky.app/profile/anil...
Der Spekter (@derspekter.org) editörü Malka Leah, Avlaremoz'un 10. yılında kurucu-editör Eli Haligua ile bir araya geldi.
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Aile soyağacıma ilgi duymaya başladığımdan beri ziyaret etmeyi hayal ettiğim iki şehir olan İstanbul ve İzmir’i Aralık 2025’te ziyaret ettim. Baba tarafından dedemin ailesi Yunanistan’ın Selanik şehri...
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Never have I seen a dispute that more makes me say, “Let them fight.”
The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.
The sheer injustice in Houston is sickening. Lorenzo was just going to work to support his family when his life was stolen by ICE. Seeing his father on his knees, consumed by raw, agonizing grief, is a heartbreaking reminder of the human cost of systemic violence. He deserves justice.
As ICE captures spike across the US, re-upping this story about Habeas Flight Watch, an activist-built tool to help you know when an ICE flight is headed to your city. Can help legal teams/community members triage habeas filings, flight observations, etc. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...
Habeas Flight Watch: New tool helps track ICE flights to your city
Activists have been quietly piloting a live map of ICE flights to help immigration attorneys with habeas filings. Now they say it's ready for everyone to use.
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Class is identity and identity is class. They cannot be disentangled
Mark Andrew Price@pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 4w agoI would burn in discourse hell if I didn’t acknowledge there are little slivers of a very old debate floating around, should it be class all the time or do we broadly advocate for equality wherever we see inequality.
I don’t think "Dem HR ladies" is labor coded or working class aligned. It comes from the same place everything that is terrible in the last two years has come from. The backlash to the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements.
I cannot explain to you how deeply terrifying and anger-inducing it is to have cops and national guard marching down your street after dark and despite constantly posting about occupied Memphis no one gives a shit. yes, I mean my actual street where I live. I live posted it.
shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 4w agothere's (rightfully) been a lot of attention paid to la, chicago, minneapolis, and dc, but the the joint federal-local task force in memphis is uniquely horrifying in ways not seen in other cities. this is at least the fourth person shot during the task force's monthslong occupation.
NYU professor Philip Alston, a UN special rapporteur studying poverty and human rights, says he was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world.
U.N. Official Shocked at Poverty in Rural Alabama
"I think it's very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I'd have to say that I haven't seen this."
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Just to put a fine point on it: @scottwiener.bsky.social cancelled an interview about his accusations of antisemitism with about a sympathetic figure one can find on the center left. Also this is being polled around town. Wait till he refuses to answer questions about his Palestine censorship work.
It was a great honor to have this portrait of Mona Khalil in this publication. And please do subscribe to The Key, an incredible resource from @palfest.bsky.social
Sara Yasin@sarayasin.bsky.social · last mo.If you have The Key in your inbox, you also received this beautiful portrait of Mona Khalil, drawn by @djolder.bsky.social
The Yiddish Singers with Palestine performed at San Francisco’s United Irish Cultural Center, as part of a benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance. Friend of Der Spekter and NorCal Workers Circle member Joel Shechter shares this review joelschechter1.substack.com/p/scenes-wed...
I will categorically say that the answer to the question of "does X country have a right to commit genocide" is always no. That's not a thing you get to do, and if you're claiming that your right to exist is incompatible with not getting to commit genocide, you should try harder.
Sholem aleykhem khaverim! The Der Spekter team is taking a little summer break for July but before we go we've prepared some delicious reading for you. First, frequent contributor Ryan Lee Fliegelman shares reflections the power of political cartoons as a medium, this piece, and its inspiration
Old Pals
Political cartoons reflect the unchanging nature of our battle against agents of state violence and capital through time.
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He killed so many children with drones. He didn’t prosecute any of the war criminals from the previous admin. And this isn’t a war crime but it was a crime against our society to bail out the banks and not make the system take accountability for what they had done to us
A Man Has No Name 🇺🇦@manhasnoname.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe post was to honor Barrack Obama, a great president and man. The people claiming he’s a war criminal are fucking tiring, just house cats making judgement without a clue of the world. He inherited that war and was left with no choice. Had he stopped, people would have lost their minds.
The Liberals have used their newly acquired majority to push through major changes to Canada’s laws at the last minute and shut down debate on legislation with major implications for the lives of Canadians. This is not normal. This is what happens when a government thinks it can act with impunity.
Sharing some stories of Black Americans from @hcrichardson.bsky.social's 250 to 250 today Eatonville youtu.be/89lRJ7WgjsM?...
Eatonville, Narrated by Representative Maxwell Alejandro Frost
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Happy Juneteenth 💜💜💜 May we see the destruction of all white supremacists in our lifetimes
Still correct. More than ever. "Juneteenth was not the day that Black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free, 2 ½ months after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox ended the Civil War." Our work remains
Not just a second Passover: Juneteenth’s unfinished journey
More than sharing legacies, Jews can mark the holiday by working toward Black empowerment
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"This is a lot of words to say one thing, my Torah on one foot: Stay in. As Israel’s impunity persists, it will keep getting harder to organize as an anti-Zionist Jew, but stay in." Read Arielle Angel's last letter as EIC, now unpaywalled from our Spring issue jewishcurrents.org/stay-in
Join us tonight! We hear there are going to be a bunch of public defenders having a happy hour there too!
Der Spekter@derspekter.org · 2mo agoFinally...if you're in the Bay Area this week, please join a few of our editors and Bundists at a casual happy hour in San Francisco 6.17. See the poster below And if you're going to KlexCummington, editor Miri Villerius will lead a workshop on Yiddish Op-Sec: cultural autonomy as community safety
For clarity purposes: The government cannot intercept or decrypt messages sent on Signal. They can, however, seize devices, use informants, pretend to be protesters so they can be added to Signal chats, as well as subpoena Signal for whatever information they have available to share. (See link.)
Government Communication
When legally forced to provide information to government or law enforcement agencies, we'll disclose the transcripts of that communication here.
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Rachel Cohen@cohen489.bsky.social · 2mo agoreading this MN indictment and there are many takeaways but one of the biggest is that if you still think the gov isn't getting your signal messages you need to let that belief go expeditiously
the current geopolitical situation is bad for everybody but I do hope the Israelis waking up to what Americans have known-- that Trump is a deranged moron who shouldn't be counted upon for anything but to shit his pants and fuck everything up-- stay woke
