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We are in the midst of a "historic transformation," writes @peterbeinart.bsky.social..."an abandonment of the democratic solidarity that animated establishment American Jewish politics for roughly 80 years." jewishcurrents.org/the-shame-of...
The Shame of the American Jewish Establishment
In its quest to defend Israel, establishment Jewry has abandoned liberal democracy in the US.
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With the Jewish establishment's help, a Black political group battles the left. jewishcurrents.org/with-jewish-...
As democratic-socialists look to continue their winning streak today in primaries in Michigan and Missouri, a centrist Black group with close ties to the US Jewish establishment is trying to stop them. jewishcurrents.org/with-jewish-...
“does she belong to the wind or the wind to her, / and are the greedy wolves / waiting to tear her apart?” Now online from our Spring issue: A 1941 poem by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, translated by Carilie Hoffman.
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“does she belong to the wind or the wind to her, / and are the greedy wolves / waiting to tear her apart?”
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“The ADL didn’t only gather information on the Ku Klux Klan; it also gathered information on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.” @jewishcurrents.bsky.social @peterbeinart.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/the-shame-of...
The Shame of the American Jewish Establishment
In its quest to defend Israel, establishment Jewry has abandoned liberal democracy in the US.
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A year after a killing, a siege worsens: A dispatch from the memorial for the slain Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen. jewishcurrents.org/a-year-after...
A dispatch from Maya Rosen on the memorial for the slain Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, a year after his death. jewishcurrents.org/a-year-after...
"The willingness of today’s establishment Jewish groups to aid and abet a racist aspiring dictator as long as he arms Israel and suppresses criticism of it in the US isn’t only immoral. It’s also profoundly foolish," writes Peter Beinart. jewishcurrents.org/the-shame-of...
The Shame of the American Jewish Establishment
In its quest to defend Israel, establishment Jewry has abandoned liberal democracy in the US.
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"The American Jewish establishment—which in the last century helped expand American liberal democracy—has now largely given up on it," writes Peter Beinart in his new essay. jewishcurrents.org/the-shame-of...
The Shame of the American Jewish Establishment
In its quest to defend Israel, establishment Jewry has abandoned liberal democracy in the US.
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In its quest to defend Israel, the Jewish establishment has abandoned liberal democracy in the United States. Peter Beinart traces this turn away from civil rights in his new essay. jewishcurrents.org/the-shame-of...
The Shame of the American Jewish Establishment
In its quest to defend Israel, establishment Jewry has abandoned liberal democracy in the US.
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Right-wing journalist Curt Mills has been disinvited from a major conference of Jewish left leaders following an outcry over his inclusion in the March 2027 program. jewishcurrents.org/jewish-left-...
Jewish Left Conference Dumps MAGA Provocateur Curt Mills After Outcry
The intellectual leader of MAGA’s anti-Israel wing won’t appear at the conference.
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The mayor of Providence, RI, has no authority over US aid to Israel. But democratic socialist David Morales is still talking about Gaza—part of a strategy to seed the state’s lower ranks of Democratic officials with pro-Palestine champions. jewishcurrents.org/in-rhode-isl...
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"Late, dead—what was the difference?" Fiction by Omar Khalifah, translated from the Arabic by Barbara Romaine
Late
"There are no enemies. There’s no one left."
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“There are no enemies. There’s no one left. Short fiction by Omar Khalifah, translated from the Arabic by Barbara Romaine.
Late
"There are no enemies. There’s no one left."
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The US Jewish establishment is seizing on a frightening stabbing on the Upper West Side Thursday afternoon as the pretense for a sweeping political attack on Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the surging pro-Palestine left he represents. jewishcurrents.org/jewish-leade...
Jewish Leaders Blame Mamdani’s Criticism of Netanyahu for a Manhattan…
The establishment wants to paint anti-genocide politics as anti-Jewish.
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On this episode of On the Nose, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social talks to Arielle Angel about what the story of the Jewish Labor Bund can teach us about solidarity and its failures. jewishcurrents.org/here-where-w...
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Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2w agoHow did we get here, and how might we challenge the most brutal aspects of the deportation machine? Amna A. Akbar asks Silky Shah about the precise mechanisms of detention and deportation, and how we can interrupt those circuits. jewishcurrents.org/unbuild-the-...
CHICAGO! Join Barbara Ransby and Anthony Arnove to celebrate the release of the expanded edition of Howard Zinn's SNCC: The New Abolitionists. W/ @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Tue, August 11th at 6 PM CT Live from Haymarket House and streaming online. RSVP:
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Join Barbara Ransby and Anthony Arnove for a discussion on SNCC, one of the most significant and creative organizations to shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United States. […]
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"This angel has become a star, to be gawked at, or perhaps venerated: what Catholics call an icon, and Jews refer to as an idol." jewishcurrents.org/the-absent-a...
The Absent Angel
A reflection on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit
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"Celebrating Israel’s role in the 'rescue and preservation' of this Klee with only the vaguest acknowledgment of 'current conditions' perversely evacuates the piece of the political, circumstantial significance Benjamin accorded it," writes Raphael Magarik. jewishcurrents.org/the-absent-a...
The Absent Angel
A reflection on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit
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For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I wrote about the Jewish Museum's Paul Klee exhibit, the angel of history getting held up in Jerusalem, and the vexed relationship between critique and aesthetic veneration in our present moment of danger. jewishcurrents.org/the-absent-a...
The Absent Angel
A reflection on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit
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"In late May, I flew to New York City in the hopes of not seeing Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus." Read Raphael Magarik's reflection on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit and Walter Benjamin's angel of history. jewishcurrents.org/the-absent-a...
The Absent Angel
A reflection on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit
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How did we get here, and how might we challenge the most brutal aspects of the deportation machine? Amna A. Akbar asks Silky Shah about the precise mechanisms of detention and deportation, and how we can interrupt those circuits. jewishcurrents.org/unbuild-the-...
Unbuild the Cages
Silky Shah maps the vulnerabilities of the deportation machine.
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New interview I did with Amna Akbar in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social was just published. It's a bit of a synthesis on the how we got here and the current conditions on immigration. Always great to be in convo w/Amna & wonderful to work w/Aparna Gopalan at JC on this. jewishcurrents.org/unbuild-the-...
Unbuild the Cages
Silky Shah maps the vulnerabilities of the deportation machine.
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Amna A. Akbar sat down with Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network and author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, to discuss the vulnerabilities of the deportation machine.
Unbuild the Cages
Silky Shah maps the vulnerabilities of the deportation machine.
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