Advertisements While this resolution isn’t going to have the impact that the people of Gaza so desperately need, it’s still a significant win. The US was forced to back down on some of its demands. It was forced to resort to arguing that the resolution does not mean what itContinue Reading
Advertisements Chuck Schumer called on Israelis to bounce Benjamin Netanyahu from office. While his speech is not going to make any impact on the Israeli government or even his own White House, it has certainly roiled the US public and widened the fissures between Democrats and Republicans and, more importantlyContinue Reading
Advertisements In the latest edition of the Cutting Through newsletter, I look at the radical and antisemitic response of self-styled “Jewish creatives” who excoriate Jonathan Glazer for daring to explain that his message about the Holocaust was universal and that his Jewish identity demands that he objects to the slaughterContinue Reading
Advertisements There is no doubt that Benjamin Netanyahu is an extremely unpopular prime minister in Israel. But when it comes to his handling of the onslaught against Gaza, he has the support of a very clear majority of the Israeli people. Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden may notContinue Reading
Advertisements Sahar Aziz and I spoke with Arsalan Iftikhar, Senior Researcher for the Bridge Initiative for their podcast, Unpacking Islamophobia, where we discussed our report, “Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine-Israel Discourse,” and its implications for how the war in Gaza is perceived in the West. Check it out.Continue Reading
