Advertisements Sahar Aziz and I sat down with Marc Steiner of the Real News Network to discuss our report, Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes In the Palestine-Israel Discourse. We discussed the findings of the report in the context of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and the attacks on pro-Palestine activism inContinue Reading
Advertisements The denial of the Nakba has become a virtual sine qua non for pro-Israel advocacy and propaganda. It is not necessary for Zionism; acknowledging the genocide of native people in the Western hemisphere has not led to the destruction of the US, Canada, or Australia. But because of theContinue Reading
Advertisements The latest wave of work to define criticism of Israel as antisemitism is gathering momentum. This is a strategy with both a grassroots and a top-down strategy. This piece looks at a new and ongoing iteration of efforts by senior lawmakers in the United States and Europe to stigmatizeContinue Reading
Advertisements The ADL is at it again. Once again, the organization is sparing no effort and wasting no opportunity to pervert the fight against antisemitism into an all-out effort to hide, justify, and bury Israel’s deadly policies toward Palestinians. The latest episode is even more contemptible at this time, givenContinue Reading
Advertisements As a Jew and a lifelong fan of the Brooklyn (and New Jersey and New York) Nets, I’ve been following the drama of Kyrie Irving’s most recent crisis with intense interest. I’ve commented a fair deal about it on social media, but I also had many, more wordy thoughts.Continue Reading
