Advertisements Sarah Hurwitz, former speechwriter for both Barack and Michelle Obama, demonstrates the ethical depths supporters of Israel plunge to in their panic that young Jews are seeing Israel for what it is. This video offers an analysis of her “arguments.” Watch on YouTube Continue Reading
Advertisements In the first of a series exploring possible Jewish futures for all Jews that don’t need to involve an ethnocratic Jewish state, I speak with the renowned Talmudic scholar, Professor Daniel Boyarin Watch on Substack Or on YouTubeContinue Reading
Advertisements The Anti-Defamation League put out an exhaustive poll to find out how much anti-Semitism there is in the world. The poll is fatally flawed, with questions that often don’t describe anti-Semitism but a broader fear of the other, a weak standard for passing the anti-Semitism bar and other issues.Continue Reading
Advertisements In the last of three pieces, starting with an article at LobeLog earlier this week and one at this site yesterday, I look at the need for advocacy for various one-state formulations to be part of the discourse around resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict. I argue that, even for two-staters,Continue Reading
Advertisements There is a movement afoot, with some big stars lending their names, to move the 2014 Winter Olympics from Sochi in Russia, or to boycott those games over the increasing volume of hate against LGBT folk in Russia. Not a few are drawing the entirely accurate comparison to theContinue Reading
