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 In the latest edition of the Cutting Through Newsletter, I push back on pundit Alon Pinkas who echoed 2016 by attacking young voters Biden is alienating rather than a Democratic Party that has failed to learn from both its failures and its successes. Read more here.Continue 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 The Forward asked me to write a piece for them along the lines of the piece on Pam Geller and BDS which appeared in Souciant today. The two articles have both similarities and differences, so you should check out both. Can’t say I’m keen on the title, but itContinue Reading
Advertisements Free speech is now a key battleground in the Israel-Palestine conflict. And, as with virtually all battlegrounds in this conflict, the debate is completely divorced from reason. The comparison of pro-BDS speakers to a hatemongering racist like Pamela Geller is absurd and offensive, and what one thinks of BDS as aContinue Reading
