Advertisements The #Ceuta migrant crisis became a Rorschach test for conspiracy: fantasies of a Muslim invasion on one side, theories of Israeli and American subterfuge on the other. Josh White and I examine claims that Morocco engineered the crisis, and how it turned into a spectacle for the global farContinue Reading
Advertisements A bipartisan group of congresspeople are set to introduce a bill in The House of Representatives that would designate the Polisario Front a “terrorist organization.” The ramifications of this are a lot more significant than it might at first seem. The Polisario Front is a Sahrawi organization that hasContinue Reading
Advertisements The Abraham Accords represent a shameful deal for trade and military alliances between an apartheid state, Israel, and some of the most brutal autocracies in the world, like the UAE and Bahrain. The notion that these are “peace agreements” is false on its face, and even more a deceptionContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest piece at Medium, I argue that while Joe Biden is correct to avoid using military force to aid Ukraine, sanctions are not a viable alternative as they have little hope of changing Russia’s behavior in the immediate and short term. I look at the history of sanctionsContinue Reading
Advertisements For many Jews on the left, particularly the moderate or liberal left, there is a preoccupation—some might even say an obsession—with finding the so-called “line” between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, between legitimate, even if harsh, criticism of Israel and an attack on the Jewish people as a whole. Given JewishContinue Reading
