Advertisements We who oppose Zionism can be more nuanced about how we approach it. Not every Zionist is tantamount to a Klansman, as some believe. Read more at the Cutting Through newsletter. Continue 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 In the latest edition of the Cutting Through newsletter, I take on three examples of so-called “liberal Zionists” who willfully misled their readers about Jonathan Glazer’s speech at the Oscars. Glazer spoke out against dehumanization, and specifically pointed to BOTH the October 7 attacks and the genocide in GazaContinue Reading
Advertisements The strawmen came out in force in a piece by Alexis Grenell in, of all places, The Nation. Using the recent flap over a commencement speech at CUNY, Grenell attacks anti-Zionists, employing the classic and tiresome nonsense about opposition to a political ideology being, by definition, antisemitism. In the latestContinue 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
