Antisemitism and Anti-Racism
Antisemitism isn't a set of tropes – and thinking about it that way helps nobody
The outrage over Michael Che’s SNL joke is everything that’s wrong with our fight against antisemitism.
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The Jewish Left
Meet Yuval Gal, the anti-Zionist Israeli running in the Dutch elections
Gal left Israel aged thirty, appalled by the country’s trajectory. Now he’s continuing the fight against injustice from the Netherlands.
Culture
Homos, Houmous and Hamantaschen: Vashti Meets Chanukah Lewinsky
On the eve of Purim, Vashti speaks to drag artist and queer cabaret creator Dex Grodner about Judaism and genderfuckery.
The Jewish Left
The romance of American Jewish anarchism
A nostalgic portrait of America’s oldest Yiddish anarchist newspaper, and the community that coalesced around it, is recounted in a recently restored documentary.
Antisemitism and Anti-Racism
Why are anticolonial academics being accused of antisemitism?
Because we’ve uncoupled antisemitism from the coloniality of race – something Israel’s advocates are only too pleased about.
Antisemitism and Anti-Racism
Leading British academics and Israeli citizens call on universities to reject the IHRA definition of antisemitism
The 66 scholars join a broadening coalition of left-to-moderate Jews across the world who oppose the controversial definition.
Antisemitism and Anti-Racism
We 66 British academics and Israeli citizens reject the government's imposition of the IHRA
The flawed definition threatens not only the fight against antisemitism, but Palestinian self-determination, academic freedom and our right to criticise the Israeli government.
History
We must resist Netanyahu's cynical right-washing of the Holocaust
The Israeli PM’s plans to appoint an anti-Palestinian racist to lead Yad Vashem conveys the danger of particularising the Shoah, writes Naomi Magnus.
Culture
Strangers in a strange Land: Jewish sci-fi, Afrofuturism and visions from Palestine
Considering Jewish, Black, and Palestinian writers' visions of persecution and liberation across the universe.
Palestine-Israel
The IHRA censors Palestinians by design, not by accident
What constitutes ‘legitimate’ and ‘illegitimate’ criticism of Israel is determined by individuals who believe BDS and discussion of Israeli apartheid to be beyond the pale.
Palestine-Israel
Israel is using the IHRA to silence its critics
A network of government-funded NGOs are pushing the definition in an effort to redefine antisemitism and quash Palestinian dissent.
History
The queer surrealist lovers who took on the Nazis
Remembering the queer, anti-Nazi art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.