David Renton reviews Shane Burley and Ben Lorber’s recent book, “Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism.”
Category: Anti-Semitism/Jews
Fighting Antisemitism Today—An Interview with Shane Burley and Ben Lorber
Fighting antisemitism through solidarity doesn’t just create safety for Jews and all people; it allows us to directly confront the conspiratory core of contemporary fascist and rightwing arguments while building resilient antifascist and left movements.
The University Struggle to Unlearn Zionism
An Interview with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Linda Xheza interviews Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, on the universities’ systemic complicity in imperialism and the significance of anti-imperialist student encampments.
Interview with Udi Raz
The Abuse of the “Antisemitism” Accusation in Germany
Jews Are Deprived of Their Own Identity
Udi Raz, a Jewish anti-Zionist activist in Berlin, discusses the German state repression of the Palestinian solidarity movement under the pretense of fighting antisemitism.
Libertarianism and the Far Right
Not So Strange Bedfellows
The Libertarian Party has become just another flavor of the same reaction that propelled Trump to office in the first place.
The Political Context of the Crisis in Gaza
An Interview with Joel Beinin
Joel Beinin, Emeritus Professor at Stanford, discusses the politics of the Palestinian left and Hamas, and the US policies in Israel/Palestine.
The Political and Legal Underpinnings of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
The Israeli state has responded by bombing the Gaza Strip, in which Hamas has its headquarters and over 2.3 million civilians have their homes, starving inhabitants of food, water, medicines and fuel. But why did this happen? And what can be done about it?
Zionist Volksgemeinschaft
On the völkisch nature of Zionism and its relation to imperialism
In this essay, I attempt to offer a Marxist examination of Zionism and some of its essential features: its völkisch character, its settler colonial character, and its relation to imperialism.
Review: Socialism in Yiddish
Socialism in Yiddish: The Jewish Labor Bund in Sweden
by Hakkan Blomqvist
Translated by Blomqvist and Glasser
(Stockholm, Sodertons University, 2021)
The Jewish Labor Bund in Stockholm, Sweden, marching with the Swedish Social-Democrats on the First of May 1946
If one knows anything . . .
The Jewish Labor Bund’s Medem Sanatorium: 1926-1942
Children at the Medem Sanatorium reading the Bund’s daily newspaper, the Folkstsaytung
Secularism and enlightenment swept through the insular world of East European Jewry, starting in the middle of the 19th century, and ending in the 20th with the . . .
Antisemitism in Ukraine
An Interview with Historian Serhiy Hirik
Patrick Le Tréhondat interviews Serhiy Hirik, a Ukrainian scholar of Jewish studies, on antisemitism in Ukraine.
Of Course the Allies Should Have Bombed Auschwitz
Bombing Auschwitz would not have diverted significantly from the actual war effort. It would have saved thousands or tens of thousands of lives and would have let the world know that Allied moral outrage was more than feel-good propaganda.
Laurent Schwartz: The Vicissitudes of an Internationalist
The first of an occasional series of articles on the lives of figures of the French left.
For more than a decade, from 1936 to 1947, Laurent Schwartz (1915-2002), the famous mathematician, was a Trotskyist in France, though that was only one . . .
Weaponizing Antisemitism “Makes Jews of Color Less Safe”
Interview with Anna Rajagopoal
Anna Rajagopal speaks about what Judaism and anti-Zionism mean to them, what it’s like being a Jew of color, and how this controversy has been affecting them.
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Half-Apology for Apartheid?
Linfield’s The Lions’ Den reads like an intervention toward holding back the encouraging tide of pro-Palestinian awareness.
Left Antisemitism and Consistent Democracy
A Reply to Daniel Fischer
Daniel Randall responds to Daniel Fischer’s review of his book Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists.
Overcoming Left Antisemitism
An Anti-Zionist’s Review of Confronting Antisemitism on the Left
Left antisemitism is all too real, has especially strong roots in Stalinism, and functions as a dangerous frame for conspiratorial thinking.
An Especially Shameful Episode in Zionist History
We need to know all this history and lots more about Zionist leaders’ dealings with Jew haters so we can immediately confront and neutralize Zionist slander the next time they falsely cry “antisemitism.”
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