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Gender, Labor, Democracy, and Americanism: U.S. History in the (Un)Making
In the early hours of Monday, May 15, 2023, the historical highway marker recognizing the birthplace of a renown feminist, anti-racist labor organizer and defender of reproductive rights was taken down. The marker was formally approved and erected by the State, following years of community effort on behalf of this locally-born female hero. It stood […]
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Remembering Jean Genet: the United States and Palestine
Genet was one of the most original and combative writers of the 20th century.
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We are Spartacus
Julian and David are Spartacus. The Palestinians are Spartacus. People who fill the streets with flags and principle and solidarity are Spartacus. We are all Spartacus if we want to be.
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The end of American Thanksgivings: A cause for Universal rejoicing
Humanity cannot tolerate a 21st Century superpower, much of whose population perceives the world through the eyes of 17th Century land and flesh bandits.
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The dystopian AI future some fear is the present-day reality others live
Whether you’re reading the news or watching a movie, you are likely to encounter some form of warning or buzz about AI.
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In their own words: Seven Israeli films exploring the Palestinian cause
A number of Israeli filmmakers have bravely turned the camera on their own society, revealing dark truths about their state and its history
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Tel Aviv police ban World Children’s Day event supporting “children living in the shadow of the war”
Tel Aviv police refused to allow a silent vigil for World Children’s Day saying the event could “cause serious harm to public security.” Police have used this same rationale to attack and detain peaceful protesters around the country.
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Inside AIPAC’s strategy to back Israel’s cheerleaders and punish the Squad
The powerful lobby and allied groups have poured money into defeating candidates who voice any criticism of Israel. Amid calls for a cease-fire in Israel’s war on Gaza, they’re back at it again.
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‘We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba,’ Israeli Minister announces
Denying the Nakba is normally a central tenet of Zionism.
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The food police
Food theft isn’t an indicator of criminality, but of a failing social system.
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A paradigm shift in the hundred years’ war on Palestine?
Since October 7, there have been five elements that indicate we may be seeing a paradigm shift in the hundred years’ war waged against the Palestinian people.
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NYT runs interference for IDF as it bombs Jabalia Refugee Camp
Israeli bombs rained down on the Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza on Halloween, leveling housing units and killing and wounding hundreds of Palestinians, mostly women and children.
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Germany gets a new antiwar party, this time on the left
Its appeal depends largely on whether voters agree that Berlin’s economic woes can be blamed on the country’s Ukraine war policy.
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The intimate embrace between Liberalism and the Far Right: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2023)
One of the curiosities of our time is that the far right is quite comfortable with the established institutions of liberal democracy.
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The Pogrom, Indians, and Genealogies of the Israeli Settler-Vigilante
In most major media accounts of settler terror against Palestinians, Israeli settler-vigilantes invariably escape critical categorization beyond the moniker of “extremist.” Portrayals of these perpetrators of violence invariably focus on the theme of fanaticism while presenting these figures as unsavory if misguided fringe elements in Israeli society. Such characterizations are naïve and incomplete.
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The Media’s Nord Stream lies just keep coming
Why do billionaires and governments scramble to control the media? Because the power over our minds is the greatest power there is.
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‘Free Speech’ fans call for censoring TikTok as Chinese plot to make Israel look bad
Axios (10/31/23) reported that in a two-week period, TikTok saw “nearly four times the number of views to TikTok posts using the hashtag #StandwithPalestine globally compared to posts using the hashtag #StandwithIsrael.” As a result, the conservative outrage machine kicked into high gear.
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Columbia University suspends ‘Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace’
Columbia University announced it is suspending the campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace for the remainder of the fall term.
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Foolish exclusions: China and the Bletchley Declaration on AI
At the conclusion of the Second World War, debates raged on how best to regulate the destructive power of the atom.
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The doublethink of ‘genocide education’
Fall 2023 is a strange time to be alive or to die.