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Pro-Israel counterprotesters hold Israeli flags on the edges of a pro-Palestine encampment at Northeastern University in Boston, April 26, 2024.

The New Anti-Antisemitism

The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.
by Rick Perlstein via The American Prospect on May 8, 2024
Pro-Palestinian campus protest.
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Why Colleges Don’t Know What to Do About Campus Protests

Despite frequent litigation, U.S. courts have created a blurry line that puts administrators in an impossible situation.
by Jack Hodgson via Made By History on April 29, 2024
Bishop Desmond Tutu speaks at an International Conference Against Apartheid held in Atlanta, Georgia in 1986.

US Worker Movements and Direct Links Against Apartheid

Today's pro-Palestinian activists are utilizing anti-apartheid tactics from thirty years ago.
by Mattie Christine Webb via Black Perspectives on April 26, 2024
Two protestors holding a Palestinian flag with "stop genocide" written on it, surrounded by red handprints.

The War in Gaza Has Exposed the Limits of the Word “Genocide”

The term is 80 years old. Everyone is still fighting over its meaning.
by David Faris via Slate on December 13, 2023
Bayard Rustin speaks from the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington.

Bayard Rustin Showed the Promise and Pitfalls of Coalition Politics

Bayard Rustin tried to forge a mass coalition to deliver progressive change. His failure to do so in the 1960s tells us much about building one today.
by Chris Maisano via Jacobin on December 9, 2023
Antisemitism Is a Threat to Us All — And to Democracy

Antisemitism Is a Threat to Us All — And to Democracy

How fascists and authoritarians have used antisemitic conspiracy theories to harm Jewish communities and undermine democracy.
by William Horne via Bucks County Beacon on November 28, 2023
US Marines marching in Da Nang, Vietnam, 1965.

How Israel Is Borrowing From the US Playbook in Vietnam

Justifying civilian casualties has a long history.
by Branko Marcetic via The Nation on November 14, 2023
Birthright Israel group visits the Western Wall

Hooked on a Feeling: Birthright Israel's Affective Politics

You can't be neutral on a tour bus rolling toward the foot of Masada.
by Jacqui Shine via Well, Actually on October 15, 2023
Martha Hodes (left) and her sister, Catherine, joint passport photo.

The Historian Who Lost Her Memory of a Hijacking

At 12 years old, Martha Hodes was on board a hijacked plane and was taken hostage for a week. How did she forget much of the experience?
by Jacob Bacharach via The New Republic on July 25, 2023
Meir Kahane

Is Kahane More Mainstream than American Jews will Admit?

A new biography explores the American roots of Meir Kahane's far-right ideology — and how the U.S. Jewish establishment embraced his beliefs.
by Hadas Binyamini via +972 Magazine on December 30, 2021

How the Failures of the 1919 Versailles Peace Treaty Set the Stage for Today’s Anti-Racist Uprisings

In 1920, like 2020, race became the pivot of a historic turning point.
by Elizabeth Thompson via The Conversation on August 3, 2020
Wanto Co. grocery store with a sign that reads "I Am An American"

Discovering Judith Shklar’s Skeptical Liberalism of Fear

Judith Shklar fled Nazis and Stalinism before discovering in African-American history the dilemma of modern liberalism.
by Samantha Ashenden, Andreas Hess via Aeon on March 16, 2020
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How Oscar Speeches Became So Political

Oscar night has become a platform for stars to pitch political causes.
via Retro Report on February 5, 2020

‘Orientalism,’ Then and Now

Edward Said's Orientalism is still with us forty years after his influential book’s publication, but it is not the same as it was.
by Adam Shatz via New York Review of Books on May 20, 2019
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Less Than Grand Strategy

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War.
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on November 21, 2018

The World the Cold War Built

A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.
by Leon Hadar via The American Conservative on January 31, 2018

Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

On Edward Said, othering, and the depictions of Arabs in America.
by Philip Metres via Literary Hub on January 23, 2018

Why Are We in the Middle East?

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.
by Richard Beck via n+1 on July 29, 2016

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