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Benjamin Balthaser

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On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

Mike Gold, Alexander Bittelman, and the paradoxes of left-wing Zionism.

by Benjamin Balthaser via Literary Hub on July 23, 2025
The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left

Thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel. They are taking part in a tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism.

by Benjamin Balthaser via Jacobin on July 21, 2025
The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity

Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations are part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.

by Benjamin Balthaser, Shane Burley via Jacobin on June 8, 2025
Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare

A new history of the CPUSA reads like a Cold War throwback.

by Benjamin Balthaser via The Baffler on November 21, 2024
Racial Violence in Black and White

From lynching photos to Black Lives Matter – what does it mean to look at images of African Americans being murdered?

by Benjamin Balthaser via Boston Review on July 13, 2016

Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left

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