An interview with Tova Benjamin, the curator of the Jewish Currents Soviet Issue’s centerpiece section. David Klion Freedom Assembly for Soviet Jews, Washington, DC, 1973 Over the course of this week, we’ve been making the centerpiece of the Jewish […]
A conversation with Palestinian German director Lexi Alexander about Wonder Woman’s promotion of Arab stereotypes, her experiences of racism behind the camera, and the stakes of accurately portraying marginalized communities on screen. Rebecca Pierce A still from Wonder […]
After the Buffalo massacre, Jewish institutions must confront their own complicity with white supremacy. Rebecca Pierce A person pays his respects at a makeshift memorial outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, […]
Two weeks after Shireen Abu Akleh was killed—by Israeli soldiers, according to eyewitnesses—no independent body is investigating her death. Isaac Scher Yellow tape marks bullet oles on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a […]
Three Palestinian writers remember the legendary journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Tareq Baconi, Zaha Hassan, and Mezna Qato A Palestinian artist paints a mural in honor of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Gaza, May 12th, 2022.. […]
Israeli police attack mourners carrying the casket of Shireen Abu Akleh in East Jerusalem on May 13th. AP Photo/Maya Levin Rashid Khalidi on the colonial logic that devalues eyewitness accounts of the murder of Shireen […]
BY NAN LEVINSON I’ve been watching this country at war for many years now and, after 9/11, began spending time with American veterans who came to disdain and actively oppose the very conflicts they were sent […]
Beginning at 7 am on Sunday, dozens of right-wing Nazi JEWISH paramilitary settlers, led by the extremist Itamar Ben Gvir and accompanied by squadrons of Nazi soldiers, stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, removing Palestinian […]
BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: Eneas De Troya – CC BY 2.0 Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) visited Cuba on May 8-9. He began by highlighting regional unity as good for equal promotion of economic development […]
BY KAREN U. KWIATKOWSKI Image Source: Wenceslaus Hollar – Public Domain The world continues to watch in horror and dismay as Russian forces have decimated the military architecture and established special “peacekeeping” operations in the Ukraine […]