BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: Marco Verch – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Julian Assange has now been in the maximum-security facilities of Belmarsh prison for over 1,000 days. On the occasion of his 1,000th day of imprisonment, campaigners, supporters and kindred […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURNFacebookTwitterRedditEmail Photograph Source: DFID – UK Department for International Development – CC BY 2.0 At the beginning of the first lockdown two years ago a friend told me about a relative of his who was […]
BY SAM PIZZIGATI l Photograph Source: concrete&fells – CC BY 2.0 Our conventional political wisdom, here in the United States, tends to see utopians as lefty egalitarians of one sort or another, clueless reformers and revolutionaries who […]
BY RALPH NADER The progressive citizen groups, that in the sixties and seventies, drove through Congress the key environmental, worker, and consumer legislation, since unmatched, must feel nostalgic. Those were the years when legislation throwing cruel […]
After a political rupture, rituals of repetition can attempt to restore normalcy—or throw it into question. Raphael Magarik Statue from the permanent collection of the Museum of Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv, Israel. […]
If he loses due to his support for BDS, Florida congressional candidate Omari Hardy says his “conscience will be clear.” Alex Kane Florida State Representative Omari Hardy. Courtesy of Omari Hardy When Florida State Rep. Omari […]
In a new history of the Hasidic “fortress in Brooklyn,” a community’s struggle for the right to the city is not always waged in the common interest. Samuel Stein A city block in Hasidic Williamsburg.Alberto Paredes/Alamy […]
Lila Corwin Berman’s new book traces the explosion of the American Jewish philanthropic sector over the past 70 years—and its corrosive effect on contemporary Jewish life. Raphael Magarik A Lion of Judah brooch, which signals a […]
The far-right activist and politician died in disgrace, but Shaul Magid’s new book argues that his ideas have shaped mainstream American Judaism. Raphael Magarik Meir Kahane addresses a gathering at the Silver Spring Jewish Center in […]
Historian Lorenzo Veracini discusses settler colonialism, Zionism, and decolonial futures. Abe Silberstein Men work on a new housing project in the West Bank settlement of Modi’in Ilit in 2019.Ariel Schalit/AP There are few terms in the […]