admin | May 1, 2020
In many cities around the world May 1, 2020 will be distinguished by the absence of demonstrations for International Workers Day, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, many will mark the occasion within their homes, as the crisis lays bare the deepening struggles faced by working-class people as a result of failed neoliberal policies, inequality and colonialism
admin | May 1, 2020
One hundred years ago this month, the map of the Middle East was radically redrawn by the major powers at a long-forgotten summit in a pretty resort town in northwestern Italy.
admin | May 1, 2020
Jews of non-Ashkenazi background are used to the downplaying of their experience of antisemitism. Episodes such as the Farhud, the massacre of hundreds of Jews in Iraq, by Arab nationalists, in June 1941, or the wave of pogroms in 1945 Libya, are rarely mentioned, even in academic pieces of research.
admin | May 1, 2020
This forced the British government to at least talk formally to the US authorities.
admin | May 1, 2020
Joseph, you should honor Israeli soldiers, whether they are Jewish or not, because they protect millions of Jewish lives. As a Jew, you are required to be concerned about the safety of any center of Jewish population, and especially one that now has close to half the Jews in the world. Zionism has nothing to do with this
admin | May 1, 2020
The creation of the modern Hebrew language around the end of the 19th century sought to resurrect an ancient language which had hardly been spoken colloquially among Jews, to become the new unifying national language of the Jewish nation. This effort built upon romantic and messianic concepts of return to the promised land, where the speaking of Hebrew would serve as a symbolic bridge to times immemorial. This was far from an exact science; had the intent really been to return to days of a Judean state pre-70AD, the language to be resurrected would better have been Aramaic
admin | May 1, 2020
Bruce Robbins, an English literature professor and political theorist at Columbia University, has long been active in the effort to bring democracy to Israel and Palestine. His latest effort is a documentary titled, What Kind of Jew Is Shlomo Sand? that he publishes today and that is embedded here
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