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  Can We Finally Admit That Jews Can Be Both White And Oppressed?

  The discussion over whether or not European Jews are white is like the herpes of Jewish thought spaces. No one enjoys it. It makes your skin itch and crawl. And it keeps popping up out of nowhere. Although a number of Jews of color have written extensively on this issue, many Jewish people with the…

  By Ariel Sobel

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  ‘Dual Loyalty’? Nice Try. Republicans Are The Ones Using Israel As A Partisan Football

  We’ve heard a lot about the anti-Semitic “dual loyalty” canard recently. The idea that Jews are more loyal to Israel and each other than they are to the country in which they live has been used to justify the mass murder of Jews since Pharaoh in the Bible. It’s something we’re sensitive about, and in…

  By Batya Ungar-Sargon Jan 8, 2019 | 5 min read
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  I Was Sexually Harassed On Bernie Sanders’ Campaign. And No One Cared.

  The morning of the 2016 New York Democratic primary, a local voter named Ray came by Bernie Sanders’ South Bronx campaign headquarters where I was volunteering. He asked for a few T-shirts from the campaign. A few minutes later, in a back corner of the office where I had gone to fetch him the T-shirts,…

  By Virginia Jeffries Jan 7, 2019 | 6 min read

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  Opinion | The Surprising New Battleground In the War Against Palestinian Rights: Your Local Courthouse

  On November 26, 2018, a New York-based lawyer named David Abrams announced that he had filed a lawsuit against Airbnb over its decision to stop providing services in West Bank settlements. Abrams filed the lawsuit on behalf of a “Jewish-owned” Israeli corporation based in “Judea and Samaria” — more commonly known as the West Bank…

  By Lara Friedman Jan 7, 2019 | 8 min read
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  Palestinians Are Right To Outlaw Selling Land To Settlers

  I spent the summer of 2017 living in the heavily occupied West Bank city of Hebron. On July 24, I witnessed the takeover of a Palestinian property in the center of the old city by around 100 settlers. I watched as members of the Abu Rajab family, still living on one of the floors of…

  By Ariel Gold Jan 4, 2019 | 5 min read
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  Nancy Pelosi Is The Anti-Ivanka

  Nancy Pelosi just won a historic victory: She was sworn in for a second term as Speaker of the House. When she won for the first time, Pelosi became the first woman to hold the Speakership. And after leading the Democrats through a blue wave in the midterms, she’s proven her ability to lead. She’s…

  By Molly Jong-Fast Jan 3, 2019 | 4 min read
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  Birthright Will Fail If It Doesn’t Evolve With Young Jews

  On New Year’s Day, a young woman rushed the stage at the “MegaEvent” held in Jerusalem for participants in Birthright, the program that takes young American and other Diaspora Jews to Israel on a free ten-day trip. BREAKING: Young Jew disrupts Birthright’s ‘MegaEvent’, a nationalist rally in Israel with all Birthright participants, holding a sign…

  By Peter Beinart Jan 3, 2019 | 4 min read
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  Ilhan Omar Needs To Apologize For Her Anti-Semitic Tweet – Like I Did.

  When I think about the election of Minnesota Democratic Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, I have mixed feelings. On one hand, her election is a milestone: she is the first Somali-American Muslim woman elected to Congress and a strong supporter of Palestinian human rights in a Congress that often sees them as an afterthought. But on the…

  By Zaid Jilani Jan 2, 2019 | 4 min read
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  Bernie Sanders Isn’t Just Another White Male Candidate. His Nomination Would Be Historic.

  The 2020 Democratic primary will likely offer the most diverse field of candidates either party has ever put forward for the presidency. At least four serious African-American contenders (Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Andrew Gillum, and Eric Holder) have been floated so far, as have at least four women (Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, and…

  By David Klion Jan 2, 2019 | 5 min read
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  Pittsburgh’s Lessons For America In 2019

  On New Year’s Eve 2018 the rain came down on Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill as if to wash away the tragic memories of October 27. The mass shooting at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Congregation synagogue was the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in America in recent years. But it led to an outpouring of solidarity from…

  By Dan Friedman Dec 31, 2018 | 3 min read
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  Why Does No One Care That Neo-Nazis Are Gaining Power In Ukraine?

  I can’t count the number of times I’ve been told Ukraine doesn’t really have a problem with its far-right. It’s all Kremlin propaganda; you’re personally helping Putin by talking about it; other countries have far-right problems too, so why single out Ukraine? I’ve heard it all. But I expect hear even more lines like this…

  By Michael Colborne Dec 31, 2018 | 4 min read