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"Winning justice for Palestinians—and the enduring security that Jewish Israelis claim to want—will require reckoning with this entrenched national ethos of denial. Until we are finally willing to remember the horrors we’ve already wrought, there will surely be more to come."
"The past two years of continuous violence made Gaza impossible to ignore, requiring more active modes of forgetting—and now a concerted effort to solidify a whitewashed national narrative that exonerates Israel of wrongdoing."
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Israel’s Collective Amnesia
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"Winning justice for Palestinians—and the enduring security that Jewish Israelis claim to want—will require reckoning with this entrenched national ethos of denial. Until we are finally willing to remember the horrors we’ve already wrought, there will surely be more to come."
"The past two years of continuous violence made Gaza impossible to ignore, requiring more active modes of forgetting—and now a concerted effort to solidify a whitewashed national narrative that exonerates Israel of wrongdoing."
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
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Israel’s Collective Amnesia
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
jewishcurrents.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"The past two years of continuous violence made Gaza impossible to ignore, requiring more active modes of forgetting—and now a concerted effort to solidify a whitewashed national narrative that exonerates Israel of wrongdoing."
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Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
Analysis by Lee Mordechai:
Analysis by Lee Mordechai:
Israel’s Collective Amnesia
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
Analysis by Lee Mordechai:
Analysis by Lee Mordechai:
"The world was cleaved in two, not between Muslims and Jews or Israelis and Palestinians; but between those who, like him, resisted imperialism in all its forms, and those who did not."
The Life and Legacy of Sion Assidon
For the Moroccan Jewish leftist, the decolonization of his homeland and the liberation of Palestine were inextricably entwined.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"The world was cleaved in two, not between Muslims and Jews or Israelis and Palestinians; but between those who, like him, resisted imperialism in all its forms, and those who did not."
"Assidon believed that, at its core, the Palestinian cause is a matter of human justice, that its rationale is one of righting wrongs—and, as such, does not allow for half measures."
The Life and Legacy of Sion Assidon
For the Moroccan Jewish leftist, the decolonization of his homeland and the liberation of Palestine were inextricably entwined.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Assidon believed that, at its core, the Palestinian cause is a matter of human justice, that its rationale is one of righting wrongs—and, as such, does not allow for half measures."
In the wake of Sion Assidon's passing, four writers—Arthur Asseraf, Driss Ksikes, Khalid Lyamlahy, and Michèle Sibony—reflect on the enduring meaning of the Moroccan Jewish activist’s life.
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The Life and Legacy of Sion Assidon
For the Moroccan Jewish leftist, the decolonization of his homeland and the liberation of Palestine were inextricably entwined.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In the wake of Sion Assidon's passing, four writers—Arthur Asseraf, Driss Ksikes, Khalid Lyamlahy, and Michèle Sibony—reflect on the enduring meaning of the Moroccan Jewish activist’s life.
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On the new episode of On the Nose, Breaking the Silence’s Nadav Weiman discusses the org’s findings from two years of testimonies by Israeli soldiers on what they have perpetrated in Gaza, and the daunting prospect of deradicalizing Israeli society.
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What the Soldiers Did in Gaza
Breaking the Silence’s Nadav Weiman discusses the organization’s findings from two years of soldier testimonies and the daunting prospect of…
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November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
On the new episode of On the Nose, Breaking the Silence’s Nadav Weiman discusses the org’s findings from two years of testimonies by Israeli soldiers on what they have perpetrated in Gaza, and the daunting prospect of deradicalizing Israeli society.
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Comment continuer à vivre quand on culpabilise d'avoir survécu ? Alors qu'Israël continue à bombarder Gaza, Abdullah Hany Daher, journaliste palestinien, livre ici un témoignage bouleversant, initialement publié dans la formidable revue @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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Gaza ou la trahison de la lumière
Abdullah Hany Daher · Comment espérer depuis Gaza quand la guerre apprend à craindre la vie, la joie et jusqu'à la lumière elle-même ?
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November 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Comment continuer à vivre quand on culpabilise d'avoir survécu ? Alors qu'Israël continue à bombarder Gaza, Abdullah Hany Daher, journaliste palestinien, livre ici un témoignage bouleversant, initialement publié dans la formidable revue @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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www.terrestres.org/2025/11/19/g...
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Join @jewishcurrents.bsky.social on Sunday, November 23rd at 12 pm ET for a virtual conversation with Mitchell Abidor about his new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary.
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Join @jewishcurrents.bsky.social on Sunday, November 23rd at 12 pm ET for a virtual conversation with Mitchell Abidor about his new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary.
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The Uncomfortable Truth About Victor Serge: A Conversation with…
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November 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Join @jewishcurrents.bsky.social on Sunday, November 23rd at 12 pm ET for a virtual conversation with Mitchell Abidor about his new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary.
jewishcurrents.org/event/the-un...
Join @jewishcurrents.bsky.social on Sunday, November 23rd at 12 pm ET for a virtual conversation with Mitchell Abidor about his new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary.
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As formal banking and physical currency go extinct, Palestinians in Gaza have had to turn to a variety of survival strategies—most notably crypto. Hani Qarmoot reports jewishcurrents.org/cryptocurren...
Cryptocurrency Comes to Gaza
With formal banking infrastructure in ruins, Palestinians in Gaza are forced to rely on unregulated digital currencies for survival.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
As formal banking and physical currency go extinct, Palestinians in Gaza have had to turn to a variety of survival strategies—most notably crypto. Hani Qarmoot reports jewishcurrents.org/cryptocurren...
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"Still, I write, because forgetting is another kind of death. Writing does not save anyone; it only makes absence visible. It says, “We existed.” It says, “We tried.” And in Gaza, we have no more space to bury names."
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"When I write, I don’t feel proud. I feel late. Words cannot keep up with what happens here. Language always follows loss."
Alphabets on the Sand
In Gaza, language is insufficient to describe the magnitude of our loss, but I write anyway.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"Still, I write, because forgetting is another kind of death. Writing does not save anyone; it only makes absence visible. It says, “We existed.” It says, “We tried.” And in Gaza, we have no more space to bury names."
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"When I write, I don’t feel proud. I feel late. Words cannot keep up with what happens here. Language always follows loss. Still, I write, because forgetting is another kind of death. Writing does not save anyone; it only makes absence visible."
"In each interval of calm, I feel time slowing down—as if the world outside Gaza moves forward while we remain stuck inside the same unfinished sentence trapped between survival and meaning."
Alphabets on the Sand
In Gaza, language is insufficient to describe the magnitude of our loss, but I write anyway.
jewishcurrents.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"When I write, I don’t feel proud. I feel late. Words cannot keep up with what happens here. Language always follows loss. Still, I write, because forgetting is another kind of death. Writing does not save anyone; it only makes absence visible."
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Israel is ramping up efforts to expel international activists from the West Bank during the olive harvest. This piece details how this year's harvest has seen a surge in violent settler attacks, military actions, and land closures.
By Maya Rosen in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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By Maya Rosen in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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The Olive Harvest Deportations
Alarmed by efforts to publicize its violence against Palestinians, Israel is moving to expel international solidarity activists from the occupied West…
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November 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Israel is ramping up efforts to expel international activists from the West Bank during the olive harvest. This piece details how this year's harvest has seen a surge in violent settler attacks, military actions, and land closures.
By Maya Rosen in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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By Maya Rosen in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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“Ethnic studies educators spend so much time dealing w/Zionist backlash.. that little energy is left to devote to robust education on antisemitism.In doubling down on the tired conflation of antisemitism w/anti-Zionism, AB 715 has contributed to making the possibility of such education more remote”
"AB 715’s external backers have contributed little to educational efforts about how antisemitism is linked to other forms of bigotry."
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In California, Jewish Groups’ Win is Students’ Loss
A new “antisemitism prevention” law erodes possibilities for robust public education on both Palestine and Jewish identity.
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November 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“Ethnic studies educators spend so much time dealing w/Zionist backlash.. that little energy is left to devote to robust education on antisemitism.In doubling down on the tired conflation of antisemitism w/anti-Zionism, AB 715 has contributed to making the possibility of such education more remote”
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Will Alden in the latest @jewishcurrents.bsky.social with a thorough exploration of what happened at UCLA and why and what it has cost that school and its students and faculty jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Will Alden in the latest @jewishcurrents.bsky.social with a thorough exploration of what happened at UCLA and why and what it has cost that school and its students and faculty jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
"Jewish families with school aged children in California are increasingly not white or Ashkenazi. Instead of isolating the Jewish experience, the California curriculum could offer an analysis of antisemitism and racism together."
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In California, Jewish Groups’ Win is Students’ Loss
A new “antisemitism prevention” law erodes possibilities for robust public education on both Palestine and Jewish identity.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Jewish families with school aged children in California are increasingly not white or Ashkenazi. Instead of isolating the Jewish experience, the California curriculum could offer an analysis of antisemitism and racism together."
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"AB 715’s external backers have contributed little to educational efforts about how antisemitism is linked to other forms of bigotry."
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jewishcurrents.org/in-californi...
In California, Jewish Groups’ Win is Students’ Loss
A new “antisemitism prevention” law erodes possibilities for robust public education on both Palestine and Jewish identity.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"AB 715’s external backers have contributed little to educational efforts about how antisemitism is linked to other forms of bigotry."
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A new California law, framed as a win for Jewish students, is another blow to the possibility of robust education on Palestine and Jewish identity in the state.
Read Gabi Kirk's analysis of AB 715 and its background in the struggle over ethnic studies: jewishcurrents.org/in-californi...
Read Gabi Kirk's analysis of AB 715 and its background in the struggle over ethnic studies: jewishcurrents.org/in-californi...
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A new California law, framed as a win for Jewish students, is another blow to the possibility of robust education on Palestine and Jewish identity in the state.
Read Gabi Kirk's analysis of AB 715 and its background in the struggle over ethnic studies: jewishcurrents.org/in-californi...
Read Gabi Kirk's analysis of AB 715 and its background in the struggle over ethnic studies: jewishcurrents.org/in-californi...
"In each interval of calm, I feel time slowing down—as if the world outside Gaza moves forward while we remain stuck inside the same unfinished sentence trapped between survival and meaning."
Alphabets on the Sand
In Gaza, language is insufficient to describe the magnitude of our loss, but I write anyway.
jewishcurrents.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"In each interval of calm, I feel time slowing down—as if the world outside Gaza moves forward while we remain stuck inside the same unfinished sentence trapped between survival and meaning."
Join us this Sunday in NYC for a conversation with Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil on what his case tells us about American authoritarian repression and the movement for Palestinian liberation.
Tickets here: jewishcurrents.org/event/the-cr...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Join us this Sunday in NYC for a conversation with Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil on what his case tells us about American authoritarian repression and the movement for Palestinian liberation.
Tickets here: jewishcurrents.org/event/the-cr...
Tickets here: jewishcurrents.org/event/the-cr...
"When I write, I don’t feel proud. I feel late. Words cannot keep up with what happens here. Language always follows loss."
Alphabets on the Sand
In Gaza, language is insufficient to describe the magnitude of our loss, but I write anyway.
jewishcurrents.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"When I write, I don’t feel proud. I feel late. Words cannot keep up with what happens here. Language always follows loss."
Palestinian writer from Gaza Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on the meaning of study amid devastating loss.
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Alphabets on the Sand
In Gaza, language is insufficient to describe the magnitude of our loss, but I write anyway.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Palestinian writer from Gaza Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on the meaning of study amid devastating loss.
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🎧 “Back when the alt-right was called the alt-right… people used to not believe me when I said how central the Jews and the so-called Jewish question were to that project.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🎧 “Back when the alt-right was called the alt-right… people used to not believe me when I said how central the Jews and the so-called Jewish question were to that project.”
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“the way the radical right has worked… is they crib some ideas from the left, they tap into an adjacent insurgent anti establishment energy, and they have some of the same talking points… they take that & put it into nativism, and ultra nationalism, and scapegoating… they do that at crisis moments”
On the new episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel, Daniel May, Andrew Marantz, & @benlorber8.bsky.social discuss Nick Fuentes on Tucker Carlson, Norman Finkelstein on Candace Owens, and the newfound influence of the anti-Israel right.
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Confronting the Anti-Zionist Right
Jewish Currents discusses Nick Fuentes on Tucker Carlson, Norman Finkelstein on Candace Owens, and the newfound influence of the anti-Israel right.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“the way the radical right has worked… is they crib some ideas from the left, they tap into an adjacent insurgent anti establishment energy, and they have some of the same talking points… they take that & put it into nativism, and ultra nationalism, and scapegoating… they do that at crisis moments”