#jewishamericanleft — Public Fediverse posts

"I argue that #antiZionism, like #socialism within the American Jewish world, arose autochthonously out of the desire of mostly working- and middle-class Jews to create a world that was far more egalitarian and also less racist and less antisemitic."

Pt 1 of Francesca Freeman's talk w/ #BenjaminBalthaser about his book #CitizensOfTheWholeWorld

https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/narrating-historyamerican-anti-zionist-jewish-left-part-1/

#JewishLeft #JewishAmericanLeft #JewishAmericanHistory #UShistory #Palestine #Israel #PalestineQuestion #books @bookstodon

"For decades, American Jews were assumed to be uncritical supporters of #Israel. But Israel’s war in #Gaza transformed Jewish politics in the US and irrevocably undermined the legitimacy of institutions that sustain Zionism."

#BenjaminBalthaser | How October 7 Remade Jewish Politics in America

https://jacobin.com/2026/01/us-jews-jvp-palestine-gaza
#Palestine #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanPolitics #USleft #JewishAmericanLeft #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #studentProtests #activism #peaceMovement #JVP

The Outcasts of Zion | review essay by #BenjaminBalthaser

"The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of #AmericanLiberalism’s identity crisis."

#books discussed:

#BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza
#TheThresholdOfDissent
#Doppelganger
#Unsettled
#OurPalestineQuestion

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-outcasts-of-zion/

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"On this episode of #AmericanPrestige, #PeterBeinart speaks with Danny and Derek about his book #BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza: A Reckoning, #AmericanJews’ conception of and relationship with #Israel, and how things have changed since the start of the #GenocideInGaza."

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e197-american-jews-israel-and-palestine-w-peter-beinart

#Gaza #Palestine #oPt #PalestineSolidarity #USpol #USpolitics #JewishAmericanPolitics #JewishAmericanLeft #books @palestine @israel @bookstodon

NLR's new issue has an intv w/ #ArielleAngel of #JewishCurrents.

A discussion marred IMO by a stilted, longish attempt by the interviewer to litigate the term genocide wrt #Gaza by contrasting "emotion" vs "precision." (As if 1000s of jurists & numerous govts joining S. Africa v Israel are operating under the throes of "emotion." WTF?) Worth the read tho for *Arielle's* thoughts at least

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii148/articles/arielle-angel-leaving-zion
#PalestineSolidarity #USleft #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanLeft
@palestine

"Today we speak with #RebeccaVilkomerson and Rabbi #AlissaWise about their foundational work in starting and growing #JewishVoiceForPeace. It’s a story captured in their new book, #SolidarityIsThePoliticalVersionOfLove: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing."

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2024/09/09/solidarity-is-the-political-version-of-love-lessons-from-jewish-anti-zionist-organizing-conversation-with-rebecca-vilkomerson-and-rabbi-alissa-wise/

#PalestineSolidarity #Palestine #IsraelPalestine #JVP #USpol #USpolitics #USLeft #AmericanLeft #JewishAmericanLeft #PeaceMovement #books @palestine

#MouinRabbani talks with historian #MarjorieNFeld about the history of Jewish American #antizionism and the efforts to combat and marginalise it.

Feld is the author of #TheThresholdOfDissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism

https://youtu.be/ndZqnyWZ6bc
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