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  1. "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

    jacobin.com/2026/01/us-jews-jv
    #Palestine #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanPolitics #USleft #JewishAmericanLeft #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #studentProtests #activism #peaceMovement #JVP

  2. "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

    jacobin.com/2026/01/us-jews-jv
    #Palestine #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanPolitics #USleft #JewishAmericanLeft #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #studentProtests #activism #peaceMovement #JVP

  3. "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

    jacobin.com/2026/01/us-jews-jv
    #Palestine #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanPolitics #USleft #JewishAmericanLeft #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #studentProtests #activism #peaceMovement #JVP

  4. "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

    jacobin.com/2026/01/us-jews-jv
    #Palestine #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanPolitics #USleft #JewishAmericanLeft #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #studentProtests #activism #peaceMovement #JVP

  5. "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

    jacobin.com/2026/01/us-jews-jv
    #Palestine #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanPolitics #USleft #JewishAmericanLeft #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #studentProtests #activism #peaceMovement

  6. "Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the #AmericanLeft, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of #Marxism’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."

    Robin Blackburn reviews #AndrewHartman's #KarlMarxInAmerica

    thenation.com/article/society/

    #Marx #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #USpolitics #books @bookstodon

  7. "Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the #AmericanLeft, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of #Marxism’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."

    Robin Blackburn reviews #AndrewHartman's #KarlMarxInAmerica

    thenation.com/article/society/

    #Marx #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #USpolitics #books @bookstodon

  8. "Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the #AmericanLeft, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of #Marxism’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."

    Robin Blackburn reviews #AndrewHartman's #KarlMarxInAmerica

    thenation.com/article/society/

    #Marx #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #USpolitics #books @bookstodon

  9. "Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the #AmericanLeft, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of #Marxism’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."

    Robin Blackburn reviews #AndrewHartman's #KarlMarxInAmerica

    thenation.com/article/society/

    #Marx #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #USpolitics #books @bookstodon

  10. "Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the #AmericanLeft, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of #Marxism’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."

    Robin Blackburn reviews #AndrewHartman's #KarlMarxInAmerica

    thenation.com/article/society/

    #Marx #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #USpolitics #books @bookstodon

  11. 'At its 2025 convention, the DSA voted to support Palestinian resistance, […] affirming the right of return, Jerusalem as the capital. […] The resolution also declared that endorsing Zionist positions such as “Israel has a right to defend itself” could be an expellable offense. Delegates also passed a resolution titled “Labor for an Arms Embargo” with over 80 percent support.

    'At the same time, the convention showed an organization pulled in two directions — responding to the shifts in consciousness around Palestinian liberation, yet being tethered to a strategy that operates within the limits set by the Democratic Party. For instance, the convention voted down a resolution for a single secular Palestinian state, and turned away from formal alignment with BDS — positions that would have placed DSA too openly against the politics of the Democratic Party. Yet in contradiction, they also passed new rules requiring candidates to support BDS and cut ties with Zionist lobbies — an uneasy compromise that captures both the break and its limits.'

    Maryam Alaniz: leftvoice.org/the-dsa-voted-ag

    #TheSquad #DSA #antiImperialism #antiZionism #USA #US #USPolitics #USPol #establishment #DemocraticParty #Mamdani #Bowman #BDS #LeftVoice #classStruggle #socialism #NYC #AOC #USLeft #leftists #socialists #Tlaib #RashidaTlaib #DemocraticPrimaries #resolutions #Democrats

  12. 'At its 2025 convention, the DSA voted to support Palestinian resistance, […] affirming the right of return, Jerusalem as the capital. […] The resolution also declared that endorsing Zionist positions such as “Israel has a right to defend itself” could be an expellable offense. Delegates also passed a resolution titled “Labor for an Arms Embargo” with over 80 percent support.

    'At the same time, the convention showed an organization pulled in two directions — responding to the shifts in consciousness around Palestinian liberation, yet being tethered to a strategy that operates within the limits set by the Democratic Party. For instance, the convention voted down a resolution for a single secular Palestinian state, and turned away from formal alignment with BDS — positions that would have placed DSA too openly against the politics of the Democratic Party. Yet in contradiction, they also passed new rules requiring candidates to support BDS and cut ties with Zionist lobbies — an uneasy compromise that captures both the break and its limits.'

    Maryam Alaniz: leftvoice.org/the-dsa-voted-ag

    #TheSquad #DSA #antiImperialism #antiZionism #USA #US #USPolitics #USPol #establishment #DemocraticParty #Mamdani #Bowman #BDS #LeftVoice #classStruggle #socialism #NYC #AOC #USLeft #leftists #socialists #Tlaib #RashidaTlaib #DemocraticPrimaries #resolutions #Democrats

  13. 'At its 2025 convention, the DSA voted to support Palestinian resistance, […] affirming the right of return, Jerusalem as the capital. […] The resolution also declared that endorsing Zionist positions such as “Israel has a right to defend itself” could be an expellable offense. Delegates also passed a resolution titled “Labor for an Arms Embargo” with over 80 percent support.

    'At the same time, the convention showed an organization pulled in two directions — responding to the shifts in consciousness around Palestinian liberation, yet being tethered to a strategy that operates within the limits set by the Democratic Party. For instance, the convention voted down a resolution for a single secular Palestinian state, and turned away from formal alignment with BDS — positions that would have placed DSA too openly against the politics of the Democratic Party. Yet in contradiction, they also passed new rules requiring candidates to support BDS and cut ties with Zionist lobbies — an uneasy compromise that captures both the break and its limits.'

    Maryam Alaniz: leftvoice.org/the-dsa-voted-ag

    #TheSquad #DSA #antiImperialism #antiZionism #USA #US #USPolitics #USPol #establishment #DemocraticParty #Mamdani #Bowman #BDS #LeftVoice #classStruggle #socialism #NYC #AOC #USLeft #leftists #socialists #Tlaib #RashidaTlaib #DemocraticPrimaries #resolutions #Democrats

  14. 'At its 2025 convention, the DSA voted to support Palestinian resistance, […] affirming the right of return, Jerusalem as the capital. […] The resolution also declared that endorsing Zionist positions such as “Israel has a right to defend itself” could be an expellable offense. Delegates also passed a resolution titled “Labor for an Arms Embargo” with over 80 percent support.

    'At the same time, the convention showed an organization pulled in two directions — responding to the shifts in consciousness around Palestinian liberation, yet being tethered to a strategy that operates within the limits set by the Democratic Party. For instance, the convention voted down a resolution for a single secular Palestinian state, and turned away from formal alignment with BDS — positions that would have placed DSA too openly against the politics of the Democratic Party. Yet in contradiction, they also passed new rules requiring candidates to support BDS and cut ties with Zionist lobbies — an uneasy compromise that captures both the break and its limits.'

    Maryam Alaniz: leftvoice.org/the-dsa-voted-ag

    #TheSquad #DSA #antiImperialism #antiZionism #USA #US #USPolitics #USPol #establishment #DemocraticParty #Mamdani #Bowman #BDS #LeftVoice #classStruggle #socialism #NYC #AOC #USLeft #leftists #socialists #Tlaib #RashidaTlaib #DemocraticPrimaries #resolutions #Democrats

  15. 'At its 2025 convention, the DSA voted to support Palestinian resistance, […] affirming the right of return, Jerusalem as the capital. […] The resolution also declared that endorsing Zionist positions such as “Israel has a right to defend itself” could be an expellable offense. Delegates also passed a resolution titled “Labor for an Arms Embargo” with over 80 percent support.

    'At the same time, the convention showed an organization pulled in two directions — responding to the shifts in consciousness around Palestinian liberation, yet being tethered to a strategy that operates within the limits set by the Democratic Party. For instance, the convention voted down a resolution for a single secular Palestinian state, and turned away from formal alignment with BDS — positions that would have placed DSA too openly against the politics of the Democratic Party. Yet in contradiction, they also passed new rules requiring candidates to support BDS and cut ties with Zionist lobbies — an uneasy compromise that captures both the break and its limits.'

    Maryam Alaniz: leftvoice.org/the-dsa-voted-ag

    #TheSquad #DSA #antiImperialism #antiZionism #USA #US #USPolitics #USPol #establishment #DemocraticParty #Mamdani #Bowman #BDS #LeftVoice #classStruggle #socialism #NYC #AOC #USLeft #leftists #socialists #Tlaib #RashidaTlaib #DemocraticPrimaries #resolutions #Democrats

  16. The racially mixed , smartly dressed browsers of progressive books in this 1938 photograph seem to be living out the CPUSA slogan of that time, "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism"; note the "Harvard Communist" in the lower right hand quarter of the picture, the nearby collection box for aid for Spain, and the photograph of volunteers who were fighting for the Spanish Republican cause.

    The following year's cynically concluded Hitler-Stalin pact and the anticommunism of the postwar decades dealt the US left blows from which it has never fully recovered.

    I wonder about the various fates of the individuals pictured here.

    #USHistory #PeoplesFront #PopularFront #CPUSA #Books #USPolitics #USLeft

  17. #HaymarketBooks | #Trump's Hammer, Our Hope

    "Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the continuing attacks on both marginalized communities and on #freeSpeech at the hands of the current administration."

    youtu.be/9vP5p_oTmZU
    #USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #stateRepression #civilLiberties #civilRights #USleft #AmericanLeft #activism #leftActivism #leftOrganizing #antifascism #antiracism

  18. #HaymarketBooks | #Trump's Hammer, Our Hope

    "Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the continuing attacks on both marginalized communities and on #freeSpeech at the hands of the current administration."

    youtu.be/9vP5p_oTmZU
    #USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #stateRepression #civilLiberties #civilRights #USleft #AmericanLeft #activism #leftActivism #leftOrganizing #antifascism #antiracism

  19. #HaymarketBooks | #Trump's Hammer, Our Hope

    "Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the continuing attacks on both marginalized communities and on #freeSpeech at the hands of the current administration."

    youtu.be/9vP5p_oTmZU
    #USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #stateRepression #civilLiberties #civilRights #USleft #AmericanLeft #activism #leftActivism #leftOrganizing #antifascism #antiracism

  20. #HaymarketBooks | #Trump's Hammer, Our Hope

    "Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the continuing attacks on both marginalized communities and on #freeSpeech at the hands of the current administration."

    youtu.be/9vP5p_oTmZU
    #USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #stateRepression #civilLiberties #civilRights #USleft #AmericanLeft #activism #leftActivism #leftOrganizing #antifascism #antiracism

  21. #HaymarketBooks | #Trump's Hammer, Our Hope

    "Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the continuing attacks on both marginalized communities and on #freeSpeech at the hands of the current administration."

    youtu.be/9vP5p_oTmZU
    #USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #stateRepression #civilLiberties #civilRights #USleft #AmericanLeft #activism #leftActivism #leftOrganizing #antifascism #antiracism

  22. "From Elon #Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions, to the #Trump family's vision for remaking #Gaza into another Dubai, we are witnessing the extension of corporate power across the globe at an unprecedented pace."

    An emergency town hall via #HaymarketBooks w/ Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

    youtu.be/iyLiNN_NMO4
    #USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #oligarchy #droitisation #USleft #AmericanLeft #leftActivism #politicalActivism #antifascism

  23. "The weakness of the #AmericanLeft is increasingly a European problem because an imperial core without a proper #left opposition is going to let the US or the hegemon export destruction and regression across the globe."

    Great interview w/ #AntonJäger on the #AmericanPrestige pod about the state of #USpolitics, #AmericanLiberalism, the #USleft, and the implications of the #2024election for mass movements and #geopolitics

    americanprestige.supportingcas
    #USpol #PoliticalTheory #TheEvilOfTwoLessers

  24. "What strikes me most is just the slickness of the artifice, and I think they made a really kind of strange decision just from an affect perspective to go with "Joy" in a genocide and [as they] keep the genocide going..."

    Beyond the Ballot: The #Left in a Time of #Polycrisis

    A special conversation w/ Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Chenjerai Kumanyikaf

    youtu.be/PN0O82HsP_g
    #USLeft #AmericanLeft #USpol #USpolitics #2024election #TheEvilOfTwoLessers

  25. 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

    newleftreview.org/issues/ii148
    #PalestineSolidarity #USleft #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanLeft
    @palestine

  26. 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

    newleftreview.org/issues/ii148
    #PalestineSolidarity #USleft #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanLeft
    @palestine

  27. 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

    newleftreview.org/issues/ii148
    #PalestineSolidarity #USleft #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanLeft
    @palestine

  28. 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

    newleftreview.org/issues/ii148
    #PalestineSolidarity #USleft #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanLeft
    @palestine

  29. 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

    newleftreview.org/issues/ii148
    #PalestineSolidarity #USleft #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanLeft
    @palestine

  30. "[A] famous movie, Exodus .. tells the story essentially as a US western, and so basically makes #Israel into a Gary Cooper film, where they're out in the desert taking on the indigenous people heroically.."

    #BenjaminBalthaser discusses evolving Jewish American perceptions of Zionism & his new book #CitizensOfTheWholeWorld: The #AmericanJewishLeft and Cultures of #AntiZionism

    youtu.be/sYvhWfiuFjg
    #Palestine #PalestineQuestion #USLeft #AmericanLeft #CPUSA #NewLeft #USpol #books @palestine

  31. "[A] famous movie, Exodus .. tells the story essentially as a US western, and so basically makes #Israel into a Gary Cooper film, where they're out in the desert taking on the indigenous people heroically.."

    #BenjaminBalthaser discusses evolving Jewish American perceptions of Zionism & his new book #CitizensOfTheWholeWorld: The #AmericanJewishLeft and Cultures of #AntiZionism

    youtu.be/sYvhWfiuFjg
    #Palestine #PalestineQuestion #USLeft #AmericanLeft #CPUSA #NewLeft #USpol #books @palestine