The Gessen affair and Germany’s ignorance about Jews
By criticising the journalist Masha Gessen, Germany misunderstands one of its greatest thinkers, Hannah Arendt.
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The fightback against US anti-Semitism has begun
American Jews no longer believe “it can’t happen here”. It can and it has.
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Pro-Palestinian protests have been intimidating and isolating
Those closest to the conflict have greater capacity for solidarity and recognition of complexity than keyboard warriors.
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This is a time to insist on Jewishness
To abandon our identity, as left-wing Jews did in the past, would be to surrender to those who allow only…
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The left fails to appreciate competing loyalties
Cooperation between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis is the only model for a peaceful future.
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Jews can be humanists
A lot of evil is done to people because of their particular identities, but that is no reason to entrench…
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There is little tolerance in Israel for dissenting feelings
Political beliefs are one thing, but to cry for friends in Gaza or pray for all slain children is now…
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What it means to be Jewish now
With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.
Lessons of growing up black and Jewish
Many Jews of colour interpret Zionism through our experience with racism, and we recognise the supremacist logic that underpins it.
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Jews in the diaspora must resist the inhumanity being done by Israel in our name
Jewish history in the 20th century testifies that suffering is a meagre moral teacher – but we learn its lessons…
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The innocent are innocent, whichever side of the Hamas-Israel war they are on
I am an Israeli that knows you can’t defeat an ideology with brute force – there must be a better…
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Both Netanyahu’s cabinet and Hamas see this crisis as an opportunity
The Israeli left’s turn to the right comes from its sense of betrayal by the world’s left – especially by…
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The universalist tradition has been forgotten, the Enlightenment betrayed
The Hamas attack has devastated progressive Jews who are not prepared to celebrate the carnage as an act of liberation.
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Jewish progressives are deeply critical of Israel, yet inextricably tied to it
The horrendous killing and abduction of Israeli civilians placed many Jewish activists in unfamiliar territory.
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As long as Palestine remains occupied, cycles of violence will continue
If there is one silver lining it is that the world has taken notice of the Palestinians in Gaza, the…
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The global left is the only force that has the power to stay Israel’s hand
It’s tragic that Jews had to see their transition from powerlessness to power come at the price of another people’s…
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Left-wing Jews are torn between their values and the intensifying conflict
The IDF’s response against all Gazans has made it harder to only see in Israel a victim of immediate circumstance.
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Where do we belong now?
The world British Jews and my family took for granted no longer seems to exist.
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The strange discord of being British and Jewish
Judaism in this country is a mirror of society, reflecting our gratitude, our anxiety and – sometimes – our humour.
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The case for a national Holocaust memorial
Detractors forget we won’t always be able to depend on the living testimony of Holocaust survivors.
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