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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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.
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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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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The founding of Israel wasn’t a colonial act – a refugee isn’t a colonist
It’s understandable that Palestinians have been indoctrinated with Jew hate, but there is no such excuse for Western students.
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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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The left’s conservative turn
From Keir Starmer to Sahra Wagenknecht, a consensus of securonomics and social moderation is emerging.
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Jon Lansman: what the left gets wrong about Israel
The Momentum founder on his kibbutznik past, how progressives should respond to anti-Semitism and Jeremy Corbyn’s mistakes.
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Sahra Wagenknecht’s new left conservatism
Europe’s leaders are keenly watching the German breakaway party.
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Sahra Wagenknecht’s new left-populist party should be taken seriously
This is not a bunch of Trots but a well-prepared team with a clear agenda.
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Yanis Varoufakis: The Democrats are helping to elect Trump
The former Greek finance minister on his new book Technofeudalism and why the left keeps losing.
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The return of the two Germanys
The country is in economic and political crisis and parties of the extreme left and right are rising again.
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The dismal rise of the lobbyist left
In the US, UK, France and Spain, socialists have embraced horse-trading at the expense of building popular power.
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Syriza and the death of Eurocommunism
Stefanos Kasselakis’s takeover of the Greek left-wing party marks a traumatic break from their political traditions.
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My own special relationship with North America
Also this week: Meeting progressive peers in Montreal, and bridging divides in football and politics.
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The progressive dilemma
The anxieties and insecurities of the present moment are a formidable challenge for the centre left – in Britain and…
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The left has an England problem
A nation steeped in culture cannot be reduced to statistics and pop psychology.
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Where is the left’s New Deal?
Instead of accepting the right-wing economic orthodoxy, we should implement the radical reforms that rebuilt postwar UK and US.
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