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It’s not only Israel that’s on trial in South Africa’s genocide indictment
Israel’s founders have proudly rooted their enterprise in the moral universe of European colonialism. Israel’s crimes are putting the liberal West on…
Jan 8
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December 2023
How Jewish is Israel?
17 years ago, I was one of several writers invited by Haaretz to respond to the idea that Israel is the anchor of Jewish identity. Reposting my answer…
Dec 29, 2023
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August 2023
Football and Palestinian liberation
Why global football offers a fertile and productive terrain for building an international anti-apartheid solidarity movement — and what South Africa…
Aug 21, 2023
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July 2023
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Oppenheimer
It wasn't the atom bomb's designer who chose to drop it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But questioning the moral and legal basis for that decision remains…
Jul 24, 2023
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July 2021
What we think about when we think about Cuba
In 2008 I wrote this piece on why Cuba's revolution remains popular despite its authoritarian dimension, but also how that authoritarian dimension…
Jul 13, 2021
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June 2021
Israel and the United States: Thinking about apartheid and the struggle for freedom
Like the South African system that coined the term 'apartheid', Israel and the USA originated as settler-democracies. We should discuss what that means…
Jun 2, 2021
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May 2021
Anti-Semitism and Jews Behaving Badly
If, as the Zionists insist, no distinction can be made between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, then we Jews have a terrible problem
May 26, 2021
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Anti-Semitism and Jews Behaving Badly
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April 2021
But will there be consequences for Israeli apartheid?
Designating Israel an apartheid state draws attention to the illusions of a 'peace process' used to rationalize the international community's coddling…
Apr 28, 2021
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Raoul Peck and the Courage to Draw Conclusions
Why 'Exterminate All the Brutes' is the film we need to make sense of who we are, where we are and what is to be done
Apr 18, 2021
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Raoul Peck and the Courage to Draw Conclusions
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February 2021
The Texas energy failure highlights a deeper systemic threat to US democracy
Don’t let the Jan. 6 riot distract from the even more dangerous (and perfectly legal) state-level Republican effort to buttress the electoral…
Feb 21, 2021
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The Texas energy failure highlights a deeper systemic threat to US democracy
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Trump’s acquittal: American apartheid and the struggle to end it
The United States has more in common than you might think with the overtly racist polity of pre-1994 South Africa - both were founded as settler…
Feb 15, 2021
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Trump’s acquittal: American apartheid and the struggle to end it
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January 2021
Reading Bernie’s mittens, What video-assisted refereeing tells us about the perils of post-Trump media ‘normalcy’, and Why Gamestonk serves…
Mainstream liberal media has learned little from failures highlighted by Trumpism; they're dying to revive pre-Trump bad habits — while social media…
Jan 29, 2021
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Reading Bernie’s mittens, What video-assisted refereeing tells us about the perils of post-Trump media ‘normalcy’, and Why Gamestonk serves the oligarchy
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