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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…
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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
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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