Tag: Racism
Mamdani’s Judeo-Bolshevik Threat
Benjamin Balthaser explores the representation of Zohran Mamdani as simultaneously foreign menace and inauthentic outsider, deploying both antisemitism and Islamophobia to prop up a neatly racialized version of politics.
The Antisemitism of Zionism
Shane Burley argues that Zionism has a long history of entrenching antisemitism and serves as a reactionary, radical sectionalist mode of politics that spells disaster for both Jews and humanity more broadly.
Tearing Down the Welfare State
Onni Ahvonen and Juulia Kela analyze the complicity between neoliberal austerity and disaster nationalism undermining the Finnish welfare state.
Acting Jewishly During a Genocide
Charlotte Rosen considers Joshua Leifer’s new book, which appears more likely to presage the author’s turn to Jewish conservatism than to be embraced by anyone on the left.
An Unending Genocide
Spectre’s Shireen Akram-Boshar speaks with Toufic Haddad about the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Social Lynching
Corey Devon Arthur discusses the racist media campaign in the run-up to his sentencing and what it felt like to be labeled a “superpredator.”
Black Reconstruction in Palestine
Geo Maher makes the case for solidarity between abolitionist struggles in the United States and struggles for Palestinian liberation.
The Isolation Diary
Demetrius Buckley meditates on the experience of being on hunger strike in the hole.
Abolition and Tenant Power in Chinatown
Tenant organizers in LA write about the power of abolitionist politics in the fight against displacement in Chinatown.
A Return on Our Investment
Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine was established two hundred years ago. US-promoted border militarization across the Western Hemisphere is this intervention’s newest evolution.