Israel’s Five-Front, Low-Intensity War
A qualitative escalation.
September 3, 2019
The Myth of the Arab Jew
Sasson Somekh vs. the “woke” version of Mizrahi history.
Among Western and Israeli scholars of Middle Eastern Jewry, writes Lyn Julius, there has been increasing interest in documenting the racism—real and imagined—that these Jews faced after coming to Israel. Such writers have taken to referring to their subjects as “Arab Jews,” a term historically never in general use by either Arabs or those Jews who lived among them. Behind this approach is the work of the Mizraḥi anti-Zionist Ella Shohat, whose work Julius describes:
September 3, 2019
The Myth of the Arab Jew
Sasson Somekh vs. the “woke” version of Mizrahi history.
Paul Robeson’s Unapologetic Stalinism and the Fate of Soviet Jewry
In the end, the death of two Yiddish artists may have finally broken Robeson’s Communist resolve.
In the Campus Anti-Israel Campaign, Zionists Must Be Driven from All Student Activist Groups
Helping all victims of sexual abuse—unless they’re Zionists.
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