âIt is not antisemitic to agree with virtually every humanitarian organization in saying that your government, in violation of American law, has unreasonably blocked humanitarian aid coming into Gaza.â www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
The Vermont Senator, one of Americaâs highest-profile Jewish lawmakers, said the Israeli leader was head of an âextremist and racist governmentâ and that the US campus protests against the Gaza war ar...
Now that snipers are trained on peaceful students and professors are being hog-tied by masked men with assault rifles, it'd be great to hear from all the people who made "free speech on US campuses" their life's mission every time they met a student with blue hair.
Projecting how much worse Gazaâs humanitarian crisis is going to get. A lot. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Trying to project the death toll from Israelâs military campaign over the next six months.
The Independent Man holding one of the corroded pins from the Washington Bridge
we literally had white supremacists chanting "jews will not replace us" on a campus and nothing *close* to this was suggested
Ugh. Absolutely rewarding and emboldening the bad-faith exploitation of fears of anti-Semitism by right-wing actors who have no interest in the safety of Jews, and making a further disastrous mess of the politics of speech and debate on campus. What a cluster-failure all around.
As someone who wrote a book, a few journal articles, and a bunch of blog posts on democratic breakdown before shifting my focus several years ago to U.S. protest activity, I'll say: this is very good, and I hope lots of people read it.
There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. So why is everyone behaving like normal?