Re-opening the question of Jewish Liberation
A review of Safety Through Solidarity
by Naomi BennetThe new book on fighting antisemitism by Ben Lorber and Shane Burley could not have come at a better time, writes Naomi Bennet.
Support Palestinians when they fight
Not just when they die
by Naomi BennetNaomi Bennet takes a critical look at the Left’s responses to Palestinian resistance.
Racism, self-determination, and the dissolution of the Palestine working group
A reflection on the DSA Convention
by Naomi BennetThe DSA voted to dissolve the BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group (BDSWG) and force it into the International Committee despite protest from both groups. To ignore the gravity of this decision and its implications would be a disastrous mistake–a mistake reflected in the celebration of the new DSA leadership.
Fascism, the far right, and the threat to democracy
A response to Charlie Post
by Naomi BennetNaomi Bennet responds to Charlie Post on how to understand the relationship between the electoral far right and fascist forces and what this means for threats to bourgeois democracy and the strategies for the Left.
Kanye, Kyrie, and the continuum of antisemitic violence
by Naomi Bennet
Naomi Bennet addresses the antisemitic social media outbursts by Kanye West and Kyrie Irving and places them in the context and continuum of the wider growth of antisemitism, cultivated within ruling class and right-wing media and politics.
Competing visions of the BDS Boston Mapping Project
Obscuring the map
by Naomi BennetNaomi Bennet critically unpacks the controversy over the BDS Boston Mapping Project.
Why a synagogue?
White supremacy and antisemitism in Colleyville
by Naomi BennetNaomi Bennet argues that the Colleyville attack is not evidence of a specifically leftist or Muslim antisemitism, but follows the same logic of white supremacist antisemitism as other attacks.
Revisiting the Jewish question
A review of Enzo Traverso’s The Jewish Question; History of a Marxist Debate
by Naomi BennetNaomi Bennet reviews Enzo Traverso’s The Jewish Question History of a Marxist Debate, revised and updated from Haymarket Books.