Author: Jonah ben Avraham
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Support Palestinians when they fight
Jonah ben Avraham takes a critical look at the Left’s responses to Palestinian resistance.
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Racism, self-determination, and the dissolution of the Palestine working group
The 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.
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Fascism, the far right, and the threat to democracy
Jonah ben Avraham 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.
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Kanye, Kyrie, and the continuum of antisemitic violence
Jonah ben Avraham 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.
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Competing visions of the BDS Boston Mapping Project
Jonah ben Avraham critically unpacks the controversy over the BDS Boston Mapping Project.
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Why a synagogue?
Jonah ben Avraham 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.
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Revisiting the Jewish question
Jonah ben Avraham reviews Enzo Traverso’s The Jewish Question History of a Marxist Debate, revised and updated from Haymarket Books.