"For decades, American Jews were assumed to be uncritical supporters of #Israel. But Israel’s war in #Gaza transformed Jewish politics in the US and irrevocably undermined the legitimacy of institutions that sustain Zionism."

#BenjaminBalthaser | How October 7 Remade Jewish Politics in America

https://jacobin.com/2026/01/us-jews-jvp-palestine-gaza
#Palestine #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanPolitics #USleft #JewishAmericanLeft #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #studentProtests #activism #peaceMovement #JVP

"This fusion, between antisemitic conspiracy theory and Islamophobic #racism suggests more than simply the cranial soup of #fascistThought, but a kind of structural homology—a racial formation to explain widening contradictions of both #capitalism and the political conjuncture."

#BenjaminBalthaser's essay on how the #islamophobia targeting the #ZohranMamdani campaign borrows from the codes of 20thC #antisemitism

https://spectrejournal.com/mamdanis-judeo-bolshevik-threat/
#USpol #NYCpol #NYC #conspiracism #othering #xenophobia

The Outcasts of Zion | review essay by #BenjaminBalthaser

"The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of #AmericanLiberalism’s identity crisis."

#books discussed:

#BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza
#TheThresholdOfDissent
#Doppelganger
#Unsettled
#OurPalestineQuestion

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-outcasts-of-zion/

#JewishAmericanPolitics #JewishAmericanHistory #JewishAmericanLeft #UShistory #USpol #USleft #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineQuestion @palestine @israel @histodons @bookstodon

"[A] famous movie, Exodus .. tells the story essentially as a US western, and so basically makes #Israel into a Gary Cooper film, where they're out in the desert taking on the indigenous people heroically.."

#BenjaminBalthaser discusses evolving Jewish American perceptions of Zionism & his new book #CitizensOfTheWholeWorld: The #AmericanJewishLeft and Cultures of #AntiZionism

https://youtu.be/sYvhWfiuFjg
#Palestine #PalestineQuestion #USLeft #AmericanLeft #CPUSA #NewLeft #USpol #books @palestine