"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

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

The Jewish Institutional Reaction to #MahmoudKhalil's Abduction

#JewishCurrents' Arielle Angel, Mari Cohen, & Alex Kane discuss how American Jewish groups have reacted to the arrest of the #PalestineSolidarity activist

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-jewish-institutional-reaction-to-mahmoud-khalils-abduction

#USpol #USpolitics #JewishAmericanPolitics #FreeMahmoudKhalil #StudentProtests #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StateRepression #CivilLiberties #Palestine #Gaza @palestine

"Two recent books, by #PeterBeinart and #RachelShabi, discuss the response of Jewish communities in the West to the Hamas attacks of 7 October and #Israel’s subsequent destruction of Palestinian life in #Gaza, and the shifting politics of #antisemitism."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/weaponising-antisemitism

#OffWhite #BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #JewishAmericanPolitics #DiasporicJewishPolitics #antiracism #decolonialStruggles #books @bookstodon @palestine @israel

"On this episode of #AmericanPrestige, #PeterBeinart speaks with Danny and Derek about his book #BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza: A Reckoning, #AmericanJews’ conception of and relationship with #Israel, and how things have changed since the start of the #GenocideInGaza."

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e197-american-jews-israel-and-palestine-w-peter-beinart

#Gaza #Palestine #oPt #PalestineSolidarity #USpol #USpolitics #JewishAmericanPolitics #JewishAmericanLeft #books @palestine @israel @bookstodon

#MouinRabbani talks with historian #MarjorieNFeld about the history of Jewish American #antizionism and the efforts to combat and marginalise it.

Feld is the author of #TheThresholdOfDissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism

https://youtu.be/ndZqnyWZ6bc
#Palestine #PalestineQuestion #JewishAmericanPolitics #JewishAmericanHistory #JewishAmericanLeft #AmericanLeft #USleft #UShistory #USpol #USpolitics #books @palestine