Four years ago, unconditional support of Israel was the safest position for Democrats, Peter Beinart writes. Not anymore. jewishcurrents.org/supporters-o...

From the Jewish Currents news desk, here's Peter Beinart on how supporters of Palestine are winning inside the Democratic party. jewishcurrents.org/supporters-o...

This fabulous piece on Germany‘s anti-antisemitism industry by Peter Kuras for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/the-strange-...

On this episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel and Nadav Lapid, the Israeli director of YES, hash out some of their disagreements about cultural boycott, following Lapid's withdrawal from a Marseille film festival in response to protests. jewishcurrents.org/nadav-lapid-...

From this afternoon's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter, on what happened last night.

Our senior reporter spent last night reporting on the congressional primary between Adriano Espaillat, the incumbent, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, his leftist challenger. In this interview, he talks about the left’s stunning victory Tuesday. jewishcurrents.org/our-politica...

The first big political test for Mayor Mamdani has arrived. jewishcurrents.org/five-stories...

It's primary day in New York City. Here are the five big political storylines our senior reporter Alex Kane is following. jewishcurrents.org/five-stories...

"This was the dark achievement of post-disengagement policy: creating conditions under which Gazans could be subjected to bombardment, starvation rations, and immiseration while Israelis went about their lives undisturbed." jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-pol...

“The disengagement is actually formaldehyde,” Sharon’s closest advisor, Dov Wiessglas, said at the time—enabling “the freezing of the peace process” so a Palestinian state will be “removed indefinitely from our agenda.” jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-pol...

"In another moment, this discussion would have been enough: the pat point of the seder, to ask questions. But for me, this year, it wasn’t."

Ariel Sharon’s 2005 settlement withdrawal solidified a consistent policy toward Gaza: Act alone, and make negotiation impossible. Elisheva Goldberg writes on the anti-politics of disengagement, now unpaywalled from our Spring issue. jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-pol...

Arielle Angel's recent essay before her upcoming departure as EIC of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social is one of the most resonant and meaningful things i've read about the current moment we're facing as leftist Jews and i implore everyone to please read it jewishcurrents.org/stay-in

On this episode of On the Nose, Wendy Elisheva Somerson responds to a recent critique in Jewish Currents, explaining why somatic healing is a useful tool for strengthening our anti-Zionist movements. jewishcurrents.org/politics-and...

NYC! This Tuesday, June 23rd, we're celebrating the new issue (and watching the Democratic primary results roll in 🥊). RSVP here: secure.jewishcurrents.org/nx/portal/ne...

Mark your calendar for Jewish Currents Live 2026, featuring Michelle Alexander, Fadi Quran, Morgan Bassichis, Know Your Enemy, Nathan Thrall, @arielleangel.bsky.social, @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social, @mashagessen.bsky.social, @peterbeinart.bsky.social, and many others. We’ll see you in Brooklyn.

Mark your calendar for Jewish Currents Live 2026, featuring Michelle Alexander, Fadi Quran, Morgan Bassichis, Know Your Enemy, Nathan Thrall, @arielleangel.bsky.social, @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social, @mashagessen.bsky.social, @peterbeinart.bsky.social, and many others. We’ll see you in Brooklyn.

Israel’s decision to give up on US aid in favor of deep integration with the US military is stripping the pro-Palestine left of one of its most potent political weapons. Our news desk took a look at what it means—and how activists intend to respond. jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-a...

Gut shabes with the latest issue of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social that has finally made it to the West Coast earlier today. Jon Danforth-Appell’s essay on (not having) Jewish trauma is excellent.

Israel’s decision to give up on US aid in favor of deep integration with the US military is stripping the pro-Palestine left of one of its most potent political weapons. I wrote about it for the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk today.

The end of the affair, in the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter today.

As the US and Israeli trade military aid for military integration, the pro-Palestine left loses one of its most potent political weapons. jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-a...

Mainstream outlets have largely limited themselves to criticizing Trump’s failure to achieve stated American objectives rather than contesting the basic premises and motives behind the Iran war. Zach Jablow writes jewishcurrents.org/the-war-to-b...

From yesterday's news desk newsletter, a close look at the ADL's new report claiming that applying BDS principles to NYC's public pension funds would cost tens of billions of dollars in missed gains.

The Anti-Defamation League subsidiary JLens says that BDS could cost NYC's public employee pension funds billions tens of billions over the next decade. The calculation vastly overstates the demands of pro-Palestine divestment campaigners. jewishcurrents.org/phantom-boyc...

The Anti-Defamation League says BDS would cost New Yorkers billions. It’s overstating the demands of divestment campaigners. jewishcurrents.org/phantom-boyc...

As Mamdani did in his mayoral campaign, Darializa Avila Chevalier has connected her pro-Palestine commitments to populist affordability politics. “Every dollar that we send to Israel is a dollar that is stolen from the mouths of our children,” she said. jewishcurrents.org/an-anti-aipa...

A DSA-backed insurgent challenging Rep. Adriano Espaillat is testing whether the anti-AIPAC politics that have driven Democratic primary victories in progressive bastions can win in a working-class Black and Latino district in upper Manhattan. jewishcurrents.org/an-anti-aipa...

Poetry submissions are open for the month of June! And we are pleased to announce that Zaina Alsous, author of the poetry collection A THEORY OF BIRDS, will be our special guest editor. Send us your poems for consideration at [email protected].

"This is a lot of words to say one thing, my Torah on one foot: Stay in. As Israel’s impunity persists, it will keep getting harder to organize as an anti-Zionist Jew, but stay in." Read Arielle Angel's last letter as EIC, now unpaywalled from our Spring issue jewishcurrents.org/stay-in

"When the Israelites of the story have become Pharaoh’s army, every symbol and ritual act is inverted; a story of liberation becomes a technology of enduring oppression." Great essay about what it means for us as anti-zionist Jews to stay in the struggle for Palestine.

"For a long while I have been so focused on the strategic argument for filling the husk of our inheritance with new meaning that I had not stopped to actually feel the emptiness," writes Arielle Angel in her last letter as EIC jewishcurrents.org/stay-in

"We don’t do this work to feel good about ourselves, or to win the approval of comrades. We do it because it’s right." Read outgoing EIC Arielle Angel's letter in our Spring issue jewishcurrents.org/stay-in

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A report from the “World Symposium Against Anti-Zionism,” a conclave of the biggest names in North American pro-Israel apologetics. jewishcurrents.org/scenes-from-...

Seven scenes from the anti-anti-Zionist symposium. jewishcurrents.org/scenes-from-...

Good discussion on @jewishcurrents.bsky.social about the Israel Day Parade, how Smotrich's visit was a welcome distraction from the rest of the fascist rogue's gallery marching and how this parade forecloses any meaningful celebration of Jewish culture in lieu of Israel propaganda.

Deep dive and must-read. Challenges the idea of Jewish violence as product of Jewish trauma, traces the lineage of Jewish trauma discourse, and rejects the idea of Zionism as “trauma response today." 🧵

An important piece by Jon Danforth-Appell in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social (now out from beyhind the paywall) challenging the models of trauma that have been taken up in some accounts of attachments to Zionism jewishcurrents.org/does-the-jew...

On this episode of On The Nose, we discuss the history & makeup of the Israel Day Parade, parse the responses from NY officials facing backlash for marching with extremists, and debate the feasibility of an *actual* “Jewish pride parade” in New York City. jewishcurrents.org/the-israel-d...

"The prospect of healing from intergenerational trauma addresses none of the positive feelings of Zionist attachment. In fact, it threatens to take them away." jewishcurrents.org/does-the-jew...

‚ELLIOT COSGROVE, the Manhattan rabbi who said that Zohran Mamdani “poses a danger to the security of New York Jewish community,” dedicated his sermon this past Saturday to threatening New York elected officials who didn’t plan to march in the next day’s pro-Israel parade on Fifth Avenue.‘

"Zionism was not simply adopted by a terrified rank-and-file American Jewry, nor is it a trauma response today; it was, and is, a political project—with particularly violent aims." Read Jon Danforth-Appell's new essay, "Does the Jewish Body Keep the Score?" jewishcurrents.org/does-the-jew...

This Hasan Piker interview with @jewishcurrents.bsky.social is so smart and pragmatic jewishcurrents.org/hasan-pikers...

Apropos of the UK having a normal one, this was a very interesting dicussion between Arielle Angel and Hasan Piker on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social podcast podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/o...

From yesterday's Jewish Currents news desk newsletter.

~“It became really clear we were being used,” she said. The progressive groups would be hurried down the parade route, alongside a bloc of queer Jewish organizations, she said, before the parade really started.~

Experts said they suspect the letter wasn’t intended for a domestic audience at all, but was rather a political favor to Netanyahu, allowing him to paint his domestic opponents as US-backed plants and to scare off US donors from funding liberal groups in Israel.

How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism Type Investigations fellow @tanvi.bsky.social for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

“This is the murder of liberal Zionism by the state of Israel.” jewishcurrents.org/a-baffling-c...