Goodbye Goodbye
My last day as a guest blogger! I want to thank the Feministe regulars for sharing your corner of the interwebs with me. Thank you to the readers who read my posts, and especially thank you to those of you who posted thoughtful responses to them. Like many guest bloggers before me, I leave you [...]
...read moreBrawn Vs Brains: The Golem & Jewish Masculinity
I’ve been holding off on this post because I didn’t think it was fully fledged yet, but I’ve decided to just accept it as it is. A note: I am not Israeli. This post doesn’t comment on modern Israeli culture. I’ve noted before that the stereotypes of Jewish men and women line up uncannily with [...]
...read moreShooting at DC Holocaust Museum
This is awful: An elderly manwalked into the Holocaust Museum, one of the capital’s most-visited sites, shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday and opened fire with a shoulder weapon or pistol, wounding a security guard before being shot and disabled himself, officials said. The gunman was identified by NBC News as James W. von Brunn, a [...]
...read moreJustice, Justice You Shall Pursue
A guest post by Rebecca of City of Ladies Peace and hello. The Feministe crew have generously invited me to guest-post here about the Israel-Gaza conflict. I’ll spare you the biography and just say as background that I’m a blue-state Reform Jew with an Israeli-born mother who’s about ready to disown me (not literally) because [...]
...read more“What is bad for the Jews is better for Zionism.”
The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise From its Ashes by Avraham Burg (Palgrave Macmillan) When liberals and radicals discuss the occupation of Palestine, two soundbites tend to emerge: “How can Jews persecute Arabs when they themselves were persecuted? They know better!” and “It’s like when an abused child grows up to abuse their own [...]
...read morePope rehabilitates Holocaust denier
Apparently Holocaust denial = a-ok. But a 14-year-old rape victim having a legal abortion? Excommunication. And, really? I am glad that the New York Times put these two articles — the Holocaust denial and the Obama piece — right next to each other. It’s a nice contrast.
...read moreThe Gaza Ceasefire and the Hereafter
Thanks to Jill for letting me do this guest-post. My apologies if it’s a bit slapdash. I went out to my friend’s house in the west of Amman last night, and stared at Israel glittering in front of me. Looking out over the Dead Sea at night, it’s hard to imagine violent death rampaging next [...]
...read more“Distinguishing a Political Stance from a Racist Stance”
Via email, a reader pointed me toward a paper by the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association that represents a different view of what we’ve been discussing recently, The Forgotten “–ism:” An Arab American Women’s Perspective on Zionism, Racism and Sexism [pdf], discussing Arab-American women’s experiences with political and racist stereotyping and their reflections on the effects [...]
...read moreAnti-Semitism and Subordination Part II: The Myth of Jewish Hyper-Power
A guest-series by David Schraub of The Debate Link PRIOR POSTS IN THE SERIES: “We Cannot Live Without Our Lives” Either In the first post in this series, I talked about why I thought it was important to look at anti-Semitism from a critical perspective, and sketched the outlines of the assumptions and methodologies from [...]
...read more“We Cannot Live Without Our Lives” Either: Jews, Privilege, and Anti-Subordination
A guest-post by David Schraub of The Debate Link Hey everybody. Lauren and the gang invited me to guest-post on Feministe on the Gaza conflict, though why they were foolish enough to invite me particularly, I don’t know. Certainly, they regret it now, as instead of giving them a “guest post”, I plopped down a [...]
...read moreJon Stewart takes on Gaza
He’s braver than me, that’s for sure. The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Strip Maul Barack Obama InterviewJohn McCain Interview Sarah Palin VideoFunny Election Video The best part, in my opinion (sorry, don’t have time for a full transcript, but hopefully one will surface somewhere): Bloomberg: If you’re in your [...]
...read more…and yet somehow this isn’t getting quite the same attention as Jeremiah Wright
Hello, out-there and bigoted religious views at Sarah Palin’s church: …Palin’s church, the Wasilla Bible Church, gave its pulpit over to a figure viewed with deep hostility by many Jewish organizations: David Brickner, the executive director of Jews for Jesus. Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon, introduced Brickner on Aug. 17, according to a transcript of the [...]
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