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Supporting Palestine Helped the Left Win in France and Britain. Will Democrats Learn From It?
Victories by the left in France and Britain offer powerful examples for U.S. progressives.
Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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Columbia Task Force for Dealing With Campus Protests Declares That Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
The task force revealed its plans not in a communiqué to faculty and students — but instead in an Israeli newspaper article.
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Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Too
The draconian restrictions on asylum-seekers owe a lot to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, but the path was paved by Democrats.
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New York Spends $225 Million on Its Own “Cop City” — to Make the Whole City Run on Cops
A proposed New York training facility shows how establishment politicians only understand governance through policing.
Israel’s War on Gaza
Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website
The students who edit the journal sought out the article by a Palestinian scholar who was censored by Harvard Law Review last year.
Israel’s War on Gaza
University Professors Are Losing Their Jobs Over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza
As brutal police repression sweeps campus encampments, schools have been cutting ties with pro-Palestine faculty members without tenure.
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I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.
When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.
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Pro-Israel Advocates Are Weaponizing “Safety” on College Campuses
Some schools are acting on the misbegotten notion that Palestinian freedom is a threat to Jewish safety.
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Even Mentioning “Occupation” at the Oscars Is Antisemitic, Some Jewish Hollywood Figures Say
A pro-Israel letter denounced Jonathan Glazer for antisemitism — comparing his Oscar speech to a medieval “blood libel.”
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Florida Anti-Trans Bill Could Raise Everyone’s Health Insurance Costs
The Florida GOP's so-called trans erasure bill mandates that insurance companies cover widely debunked "conversion therapy."