Jewish Currents

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

The Phantom Boycott

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.

An Anti-AIPAC Insurgent Tests Her Message in a Working-Class… Darializa Avila Chevalier is in an uphill battle to expand the field for the pro-Palestine left.

Poetry submissions are open for the month of June! And we are pleased to announce that Zaina Alsous will be our special guest editor.

Zaina Alsous works in the labor movement in South Florida and is the author of the poetry collection A THEORY OF BIRDS.

Send us your poems for consideration at [email protected].

"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 https://jewishcurrents.org/stay-in

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

Scenes from an Anti-Anti-Zionist Symposium The biggest names in pro-Israel apologetics gathered last month to attack immigrants and the left.

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.

The Israel Day Parade Debacle Jewish Currents discusses the shameful New York City pageant.

A House Republican attack on mainstream Jewish funders reads like a political favor to Netanyahu.

A Baffling Congressional Report Threatens the Jewish Establishment

Parts of the Jewish left believe trauma explains attachment to Zionism. But what they call “trauma” is more likely a collective story than a biological fact.

Read "Does the Jewish Body Keep the Score?" – now out from behind the paywall.
https://jewishcurrents.org/does-the-jewish-body-keep-the-score

The pro-Israel parade down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Sunday turned into a political disaster for the Jewish establishment.

A Litmus Test Backfires The pro-Israel parade down Fifth Avenue on Sunday was a political disaster for the Jewish establishment.

On this week's episode of on the nose, Arielle Angel speaks with Ahmed Moor, Maya Rosen, and Muhammad Shehada about Sally Rooney's decision to publish a BDS-compliant Hebrew translation of her latest book, Intermezzo.

Sally Rooney in Hebrew Discussing the Irish author’s decision to offer a BDS-compliant translation of her last book