Mairav Zonszein
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Past articles by Mairav:
Israel must choose: Withdraw from the occupied territories or grant Palestinians under its control full rights
Even under a prime minister who claims to “shrink” the conflict, Israeli policy is still keeping the West Bank and Palestinians under military rule. → Read More
Israelis Take on Netanyahu and Coronavirus Restrictions in Wave of Civil Disobedience
Many Israelis believe their country’s second coronavirus lockdown was about stopping anti-corruption protests — not the spread of the disease. → Read More
Berlin art college withdraws funding to Israelis seeking to unlearn Zionism
A Berlin art school abruptly withdrew funding for a program started by Jewish Israelis who seek to challenge the Zionist narrative they grew up on. → Read More
Netanyahu is crushing dissent among Israeli Jews now, too
The right to protest was always restricted for Palestinians. Many of Israel’s Jewish citizens just never noticed. → Read More
Israeli media’s one-woman show: Or-ly Barlev on covering the anti-Netanyahu protests
This summer, tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to demand that Benjamin Netanyahu resign. Netanyahu, who has served as prime minister for eleven years, is on trial in three separate cases, involving breach of trust, bribery, and fraud; two of the cases involve meddling in the media for favorable coverage. Last […] → Read More
False charges of antisemitism are the vanguard of cancel culture
The right is voicing alarm over progressive views restricting free speech, but says nothing about how antisemitism is weaponized to quash speech on Israel. → Read More
The U.S., like Israel, is wielding the violence of an occupying power
The killing of George Floyd and ensuing protests bear striking parallels to Israel-Palestine, with the mechanisms of repression operating in the same way. → Read More
Jewish, Israeli scholars back African intellectual smeared for Israel criticism
Germany's antisemitism czar sparked backlash after trying to cancel an event with Achille Mbembe for comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa. → Read More
In the UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strike, Class War Meets the California Housing Crisis –
“This is a marathon, not a sprint,” Sarah Mason, a graduate student in sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz, tells a crowd of several hundred students, wrapping up the fourth day of an unprecedented wildcat strike that has drawn threats of mass dismissal and captured the attention of UC campuses across the state. Using […] → Read More
What happened to The Forward?
Last year was not great for The Forward, the only national Jewish media outlet in the United States. There are a lot of us who feel that way. Take the 30 percent of the editorial staff whose jobs were terminated last January, including the editor-in-chief, amid a perennial bleeding of funds. Or subscribers who were turned off by a fundraising email last February rebuking Congresswoman Ilhan Omar… → Read More
Christian Zionist philo-Semitism is driving Trump’s Israel policy
The administration acts like ‘supporting Israel’ means letting it do whatever it wants. → Read More
American Jews may wish booting Netanyahu will fix Israel’s problems. It won’t.
The crisis in liberal Zionism isn’t going away, no matter who winds up as Israel’s next prime minister. → Read More
How the Right Has Tried to Rebrand Anti-Semitism
As troubling in Trump’s statement as any echo of the old charge of dual loyalty was its implication that any Jew who doesn’t subscribe to his politics—to both the policies of his Republican Party and of the current Israeli government—is traitorous: if you are Jewish and vote Democratic, then you are triply disloyal—to Trump, Israel, and America. Making right-wing pro-Israel sentiment a litmus… → Read More
A Lesson From Israel For The American Left
The language used by the Israeli right to dehumanize Palestinians is now used against Jewish leftists. A similar narrative creep is happening in America. → Read More
Netanyahu won’t condemn the real danger to U.S. Jews: White nationalism
Israel’s prime minister is quick to call out threats from Muslims, though. → Read More
Inside the Israeli Right’s Campaign to Silence an Anti-Occupation Group
Breaking the Silence is at the epicenter of a well-orchestrated, ongoing smear campaign by a host of right-wing groups, reporters, and senior politicians. → Read More
How U.S. politicians use charges of anti-Semitism as a political weapon
The Republicans attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar care about scoring points, not protecting Jews. → Read More
Trump First, Jews Later
Israeli government officials are helping to normalize the violent anti-Semitism of the Christian right. → Read More
After the Pittsburgh shooting, Israeli politicians sound even more like Trump
How Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies are reacting has more to do with their own political agenda than with American Jews. → Read More
Santa Cruz surfer breaks stereotypes
SANTA CRUZ — For her 30th birthday, Chelsea Woody decided to give herself the present of learning to surf. The Seattle native and her husband traveled to Indonesia and started to surf there. … → Read More