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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – MAY 6, 2025  
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May 6, 2025
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* How I Became an “Antisemite”
* Deportations USA
* Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism
* “Lock Her Up!” Means You
* Salting Starbucks
* Best Laid Plans: Student Visas Restored
* Decimating Nonprofits
* Hitler Youth USA
* Former Trump Supporters
* “The Great Gatsby” Revisited

HOW I BECAME AN “ANTISEMITE”
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By Joel Beinin
Middle East Eye

On 17 April, the National Day of Action for Higher Education, dozens
of scholars of Jewish studies, Holocaust studies and Middle Eastern
studies - myself included - took part in an organised effort to
intentionally violate the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
(IHRA)’s definition of antisemitism. 

DEPORTATIONS USA
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By Rick Baldoz
The Conversation

In recent months, the State Department has revoked hundreds of
visas of foreign students with little explanation. The current
removal orders targeting student activists echo America’s long and
lamentable past of jailing and expelling immigrants because of their
race or what they say or believe – or all three.

MUTUAL AID IN THE AGE OF FASCISM
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By Judith Levine
Boston Review

The coordinated response to Rümeysa Öztürk’s kidnapping
exemplifies community self-defense and mutual aid at their best. A
frightened caller contacted a friend, who recommended a hotline, which
he’d heard about by word of mouth. That the first impulse was to
call a community organization, not the police, was itself a kind of
win.

“LOCK HER UP!” MEANS YOU
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By Ruth Conniff
Wisconsin Examiner

From his first presidential campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2016,
“Lock her up!” has been Donald Trump’s battle cry. Restoring the
greatness of a white, male-dominated America apparently requires
menacing displays of dominance over women in positions of authority. 

SALTING STARBUCKS
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By Jaz Brisack
Teen Vogue

Just before the COVID lockdown, I had been trying to help a Starbucks
barista organize their store on the University at Buffalo
campus. Based on the lessons I learned from working with them, I
decided to get a job at Starbucks with the goal of helping launch a
union campaign, a practice known as “salting.”

BEST LAID PLANS: STUDENT VISAS RESTORED
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By Janie Har and Kate Brumback
Associated Press

The U.S. government is reversing the termination of legal status for
international students around the country after many filed court
challenges. The records in a federal student database maintained by
Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been terminated in recent
weeks.

DECIMATING NONPROFITS
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By Steve Taylor
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Congress is working with stunning speed to pass a massive federal tax
bill before the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expires later this year. In
response, nonprofits must act with equal swiftness to prevent sweeping
changes to the tax laws that have governed nonprofits for generations.

HITLER YOUTH USA
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By Ben Makuch
The Guardian

A national network of American neofascist fight clubs is endorsing
youth-oriented offshoots aimed at grooming the next generation of
racist activists. So-called “active clubs” have proliferated
across the US, openly taking their historical cues from the Third
Reich’s obsession with machismo and European soccer hooliganism.

FORMER TRUMP SUPPORTERS
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By Brittany Wong
Huffpost

“This is not what we voted for,” said hedge fund billionaire
and vocal Trump supporter Bill Ackman on X over the weekend,
echoing the sentiments of many rattled Trump supporters. Other
supporters jumped off the Trump train long ago. Recently, we spoke to
some of them, asking them how he gained their support to begin with,
and what he did to lose it.

“THE GREAT GATSBY” REVISITED
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By Richard Bradbury
The Left Berlin

Since 1925 many people have been beguiled and dazzled by the shiny
surfaces of the ‘Jazz Age’ and Fitzgerald’s depiction of it. One
of those surfaces is the way in which the novel is attracted by one of
the great myths of the USA. One of the triumphs of the novel lies in
the way it ruthlessly, almost savagely rips away the facades behind
which corruption and violence simmer. 

* Joel Beinin
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* International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
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* Antisemitism
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* Palestine solidarity
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* speech rights
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* deportations
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* Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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* mutual aid
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* Fascism
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* patriarchy
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* women's rights
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* union organizing
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* Starbucks
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* Student visa
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* nonprofit organizations
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* fight clubs
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* right wing youth
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* far right
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* Donald Trump
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* F. Scott Fitzgerald
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* The Great Gatsby
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