- 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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
