Following my NYT piece last month, I did an interview with Jon Wiener of KPFK radio, a noncommercial, listener-sponsored radio station operating out of Los Angeles, California. In this interview, which aired on Wednesday, February 4th, I addressed some […]
Tag: civil rights
Young Leftist Jews Standing with the Black South in 1964 and in 2014
Yesterday, I wrote a piece called “The Jewish Left is Alive and Vibrant” in the Jewish Daily Forward as a response to Jay Michaelson’s piece in the same paper, “Death of the Jewish Left.” In my piece, […]
The American Jewish Civil Rights Narrative and My Decision to Refuse Service in the IDF
[This piece was originally published on The Daily Beast’s Open Zion Blog] American Jews actively supported the civil rights movement. Or so goes the popular narrative in the American Jewish community. For the purposes of […]
