These are pogroms against minority communities. And the world's wealthiest man is actively stoking them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
One of the major points I try to make in teaching Jewish history is that oppressed vs. oppressed is *not* a binary, but a complicated series of interrelationships that is deeply contextual, and that the same groups can fall into multiple categories, sometimes at the same time.
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
No it isn't. It's written a Hamas defender who's openly admitting that he views the world in Manichean terms.
And in this essay he treats all Jewish culture as inherently bad...including Fiddler on the Freaking Roof.
“For what is Judaism, if not a form of the Human, what is Poetry if not a form of this same Human[?]”
Oppressor vs. oppressed, that is. Though “oppressed vs. oppressed” also happens in history quite often, which is part of the issue.
The sort of braindead online populism that complains about a cabal of unaccountable “them” that is trying to suppress the good “you” can very easily end up at least antisemitism-shaped, even if it does not begin there.
"My bagel is Jewish." Despite Jews no longer selling the majority of bagels in NYC, the bagel remains overdetermined as a performance of diasporic authenticity, revealing the nostalgic hunger of post-ethnic urban subjects to consume an identity they never fully inhabited. In this essay, I will...
I am sure some use "the Epstein class" without intending a dog whistle, but when you have a Nazi tattoo and appeared on a neo-Nazi podcast, you get less latitude.
Also, if there really is an "Epstein class," it is just men, but Platner can't exactly make a critique of all male gendered violence.
