Anti-Semitism, Races in America “White nationalists in the United States perceive the country as having plunged into unending crisis…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 July 2017 Within social and economic justice movements committed to equality, we have not yet collectively...
Zionism “Religious Zionism, the brand of Zionism that benefited the most from the triumph in the 1967 war, is the strangest hybrid of all” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 July 2017 Religious Zionism, the brand of Zionism that benefited the most from the triumph in...
Anti-Semitism “If you feel the need to interrogate every Jew and demand they denounce Israel (or any other Jews or Jewish actions) before allowing them into your space, you are a racist” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 July 2017 Jews are not collectively accountable for the actions of all other Jews, any more...
Reform Judaism “…so much focus is put on prayer at the ruin of the Temple by the very Jews who least ache for that spot to re-emerge as the center of Jewish spirituality” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 July 2017 I am sometimes bemused by the fact that so much focus is put on...
Anti-Semitism “…it was my organizing against antisemitism as a Black antiracist that first pulled me to the Jewish community, not the other way around” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 July 2017 If I live and work, as I do, in the kind of daily, intimate...
America, Politics in America “Not long ago in America, there was a widespread belief that some things were good for everyone” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 July 2017 Not long ago in America, there was a widespread belief that some things were...
Hip-Hop, Parenthood “What does it mean to be a hip-hop parent?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 July 2017 What does it mean to be a hip-hop parent? For me, it means moving...
Anti-Semitism “Being progressive does not insulate you from falling prey to bigotry anymore than being conservative does…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 July 2017 Medieval Christian Europe persecuted its Jews because it considered them responsible for the alleged...
Politics in America “Everyone should have access to good housing and good jobs. That’s the point.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 July 2017 …something is seriously off when privileged whites dismiss the economic pain of less privileged...
Anti-Semitism “The public and private discussions I’ve had just in the past month suggest a hunger to understand antisemitism…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 July 2017 Over years of speaking about White nationalism in the 1990s and early 2000s in...