Antisemitism from the left is real. It starts with overzealous white boys saying that Israel is as big a global threat as Russia, and ends with them talking about “lots of powerful Jews in the United States.” The problem’s not The Jews. It’s the white supremacist capitalist imperialism, stupid.
I went to a good school. I’ve been told that I’m a “good guy.” That does not absolve my past– and neither does this or any post. Here are two times that I’ve committed sexually predatory behavior, and one time that I’ve been the victim of it. 1. In my sophomore year of college, my…
We shouldn’t be running after the enemy- the enemy should be running after us. I read something to that effect in an interview with Subcommandante Marcos of the Zapatistas. It perfectly captured what I often feel about activism. So often we define ourselves and others purely by what we’re *against*– capitalism, neoliberalism, Trump, etc. That’s…
I used to think in terms of revolution. If a concept or a campaign or a coalition or whatever didn’t totally change the right structures, I thought it didn’t count. But nothing ever seemed revolutionary enough. Thinking like that got lonely. Now I try to think in terms of life cycles. I try to think…
Yesterday was Tisha B’Av, the Jewish Day of Mourning for the destruction of the ancient Temples by the Babylonian and Roman Empires. On this day, in the scorching summer heat, we feel the collective pains experienced over thousands of years. Of exile, of more exile, of lynchings, of genocide. And, I would add, of capitalism…
The dancers at the bottom of Mount Sinai are our ancestors. Restless, anti-authoritarian, ecstatic. Their spirituality was plural. They didn’t truly need the patriarchy. They knew, perhaps, what we think they didn’t- that the divine wasn’t solely in one graven image. All this is heretical, of course. Even radical Jews call for smashing idols. But…
I want to worship the Sun. Not the creator of the Sun. Not the master of the Sun. Not the King and Ruler of the Sun. Not even the breath of life of the Sun. I want to worship the Sun. I want to worship the tides, I want to worship the trees, I want…