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In her young life, state-sanctioned violence is all Shahd Alnaami has ever known. It’s a violence that has only metastasized since 7 October, as she and more than two million of her fellow residents of Gaza have endured Israel’s relentless war of revenge, siege, and collective punishment.
In that time, Shahd’s friends and family have been killed, her beloved lib...
Writer, activist, and real mentsh Wael Eskandar talks to “Talk about bupkes!” about his experience in Germany protesting for Palestine, why doing anything is more than nothing but less than something, and how that message resonates with all the “Janas” out there.
If you’re looking for hope, you’ve come to the wrong place. But if you’re looking for solidarity as you try to figure out how to live in an era of...
In a wide-ranging conversation, The Bupkes sits down with the last person in Brussels in August. Manus Carlisle handles media relations for The Left, the European Parliament group that consists of leftist parties from across the European Union.
Manus takes stock of the state of European democracy and leftist responses to resurgent forms of nationalism, militarism, and moral panic. On a more cosmic level, he considers what Europe’s l...
From Berlin, Talmudist and philosopher Oded Schechter gives The Bupkes a rare interview about how the nation-state of Israel, as an expression of Jewish nationalism, does not liberate the Jew but, to the contrary, subjugates him.
NB: Transcript is auto-generated, so errors — spelling and otherwise — are to be expected. This interview has been edited for clarity.
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A conversation with Wieland Hoban, the chair of Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (Jewish Voice for just peace in the Middle East), about what it’s like to be on the same domestic intelligence list as neo-Nazis, foreign agents, and conspiracy cults — not to mention Germany’s second-largest party in parliament.
(NB: Transcript is auto-generated, so errors — spelling and otherwise — are to be expected.)
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<...A conversation with writer/researcher Elia Ayoub on simple media narratives, a Hebrew-Yiddish throwdown, and the throughline of the politics of memory (and forgetting).
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