On this short, we spoke with Rebecca Pierce – writer, filmmaker, editor of the Unruly blog, and core member of the Jews of Color, Sephardi, and Mizrahi (JOCSM) Caucus that organizes in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace. We spoke about her recent article in the Forward, Unruly’s plans for growth over the next year,… Continue reading Short: Rebecca Pierce
We spoke with Dean Spade (trans activist, professor and author) about growing up Jewish in the rural south, resisting the cooptation of our identities, and how the US left seems to have moved away from talking about capitalism and poverty.
Show Notes:
1-Introduction
Bullseye With Jesse Thorn: Prodigy Of Mobb Deep
2-Interview
Dean Spade – Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Jewish Voice for Peace’s 2017 National Member Meeting
3- Shkoykah
We spoke with Mark Tseng-Putterman and Tallie Ben Daniel about Jewish Voice for Peace’s new book, ‘On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice.’ We talked about the Jewish right’s understanding of Anti-Semitism, the Jewish left’s struggle to present a coherent alternative, and whose voices get centred in these conversations.
Show Notes:
–Jewish Voice for Peace, 2004 – Reframing Anti-Semitism: Alternative Jewish Perspectives
–Oxfam, January 2016 – ’62 People Own the Same as Half the World’
–Oxfam, January 2017 – ‘Just 8 Men Own Same Wealth as Half the World’
–Paul Buchheit, June 2017 – ‘Now Just 5 Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World’s Population’
We spoke with Mira Sucharov (Carleton University Professor and Forward/Haaretz Columnist) about her recent decision to resign her column at the Canadian Jewish News. We talked about her political journey away from Liberal Zionism and the rightward shift of Canada’s Institutional Jewish Community.
Show Notes:
–CJN: Why I’m Resigning My CJN Column
–CJN: Canada 150 and 50 Years of Israel’s Occupation Need Sober Reflection
–CJN: A Response to a Controversial Column
–Haaretz: Time to Retire the ‘Demographic Threat’ From Israeli Discourse
–Forward: If Israel Lets in Palestinian Refugees, Will it Lose its Jewish Character?
