Arielle Angel

Nov 5, 2024 | jewishcurrents.org | Arielle Angel

On October 8th, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the group that had organized the student encampment for Palestine last spring, posted a statement on their Instagram account apologizing for compromising their message to “[pander] to liberal media and make the movement for liberation palatable and digestible,” and affirming their commitment to liberation “by any means necessary, including armed resistance.” Almost two weeks later, a collective of Palestinian student organizers...

Sep 23, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Arielle Angel

In the last few years, Jewish Currents has been the intellectual storm-centre of a multi-sided, inter-generational debate within the Jewish community about breaking with Israel over its occupation strategy—and the war on Gaza in particular. The Currents project—print journal, online articles, weekly newsletters, podcasts, live events—has helped to develop a far-reaching left critique of the American-Jewish establishment strategy as essentially ‘Americanist assimilationism plus Zionism’.

Aug 12, 2024 | jewishcurrents.org | Arielle Angel

A certain expression crosses people’s faces when you tell them you’re from Miami—a mixture of surprise and intrigue and pity. They’ve been there on a short beach vacation, or to see their great aunt, or they missed a connecting flight en route to somewhere farther south and found themselves stranded. They thought it was fun in a kitschy way, or super weird, or sort of boring. They want to know: What was it like to grow up there? You struggle to answer this question.

Apr 26, 2024 | jewishcurrents.org | Lexie Botzum |Arielle Angel

On February 25th, Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the US Air Force, self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC.

Nov 8, 2023 | etc.se | Arielle Angel

Michael Sfard, israelisk advokat inriktad på internationell humanitär rätt och krigets lagar, som har representerat flera olika israeliska och palestinska människorätts- och fredsorganisationer och aktivister i Israels högsta domstol: Under flera årtionden har jag ägnat mig åt rättslig aktivism och arbetat med aktivister och organisationer inom Israels människorättsrörelse och den israeliska vänstern i allmänhet. Aldrig har jag upplevt de känslor som väckts nu.