Barry W. Finger

Jun 25, 2024 | fathomjournal.org | Shany Mor |Alan Johnson |Barry W. Finger

Barry Finger reviews Ta-Nahesi Coates’ book The Message. Finger is a frequent contributor to US socialist journals, a former shop steward and activist with the Public Employees Federation. What happens when a widely acclaimed talent commits himself to an all-encompassing gospel of American racial oppression and projects it onto the African continent and the Middle East?

Feb 27, 2024 | fathomjournal.org | Barry W. Finger

It turns out that Dara Horn was overly generous in her concession that ‘People Love Dead Jews.’ The massacre, rape and kidnapping of Israelis—Jews, Arabs, Druze, Asian guest workers—has been lauded, nay touted, on the campuses and streets of every Western city as what Gilbert Achcar in his little book praises as a righteous ‘counter-offensive’ in response to a ‘protracted Nakba of territorial dispossession, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.’ Achcar, a Lebanese Arab militant of the Trotskyoid...