Emily Tamkin

1 week ago | forward.com | Emily Tamkin

We are not supposed to make comparisons to the Holocaust. When, in 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, compared Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the Holocaust, he was criticized by several Israeli lawmakers.

2 weeks ago | forward.com | Emily Tamkin

President Donald Trump's administration shared Friday that it has no plans to free Mahmoud Khalil, the Syrian-born Palestinian green card holder and activist who has spent the last three months in prison, despite a judge's order that the government release him. I read the news, and thought of the story of Joseph's imprisonment by Pharaoh, in Genesis.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Emily Tamkin

On the first night of Passover, it seemed like a one off – an arson attack on Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro’s mansion. The arsonist, per police, took issue with Shapiro’s stance on Israel and Palestine.

3 weeks ago | forward.com | Emily Tamkin

I have two fears after the Sunday attack in which eight people in Boulder, Colorado, were viciously burned by a man wielding Molotov cocktails at a rally for the release of Israeli hostages still in Gaza. The first: That the people injured, including one Holocaust survivor, would not survive this. That their lives would end with this unbearable violence, being burned alive while rallying for the release of people kept in captivity.

4 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Emily Tamkin

“I sat in that hearing, and I sobbed.”C, a Jewish senior at Columbia University’s Barnard College, said she found out she had to attend a disciplinary hearing two days before her senior thesis was due. She was being called in, she was told, because she attended a demonstration earlier in the semester and because she had, a few weeks later, chained herself to a campus gate.