Emily Tamkin

2 days 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.

5 days 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks ago | forward.com | Emily Tamkin

The suspect who allegedly shot and killed two Israeli embassy staffers Wednesday night outside a Jewish professionals event at the Capital Jewish Museum chanted "Free Palestine" as he was being taken into custody. A witness told Jewish Insider that the suspect said "I did it for Gaza."To put this very plainly: The words "Free Palestine" themselves are not antisemitic.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Emily Tamkin

2 hours agoGaza girl tells Al Jazeera she’s stopped thinking of the future‘We cannot think of our future, because somebody else is controlling it’. A displaced girl in Gaza City tells Al Jazeera what life is like for her family trying to survive there as the UN warns there’s no safe place left from Israeli attacks. 1 hour agoDonald Trump Is Torching the First Amendment.