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Israel's American History - Public Seminar

2 months ago | publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Federico Finchelstein |Marc Stein |Jeffrey C. Isaac

Black Panthers demonstration in Ashod, Israel (1973) | Dan Hadani collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection / CC BY 4.0Oz Frankel’s new book, Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets: Israel in the American Orbit, 1967–1973 (Stanford University Press, 2024), examines the multifaceted and contradictory presence of the United States in Israel during a short but significant period of history.
Trump Is Not an Aberration

Nov 12, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Jeffrey C. Isaac

My teaching this semester has centered on the meanings of American citizenship, with an eye toward the election that is now over, though its dangerous consequences have yet to be felt — and they will be felt.
It Is Not Too Late For Rashida Tlaib To Endorse Kamala Harris

Nov 5, 2024 | smirkingchimp.com | Jeffrey C. Isaac

Democracy is on the ballot this Tuesday. The election is only one step in a protracted process. Between the election, and the presidential inauguration on January 21, 2025, there is an almost three-month long period—what Barton Gellman has called “an interregnum”—that will furnish Trump and his team of MAGA attorneys with many opportunities to litigate, intimidate, obstruct, and even attempt to overturn a Harris-Walz electoral victory by legalistic if not legal means.
We Shall Not Be Moved

Nov 4, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Adam Brown |Jochen Schmon |Jeffrey C. Isaac

There is no question that Donald Trump, a former President who is on the ballot next Tuesday, November 5, is not only a man in love with violence, but one who also understands violence as a way to get what he wants. On May 1, 1989, Trump took out a full-page ad in the New York Daily News demanding that New York State execute five Black teenagers who were (as it turns out, falsely) accused of beating and raping a woman in Central Park.
It Is Not Too Late For Rashida Tlaib To Endorse Kamala Harris | Common Dreams

Nov 4, 2024 | commondreams.org | Jeffrey C. Isaac

Democracy is on the ballot this Tuesday. The election is only one step in a protracted process. Between the election, and the presidential inauguration on January 21, 2025, there is an almost three-month long period—what Barton Gellman has called “an interregnum”—that will furnish Trump and his team of MAGA attorneys with many opportunities to litigate, intimidate, obstruct, and even attempt to overturn a Harris-Walz electoral victory by legalistic if not legal means.
Trump and Trumpism Are the Violent Threat-And They Must Be Stopped

Nov 3, 2024 | msn.com | Jeffrey C. Isaac

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Trump and Trumpism Are the Violent Threat-And They Must Be Stopped

Nov 3, 2024 | znetwork.org | Jeffrey C. Isaac

William Jacob Parsons was arrested recently in North Carolina on charges of appearing at a FEMA office carrying a semi-automatic handgun and making threats against employees. According to the Washington Post:Parsons said he was motivated by social media reports claiming that FEMA was withholding supplies from hurricane victims in western North Carolina. Such false claims are part of a wave of misinformation that has hampered hurricane recovery efforts across the Southeast.
Trump and Trumpism Are the Violent Threat—And They Must Be Stopped | The Smirking Chimp

Nov 3, 2024 | smirkingchimp.com | Jeffrey C. Isaac

William Jacob Parsons was arrested recently in North Carolina on charges of appearing at a FEMA office carrying a semi-automatic handgun and making threats against employees. According to the Washington Post: Parsons said he was motivated by social media reports claiming that FEMA was withholding supplies from hurricane victims in western North Carolina. Such false claims are part of a wave of misinformation that has hampered hurricane recovery efforts across the Southeast.
Trump and Trumpism Are the Violent Threat—And They Must Be Stopped | Common Dreams

Nov 2, 2024 | commondreams.org | Jeffrey C. Isaac

William Jacob Parsons was arrested recently in North Carolina on charges of appearing at a FEMA office carrying a semi-automatic handgun and making threats against employees. According to the Washington Post:A ”wave.” The phenomenon sounds beyond human control, like the waves caused by the hurricane itself. Only a few paragraphs down does the story mention that there is a politics here: “As the country digs out, false claims about the storms have divided the Republican Party.
The “Prose of Counterinsurgency” - Public Seminar

Nov 1, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Jochen Schmon |Henry M.J. Tonks |Jeffrey C. Isaac |John Stoehr

Minnesota State Patrol Troopers on Scene of George Floyd Protest (2020) | Creative Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0Editorial note: The following essay was originally published, in a slightly different version, in edition 708 of the German monthly magazine, analyse & kritik.