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Jewish Currents is a quarterly magazine that represents a progressive and secular Jewish perspective. It continues the legacy of the Jewish left by offering independent journalism and political insights, while also embracing a unique "countercultural" style in its coverage of Jewish arts and literature.

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Egypt Cracks Down on the “Global March to Gaza”

4 days ago | jewishcurrents.org | Emad Mekay

On June 10th, activists affiliated with the International Coalition Against the Israeli Occupation, a broad alliance of trade unions, solidarity movements, and human rights groups, tried to organize the “Global March to Gaza.” At the event, participants from more than 50 countries—including Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Tunisia, and France—would arrive in Cairo, travel 200 miles to Al-Arish on the Mediterranean, and then walk approximately 33 miles to the Rafah border...
What You Deserve

1 week ago | jewishcurrents.org | Lyta Gold

“What if I rolled a golem out of mud,” she murmured, as if I wasn’t there. I could’ve been made of mud myself, for all the attention she was paying me. At first I thought maybe I’d misheard. I was sitting in her studio—the corrugated shack she calls a studio—in her only chair, sipping a post-work beer. Jess was squatting on the floor, clearing the gears of her pottery wheel, which were always jamming.
The Sympathy Trap

1 week ago | jewishcurrents.org | Jackie Wang

On January 29th, 2025, I was at work on this review, and Hind Rajab had been dead for exactly one year. How many of us had wept, listening to the recording of the five-year-old’s last phone call? “I’m so scared, please come. Come take me,” Hind entreated a responder from the Palestine Red Crescent Society. “Please, will you come?” For people across the world, the wavering of Hind’s small voice made the depth of Israel’s brutality intimately present.
The Tangled Knot of Anti-Zionist Violence

2 weeks ago | jewishcurrents.org | Daniel May

The day after the June 1st Molotov cocktail attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, I received an email from my synagogue.
The Era of Unconditional Support for Israel is Ending

3 weeks ago | jewishcurrents.org | Peter Beinart

For more than three decades, American presidents have insisted that what is good for Israel is good for the United States. In Democratic and Republican party platforms since the end of the Cold War, you find the same language again and again: The US and Israel hold “common strategic interests” and maintain “a strategic alliance that benefits both nations.” But in recent months, Trump officials have repeatedly signaled that those interests diverge.
Trump’s Illegal Cuts to University Funding, Explained

3 weeks ago | jewishcurrents.org | Alex Kane

Since March, the Trump administration has cut billions of dollars in federal funding to universities, halting $3.3 billion in grants and contracts to Harvard, $1 billion to Cornell, $790 million to Northwestern, $400 million to Columbia, and $210 million to Princeton. The main justification for this unprecedented funding freeze has been pro-Palestinian activism on these campuses, which President Donald Trump has labeled antisemitic.
The End of the Marty Peretz Era

4 weeks ago | jewishcurrents.org | David Klion

In 1974, a 35-year-old Harvard lecturer named Marty Peretz purchased The New Republic (TNR) with $380,000 of his wife’s inherited sewing machine fortune and commenced remaking the magazine in his image. Though he came up on the activist New Left in the 1960s, Peretz had since fallen out with many of his erstwhile comrades over Israel, particularly its rejection by Black radicals.
Staying in Motion

1 month ago | jewishcurrents.org | Arielle Angel

On the first Sunday afternoon in May, the final day of the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) National Members Meeting in Baltimore, executive director Stefanie Fox took the stage to fortify the crowd for the work ahead. She laid out a lengthy list of threats to the movement for Palestine, many of them already on the tracks—from the potential revocation of nonprofit status and freezing of bank accounts to the criminal prosecution of activists—before switching into a personal register.
Unpacking the Rift Between Trump and Netanyahu

1 month ago | jewishcurrents.org | Alex Kane

In early May, in the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s first trip to the Middle East in his second term, the US embarked on a set of foreign policy shifts that explicitly went against the wishes of Trump’s erstwhile friend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. First, Trump ended the US bombing campaign in Yemen, despite the Houthi rebels vowing to continue their missile attacks against Israel.
How Should Activists Relate to Risk?

1 month ago | jewishcurrents.org | Aryeh Bernstein |Maya Rosen

In September 2024, an Israeli sniper shot and killed Turkish American human rights activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi outside of Nablus in the northern West Bank. Her murder was a devastating example of a sharp uptick in military and settler violence against both Palestinian residents and the international and Israeli activists who work with them.