Disingenuous antisemitism charges are keeping left-wing critics of Israel on the back foot. Meanwhile, right-wing antisemitism is rising. Rather than play defense, the Left should advance an analysis of antisemitism that doesn’t conflate Jews with Israel.
At his life’s end, Jean-Marie Le Pen had been expelled from the party that he helped found. Yet this Holocaust denier and former torturer left behind an important legacy: making the far right into a major force in French political life.
Elon Musk’s appearances at the Trump inauguration and a rally for Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland don’t just hark back to the past. They fuse authoritarian nationalism with a distinctive postmodern, libertarian streak.
Ultranationalist candidate George Simion has a big poll lead ahead of Sunday’s Romanian presidential election. He’s sought legitimacy from foreign leaders like Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni, showing how the far right is increasingly the establishment.
European states have armed Israel through almost two years of genocide in Gaza. While the European Union’s trade deal with Israel is meant to be conditional on human rights, in practice EU leaders have turned a blind eye to its crimes.
Canada’s Nazi ovation gaffe in the House of Commons was just the tip of the iceberg. For years, the country deliberately admitted World War II Nazi collaborators in the hopes of dismantling political radicalism and suppressing labor militancy.
Bulgarian authorities have begun dismantling the capital city's main memorial to the Red Army. Celebrated as a move to bury the Communist past, the obsession with symbolic score-settling in fact reflects an inability to talk about this history seriously.
Historian Nelson Lichtenstein on the life, influences, and “sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism” of the late, great writer Mike Davis.
Government policies are fueling rather than combating anti-Roma discrimination in Europe.
The Death Of Klinghoffer isn’t antisemitic. It’s anti-peace.
The US and Cuba have finally resumed diplomatic relations. But what will the restored ties mean for immigration policy?
Marxist intellectual G.M. Tamás on Syriza, post-fascist authoritarianism, and the nostalgia for state socialism.
The Srebrenica massacre was a tragic event. But for the last twenty years, it's been used to justify more war and US intervention.
Before Donald Trump, there was Father Charles Coughlin, who popularized fascism for Americans in the 1930s.
The reparations demand resides largely in the realm of the political imaginary. There are more effective means of fighting oppression.
If Pokémon Go could resemble the best of childhood, it might have some value. What it actually does is very different.
A newly translated memoir takes us inside the Jewish Labor Bund's fight for survival and social transformation in 1930s Poland.
Alt-right conspiracy theorists have embraced postmodern philosophy. The Left should return to the Enlightenment to oppose their irrational and hateful politics.
Zionist leaders have been downplaying antisemitic attacks in the US in order to cozy up to Donald Trump.
