David Rovics has been having a problem. “You don’t have to be Mossad to do Mossad’s job,” wrote Rovics in one of the many numerous Twitter screeds, directed at Jewish antifascist writers.[1] This public meltdown came after many, many people raised questions about his conversations with, and public support for…

After several years of far-right insurgencies in the United States, the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and Trump’s return to public life, few expected Canada to be the location of the next great explosion of right-wing energy. Over the past several weeks, people around the world have watched as…

2021 felt like an extension of 2020 (I’m sure I’m not the only one), and it was also where I continued, or finally finished, a lot of projects I started back when the lock-down was first in full swing. The biggest thing of the year was the release of my…

An interview with British socialist historian David Renton on lessons from Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as Labour leader. Pro-Jeremy Corbyn protestors gather outside Labour Party headquarters in London ahead of a National Executive Committee meeting on whether to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, April 9th, 2018. Photo: Ben Cawthra/Sipa via…

Sometimes we have walked so far off course on a struggle that we have to reset to the basics. Over the past two decades, conservative organizations have routinely lobbed accusations of antisemitism at left-wing organizers, usually related to problematic discourses on Israel or conspiracy theories, and those claims have done…

Most people do not expect to see open antisemitism enter mainstream discourse, even as white nationalists try to keep that flame alive. Nevertheless, as Trump became the figurehead of the Republican base, and conspiracy theories about George Soros or QAnon mythologies became commonplace, the ideas of Jewish cabals became an…

In what seemed like an instant, dozens of masked men streamed across Market Street in Philadelphia, waving flags and screaming the slogan “Reclaim America.” The fascist group Patriot Front staged a “flash mob” style march on July 3, just like they had in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 5; in Washington…