Weaponizing antisemitism

The national turmoil about antisemitism and Israel’s attacks on Gaza has come home to Oak Park in a series of recent events. At the end of the OPRF school board campaign, the Democratic Socialists of America handed out a flyer calling one of the candidates, Nate Mellman, an “Israel-first Zionist fanatic,” said he is “an…

A critical lens

I was accused of being antisemitic today. I posted a message on Mastodon in which I said that resolving the issues in Israel and Palestine requires that Israel be reconstituted as a multiracial democracy that provides equal rights for all its citizens. Someone wrote back to me and asked if I was also advocating that…