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Benjamin Balthaser
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Assoc prof of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (2025). He/him. 🕎🌹😷🇵🇸Chicago 🐢

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2013, but yes - his editorial was really unlike anything else written about the vote
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Ironically or not beinart wrote publicly to both clear ASA of charges of antisemtism and also, to denounce the bds vote
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
😉
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Sorry for subwteet - I was reading comrades praise my mayor’s rhetorical calling for a general strike as an alternative. I support Johnson & he did his best w the sitch, but Chicago was not able to keep ICE from cutting thru the city like butter & we need to be real about that
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I am not concerned about the personal morality of political/economic elite - but rather how much rules of international law need to be addressed; it suggests a relative sense of limits.
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Tbh I prefer it when they think highly enough of democracy to lie about anti democratic violations of it
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
An update of Baudrillard’s thesis that “the Iraq War Didn’t Happen” - instead of a sanitized hyper-landscape of American military technology, just the absence of any mainstream representation at all.
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Disney *is
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“I am…a Jew by force of my unconditional solidarity with the persecuted and exterminated.”
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Ok, that is a compelling argument!
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Which is?
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Yes of the EWG goes it’s own way I’ll respect that ZM can have his opinion but is only a member
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Ok what is the left case for not endorsing Chi Ossi?
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Let’s hope that is what happens!
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This is not merely a photo op but Mamdani weighing in on DSA’s process in the interests of re-aligning the Democratic Party - which suggests he is not in step w DSA’s own resolutions on electoral strategy
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM