What It Means to Be a Leftist Jew

What it means to be a leftist Jew

What does it mean to be a Jew shaped by memory, not nationalism? Michael Cohen reflects on identity, integrity and inherited conscience.

The Genocide in Gaza Isn’t Just Attacking Our Bodies, It’s Erasing Our Memories

In Gaza, memory isn’t just memory. It’s resistance. It’s the only proof we were ever here.

It is time to take our indifference to the Gaza horror seriously

It is time to take our indifference seriously. I remember having a heated discussion with classmates when I was in my first year of high school. We had just had a history lesson on the rise of Nazi Germany and the murder of over six millions Jews, intellectuals, and communists. We were arguing about how many Jewish people we could have “rescued” from the gas chambers and what we would have done if we had been alive then, how we would never have l

The moral component of history

Welcome back to The Ink Book Club, as we begin our discussion of Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. This searing nonfiction debut by the author of American War has rightfully been compared to James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. We’ll meet on Substack Live this Wednesday, June 4, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern to talk about the book, and on Wednesday, June 18, we’ll gather live with Omar El Akkad, so make sure to add the…