Freshly Weaponized Symbols in the West

Or, How US Jingoism is advanced by whatever ethno-religious imagery will do the job

From AFP coverage of a recent New York protest of Mahmoud Khalil’s detention.

If things had gone according to plan this week, I would have had a piece on Monday about discourse around No Other Land (2024); a piece on Tuesday on Syria, the DRC, and Sudan; and my Wednesday piece on the broader wealth of progressive Jewish voices that has been flattened if …