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While the world is convulsed by the Israeli Pegasus spyware revelations, Israel and much of the Jewish world pivoted to ice-cream, and the Ben & Jerry’s settlement boycott.

Eitay Mack, who has led the campaign inside Israel to tie its arms industry and cyberwarfare export policies to prevent human rights abuses, explains why Pegasus is such a danger to democracy, everywhere, and why Israel doesn’t seem to care.

As Israel’s leaders and a like-minded American Jewish establishment ramp up the hysteria over Ben & Jerry’s, from calling its boycott "terrorism" to resembling the Nazis, Joshua Shanes asks why U.S. two-staters aren’t coming out to celebrate, rather than denounce, the firm’s decision.

Miran Khwais and George Zeidan explore the impact of the last few months on young Palestinians’ identity – and how the Israel-Gaza violence, Sheikh Jarrah and a general strike have led to a refound sense of peoplehood, and collective power.

Demography is destiny: Zionism is about creating a democratic state with a Jewish majority. Since when, asks Eric Yoffie, did that become unacceptable and indefensible for the Zionist left?

Two resolutions were recently passed at CUNY’s academics’ union: One on China, and the other on Palestine. David Brodsky, Judaic Studies chair at Brooklyn College, asks why their tone, content and faithfulness to progressive values were so different.

And Una Hajdari visited Yael Bartana’s startling new video installation, in which ‘Malka Germania’ rides into Berlin to ‘redeem’ the city for the Jews who once called it home, and explains why the visceral experience offers a pointed challenge to Europe’s current-day nationalists.

 
 
 
 
 
A still from Yael Bartana's video installation, Malka Germania, part of the 'Redemption Now' exhibition in Berlin's Jewish Museum
 
 
What if the Jews Took Over Berlin?
Una Hajdari | 23.07.2021
 
 
 
 
 
NSO's Pegasus spyware, a cyberweapon that hacks cellphones thus enabling state-sponsored terrorism against civil society, has outraged the world. In Israel, there's complicity – or complete indifference
 
 
Israel's Shame: NSO and Pegasus Are a Danger to Democracy Around the World
Eitay Mack | 23.07.2021
 
 
 
 
 
A customer buys Ben & Jerry's ice cream in Jerusalem this week
 
 
Ben & Jerry's Aren't Nazis and Their Settlement Boycott Isn't Antisemitic
Joshua Shanes | 21.07.2021
 
 
 
 
 
A mural calling for a boycott of Israeli goods in the al-Azzeh refugee camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem
 
 
At CUNY, My Union Condemns Israel for Human Rights Abuses, but Cheers on China
David Brodsky | 22.07.2021
 
 
 
 
 
Celebrations for Israel's 73rd Independence Day in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square this year
 
 
What on Earth Is the Problem With a Jewish Majority in Israel?
Eric H. Yoffie | 18.07.2021
 
 
 
 
 
A Palestinian flag by the fence of Israel's Ofer prison near Ramallah in the West Bank, during a protest by Palestinians demanding the release of detainee Khaleda Jarrar to attend her daughter's funeral
 
 
The Great Palestinian Awakening: How We Refound Our Peoplehood, and Our Power
Miran Khwais, George Zeidan | 18.07.2021
 
 
 
 
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