Jewish students at Columbia must not give in to fear - opinion
Staying home is not what Jewish students have done for generations despite being targeted for their political beliefs.
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Staying home is not what Jewish students have done for generations despite being targeted for their political beliefs.
Despite brilliant work on the question of Palestine from Marxists, often Arab or anti-Zionist Jewish, many on the left continue to have an inadequate understanding of Zionism. In this essay, I attempt to offer a Marxist examination of Zionism and some of its essential features: its völkisch character, its settler colonial character, and its relation to imperialism.
Zionists do not need to be embarrassed about these shortfalls; Zionists must identify them and address them. It’s only by correcting Zionism’s shortfalls that it can begin to improve.