Update: See Ami Isseroff here
“What’s a Neo-Jew?” asks a bemused David T, over on Harry’s Place. I have to admit that I don’t have a clear answer, but - given that it appears in Jennifer Loewenstein’s stream of hate on Counterpunch - I think we can all conclude that it’s not meant as a compliment.
A plug for the newest essay on Z Word: a powerful contribution by Rhoda Kadalie and Julia Bertelsmann, two South African writers, which explodes the apartheid analogy and explains why it’s so potent in the domestic South African context.
Norman Geras - who features in Z Word’s inaugural podcast - writes that Israeli minister Matan Vilnai’s use of the word “shoah” in the context of the current conflict in Gaza “invited misunderstanding in a context where there are many people only too ready to misunderstand.”
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