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SNAPPY SMACKDOWNS OF ANTISEMITISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM
FROM A PUNCHY PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVE
ZIONISM WITH NO APOLOGIES.








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THE BATON MAG Handbook for Zionist Keyboard Warriors
A Cut-and-Paste Manual Snappy smackdowns of Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism that you can use to crush your enemies on social media!...


Do not trust their words
As in its military strategy, the Palestinian rhetorical and ideological strategy recognizes no rules of engagement.


Palestine, Jews and world peace
On social media recently, a Canadian woman who took issue with one of our posts suggested: “Please read some literature from outside your...


You can’t be “pro-Palestine” AND anti-Israel
In order to be pro-Palestinian it is necessary to be pro-Israel. It is a sad, indeed infuriating, situation that the people in Europe and...


Israel & Palestine: In their own words
The founding documents of Israel, of the Palestine Liberation Organization and of Hamas explicitly explain their respective approaches....


What about Israeli frustration?
Palestinian frustration is endlessly trotted out to justify the most horrific acts. Why don’t we ever give Israelis – who have every bit...


Antisemitism? What antisemitism?
Why won’t progressives confront anti-Jewish prejudice in our movement? Because, in the prevailing worldview, it doesn't actually exist....


Cori Bush: A Case Study in Hypocrisy
For a freshman congresswoman, Cori Bush is getting a lot of media. Like other members of “The Squad,” – a cadre of “progressive”...


The Palestinian Narrative: A Catechism of Lies
Contesting Palestinian fictions is like Whack-A-Mole: You can barely keep up. In April 2002, world media reported a horrendous war crime...


Why hasn’t Israel made peace with the Palestinians?
The problem is, Israel’s not the problem. If we subscribe to the clichéd adage that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing...

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. … Or is it?
Non-Jews do not get to decide what is and is not antisemitic. And progressive people do not get to say that anti-Zionism is not...


Palestinian movement's winning formula: Exploiting ignorance
The Palestinian movement has pressed ignorant people into service for an intolerant and violent cause based on the certainty that...


Crucifying Israel
Progressives may not show up on Sunday mornings anymore, but we can’t seem to kick the need to scapegoat the world’s problems onto an...


The day the left derailed: September 28, 2000
We can pinpoint the exact date when progressive movements and the left across Europe and the Americas went off the rails: September 28,...


Need to cancel critical thinking? Scream apartheid!
The libel is a microcosm of the larger strategy: Throw the kitchen sink at Israel. In 2001, the United Nations sponsored the World...


Enough about Palestine!
While activists accuse Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide" in Palestine, actual genocides and ethnic cleansings worldwide go...
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