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Revisionism in the Face of Genocide
Lodwick Janssen, November 12, 2026
Reviewing Étienne Balibar's Palestine, face au génocide, Lodwick Janssen finds a former critic of bourgeois ideology retreating into liberal hand-wringing and rights-based obfuscations when confronted with the Palestinian genocide
The Kahane Connection: A Review of "Who Killed Alex Odeh?"
In a review of Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans 2026 documentary Who Killed Alex Odeh, Tovi Rose traces how Meir Kahane's militant Jewish supremacist ideology became mainstream in Israel. – Read review
Against Their Interests? Understanding the Right-Wing Poor
Marcela Gottschald reviews Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza’s O pobre de direita (The Poor on the Right), an inquiry into the social basis of support for right-wing politics among poor whites and Black evangelicals in Brazil. – Read review
Points of Arrival
Julian Assele reviews Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter. While Cleaver rightly seeks to recenter working-class agency and grapple with the changing shape of class struggle, his incomplete application of the class composition method risks a voluntarist view of capital’s counteroffensive and leads to a flawed critique of revolutionary organization. – Read review
Israel's Lobby Under Review
Abel Bisrat reviews Israel's Lobby by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, finding a worthwhile expansion of previous scholarship for our contemporary era rather than a mere retreading of work by authors like Mearsheimer and Walt. Yet more work remains in mapping the class fractions behind Zionism and its stranglehold over US foreign policy. – Read review