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On the Nose

On the Nose is a biweekly podcast by Jewish Currents, a magazine of the Jewish left founded in 1946. The editorial staff discusses the politics, culture, and questions that animate today’s Jewish left.

  1. HACE 6 DÍAS

    Preparing for Trump’s Repression

    Since October 2023, Palestine solidarity activists have faced a climate of McCarthyist repression, and all signs point to the incoming Trump administration escalating that campaign to silence the anti-genocide movement. Trump’s cabinet appointees and supporters have embraced plans to revoke visas of pro-Palestine student organizers, sue colleges to ensure they crack down on protesters, subject anti-Zionist students to FBI questioning, and more—all in the name of fighting antisemitism.  In this episode, associate editor Mari Cohen and senior reporter Alex Kane join Emma Saltzberg, US strategic campaigns director for Diaspora Alliance, and Dylan Saba, a staff attorney at Palestine Legal and a contributing writer at Jewish Currents, to discuss the possible shape of the Trump repression regime. We discuss the use of civil rights law to quash student protest, the Heritage Foundation’s unnerving “Project Esther” blueprint for suppressing the Palestine solidarity movement, and Congressional attempts to attack the nonprofit status of anti-Zionist groups. We also analyze the multiple right-wing approaches at play—including the distinct but sometimes overlapping “anti-discrimination” and “anti-terrorism” paradigms—and consider possibilities for mobilizing a broader liberal-left coalition to oppose these strategies.   Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).” Texts Mentioned and Further Resources: “Trump DOJ civil rights pick blasted campus protests, opposed Antisemitism Awareness Act,” Marc Rod, Jewish Insider  “The Biden-Harris administration has failed to combat campus antisemitism,” Jonathan Pidluzny, America First Policy Institute “Trump attorney general pick Pam Bondi: 5 things Jews should know,” Lauren Markoe, Forward  “The civil rights law shutting down pro-Palestine speech,” Alex Kane, Jewish Currents “Linda McMahon meets with Senators, addresses approach to fighting antisemitism,” Emily Jacobs, Jewish Insider “Project Esther,” The Heritage Foundation  “Evangelical Christians are politicizing the Jewish story of Esther,” Jane Eisner, The Washington Post “Congressional Republicans launch 'fishing expedition' against progressive, Jewish, and Palestinian nonprofits,” Matthew Petti, Reason “Virginia judge denies pro-Palestinian group’s bid to limit attorney general’s...

    51 min

  2. 5 DIC

    Jesse Eisenberg's Holocaust Road Trip

    A Real Pain is a film starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Kulkin as two American Jewish cousins who take a trip to Poland to visit the childhood home of their grandmother. In this episode of On the Nose, editor-in-chief Arielle Angel, contributing editor Maia Ipp, and author Menachem Kaiser—all of whom are grandchildren of Holocaust survivors—dissect the movie’s depiction of millennial neuroses, its relationship to other Holocaust films, and its grappling with the question of how to make meaning out of inherited memory.  Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).” Texts Mentioned and Further Resources: “Selling the Holocaust,” Arielle Angel, Menachem Kaiser, and Maia Ipp, Jewish Currents “(Re)Writing Remembrance,” Arielle Angel and Maia Ipp, Jewish Currents Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure, Menachem Kaiser “If I were a Zionist, I'd be Z: How Generations of Jews have Abandoned their Children to Face the Reckoning Alone,” Natasha Gill, Substack Between the Temples

    39 min

  3. 14 NOV

    Volatile Emotions

    On this episode of On the Nose—recorded at an online event on October 30th—editor-in-chief Arielle Angel speaks with author Naomi Klein and writer and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan about the place of feelings and affect in the movement for Palestinian liberation. They discuss the role of grief and rage, how movements can accommodate affective diversity, and what it means to channel emotions politically.  Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed). Texts Mentioned and Further Resources: “How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war,” Naomi Klein, The Guardian The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust by Marianne Hirsch Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture by Alison Landsberg  “‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychiatrist challenging western definitions of trauma,” Bethan McKernan, The Guardian “Can the Palestinian Mourn?,” Abdaljawad Omar, Rusted Radishes “‘Resistance Through a Realist Lens,’” Arielle Angel in conversation with Abdaljawad Omar, Jewish Currents “Mourning and Melancholia,” Sigmund Freud The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein “One Year,” Palestinian Youth Movement, The New Inquiry (originally published in The New York War Crimes) Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad “A Surge in American Jewish Left Organizing,” On the Nose, Jewish Currents “Gaza and the Coming Age of the ‘Warrior,’” Ghassan Hage, Allegra “One Year,” Arielle Angel, Jewish Currents newsletter The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist by Emile Habibi “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” Walter Benjamin a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger"...

    48 min

  4. 5 NOV

    Bipartisan Empire: Foreign Policy, Regional War, and the 2024 Election

    On this special episode of On the Nose—recorded live on November 4th at McNally Jackson Books in Manhattan—Jewish Currents senior reporter Alex Kane hosts a discussion about foreign policy and the 2024 presidential election. Historian Stephen Wertheim, Arab American Institute executive director Maya Berry, and national security reporter Spencer Ackerman discuss Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’s foreign policy visions, regional war in the Middle East, and the bipartisan consensus on upholding US empire.  Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed). Further Reading: “Some Muslim Americans moving to Jill Stein in potential blow to Kamala Harris,” Andrea Shalal, Reuters “New Poll Finds Arab American Voters Evenly Divided in the 2024 Presidential Election,” Arab American Institute Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by Spencer Ackerman “How Kamala Harris Should Put America First — for Real,” Stephen Werheim, The New York Times “America’s Foreign Policy Inertia,” Stephen Wertheim and Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs

    1 h y 14 min

  5. 31 OCT

    The Other ADLs

    In 2003, a group of Indian Americans deeply involved in India's Hindu supremacist, or Hindutva, movement established the Hindu American Foundation (HAF), an organization explicitly modeled on the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Just as the ADL has long insisted that fighting American antisemitism requires bolstering support for Israel, the HAF committed itself to lobbying for Hindutva in the name of protecting Hindu Americans’ civil rights, an approach that helped the group's rightwing politics find a foothold in liberal, anti-racist circles. The HAF is not the only organization that has drawn inspiration from the ADL. In 2021, the Asian American Foundation (TAAF) was formed in direct partnership with the ADL as a way to address growing anti-Asian racism. While lacking connection to a single ethnonationalist movement, TAAF nevertheless drew on the ADL’s and HAF’s approaches in positioning anti-Asian racism as a unique problem requiring carceral solutions instead of solidaristic organizing. As such, TAAF debuted with ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt as the only non-Asian person on its board, and Hindu nationalist Sonal Shah as its founding president.  The HAF and TAAF’s use of the ADL model has thus far helped them achieve support and legitimacy. However, as the ADL itself faces an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy in the wake of October 7th, affiliation with it now risks becoming a liability. For instance, following members’ criticism over its ties to an increasingly repressive Greenblatt, TAAF removed him from his board this July (while still affirming its “strategic relationship” with the ADL). As dissent continues to grow in Asian and South Asian American communities—with reporters and activists questioning ties of anti-racist groups in the US to injustices abroad—it is not just ties to the ADL but the power of the ADL model of antiracism that stands to come into question. To discuss these developments, Jewish Currents news editor Aparna Gopalan spoke to associate editor Mari Cohen, New Yorker contributing writer E. Tammy Kim, and Savera coalition activist Prachi Patankar about the similarities and differences between the ADL, the HAF, and TAAF; their embrace of a “hate crimes” approach to anti-racism and what it leaves out; their ties to supremacist movements; and their shifting fortunes in the wake of the pressures over the past year.       Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed). Texts Mentioned and Further Reading: “How the ADL’s Israel Advocacy Undermines Its Civil Rights Work,” Alex Kane and Jacob Hutt, Jewish Currents “a...

    44 min

  6. 17 OCT

    What Ta-Nehisi Coates Saw

    Ta-Nehisi Coates, one of the most celebrated American political writers of our time, devotes much of his new book, The Message, to a withering and deeply personal critique of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. On this bonus episode of On the Nose—a recording of an online event for Jewish Currents members, co-sponsored by the Beinart Notebook and the Foundation for Middle East Peace—editor-at-large Peter Beinart speaks with Coates about his time in Israel and the West Bank, the silencing of Palestinians in American media, and what it means when nationalism’s victims become its adherents. Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed). Texts Mentioned and Further Reading: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” Martin Luther King, Jr. Our American Israel by Amy Kaplan The Riot Report, directed by Michelle Ferrari “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic “One Year of War in the Middle East,” Pod Save the World The Yellow Wind by David Grossman “Obama on his criticism of Israeli settlements: ‘I’m basically a liberal Jew,’” Avery Anopol, The Hill “US media talks a lot about Palestinians—just without Palestinians,” Maha Nassar, +972 Magazine Ta-Nehisi Coates interview on CBS Black Panther graphic novels by Ta-Nehisi Coates Makdisi Street podcast “Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth,” Democracy Now!

    40 min

  7. 10 OCT

    Palestinian Liberation After the Destruction of Gaza

    On this episode of On the Nose—recorded live at Jewish Currents’s daylong event on September 15th—editor-in-chief Arielle Angel speaks with a panel of authors, scholars, and activists about the movement for Palestinian freedom in the wake of Israel’s genocide. Noura Erakat, Fadi Quran, Dana El Kurd, Amjad Iraqi, and Ahmed Moor discuss the challenge of Palestinian unity under Israel’s program of fragmentation, the resurgence of the two-state solution and decline of the coexistence paradigm, American Jews’ role in organizing their communities against Zionism, and the task of imagining a liberated future. Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed). Texts Mentioned and Further Reading: Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine by Dana El Kurd Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine, edited by Anthony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance by Tareq Baconi Polling by Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research “Zionism Killed the Jewish-Muslim World,” Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Jacobin Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions 1968 Palestinian National Charter “How Durham, North Carolina, became the first US city to ban police exchanges with Israel,” Zaina Alsous and Sammy Hanf, Scalawag

    1 h y 2 min

  8. 2 OCT

    "Between the Covers" Live: Dionne Brand and Adania Shibli

    For this live taping of the literary podcast Between the Covers—recorded at Jewish Currents’s daylong event on September 15th and presented in partnership with On the Nose—host David Naimon convened a conversation with renowned writers Dionne Brand and Adania Shibli about contesting colonial narratives. Rooted in their long-standing literary practice and in the demands of this moment of genocide, they discuss the vexed meanings of home, how to recover the everydayness of life erased by empire, and what it means to imagine togetherness beyond the nation-state. This episode was produced by David Naimon, with music by Alicia Jo Rabins. Thanks also to Jesse Brenneman for additional editing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed). Texts Mentioned and Additional Resources: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne Brand Civil Service by Claire Schwartz The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand Adania Shibli in conversation with Hisham Matar at the 2024 Hay Festival Adania Shibli in conversation with Madeleine Thien and Layli Long Soldier at the Barnard Center for Research on Women “Writing Against Tyranny and Toward Liberation,” Dionne Brand “Dionne Brand: Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems,” Between the Covers “Adania Shibli: Minor Detail,” Between the Covers “prologue for now - Gaza,” Dionne Brand, Jewish Currents “Duty,” Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Review of Books “A Lesson in Arabic Grammar by Toni Morrison,” Adania Shibli, Jewish Currents Inventory by Dionne Brand Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad “Isabella Hammad: Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative,” Between the...

    1 h y 8 min
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On the Nose is a biweekly podcast by Jewish Currents, a magazine of the Jewish left founded in 1946. The editorial staff discusses the politics, culture, and questions that animate today’s Jewish left.

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