Posts Tagged ‘Judith Butler’
Welding the Gates of Dachau or Jewish Exceptionalism? Rachel Mars, Vashti and The Politics of Cultural Banality
Roger Water’s Berlin Concert demonstrates how Political Culture can be subversive Pickle is the weekly newsletter of alternative Jewish cultural group Vashti, which was founded in 2019 by Rivka Brown of Novara Media which supported the ‘anti-Semitism’ witchhunt. The group claims that it stands in opposition to the existing leadership of British Jews but does it? Vashti is one of a number…
Read MoreThe Israeli occupation is un-Jewish – Judith Butler
An article well worth reading from some who is called an ‘academic superstar’. A member of Jewish Voices for Peace and a supporter of BDS, Judith Butler argues from the basis that Zionism is inherently un-Jewish. I’m not sure I agree with her thesis, because Judaism historically has comprised many different, often antagonistic things from…
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