Arielle Angel
@ArielleLAngel
Writer, editor-in-chief @JewishCurrents.
I tried to say something. I know it is not equal to this moment, but it's the best I have. jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cros…
A masterful profile by Claire Schwartz. My sense of geography expanded reading this, learning about Toronto in the 70s in the swing of Black Power, Grenada in the 80s amidst socialist revolution. Schwartz shows how Brand's work holds open possibility amid empire's enclosures
“To sustain poetry in the absence of its radical muse—left collective political action—to sustain poetry when there is no inspiration, that was my work" A profile of the poet Dionne Brand by culture editor Claire Schwartz. Now online from our fall issue.
6000 @UNRWA trucks waiting at the border to feed those hungry babies, those hungry mamas and babas, those hungry kittens on the street. 6000 trucks could feed them for three months. But your tax dollars won’t let that happen.
Every single American politician should be demanding that aid be allowed into Gaza. This is the absolute easiest call to make: People should have food. There is no excuse.
New: Brandenburg is now the second German state that made it mandatory to recognise “Israel’s right to exist” to get citizenship sueddeutsche.de/politik/antise…
This sounds like a pretty great job at a terrific magazine.
Jewish Currents is hiring an executive editor to help lead the magazine. This person is a generalist, as comfortable editing hard news as with book reviews. A penchant for long-form reported features, and great with troubleshooting difficult pieces. Link in next tweet.
In an excerpt from Edith Bruck's story "Two Empty Rooms," introduced and translated from the Italian by @bonnerjeanne, a Holocaust survivor returns to her native village. As Primo Levi writes, “nothing here is idealized, nothing is simplified.”
This is repulsive and dangerous.
🚨Israel has stripped the Palestinian-run Hebron municipality of its administrative powers over the Ibrahimi Mosque, handing it over to the Kiryat Arba settlement council. The 4th holiest mosque in Islam is now in the hands of Israeli settlers. Eyes on Al Aqsa for what comes next
“A real live Jewish woman! She used to live here.” Fiction by Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck, whose work is virtually unknown in the anglophone world, translated from the Italian and introduced by @bonnerjeanne: jewishcurrents.org/two-empty-rooms
📢Jewish Currents issue launch party coming up!📢 Join us on July 30th for a celebration of the Summer 2025 issue featuring snacks by community pop-up Queer Aperitivo, music by theoretic, and a fundraiser cocktail to benefit Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity. We'll see you there.🫒
If you're interested in what Columbia is likely to get with Project Shema, @vv1lder has you covered: jewishcurrents.org/inside-the-new…
BREAKING: @Columbia "incorporates" IHRA definition of antisemitism, appoints Title VI and VII coordinators, and announces partnerships with ADL, Project Shema, Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, and Kalaniyot. They will also no longer meet with CUAD. Nice gestures -- I support…
Darryl's essay really helped me think differently about the interrelation of international law and armed struggle. Highly recommended read!
I wrote for @JewishCurrents about the history of international law and the question of Palestine, and the bloodstained lever that is armed struggle jewishcurrents.org/the-gavel-and-…
Two Palestinians were lynched by settlers. NYT calls it a “clash”, using Israeli military terminology. BS. Reading the article you wouldn’t know the settlers had stolen the family lands of these young men, that they were marching to their lands in protest, that the settlers…
Horrific day in Gaza today. Worse than previous days, and those were already hell. Bloody massacres across the Gaza Strip. Fire belts. A large number of children slaughtered. The death toll has already exceeded 130 and is still rising.
Lander says one of the ICE agents who arrested him told him his wife wanted him to quit his job but he wasn't sure because he needed to pay off his mortgage. The other one asked what Mamdani was like in person and said he was considering ranking him.
On the new episode of On the Nose, @PeterBeinart talks to @bradlander about his principled cross-endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, and the line between “fighters and folders” in the Democratic Party.