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On the Nose

On the Nose

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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.Copyright 2026 Jewish Currents Judentum Politik & Regierungen Sozialwissenschaften Spiritualität
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  • The Inheritance of Defeat

    The Inheritance of Defeat
    Oct 29 2026

    From the Shoah to McCarthyism to the failures of the New Left, it has been a long 20th century for radical Jews. Each new iteration of the Jewish left finds itself building on a legacy that has been largely buried, learning from a history of defeat at the hands of much more powerful forces. Given those losses, what do we inherit from both our movement ancestors and our actual kin? How does their example shape the way we organize in the present? Are there models from which we might learn? Or must we create something new for every new moment? On this episode of On the Nose, recorded live from a panel at Jewish Currents Live on October 11th, Arielle Angel tackles these questions with artist and writer Molly Crabapple, author Harriet Clark, and poet and activist Irena Klepfisz.

    Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for editing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”

    Links and Further Reading

    “The Hill,” On the Nose, Jewish Currents

    “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” On the Nose, Jewish Currents

    “For Eli Jacobson” by Kenneth Rexroth

    “Beyond Grievance,” Arielle Angel, Jewish Currents

    “The Work of Love in Recollecting One Who is Dead,” Sören Kierkegaard, Works of Love
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    51 Min.
  • The Impact of American Zionism on American Islamophobia

    The Impact of American Zionism on American Islamophobia
    Oct 22 2026

    Seasons of Fury, a new book by the journalist Rozina Ali, tells a sweeping history of American Islamophobia through narrative reporting on four American Muslim families with varied backgrounds. The book reveals that American Zionism is integral to the story of anti-Muslim bias in the US. The legal structures for surveilling and criminalizing Muslims originated in US officials’ preoccupation with Palestinian militants in the 20th century, and Zionist organizations have been key participants in a broad civil society ecosystem pushing Islamophobia in the American mainstream. In this episode of On the Nose, senior politics editor Mari Cohen guest hosts to interview Ali about the book and her findings. They discuss how the targeting of Arab activists morphed into anti-Muslim sentiment; how the definition of terrorism changed in the 20th century and came to be associated with Islam; how the Anti-Defamation League has abetted Islamophobia; and how antisemitism and Islamophobia are pitted against each other in American politics.

    Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for editing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”

    Links and Further Reading

    Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America by Rozina Ali

    Disciplining Terror by Lisa Stampnitzky

    “Painful memory for Muslims: Outrage over a proposed Islamic center in Manhattan,” Anne Barnard, New York Times

    The Feeling of Being Watched by Assia Boundaoui

    “How the ADL’s Anti-Palestinian Advocacy Helped Shape U.S. Terror Laws,” Darryl Li, The Intercept

    ADL amicus brief in Humanitarian Law Project vs. Holder

    “Jewish Communities Must Root Out Islamophobia,” Donna Nevel, Jewish Currents

    “When ‘Jewish Security’ Meets Muslim Surveillance,” Asad Dandia, Jewish Currents

    ADL changes its tune on mosques, Justin Elliott, Salon

    The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State by Emmaia Gelman
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    56 Min.
  • Fact Versus Fiction in Claims About Antisemitism in Publishing

    Fact Versus Fiction in Claims About Antisemitism in Publishing
    Oct 8 2026
    On July 9th, PEN America published an article called “A Silent Moratorium,” which asserts that Jewish and Israeli writers face “blatant hostility, discrimination, and hate” and attempts to chart the “impact on their freedom of expression.” The PEN article affirms a narrative advanced across Jewish media and mainstream press alike that—as the headline of a piece by James Kirchick in The New York Times put it—“a chill has fallen over Jews in publishing” amid the war on Gaza. The article has since been joined by other attempts to quantify the damage to Jewish letters: An article by the writer Meg Keene attempted to provide data to support the claim of a precipitous dropoff in Jewish books since 2023. The ADL recently added another report to the pile.Last week, we published a report written by Josh Lambert, director of Jewish studies at Wellesley College, and Dan Sinykin, director of graduate studies at Emory University—both researchers of publishing history, with expertise between them in contemporary Jewish literature and quantitative literary studies. The piece took on the claims of the PEN America article, about which they wrote, “Digging into its anecdotal reports of abandonment by agents and missing book deals, online harassment and review-bombing, we found that many of the claims were too vague to qualify as evidence, and that many accounts . . . turn out to be imprecise at best and entirely false at worst.” They also examined Keene’s data and ran some of their own; it turns out the picture of the number of Jewish titles being published looks very different with a more solid methodology.On this episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel speaks with Lambert and Sinykin about what these accounts of anti-Jewish sentiment in publishing got wrong, and what it means about the current market for both Zionist and anti-Zionist books.Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for editing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”Links and Further Reading“What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing,” Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin, Jewish Currents“A Silent Moratorium,” PEN America“I gathered the data on Jewish fiction publishing. The trends are alarming.,” Meg Keene, JTAADL report on antisemitism in publishingJosh Lambert’s Jewish book column, “State of the Genre”Hunting in America by Tehila Hakimi“I'm not happy about it, but I wrote about PEN.,” Josh Lambert’s SubstackChad Post and the 3% rule “A Bookshop Cancels an Event Over a Rabbi’s Zionism, Prompting Outrage,” Ginia Bellafante, The New York Times“Examining the ADL’s Antisemitism Audit,” Shane Burley and Naomi Bennet, Jewish CurrentsThe Rehearsal, Nathan FielderErasure by Percival Everett“Repetition and Solipsism in the ‘Israel Debate’ Play,” On the Nose, Jewish Currents“An Open Letter to the Jewish Book Council From a Concerned Group of Jewish Writers,” Literary HubRegister for JC Live!Register for the New Jewish Institutions Skill-building Boot Camp!Transcript forthcoming.
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    1 Std. und 8 Min.
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