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Diasporism joins those who see borders as lines to cross. Who seek the memory or possibility or value of motion, fluidity, and multiple vision.
The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (2007)
We cannot be dutiful and creative at the same moment. This doesn't mean the alternatives are either a slavish political correctness or total inattention to political issues and consequences.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
If we could start working together before we trust, understand, or like each other, we might learn to…Perhaps we need to engage, even in uncertainty, and work out issues as they arise.
anti-Semitism has sometimes masqueraded as a disdain for identity politics.
It seems to me to be fully alive is to seek justice. Otherwise, what's the point?...Why should anyone read a book by someone who doesn't care about justice?
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
Identity politics of all kinds do contain an inherent potential not only for victim-competition but for splintering movements into 1000 groups whose members at last feel sufficiently the same: comfy but not a powerful resource.
The more the Israeli and Palestinian movements come into communication and coordination, the more possible peace seems. (p 110)
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
As long as we cherish the creativity of ordinary women and value what women themselves have valued, we center exactly on the passionately egalitarian vision named in "women's liberation."
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
Anyone who has heard-as I have-Jew-hating remarks said to her face because to the speaker she didn't look Jewish knows both the survival value and the knife twist of passing.
the nature of the Jewish people on the face of this earth has been totally transformed in the past 45 years
one task in creating a culture is to reclaim what one ought to have learned but that somehow went by and was lost.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
'the white man's burden' was a polite name for imperialism.
consider that your ultimate goal may not be quantitative.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
Why have so many radicals been impermeable to a pro-Jewish analysis and activity? Why are we getting the message that many of our erstwhile political comrades and sisters-including Jews-think it contradictory to be a radical Jew?
True coalition is not a smattering of tokens. True coalition forms between groups, the premise is that each group has a strong base in a larger community. Thus Jews who want to work in coalition need not only to know who we are but to be bonded with other Jews.
Few have written about the joy of political life, the sense of comradeship and achievement. As activists we need to believe in vision and imagination; communicate a sense of possibility. Bleakness is not the whole story, and escape is not the only alternative. Change is possible.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
gentiles persecuted the Jews for thousands of years before the Nazis got efficient at it
Some Notes on Jewish Lesbian Identity (1980)
what is best in people is not self-abnegation. What is best in people is a sturdy connection between respect for the self and respect for the other: reaching in and out at the same time
War reduces things to a very simple level. Maybe this is why patriarchy likes war: the simplicity of it. The longing for good guys and bad guys, the goal-directed win-or-lose male adventure-and of course for this country it's almost always been win.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
Perhaps we need to engage, even in uncertainty, and work out issues as they arise...If we could start working together before we trust, understand, or like each other, we might learn to.