Jewish Currents Fall/Winter 2024

This issue traces the far-reaching reverberations of the continued devastation in Palestine. Our features survey the profound fissures that Israel's ongoing wars are creating within otherwise-progressive educational, political, and cultural institutions. Following these currents to academia, Mari Cohen's comprehensive report on the field of genocide studies shows how the discipline's roots Ein Holocaust scholarship have impacted its ability to recognise a genocide in Gaza. Will Alden investigates the veiled world of American philanthropy as major donors pull funding from organizations that speak out in solidarity with Palestinians. And in a collaboration with Hyperallergic, we explore a third site of institutional fracture by featuring a collection of canceled artworks-all created by pro-Palestine artists who have either been targeted for censorship or withdrawn art in protest since October 2023. In a powerful new essay, Arthur Asseraf looks to Algeria, another context much-compared to Palestine-unraveling its use as a 'model' in order to draw attention to the radical contingency of decolonization struggles. Plus an illuminating interview, fiction, reviews, Eand a comic by Chris Blackwell and Sol Brager.