Category Archives: Jewish Currents

Princeton Students Voted to Boycott Machinery Used by Israel.…

(This article originally appeared in the Jewish Currents email newsletter; subscribe here!) AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY last week, undergraduates voted on a referendum to boycott Caterpillar, a manufacturer of machinery used by the Israeli government. Read more » »

Our Oligarch

In the first 48 hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Roman Abramovich, the 55-year-old close confidante of Russian President Vladimir Putin, boarded his personal Boeing jet in Monaco bound for Moscow. Read more » »

The Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid: An Explainer

(This article originally appeared in the Jewish Currents email newsletter; subscribe here!) LAST TUESDAY, Amnesty International, one of the most prominent human rights groups in the world, published a report with a blunt conclusion: Israel maintains Read more » »

Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return

IN APRIL, when Joe Biden announced that he would restore US funding for The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides education, health care, and other services to Palestinian refugees, establishment American Jewish groups reacted with dismay. Read more » »