While Jewish history is so often recounted as a linear pathway — usually pointing toward and ending with the creation of the State of Israel — it’s easy to forget that it’s a tradition of cycles. The…
Shane Burley is a writer and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on A form of far-right populist ultra-nationalism that celebrates the nation or the race as transcending all other loyalties. Learn more , Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), and the editor of the forthcoming anthology ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis. His work is featured at places such as NBC News, The Daily Beast, The Independent, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, Haaretz, Tikkun, The Baffler, Bandcamp Daily, Truthout, and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. He is also the editor of a special issue of the Journal of Social Justice on “Antisemitism in the 21st Century.” He is currently working on two books, one on radical approaches to A form of oppression targeting Jews and those perceived to be Jewish, including bigoted speech, violent acts, and discriminatory policy. Learn more and another on the history of antifascism and popular struggle.
