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Shane Burley

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.

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Religion Dispatches
Montclair High School recently found itself embroiled in a controversy of its own making when it decided to honor the late Rabbi Meir Kahane as part of its Jewish Heritage Month communication, a…
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Political Research Associates
Author Q&A with Kathleen Belew
Shane Burley talks to Kathleen Belew about the book she coedited: A Field Guide to White Supremacy. They discuss the broader picture of White supremacy, the definitional work missing in reporting, and community-based solutions to far-right violence.
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Political Research Associates
A Q&A with Scholar Cas Mudde
The unique dynamics of the occupation of the West Bank, the political and territorial erasure of Palestinians, and the conflicted history of Zionism renders Israeli right-wing politics both unique and unstable.
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