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      Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?
    • We Should Not Be Shocked That the Alleged Minnesota Shooter’s Christian School Is Connected to Political Violence
      We Should Not Be Shocked That the Alleged Minnesota Shooter’s Christian School Is Connected to Political Violence
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      Musk v Trump: No matter who wins, the American people lose
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      ‘Remigration’ is American for ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
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      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
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    • Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?
      Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?
    • We Should Not Be Shocked That the Alleged Minnesota Shooter’s Christian School Is Connected to Political Violence
      We Should Not Be Shocked That the Alleged Minnesota Shooter’s Christian School Is Connected to Political Violence
    • On the ‘Violent-Prayer-a-Day’ Christian Education of Dr. Vance Boelter, Alleged Killer of Minnesota Democrats
      On the ‘Violent-Prayer-a-Day’ Christian Education of Dr. Vance Boelter, Alleged Killer of Minnesota Democrats
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    • We Should Not Be Shocked That the Alleged Minnesota Shooter’s Christian School Is Connected to Political Violence
      We Should Not Be Shocked That the Alleged Minnesota Shooter’s Christian School Is Connected to Political Violence
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      On the ‘Violent-Prayer-a-Day’ Christian Education of Dr. Vance Boelter, Alleged Killer of Minnesota Democrats
    • Praying for God to Snuff Out Judges in the Name of Revival 
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Shane Burley

Shane Burley is the author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017). His work has appeared in The Baffler, The Independent, Jacobin, Truthout, In These Times, Commune, Alternet, and Waging Nonviolence.

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Archive, Books, Israel-Palestine, New BooksMay 23, 2025

For Times Such as These: Sacred Time and Radical Community Building in the Diaspora

By Shane Burley

While Jewish history is so often recounted as a linear pathway—usually pointing toward and ending…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Election 2024, Israel-Palestine, Media Analysis, OMFG, Politics/LawNovember 3, 2024

The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right

By Shane Burley

When the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual Antisemitism Audit was released in April, its claim of…

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Archive, Israel-Palestine, Media Analysis, OMFGFebruary 6, 2024

Why Antisemitism is an Insufficient (and Risky) Explanation for Hamas’s October 7 Attack on Israel

By Shane Burley

Amidst a recent layover, my phone pinged to indicate I’d been “mentioned” on Twitter, which…

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Archive, Books, Christian Nationalism, New Books, OMFG, Politics/Law, The Public EyeJanuary 5, 2024

‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy’ Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

By Shane Burley

“As far as I’m concerned, I’m done with this,” investigative reporter David Neiwert told us,…

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Archive, Books, Israel-Palestine, OMFG, Racial JusticeOctober 11, 2023

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

“I think the [Palestinian] village of Huwara needs to be wiped out. I think the…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeDecember 6, 2022

Trans Talmud: Could a 1,500-Year-Old Book Have Any Relevance to The Struggle for Trans Equality and Liberation?

By Shane Burley

To many, last month’s brutal attack on a queer nightclub in Colorado Springs, in which…

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Archive, Books, Racial JusticeDecember 17, 2021

Do Make Trouble: The Complex World of Radical Jewish ‘Revenge Theologian,’ Meir Kahane

By Shane Burley

Montclair High School recently found itself embroiled in a controversy of its own making when…

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