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Jennifer Loewenstein

Jennifer Loewenstein is a human rights activist and freelance journalist. She was formerly (now retired) Associate Director of Middle Eastern Studies and Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Red Lines and Rockets: Reframing the War on Gaza

Red Lines and Rockets: Reframing the War on Gaza

Jennifer Loewenstein

Madison, Wisconsin (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Barely a day after Iran fired drones, cruise, and ballistic missiles westward across the desert skies towards Israel, in response to Israel’s attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander, Hossein Salami, issued the following statement: “From now on, if Israel attacks Iranian […]

Israel Lobbies
How Glib charges of "Anti-Semitism" at every Human Rights Report on Israel undermines Jewish Civil Rights

How Glib charges of “Anti-Semitism” at every Human Rights Report on Israel undermines Jewish Civil Rights

Jennifer Loewenstein

Madison, Wi. (Special to Informed Comment) – The unqualified branding of people, organizations, reports, and movements as “anti-Semitic” for their criticism of Israel is having a boomerang effect. Labeling every condemnation of Israel as “anti-Semitism” silences those whose voices are most needed. The repeated charge of anti-Semitism debases its actual meaning—and provides cover for those […]

Israel/ Palestine
Forging Greater Israel:  The Annexation of Palestine isn't one Event, it is Ongoing

Forging Greater Israel: The Annexation of Palestine isn’t one Event, it is Ongoing

Jennifer Loewenstein

Tucson, AZ (Special to Informed Comment) – July 1st came and went and Netanyahu made no formal statement regarding annexation. That left many journalists, politicians, activists, and others feeling abandoned to speculation. Declarations of support or opposition went forward accompanied by an air of uncertainty and the frustration of trying to second guess the objectives […]

African-Americans
From Mississippi to Minneapolis: Not just Breathing but Breathing Free

From Mississippi to Minneapolis: Not just Breathing but Breathing Free

Jennifer Loewenstein

Tucson, Az. (Informed Comment) – In the early morning hours of August 28th, 1955, two white men burst into the Mississippi home of Moses Wright where 14-year-old Emmett Till slept. Till had come down from Chicago to visit his cousins and was accused of having flirted with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, while at a […]

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