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Jennifer Loewenstein

Jennifer Loewenstein is a human rights activist and member of Amnesty International's Young Leadership Group, The Arms Control Association, the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance, the Tucson Samaritans, Standing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and Palestine Chronicle. She is an independent researcher and a freelance journalist and is the former Associate Director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Associate Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Native American Studies. Jennifer currently lives and works in Tucson, Arizona. She can be reached at sarinj111@gmail.com

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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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