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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

We interviewed Em Cohen on the state of the movement, and a question that is often our minds: why do we keep doing the same thing over and over, even when it's clearly not working? Where is the so-called u.s. left going wrong? workshops4gaza.substack.com/p/a-rethinki...

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"A Rethinking of Everything Altogether"

A Conversation with Em Cohen about the state of the movement

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Scratch a "non-zionist," a zionist bleeds.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

stop saying "zionism doesn't actually keep Jews safe." this ridiculous line de-centers the victims of zionism and centers Jewish people and "Jewish safety." It doesn't fucking matter whether zionism "keeps Jews safe" or not. It's a genocidal ideology.

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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

"Thirty-three survey respondents, and others interviewed — including former prison staff — say it is well known that the staff of Mule Creek State Prison do not drink water from the tap" theappeal.org/mule-creek-d...

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“If You Want to Live, Don’t Drink the Water”

After mystery illnesses and toxic reports, prisoners at California’s Mule Creek State Prison worry their water is killing them.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The mandate for academics in this moment is to 1) figure out how their knowledge and skills can be made useful and applicable to the movement to end colonial violence at home and abroad and 2) move as many resources out of the university as possible

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What is philosemitism? Philosemitism is the basis of post-Holocaust white euro-american identity formation where white euro-america forgives itself for the Holocaust (and for all of its past/present/future racist colonial crimes) and resurrects itself as the “protector of Jews.”

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

a lot of self-proclaimed radicals, socialists, progressives, communists, etc etc etc have allowed pandemic denialism to lead them into clear alignment with the far right.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"You can’t build a mass movement that forces everyone to mask in 2024. It’s not where the people are" Effective communist orgs don't craft their line around what they assume people (inc reactionaries) will agree with. They develop a principled line and fight to make it reality.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

rates of mask wearing at left org meetings would go up if masks were provided and the people who set up the meeting wore them. lots of people would show up, see everyone else masking, see the masks at the front, and put one on without a fuss. it's very simple.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

liberal fascists are also "single issue voters," with the single issue being "preserving the untenable neoliberal colonial status quo for just a little bit longer."

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

(actual) leftists should be really careful, over the coming months, of the liberal fascists who made clear that genocide was not a red line for them who try to join leftist organizations, groups, and direct action efforts now that trump is the president again. they are not safe.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

liberals wanted four more years of maintaining the untenable neoliberal colonial status quo when the reality of the situation facing us could not be any clearer: our options are socialism or barbarism.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

reminder that the ADL supported the Rosenbergs' executions.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Reminder: you should be wearing a well-fitting N95, KN95, or KF94 whenever you are in shared public spaces to protect yourself and the people around you from COVID-19.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

the world's nazis are all gloating and celebrating, as if their precious zionist entity is not closer to collapse than it ever has been.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

if someone in the middle of the holocaust was saying that the problem wasn't nazism itself but hitler, and that the solution was to 'hold hitler accountable' while maintaining the third reich, you would have very little trouble recognizing that person was still just a nazi.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

i don't think there is any one singular 'litmus test' for having 'good' politics. we are always seeing who people are, what their goals are, what their focus is, and what they are ignoring or unaware of. there is no end or 'passing the test.'

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

The philosemitic fascists (like the ADL, Biden, Douglas Murray, and Trudeau) and the antisemitic fascists (like David Duke, Richard Spencer, and Lucas Gage) work together and benefit from the existence of each other.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

when your genocidal blood libel served its purpose so you can stop talking about it.

Screenshot of the google trends search results for the term "beheaded babies" that shows a huge spike in the term right after October 7 that dropped to almost nothing in the weeks after and since.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

is the call 'not in our name' or 'not with our tax dollars' or is the call 'the zionist genocide must be stopped by any means necessary and all those who enabled or participated in it must be held responsible'

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

My new essay, The Only Way Out is Through emcohen.medium.com/the-only-way...

Throughout much of the white euro-american left in general and the self-described ‘anti-fascist’ movement in particular, we hear quips like “if there’s a nazi at a table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 nazis” and “anytime, anyplace, punch a nazi in the face.” Then, a Jewish person sits at the table and white euro-american anti-fascists are forced to choose between philosemitism and anti-fascism. The white euro-american anti-fascists make their choice. Suddenly we should make distinctions about those at the table or should pay special attention to their sensitivities. Suddenly there’s a wrong time and a wrong place. Suddenly we must hold our fist, we must carefully choose our words. Suddenly a nazi is not a nazi.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

you need to understand that biden is also part of "the far right."

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

I just finished writing, and rewriting, and rewriting, an essay with my reflections on antisemitism (and philosemitism) today, titled The Only Way Out is Through. I have been thinking about writing this piece for years and finally did. However, I will not publish it yet. 🧵

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

'israel' is a settler-colony founded through, and currently committing, genocide. conversations about 'Jewish safety' and whether so-called israel actually provides it are not just irrelevant but racist and dehumanizing.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

HOW TO for budding anti-fascists: 1. Get a group of friends and agree to work together on this 2. save as much footage of the UCLA zionist gang attack last night as possible. Find it from every source 3. Scour the footage for shots of faces, phones, backpacks, clothes, hair. etc

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

It feels absurd to boost an essay now, but I'm seeing repeats of the same issues that pushed me to write "On the Dangers of Fighting Antisemitism" in 2020 In it, I describe how philosemitic "anti-antisemitism" is part of a broad fascist colonial project. emcohen.medium.com/on-the-dange...

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On the Dangers of Fighting Antisemitism

“The vile, hate-filled poison of antisemitism must be condemned and confronted everywhere and anywhere it appears.”

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

the "campus antisemitism crisis" is a distraction manufactured by the people responsible for filling mass graves and the media doing what it can to cover them up

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

biden doesn't support racist colonial genocide because AIPAC gives him money. AIPAC gives him money because he supports racist colonial genocide. 50 years ago, when AIPAC was still a new org with barely any power or influence, biden was in the senate opposing integration.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

In 1941 Joseph Goebbels wrote an article titled “The Jews are Guilty!" Many of the arguments he makes in it justifying the nazi genocide of the Jews are identical to the arguments the zionists make today justifying the zionist genocide of the Palestinians. Here is a thread with some examples:

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

"gay marriage isn't legal in the Warsaw Ghetto, so the Holocaust is justified" this is how zionists sound.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

if you just sub out the proper nouns, the propaganda tactics used by nazi germany during the Holocaust are indistinguishable from those used today by nazi israel.

Demonizing the enemy is an effective technique for wartime propaganda. Hitler recognized this technique during World War I. Although most wartime propaganda demonized the political and military leaders of enemy countries, the Nazis went further. They considered all Jews—men, women, and even children—to be a deadly threat to the German people.

On posters and in speeches, newsreels, and radio programs, Nazis demonized and dehumanized European Jews. They depicted European Jews as carriers of deadly diseases such as typhus to justify segregating them in ghettos. They identified European Jews as a violent threat, calling them bandits and terrorists. Nazi propaganda held the Jews responsible for causing World War II, for which they would have to pay. All Jews, Hitler’s propagandists proclaimed, were accomplices in an international plot to enslave the non-Jewish world. Using such false claims, Nazi propaganda presented its war against Jews as a struggle between good and evil.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

IOF nazi soldiers are massacring thousands of people, murdering children, looting the valuables out of Palestinian homes and their fascist nazi supporters are spreading fascist atrocity propaganda fantasies to try to justify and enable those genocidal crimes.

Screenshot of a tweet by Aviva klompas

“the 19 Israeli women held in Gaza, are all presumed to be Following five months of sexual abuse”. Under the tweet, there’s a picture collage of 19 women.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

receiving political critique, assessing it, and making adjustments based on it should be an extremely simple and fluid process for organizers and rad movements. This is how movements grow and evolve and learn. This is how movements adapt to changing social political conditions.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

We shouldn't be judging the effectiveness of orgs or tactics based on how the state responds to them. I think about this every time people invoke heavy-handed police repression to argue something is working. It's basically letting the state decide what we do or focus on.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Our response to Bushnell's self-immolation should not be to venerate him or treat him as a superhuman/hero. Our response should be to recognize how we too are complicit and do what we can to smash the systems carrying out, supporting, and enabling fascist genocide.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

imagine a presidential candidate who was politically just like trump but who was treated with apathy rather than protest and scrutiny from liberals, so the policies would largely be the same but the public would be much more willing to ignore them and treat everything as normal.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Zionism is a genocidal colonial project in Palestine. Zionism is aligned with and maintained and armed by the global forces of white-supremacist colonialism. Zionism is also bolstered by a fascist political and social movement that operates throughout the world.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

As Mohammed El-Kurd frequently says, zionism is indefensible. This is why zionists focus on deflection and projection. This is why zionists try to deter people from even engaging by increasing the social costs associated with speaking out.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

"Unfortunately, no matter how nuanced your take, ‘condemning antisemitism’ amidst this ongoing zionist genocide is a role in the zionist genocide that the anti/philosemitic zionist forces are happy for you to play." emcohen.medium.com/stop-condemn...

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Stop “Condemning Antisemitism” Amidst Zionist Genocide

Since October 7th, zionist forces have murdered approximately 30,000 Palestinians, including 10,000 children, have dispossessed millions…

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

genuinely, the so-called 'u.s.' represents the greatest threat to the entire planet right now. from colonialism to covid to climate change, the 'u.s.' is pushing us all towards death and destruction.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

has antisemitism increased over the past three months or has the antisemitism built into white euro-american anti/philosemitic zionism over decades become more apparent/obvious? those are two different things and the difference is important.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

I don't think "Israel doesn't actually keep Jews safe" is a compelling or effective anti-zionist/pro-Palestine argument. It doesn't matter whether so-called 'israel' keeps Jews safe. If it did 'keep Jews safe,' that wouldn't justify zionist settler-colonialism and genocide.

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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

It is really important to recognize that zionists do not care whether their claims/accusations are true, they care whether their claims/accusations are effective.

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