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Em Cohen

@emcohen.bsky.social
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writing about philosemitism, zionism, antisemitism. constantly thinking about Jews. emcohen.medium.com

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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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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Save your "condemnations." medium.com/@emcohen/sto...
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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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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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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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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
the shift in white euro-america from hegemonic antisemitism to hegemonic philosemitism has created a dynamic where “fighting antisemitism” doesn't mean working towards a world that's safe for Jews but pushing forward zionism in particular and colonial white supremacy in general.
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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
and this is exactly what is happening when "liberal" and "progressive" zionists specifically craft their rhetoric to place the blame on netanyahu rather than zionism and the very existence of the zionist state itself..
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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
They both want to preserve and protect the white supremacist world. They both reinforce the perpetual Jewish 'other.' They both fundamentally agree with the 14 words. They both believe in the nazi project of ‘western civilization.’
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
The seeming 'disagreements' between the philosemitic fascists and the antisemitic fascists are over method and timeline, not program.
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
The antisemitic fascists use these efforts as proof that the world is secretly ruled by Jews, justify nazi race science, and simultaneously obfuscate white euro-american colonialism.
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
The philosemitic fascists use the existence of the antisemitic fascists to justify expanding the police and surveillance apparatus, strengthen repression efforts, legally codify zionist ‘antisemitism’ definitions, and make rhetorical connections to the anti-zionist movement.
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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
Please contribute to this, it is extremely urgent. chuffed.org/project/1087...
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Family of Four Fleeing to Safety
If you would like to avoid paying credit card fees, donate via CashApp (https://cash.app/$TaleedElSabawi) or Zelle (taleedsabawi@gmail.com). Please write: "Family4" in the note or subject. I will manu...
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Thank you for letting me know!
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
and just to increase the chances you will see this and feel compelled to actually contribute, thanks to an anonymous donor, every amount donated will be matched (until the match hits 1500 dollars).
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
If you have read any of my writing over the years, and possibly even found some of it helpful, I ask you to contribute to this fund, urgently. I think this essay is important and am excited to share it with you all but will wait to do so until this fund reaches its goal.
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
This family of four was displaced from their homes in Gaza by the zionist genocide and the father, a school teacher, is in dire need of medical care. They are fundraising to flee to safety but their fundraiser is stuck at 94% complete.
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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
it's the middle of the holocaust and people are writing threads about how the third reich doesn't actually provide safety for aryans. WHO FUCKING CARES?
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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
Another tip: don't just compile footage of the actual fascist attacks. compile footage from the entire night. A fascist who was covering their face while carrying out an attack may not have been covering their face an hour earlier when standing around with their friends.
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
- Do some research into privacy tools, TOR, VPNS, cryptpad etc. if you are not already familiar - Only do this with people you deeply TRUST You will be AMAZED at how much information you can figure out with just some elbow grease and dedicated online sleuthing.
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
The priority right now should be collecting AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE. Over the next few hours, days, weeks, many of these fascists thugs will be deleting footage, deleting social media, going private. Time is of the essence.
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
their friends probably liked the videos or commented. 6. Write and anonymously publish a document that exposes their names, addresses, photos, workplaces. 7. Organize phone zaps and neighborhood flyering campaigns to their workplaces. 8. Make their life hell.
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
4. Start building a database with ANY identifiable information on the fascist nazi thugs. 5. Search social media to try to connect names to faces. These fascists probably are on social media, they probably posted videos of themselves and their friends.
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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
and if you do read (either of) these essays, and find them helpful, I ask you to consider contributing to this gf, which is sitting at just over 50%. www.gofundme.com/f/escape-gaz...
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Help me and my family to escape from Gaza war!, organized by Thaer Inshasi
I hope this message finds you well and warm, My name is Thaer Inshasi, I… Thaer Inshasi needs your support for Help me and my family to escape from Gaza war!
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Em Cohen @emcohen.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
I would also like to boost my essay "Jewish Fear in a Zionist Unreality." In it, I describe how 'Jewish fear' is produced and then used by the global forces of philosemitic fascism to justify anti-Blackness, Islamophobia, and colonialism. emcohen.medium.com/jewish-fear-...
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Jewish Fear in a Zionist Unreality
And How We Can Move Forward
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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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