New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era by Daniel Czitrom, a Mount Holyoke College historian, is the.
Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College....
As an active member of Jewish Voice for Peace, I have been energized and heartened by the recent local protests calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, a negotiated settlement to the hostage crisis, and justice for the Palestinian people.
I’ve seen a large number of concerned and committed people at the Northampton roundabout and City Hall “die-in” demonstrations, reflecting the growing opposition here and around the world to U.S. policy in the Mideast.
Yet despite the occasional criticisms of Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership voiced by President Joe Biden and other administration figures, America continues its massive military aid to Israel, enabling the unconscionable slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians.
Ever since the appalling and reprehensible Oct. 7 attack by Hamas — one that massacred innocent civilians — American news media outlets and political figures have framed the conflict largely as a narrow binary choice.
Either one “stands with Israel” or suppo