Aparna Gopalan

1/ “Israel has a right to defend itself.” It’s the West’s go-to excuse for every Israeli war crime. But here’s the truth: this claim isn’t just wrong—it’s a blatant lie. Legally, morally, and logically. Let’s break it down. 🧵

Israel’s Brutality Is Stoking the Imagination of India’s Far Right As the genocide in Gaza continues, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking notes.

India's far right, looking to build a Hindu supremacist state in multicultural India, has always made common cause with Israel. Now, Modi's right-wing regime is using the war in Gaza to stoke Islamophobic hatred within its own borders. From @aparna.bsky.social:

In the coming collapse decades, "Bad stuff is about to happen, you should just leave" is going to be government policy in a lot of places

Syria. Artsakh. We have seen this before. And because these people don't matter to the world, the world watched as it happened. This doesn't end here with Palestine. The world has become far more unsafe for all of us.

Revaluing the Strike Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.

New from me at Jewish Currents - why strikes are a positive good, not a necessary evil jewishcurrents.org/revaluing-th...

"Any union that wishes to fully honor this democratic aspiration must understand any “Yes” it offers to an employer at the bargaining table as ephemeral, a temporary departure from its underlying “No” to the tyranny of capital—the “No” of the strike."

the cop city fight is one of the most important challenges to the supremacy of the security state in living memory, and the fact that they are going after it with this much repressive force shows that they know this

Thinking about this today.

For one, brief moment my feeds across the internet are just one big celebration of organized labor.

I fucking love it

Apropos of these craven Hollywood studio execs revealing that they are bargaining in bad faith & they want to starve workers out & destroy the union, here's one more chunk excerpt from the draft of my Obama/"Working" piece...

On this episode of On the Nose, Nora Caplan-Bricker speaks with @aparna.bsky.social and Azad Essa about India, Israel, and the potential for the hasbara playbook to be used by ethnonationalist movements worldwide https://jewishcurrents.org/what-indian-ethnonationalists-learned-from-israel-advocates

Climate change is disproportionately harming the child laborers. Maybe we should just tear this all down and start over

Thank you for saying what I couldn’t say (given the litigiousness of the parties)

The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook Inspired by Jewish groups that cast criticism of Israel as antisemitism, Hindu American organizations are advancing a concept of “Hinduphobia” that puts India beyond reproach.

Read every single word.

In-depth, nuanced reporting on US-based Hindu nationalist groups (e.g., HSC, HAF), their links with Zionist groups, and their far-right playbook.

Speaking of which https://jewishcurrents.org/the-hindu-nationalists-using-the-pro-israel-playbook

psst everyone follow @jewishcurrents.bsky.social !!!!!

are y’all manually finding all the people you need to follow??? Is there an import button I’m missing. this can’t be the way…