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After October 7 : A Jewish Currents Reader
This past fall, as we abandoned our planned coverage and focused all our attention on the unprecedented crisis in Israel/Palestine, it quickly became clear to us that our Winter issue would need to break the mold. As many have said, history didn’t start on October 7th—and we felt that our offering to you in this moment shouldn’t either. To that end, After October 7: A Jewish Currents Reader is a book-length anthology featuring a selection of pieces from our archive that foreground the often-obscured context for this continuing catastrophe—with exclusive new introductions by the Jewish Currents staff—alongside a number of pieces published online in the weeks following October 7th.
In these pages, you’ll find pieces from the Jewish Currents archive by Noura Erakat and John Reynolds, Yousef Munayyer, Hannah Black, Peter Beinart, and many more, as well as more recent dispatches from the West Bank and Gaza, and reporting, commentary, and poetry from Jewish Currents staff and contributors.
While we do not know what will emerge from this moment, it is clear that any just future will require reckoning with the horrors of the present and all that led us here. We hope that this compilation will be a resource for the years and struggles to come.
(Vol. 77, No. 3)
In these pages, you’ll find pieces from the Jewish Currents archive by Noura Erakat and John Reynolds, Yousef Munayyer, Hannah Black, Peter Beinart, and many more, as well as more recent dispatches from the West Bank and Gaza, and reporting, commentary, and poetry from Jewish Currents staff and contributors.
While we do not know what will emerge from this moment, it is clear that any just future will require reckoning with the horrors of the present and all that led us here. We hope that this compilation will be a resource for the years and struggles to come.
(Vol. 77, No. 3)
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2024
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About the author
Noura Erakat
19 books214 followersNoura Erakat is a is a Palestinian-American activist, university professor, legal scholar, and human rights attorney.
Her research interests include human rights law, humanitarian law, national security law, refugee law, social justice, and critical race theory.
She is the author of Justice for Some: Law as Politics in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019).
She is currently an associate professor at Rutgers University, specializing in international studies and is a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge.
Erakat earned her J.D. and undergraduate degrees from the University of California at Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa) and a LLM in National Security from Georgetown University Law Center (Distinction & Dean’s List).
She currently serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies; on the board of the Arab Studies Institute; is a Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka; serves of the Editorial Committee of the Journal for Palestine Studies; and is a founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival.
Erakat has appeared on CBS News, CNN International with Becky Anderson, CNN with Don Lemon, MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes,” "All In With Chris Hayes," "Ronan Farrow Daily," Fox’s “The O’ Reilly Factor,” NBC’s “Politically Incorrect,” PBS News Hour, NPR, BBC World Service, Democracy Now, and Al-Jazeera America, Arabic, and English. Her publications have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Review of Books, The LA Times, The Nation, USA Today, The Hill, Foreign Policy, Jezebel, Al Ahram English, Al Shabaka, MERIP, Fair Observer, Middle East Eye, The Interdependent, IntLawGrrls, The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, and Jadaliyya.
Erakat's scholarly publications include: “US v. ICRC: Customary International Humanitarian Law and Universal Jurisdiction” in the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy; "New Imminence in the Time of Obama: The Impact of Targeted Killings on the Law of Self-Defense" in the Arizona Law Review; and "Overlapping Refugee Legal Regimes: Closing the Protection Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement," in the Oxford Journal of International Refugee Law. Her multimedia productions include the Black Palestinian Solidarity video and website as well as the Gaza In Context Pedagogical Project, featuring a short documentary.
Her research interests include human rights law, humanitarian law, national security law, refugee law, social justice, and critical race theory.
She is the author of Justice for Some: Law as Politics in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019).
She is currently an associate professor at Rutgers University, specializing in international studies and is a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge.
Erakat earned her J.D. and undergraduate degrees from the University of California at Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa) and a LLM in National Security from Georgetown University Law Center (Distinction & Dean’s List).
She currently serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies; on the board of the Arab Studies Institute; is a Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka; serves of the Editorial Committee of the Journal for Palestine Studies; and is a founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival.
Erakat has appeared on CBS News, CNN International with Becky Anderson, CNN with Don Lemon, MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes,” "All In With Chris Hayes," "Ronan Farrow Daily," Fox’s “The O’ Reilly Factor,” NBC’s “Politically Incorrect,” PBS News Hour, NPR, BBC World Service, Democracy Now, and Al-Jazeera America, Arabic, and English. Her publications have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Review of Books, The LA Times, The Nation, USA Today, The Hill, Foreign Policy, Jezebel, Al Ahram English, Al Shabaka, MERIP, Fair Observer, Middle East Eye, The Interdependent, IntLawGrrls, The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, and Jadaliyya.
Erakat's scholarly publications include: “US v. ICRC: Customary International Humanitarian Law and Universal Jurisdiction” in the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy; "New Imminence in the Time of Obama: The Impact of Targeted Killings on the Law of Self-Defense" in the Arizona Law Review; and "Overlapping Refugee Legal Regimes: Closing the Protection Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement," in the Oxford Journal of International Refugee Law. Her multimedia productions include the Black Palestinian Solidarity video and website as well as the Gaza In Context Pedagogical Project, featuring a short documentary.
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October 17, 2025
I picked this up from a stack rather skeptically. I learned SO MUCH. I was mad a lot. The issue got older as time passed. Some of the entries predated October 7.
It felt, at times, less intense than reading the news because it was stuck in time—historic. It’s anachronistic though too, and that is unsettling. The themes feel timeless and quotidian.
It felt, at times, less intense than reading the news because it was stuck in time—historic. It’s anachronistic though too, and that is unsettling. The themes feel timeless and quotidian.
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