Louis Nayman

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Mar 31, 2015, 10:15 PM

Mud Wrestling With Hamas: 8 Rules for Online Combatants

I spent the better part of a day recently exchanging online missives with Chicago-based pro-Hamas hate-site host and internet troll Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the notorious Jew-hating electronic intifada. What started out as an offhand spontaneous comment on a...

Feb 25, 2015, 3:34 AM

U.S. Universities Training Iranian Scientists: What Could Go Wrong?

Once the university’s plans became public, a coalition of campus activists and supporters in Massachusetts mobilized to pressure the administration to reverse its proposed admissions policy affecting 23 Iranian nationals seeking to study nuclear engineering the following fall. Following...

Jan 15, 2015, 6:56 PM

Was the Charlie Hebdo/Hyper Cacher Massacre ‘Blowback’ for the Sins of the West?

It’s been more than week since the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher Paris kosher market in Paris, and the usually outspoken voices of the U.S. left have yet to issue an unqualified condemnation of radical Islamic...

Jun 19, 2014, 2:02 PM

Bubbe’s Pot Mitzvah: A Vaping Guide for Kosher Boomers

Stuck on what to get Bubbe and Zaydee for their Golden Anniversary? Looking for a sure-fire way to secure your place in the will? The gift of a portable electronic pot vaporizer just might do the trick. Don’t confuse portable...

May 3, 2014, 5:26 PM

Roger Waters to Rolling Stones: Anywhere But Israel

So Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters, and sidekick Nick Mason, in a Salon blog post criticize the Rolling Stones for scheduling a show in Tel Aviv, calling it “the moral equivalent of playing Sun City at the height of...

Jan 4, 2014, 8:46 PM

Unsolicited advice from a Jewish refugee to Palestinian and Israeli negotiators

My family didn’t have two nickels to rub together, couldn’t speak English, and had no immediate relatives to count on when the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society resettled us in July 1949 from Germany to a small manufacturing city in...

Dec 17, 2013, 3:05 PM

With Israel boycott in the bag, American Studies Association trains sights on the U.S.

Washington, D.C., December 17, 2013. The American Studies Association -- the professional organization for professors, academic researchers and writers in the discipline of American Studies – announced today that by an overwhelming margin its membership voted to adopt an...

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About Me

Louis Nayman, a labor union organizer for more than 30 years, has conducted education and training programs for trade unionists in Poland, Russia, Romania, Palestine and Lebanon. His writing has appeared in Tablet Magazine and In These Times.