In response to the recent review of ‘Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the U.S. to End the Vietnam War,’ reader Mark Satinoff asked for clarification of author Fred Halstead’s views on the problem of trying to organize “multi-issue” organizations against the war. This “Discussion with Our Readers” column responds to Satinoff’s questions, providing some additional material on the subject.
World-Outlook (W-O) recently published the article “‘Jewish Jihad’ Has Seized Control of Israel.” It consisted of an introduction to a Haaretz article along with the Israeli daily’s story itself. Two World-Outlook readers expressed discomfort or outright disagreement with the “Jewish Jihad” term in the headline. In this Discussion with Our Readers column, W-O explains why it agreed with the criticism and changed the headline.
Does the victory in overthrowing the racist apartheid system in South Africa hold valuable lessons for the Palestinian national liberation struggle, and more broadly, today? This discussion with our readers column takes up this question.
This is a discussion with our readers column on the Palestinian national liberation struggle and lessons from the movement to overthrow the racist apartheid regime in South Africa.
This is a Discussion with Readers column on the character of the October 7 attack on Israel led by Hamas. “I’ve noticed that you keep referring to the Hamas Oct 7 attack as ‘gruesome,’” Meryl Lynn Lombardi wrote. “Why would this be needed in the face of the over 18,000 murdered Palestinians, nothing but genocide and ethnic cleansing. And the wholesale destruction of Gaza.” World-Outlook’s editors explain why they do not think that the attack by Hamas has become less gruesome because Israel — with its exponentially greater military power — has outdone Hamas in barbarity.
This is a Discussion with Readers column on the views of Marxist scholar Isaac Detutscher on Jew hatred and the Palestinian national liberation struggle.
This discussion-with-our-readers column takes up questions on plea bargaining and where do the prevailing ideas in society come from. These questions from World-Outlook readers arose from facts and opinions expressed in the news analysis “Trump Indictment: What Are the Issues?”
In two letters to the editor a reader asked World-Outlook to clarify our use of the term “Bonapartism” in the December 15, 2022, article “What Do U.S. Midterm Elections Reveal?” This “Discussion with our readers” column includes the letters and our reply.