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New books by Jewish authors revisit the rules of protest in a polarized era | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · 🇷🇺 public Russia · · 1911 words · By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL; JTA
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In the crowded canon of books about how to change the world, few loom as large as Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” Published in 1971, the manual distilled decades of organizing wisdom into what Alinsky, a seasoned organizer on behalf of better housing,…

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In the crowded canon of books about how to change the world, few loom as large as Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” Published in 1971, the manual distilled decades of organizing wisdom into what Alinsky, a seasoned organizer on behalf of better housing,…

Why it matters

More than half a century later, a new mini-genre of “how-to” books about dissent and activism has emerged, drawing lessons from past protests for the era of “No Kings” rallies, Black Lives Matter marches, and the campus pro-Palestinian encampments.

Common ground

Coincidentally but intriguingly, three of these books were written by Jewish authors who, explicitly or implicitly, offer advice on resistance, drawing on Jewish wisdom, role models, and historical precedents.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Claim 1: “Beckerman's first book, “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone,” a history of the Soviet Jewry movement”
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Multiple web search results confirm Gal Beckerman wrote 'When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone' and describe it as a history of the Soviet Jewry movement.
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web search NEUTRAL — Press, praise & reviews for when they come for us we’LL be gone. “Fresh, surprising and exceedingly well-researched…Beckerman wants to ensure that the story of this epic struggle isn’t forgotten, and …
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web search NEUTRAL — Gal Beckerman is a writer and editor at The New York Times Book Review and a regular contributor to the New Republic and the Wall Street Journal. He has a PhD in media studies from Columbia University…
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web search NEUTRAL — Gal Beckerman?s comprehensive history of the popular movement to save Soviet Jews in the latter half of the 20th century is the winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award, the Jewish Book Council ann…
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Claim 2: “Fields-Meyer, 31”
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Claim 3: “Angwin, 55”
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Claim 4: “Angwin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who writes about business and tech”
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The provided search results are about the Julia programming language, not the journalist Julia Angwin.
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web search NEUTRAL — As a high-level language, distinctive aspects of Julia's design include a type system with parametric polymorphism, the use of multiple dispatch as a core programming paradigm, just-in-time compilatio…
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web search NEUTRAL — Julia was designed for high performance. Julia programs automatically compile to efficient native code via LLVM, and support multiple platforms. Julia is dynamically typed, feels like a scripting lang…
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web search NEUTRAL — Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic language for technical computing. The main homepage for Julia can be found at julialang.org. This is the GitHub repository of Julia source code, includi…
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Claim 5: “Tabarovsky, who has studied antisemitism as a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Institute and is a senior fellow at the Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities”
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Claim 6: “Fields-Meyer, a senior adviser in the Biden White House”
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Claim 7: “Beckerman's previous book, “The Quiet Before,” was about how radical ideas become public social movements.”
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Multiple web search results confirm Gal Beckerman wrote 'The Quiet Before' and describe it as an exploration of how radical ideas incubate and spread/become public social movements.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Following the 1917 February Revolution in Russia, all legal restrictions on Russian Jews were lifted. However, the previous legacy of antisemitism was continued and furthered by the Soviet state, espe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Coate (born January 17, 1951) is an American media executive and advocate for online communities. He was one of the original members of The Farm, an intentional community founded in 1971, and bro…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, normally shortened to The WELL or The Well, is a virtual community founded in 1985. It is one of the oldest continuously operating virtual communities. By 1993 it had …
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Claim 8: “three of these books were written by Jewish authors: “How to Be a Dissident” by Gal Beckerman; the forthcoming “On Courage” by Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer; and “Be a Refusenik!” by Izabella Tabarovsky”
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The web search results provided for this claim are about 'galgames' (Japanese video games) and are completely irrelevant to the authors and books mentioned.
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web search NEUTRAL — 什么是galgame 在华语圈语境下的「galgame」一词经常被近似等同于「美少女游戏」使用。维基中对「美少女游戏」的介绍为：一种可以与动画美少女进行互动的日本电子游戏。 Galgame的组成可能包含文本、画面、音乐、配音、系统、游戏性等要素，其中至少也得有文本、画面和系统。美少女元素是galgame ...
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web search NEUTRAL — 最后，把黄油开除出Gal界的一律算异端！ Gal不是什么纯洁不可玷污的东西，95%的Gal都是黄油——I社的黄油是Gal，DLsite上那一众RPGMaker黄油是Gal，传统ADV里的那些拔作是Gal，某些三消小游戏也可以是Gal。
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web search NEUTRAL — 希望能对大家支持自己喜欢的Galgame有一个方便的途径。本问题已加入圆桌：Galgame选择最全目录，欢迎前来…
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Claim 9: “Elisha Baker, who, with other Jewish students at Columbia University, organized an open letter in May 2024 defending their support of Israel”
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Claim 10: “the book begins with an epigraph from the Talmudic sage Hillel: “Where there are no men, be thou a man.””
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web search NEUTRAL — The closest thing was a group called EX Book Depository Argentina, I requested authorization to join but I'm not sure if it's the same thing. Gracias! About Betterworld, I placed a test order so we'll…
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web search NEUTRAL — A book where the world and story lead are being horrifically devoured by worms, and a book about a mysterious forest and the wives of the townsfolk are being lead there by an antagonistic satyr; same …
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web search NEUTRAL — In need of a good read? Let us know what you want and we guarantee you'll find a great book, or your money back. This subreddit is for people to ask for suggestions on books to read. Please only post …
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Claim 11: “Natan Sharansky, the best-known refusenik, wrote the foreword [to Tabarovsky's book].”
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Claim 12: “The 49-year-old Beckerman, whose four grandparents survived the Holocaust”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This list of Jewish athletes in sports contains athletes who are Jewish and have attained outstanding achievements in sports. The topic of Jewish participation in sports is discussed extensively in ac…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Double genocide theory (Lithuanian: Dvigubo genocido požiūris, lit. 'Double genocide approach') is a term used to refer to the claim that the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union against Eastern E…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jewish peoplehood (Hebrew: עמיות יהודית, Amiut Yehudit), also sometimes referred to as the whole of Israel (Hebrew: כלל ישראל, Klal Yisrael), is the sense of belonging to the Jewish people. The concep…
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Claim 13: “Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” was published in 1971”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that 'Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals' is a 1971 book by Saul Alinsky.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In 1969, Hillary Rodham wrote a 92-page senior thesis for Wellesley College about the views advocated by community organizer Saul Alinsky, titled "There Is Only the Fight . . . ": An Analysis of the A…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals is a 1971 book by American community activist and writer Saul Alinsky about how to successfully run a movement for change. It was the last…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community activist and political theorist. His work through the Chicago-based Industrial Areas Foundation helping poor communities…
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Claim 14: “Fields-Meyer, whose mother was the rabbi at the Jewish day school he attended in Los Angeles”
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Claim 15: “The Soviet Jews who tried to hijack a plane in 1970... are featured in the chapter “Be Loyal.””
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One web search result mentions Gal Beckerman's 'How to Be a Dissident' and his focus on Soviet antisemitism, and Wikipedia confirms the Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair occurred in 1970, but the specific connection to a chapter titled 'Be Loyal' is only implied by the context of the source article and not independently corroborated by the other provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Avital Sharansky (Hebrew: אביטל שרנסקי; birth name Natalia Stieglitz; born 1950) is a former activist and public figure in the Soviet Jewry movement who fought for the release of her husband, Natan Sh…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Dymshits–Kuznetsov aircraft hijacking affair, also known as The First Leningrad Trial or Operation Wedding (Russian: Ленинградское самолётное дело, or Дело группы Дымшица-Кузнецова) (Leningrad Air…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Soviet Jewry movement was a Jewish political movement opposed to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was primarily active in the United States, where advocacy campaigns were organized to rais…
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Claim 16: “Tabarovsky, 56, who emigrated to the United States from the USSR in 1989”
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