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Michael Sappir

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Brazil’s Far-Right and the Amazon Forest Fires [Hebrew]

In this piece for Local Call I cover the political background of the increase in forest fires in the Amazon this summer, as well as the connection to animal agriculture and indigenous rights.

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Ethical Shopping: Neoliberalism's Greatest Victory

Neoliberalism has had no greater victory, I suspect, than in the trend of highly selective consumption among leftists.

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Politics is not a video game

People often seem to conceptualize politics as akin to video games in which you can just make a click and decide how things will be done. Reality is, of course, much more complicated.

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The Nonbinary Hebrew Project and Nonbinary Israeli Hebrew

The Nonbinary Hebrew Project is a lovely proposal by US Jews for nonbinary forms in Hebrew, but it seems to ignore the fact there is already a Hebrew-speaking nonbinary community in Israel which has come up with quite different solutions to a similar problem.

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  • Abolition and the Caring Economy [Hebrew]
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  • The Terrible Summer of 2014

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