Barry Dredze’s Writing

June 23, 2015

Michael Oren wrote a Column

By Barry Dredze The struggle to tell the story of the occupation and creeping Israeli apartheid is made even tougher by moneyed interests ability to buy the pipelines of public discourse. Continue reading
June 12, 2015

What’s So Bad About Excommunication?

By Barry DredzeMuch of Jewish political discourse focuses on drawing borders and determining who is “in” and who is “out.” This dysfunction, primarily as it relates to Israel and Zionism, has led to attempts at ostracizing and outcasting not unlike… Continue reading
May 20, 2015

Demagoguery and Islamophobia in the Precincts; (or) Fear and Loathing in The Flyover

By Barry DredzeControversy during the run-up to the 2010 mid-term elections over the planned development of an Islamic Community Center in the former Burlington Coat Factory building in lower Manhattan revealed an ugly tradition of demagoguery in American political discourse. Continue reading