Vilna Goles

The following essay, drafted by Noah Brehmer under the collective alias Vilna Goles, is an outgrowth of research undertaken in the Exilic Politics Circle. The circle was established over the past year to broadly study histories of exile as a grammar for an emergent political community beyond empire.

Ed. note: This is the first part in a series by Zach Smerin — a member of the International Jewish Labor Bund’s Provisional Steering Committee — which Der Spekter will continue to publish in the coming months. Click here for the introduction to the series. Every political organisation seeking to make a difference to the status quo has to confront some basic organising questions.

News — 24 min read Peter Beinart is, depending on who you ask, a turncoat or a hero, a speaker of the truth or a purveyor of lies, an opportunist or one of the few public intellectuals – if that term means anything anymore – who is willing to publicly change his mind. He is best known, especially among Jews, for changing his mind about Israel.