Abe Asher

Abe Asher is a journalist whose reporting on politics, protest, and police has appeared in The Nation, VICE News, and the Portland Mercury, among other outlets.

Recent Articles
University of Wisconsin-Madison students and the Overpass Light Brigade protest fossil fuels outside UW's Bascom Hall, April 5, 2014. (Joe Brusky/CC BY-NC 2.0)
To crush climate action, fossil fuel advocates are copying anti-BDS laws
US conservatives are banning boycotts of oil and gas companies, using anti-BDS legislation as a model. Experts warn the tactic will spread even further.
By Abe Asher March 21, 2022
(Center left to right) Sachiel Rosen, Hassani Bell, Ahkeel Mestayer, and Julia Retzlaff, four students referred to as the Third World Liberation Front 2016, who were on a hunger strike to defend the funding of the San Francisco State College of Ethnic Studies, raise their joined hands during an emergency press conference in the Quad, May 9, 2016. (Melissa Minton/CC BY 2.0)
How anti-BDS laws paved the way for the assault on critical race theory
Right-wing groups are using similar tactics to silence progressive views on U.S. racism and Israel. So why are many American Jews only opposing the former?
By Abe Asher October 13, 2021
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  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. Six months after October 7, a lament for the paths not chosen
  3. The unexceptional violence of Israel’s ‘Haredi battalion’
  4. Palestinian artists stifled as Israel ‘weaponizes fear and fame’
  5. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. Six months after October 7, a lament for the paths not chosen
  3. ‘The soldiers opened the way for the settlers’: Pogroms surge across West Bank
  4. The unexceptional violence of Israel’s ‘Haredi battalion’
  5. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  3. Even without a UN veto, Gaza remains hostage to American power
  4. Why do Israelis feel so threatened by a ceasefire?
  5. Six months after October 7, a lament for the paths not chosen