Arielle Angel is an American writer and magazine editor. She serves as editor-in-chief of ''

Jewish Currents ''Jewish Currents'' is an American progressive Jewish quarterly magazine and news site whose content reflects the politics of the Jewish left. It features news, political commentary, analysis, and Jewish arts and literature. Publication histo ...

''.

Early life

Angel grew up in

Miami Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a populat ...

. Her father's family survived the Holocaust, specifically

Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 Nazi concentration camps, concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) d ...

, and her mother's side of the family were Arab Jews who came from Haifa. Her mother was a judge and then reproductive rights advocate, and her father was an entrepreneur. She attended a Jewish day school and then public high school, where she edited the school's newspaper. While in high school she traveled to former concentration camps in Poland as part of a

March of the Living The March of the Living (, ; ) is an annual educational program which brings students from around the world to Poland, where they explore the remnants of the Holocaust. On Holocaust Memorial Day observed in the Jewish calendar (), thousands of p ...

trip. After high school she moved to New York where she attended art school, at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

. During the

2014 Gaza War The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge (, ), and Battle of the Withered Grain (), was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory that has been governed by Hamas since ...

Angel came across photos of Israelis sitting and watching bombs hit Gaza, and the images made her consider her past convictions about Israel.

Career

Angel's early work as a writer was on an unpublished manuscript about a drug dealer. In 2018, Angel joined ''

'' as literary editor. She went on to become its editor-in-chief. Angel is an organizer with

IfNotNow IfNotNow is an American Jewish activist group that opposes the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Its membership demonstrates against politicians, United States policies, and institutions that support Israel's occupation, usu ...

. In 2024 she talked on a

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podcast about her experiences visiting university campuses during the

2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses Pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses escalated from April 2024 until the summer, spreading List of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in the United States in 2024, in the United States and List of pro-Palestinian p ...

. By 2024 Angel described herself as

anti-Zionist Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism. Although anti-Zionism is a heterogeneous phenomenon, all its proponents agree that the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and the movement to create a sovereign Jewish state in the Palestine (region) ...

, with the recognition that it took a long time for her to make this change.

Selected publications

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References

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