The relentless siege of Gaza in the past few months, which has most recently taken shape as a brutal attack on the civilians of Rafah, has influenced all manner of conversations about identity in the United States. Many of us have been forced to reconsider the meaning of kinship and solidarity as we watch the Israeli genocide of Palestinians unfold daily on our screens. One major arena of kinship and solidarity that has come under scrutiny since the start of the Israel-Gaza war is the relationship that generally gets named “Black-Jewish relations” or “the Black-Jewish alliance”. For decades it has...