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1967 | Nasser’s Antisemitic War Against Israel
Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both ...
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No More Heroes: Contemporary Antisemitism and the West’s Culture of Victimhood
Andrés Spokoiny is the President and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network. There was a time, not long ago, when societies built their stories around heroes. Now, the victim has dislodged the hero as the ...
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‘We can have a debate about whether Hamas did the right thing’: Judith Butler’s Moral Relativism
Academic Judith Butler’s evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson. When Judith Butler expressed something approximating grudging horror–if one may characterise her ...
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Campus Protests and Deferred Maintenance
When Otto Feuer, of blessed memory, was liberated from Buchenwald in April 1945, he made his way to Paris. A border guard generously advised: ‘vous savez, en France on n’aime pas les Juifs’ [you know, ...
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The ‘Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’: A New Stage in the Degradation of the American University
New York University, photo by Benjamin Kraft via Flickr. Licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode ...
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Towards Peace Realism: 13 Principles
George Stevens is co-founder of the 4MENA Network, the first network of organisations from Israel, Palestine and across the MENA region devoted to a more inclusive, interconnected and peaceful future ...
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‘The War Between Wars’: Israel vs Iran in Syria
Yaakov Lappin is a Research Associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and a military correspondent. In this article he discusses what the Israeli defence establishment calls the ‘war ...
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Rasmea Odeh: How an unrepentant Palestinian terrorist became a political hero of the anti-Zionist left
Palestinian American community leader Rasmea Odeh marching at the JNF Chicago protest, October 2015. Photo by Cody O'Rourke, Facebook.
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An Open Letter from Jewish Scholars about Today’s Intellectual Environment
A group of over 230 Jewish scholars has signed an open letter expressing concern ‘about the current ideological environment in the US and elsewhere and the increasingly censorious culture in many ...
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Christianophobia: an interview with Rupert Shortt
Strasbourg, January 2011. Members of the European Parliament condemn violence against Christians in the Middle East. PE-EP / Pietro Naj-Oleari.
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Balfour 100 | British policy in Palestine 1917–1925
General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on foot out of respect for the Holy City after the British's victory in Palestine, 11 December 1917. Wikipedia.
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UK-Israel 2021 | Mandate: The Palestine Crucible 1919-1939
Three years ago, a retired British army officer, Ian Westerman, wrote an article in Ha’aretz, entitled ‘What did the British ever do for Israel?’ This piece, courageously suggested that in an age of ...