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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 ...
Fathom14h
‘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 ...
Fathom11h
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 ...
Fathom19h
The Modern Language Association, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism
The MLA Executive Council have hit a new low by acting in secret, without notice and without membership approval, to conflate support for the IHRA definition of antisemitism with American racism. Cary ...
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Book Review | The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace
There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called Palestinian ‘right of return’. The term refers to the demand, erroneously stated ...
Fathom13h
A filmmaker, a feminist, an Israeli, a Bedouin, a Palestinian. A conversation with Rana Abu Fraiha
Tolstoy famously wrote that ‘All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ The Abu Fraiha family – the subject of a beautiful and moving documentary In ...
Fathom23h
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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Peacebuilding Special Issue | Why it’s time for the UK to lead multilateral support for Israeli-Palestinian civil society peacebuilding
Rachael Liss is the European Policy and Development Coordinator for ALLMEP, working on the design and implementation of ALLMEP’s European and UK advocacy projects. She argues that even without ...
Fathom21h
Democratic Socialism, Israel and the Jews: An Interview with Michael Harrington (1975), with new preface by Mitchell Cohen (2020)
Michael Harrington was America’s most eloquent voice for democratic socialism for decades. His great passion: to create a society that is both economically and politically democratic – a society freed ...
Fathom18h
1967 | The Global Left and the Six-Day War
Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in East Germany from 3 May 1971 to 18 October 1989, and Yasser Arafat, 10 March 1982. Photo by Rainer Mittelstädt. Wikipedia.
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Castles in the Air? The American Return to the UN Human Rights Council
The Biden administration has decided to return to the UN Human Rights Council in order to reform it and to call time on its notorious anti-Israel bias. Gerald M. Steinberg explains that while the ...
Fathom22h
Two-state solution 2.0: New Israeli thinking on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
A number of proposals for how Israel can act to change the status quo in the Israeli-Palestinian arena have risen in prominence on the Israeli centre-left. Toby Greene examines these strategic level ...