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Joe Lockard argues that while there is a culture war underway in US higher education, one that contests vital DEI initiatives and racial and gender justice, the AAUP wants to fight the Gaza war, a ...
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.
President Joe Biden hoped to build on President Trump’s legacy by expanding the Abraham Accords to secure the ‘crown jewel’ of US foreign policy in the Middle East – normalisation between Israel and ...
Yossi Kuperwasser argues that President Biden’s Middle East policy reflects the tension between his understanding that the region has gone through dramatic changes during the Trump years that give the ...
Yisrael Medad argues that Peter Beinart’s quoting of Ze’ev Jabotinsky in his recent essay, as in his earlier work, is misleading, being true to neither the original text nor its historical context. In ...
Nadav Eyal is the International Correspondent for Israel’s Reshet News, Op-Ed contributor for Yedioth Ahronoth, and author of the one of the bestselling non-fiction books in Israel in 2018, The Revolt ...
Documentary maker John Ware explains why he has brought three successful court cases against those who he believed had defamed him and the BBC Panorama programme he made about antisemitism in Corbyn’s ...
Azriel Bermant argues for seeing Israel’s vote against a recent UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine as ideological as well as political. Bermant criticises what he ...
Something extremely strange happened last week. Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organisation in the United States, endorsed the idea that there is a particular ethnic group ...
David Hirsh and I have been reading, researching, writing and politically organising to counter left antisemitism for around half a century. We have each created an intellectual institution to embed ...
In this Fathom Long Read, Daniel Szeftel traces the evolution of the settler colonial charge against Zionism through the thinking of Constantin Zureiq and Fayez Sayegh – both academics and diplomats – ...
Sam Faddis’s recent account of his time as a CIA operations officer in Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War is a highly readable one replete with new details and lots of interesting tidbits about ...