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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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‘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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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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Feminism in Israel | Haredi Feminism: an interview with Pnina Pfeuffer
Pnina Pfeuffer (right) speaking at an Israel-Palestine: Creative Regional Initiatives (IPCRI) event titled 'Violence, Revenge and Redemption : A close look at Jewish radical violence', 27 February ...
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IDF operations and the laws of war
Israel’s military operation to stop rocket fire at Israeli cities and to destroy Hamas tunnels under the Gaza-Israel border has drawn increasing criticism due to civilian casualties. To discuss the ...
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Yet again, the Courts find for John Ware and his BBC Panorama documentary ‘Is Labour Antisemitic?’
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 ...
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Balfour 100 | ‘Mack’: Aaron Aaronsohn, the NILI intelligence network and the Balfour Declaration
NILI – an acronym for the biblical Hebrew phrase, Netzakh Yisrael Lo Yeshaker, meaning ‘The Eternal One of Israel will not Lie’ – was the World War One Jewish spy network in Palestine. In this ...
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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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Rereading Past Continuous: Revisiting Yaakov Shabtai’s ‘Revolution’ in Hebrew Prose
Liam Hoare launches a new Fathom series in which our writers re-read classic texts. Past Continuous, Yaakov Shabtai’s novel of three friends set in 1970s Tel Aviv, was first published in Hebrew in ...
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Arabs and Jews: The Holocaust and its Aftermath
Hajj Amin al-Husseini and the Waffen SS. Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1970-041-50 / Mielke / CC-BY-SA 3.0 ...
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Book Review | Forest of Noise
Mosab Abu Toha’s recent volume of poetry, Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024), has excited much complimentary attention as a representative voice from Gaza’s destroyed streets. It has inspired immoderate ...