A Faustian Bargain
“No democracy with occupation.” These are the t-shirts that a minority of protesters wear to the weekly protests that have dominated the Israeli news cycle […]
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The Illusion of Control: A Historiographical Essay on the Capabilities and Limits of Fascist Authority
This review essay was originally written for Dr. Brian J Griffith’s upper-division reading seminar, “Comparative Fascisms: 1920s to the Present,” at University of California, Los […]
The Messiah’s Donkey
1992 was the best year. For me, for my friends and family, and for half of the population of Israel that voted for Yitzhak Rabin, […]
Israel’s New Hard-Line Government Has Made Headlines – the Bigger Demographic Changes that Caused It, Not So Much
Israel’s new goverment is the most right-wing and religious leadership the country has had in the 75 years of its existence, as many observers have pointed out. And this style […]
The Social Roots of Israel’s Judicial and Political Crisis
The Zionist movement and the State of Israel have always been characterized by internal contradictions and differences in everything related to their identity, goals, and […]
Jewish and Democratic? The Boomerang Effect
Hannah Arendt famously suggested that the rise of totalitarianism in Europe was the boomerang effect of the violence, oppression, and denial of rights by European […]
Why Gender Will Be a Key Battleground in Israel’s Fight Against the Illiberal State
This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Haaretz The news that Israel’s […]
Queer Roma
Occasionally, we will feature new publications on themes related to the New Fascism Syllabus. Here, Lucie Fremlova provides the first detailed study of queer Roma, […]
Ignore and Reassign: Examining Germany’s Memory Culture in Hungary’s Dark Mirror
Critical engagement with the history of colonialism and colonial crimes has greatly increased in frequency and sophistication in recent years, even if it has admittedly […]
With October in Our Memory, We Will Change History
The result of the plebiscite and the clear rejection of the new constitution in Chile says a lot about its historical development since the end […]
