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
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 […]
The Documenta, Indonesia, and the Problem of Closed Universes
The Taring Padi art collective was formed in 1998 after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship. Explicitly radical, it is dedicated to antimilitarism, anti-neoliberalism, to […]
The Philosophers Have Only Interpreted the World…
Chiselled into the marble wall of Humboldt University’s grand main building in Berlin is the famous quote (often ill-used, not least by the SED regime) […]
Atonement at the Expense of Another
What does it mean to atone for a crime against humanity? And how can a nation meaningfully repent for its past if it makes another […]
