What does the future hold for UK Jewry?

The recent two weeks are historically significant for two reasons. The first: the most important elections in Israel’s history, is yet to be included in the textbooks, and the second, November 2, 1917, Balfour Declaration marks a decisive moment in the history of Britain and Israel.

October 7 and the Yom Kippur War: My Personal Wound

For as long as I can remember, the large photograph of a handsome young man, with a camera resting on his shoulder, hung on the wall in my grandmother’s bedroom, seeming to look right at me. The photograph remained there until the last day of her life.

The Power of Anti-Zionism in the United States: A Gradual Hegemony Building

Building on Antonio Gramsci’s framework, this paper analyzes the hegemonic
consolidation that has led to the emergence of a strong anti-Zionist historic bloc.
It reinterprets the notion of a historic bloc not through the traditional Marxist
perspective of class hegemony, but rather through the prevalence of a resolute
Palestinian narrative.

When Academic Freedom Becomes Weaponised: The Normalisation of Antisemitic Expression in British Academia

Amira Halperin and Stephen Sussman argue that institutional neutrality within universities can function as a mechanism of avoidance, and how legal protections for speech are being invoked to justify inaction.

In the wake of the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks against Israel, university campuses across Britain have become sites of intense conflict over Israel, Gaza, Zionism, and antisemitism. Campus protests and confrontations have raised difficult questions about the boundaries between protected political expression and conduct that intimidates, excludes, or discriminates against Jewish and Israeli students and faculty.

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U.S Policy and the Venezuela-Guyana Crisis

U.S Policy and the Venezuela-Guyana Crisis

Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolas Maduro, seems to be moving in the direction of annexing the Essequibo area of Guyana and making it into another state of Venezuela.
On December 3, Maduro conducted a referendum on December 3 with little participation that approved such annexation. Likewise, he appointed a governor for the future seized territory.

Doing The Impossible: Making Congress Look Good

Doing The Impossible: Making Congress Look Good

The three college presidents testifying last week did the almost impossible: they made Congress – this Congress – look good. That is, testifying before the most dysfunctional, uninformed, petty and parochial House of Representatives in American history

The First Casualty of War

The First Casualty of War

At least since the Enlightenment, that is, at least since about the time the Pilgrims landed in the 1600s, what is fundamentally important to us has been fought on several different grounds: political, economic, social, commercial, military, religious, and moral (perhaps others).

The Silence of Women’s Groups: Examining the Response to the October 7 Hamas Attacks

The Silence of Women’s Groups: Examining the Response to the October 7 Hamas Attacks

In the realm of global human rights advocacy, women’s advocacy organizations play a crucial role in addressing gender-based violence and promoting gender equality. However, the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks on Israeli women and girls has brought into question the response, or lack thereof, from women’s rights organizations worldwide.

Understanding Israel’s war | Opinion

Understanding Israel’s war | Opinion

The Lebanese Shi’a Islamist party, Hezbollah, emerged at the intersection of three momentous developments. First, beginning in the 1960s, Shi’a religious scholars began mobilizing their marginalized community with the objective of empowering it on the communal and state levels.

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