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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IRAN -THE BEAST IS ON THE ATTACK

IRAN -THE BEAST IS ON THE ATTACK

It is arguably the case that the Biden Administration is almost exclusively focused on the Ukraine situation and the possibility of a Russian invasion. This is understandable, but here is what is most NOT understandable-the indifference towards an escalating and very dangerous situation in the Middle East, where Iran is flexing its muscles in a way unprecedented since the heydays of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

THE DECLINE OF THE WEST, AN UPCOMING CENTENNIAL AND A PRESENT REALITY

THE DECLINE OF THE WEST, AN UPCOMING CENTENNIAL AND A PRESENT REALITY

In 1923 the German philosopher, Oswald Spengler, published his masterpiece, THE DECLINE OF THE WEST, of which World War I was the first chapter. He did not live long enough to witness the second chapter of the decline, World War II, or the third chapter, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and its satellites and the United States and its allies.

A SOCIAL MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY IS BADLY NEEDED IN AMERICA

A SOCIAL MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY IS BADLY NEEDED IN AMERICA

The role of social movements becomes crucial in advancing a constitutional democracy, particularly when that democracy becomes eroded.  The army of judges, lawyers, and jurists that abound in the United States, and that we normally rely on, is not always sufficient to guarantee in such circumstances the claim of justice that social movements are in a unique position to advance. 

THE PARADOX OF ISRAEL FOREIGN POLICY-GROWING OUTREACH AND ISOLATION ON IRAN

THE PARADOX OF ISRAEL FOREIGN POLICY-GROWING OUTREACH AND ISOLATION ON IRAN

After the 1967 great victory in the Six Days War, Israel’s most popular musical hit song was; “The entire world is against us”. Somewhat surprising, isn’t it? On the one hand, a great victory, and with it a sense of relief, of renewed optimism and fresh hope, and then this self-flagellation of celebrating isolation.

Lebanon’s Current Crisis Echoes Its World War I Great Famine

Should the United States continue inconsistently checking the power of the so-called Iranian-led Axis of Resistance without offering an outlet of relief to Lebanese, in much the same way that World War I’s Allied forces tried to subdue the Ottoman government in the Levant, they are doomed to be sacrificed on the altar of the American-Iranian struggle for power in the Middle East.

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