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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ISRAEL IN THE MIDDLE EAST FROM PERIPHERY TO CENTER-PT.3:   ISRAEL AND TURKEY-FROM KEMALISM TO ISLAMISM

ISRAEL IN THE MIDDLE EAST FROM PERIPHERY TO CENTER-PT.3: ISRAEL AND TURKEY-FROM KEMALISM TO ISLAMISM

Turkey was another Middle Eastern country, alongside Iran, which from day one of Israel’s existence was regarded as a likely and desirable friend, possibly an ally, of the Jewish state. The story of the relationships between Israel and Turkey can be considered a typical Middle Eastern story in as much as it is based on a long historic legacy whose implications are felt to this very day.

A Season of Pardons

A Season of Pardons

This is the Season of Pardons, the time at the end of the term of an executive, governor, or President, when for reasons no one seems to know, it is safe or appropriate or reasonable or prudent, or just plain a good idea, suddenly to pardon people or to commute their sentences, people who in some cases deserve pardons or commutations when the executive first assumed office, not as he or she was leaving it.

Provenance, Pedigree, Authenticity and What Matters

Provenance, Pedigree, Authenticity and What Matters

Those lucky enough to visit the Museo Del Prado – the justly revered museum of Spanish and European art in central Madrid – would encounter the stunning, terrifying, but mesmerizing painting, The Colossus.

BIDEN ENJOYS IMPORTANT LEVERAGE IN DEALING WITH IRAN

BIDEN ENJOYS IMPORTANT LEVERAGE IN DEALING WITH IRAN

The elimination of chief Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, has led to all kinds of speculative interpretations.

The most common cliché is to say that the assassination aimed to undermine the prospect of Joe Biden’s re-entering negotiations with Iran.

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