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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Achieving supply chain independence in a post-COVID economy

90 percent of Americans now view China as a threat compared to 48 percent in 2018, according to an April edition of the Pew Research Center. In this era of distrust and misinformation, it is time for the United States to think about ways to decouple itself economically from China.

Post-Coronavirus Order Requires Strong Democracies

Post-Coronavirus Order Requires Strong Democracies

People travel more whether it’s for business or for tourism. Millions of people move from one place to another every day. Airports are packed. Material goods and services move from one place to another rapidly, doing so as never before.

Fox Holes and Pandemics

Fox Holes and Pandemics

The COVID-19 pandemic challenges the normal divisions of politics and economics, that is, the way we look at what governments should do with our money and its own money. Normally that problem pits market-based endeavors against government-based endeavors. But this is not a normal time. Now everyone wants more government intervention.

Can New US Measures Topple Maduro?

U.S.-Venezuela policy makers have been busy. On March 24, in a rare move against foreign leaders, the Justice Department (DOJ) accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and 13 members of his entourage of drug trafficking and terrorism and requested Maduro’s capture.

When I Am Not Me and You Have Stopped Being You

The COVID-19 pandemic has reached and exposed forgotten corners of our society, some of those corners dark and unpleasant. One such corner involves the welfare and health of individuals in our prisons, both those awaiting trial and those found guilty.

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Intervención en el Foro “Presencia de la dictadura de Irán en las Américas” celebrado en la sede del IID el 26 de febrero de 2026 por Luis Fleishman

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Trump enviará 200 soldados a Gaza

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