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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The Inevitable Middle East War – OpEd

The assassination of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani, unlike what the Trump administration and the media expounded, is a logical extension to the heightening asymmetrical warfare between the US and Israel, on one side, and Iran and Hezbollah, on the other

QUO VADIS TURKEY?—- FROM KEMALISM TO ISLAMISM?

QUO VADIS TURKEY?—- FROM KEMALISM TO ISLAMISM?

It is arguably the case that of all the great revolutions of the Twentieth Century, one was never given its due attention in the Western world, nor by intellectuals, neither by statesmen despite being of great significance.

Is Venezuela Funding Repression With US, European Gold Sales?

Is Venezuela Funding Repression With US, European Gold Sales?

Venezuela is under heavy sanctions. The country is in bankruptcy.

However, the biggest concern of the Venezuelan government is that members of the armed forces and others conducting the repression of thousands of Venezuelans may no longer be loyal to the Maduro regime.

Trump, Barr, Stone and the Rule of Law

Trump, Barr, Stone and the Rule of Law

The barely disguised intervention of the President and the Attorney General in what is, in many ways, the ordinary legal process criminal case of Roger Stone seems troubling, but we have some difficulty seeing just why.

Trump’s Mideast Plan a Major Breakthrough But Risky

Seven months after proposing the economic plan for the solution of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, the Trump administration presented a political plan — one which is substantially different than the previous ones and to a certain extent revolutionary.

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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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