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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In Iran, Women Are the Answer

In Iran, Women Are the Answer

After the latest Iranian missile attack on Israel, a significant Israeli retaliation is a certainty. This situation is fraught with risks of escalation and widespread global impact. In the face of these dangers, Western policymakers should explore strategic approaches to drive change in the Islamic Republic.

Bloodthirstiness, Presidential Pardons, and the Quality of Mercy

Bloodthirstiness, Presidential Pardons, and the Quality of Mercy

We are surprisingly bloodthirsty people. We impose the longest prison sentences in the world. We are one of only seven countries that inflict more than ten death penalties a year, with the others hardly our demographic, developmental, or political peers (China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia, and Singapore).

THE ISRAEL-LEBANON AGREEMENT

THE ISRAEL-LEBANON AGREEMENT

Israel needs to come out of the war with Hizballah as the undisputed winner, and that should be in total contrast to the impressions created after the 2006 war. It has to be the LAST war with Lebanon, or with factions inside Lebanon. The idea, therefore, is to lead to that result, which, IF achieved, will be THE victory for Israel as well as for Lebanon.

THE WAR IN THE NORTH-THE STRATEGIC BALANCE SHIFTS IN FAVOR OF ISRAEL

THE WAR IN THE NORTH-THE STRATEGIC BALANCE SHIFTS IN FAVOR OF ISRAEL

Sun Tzu-’’All warfare is based on deception’’

Clausewitz-’’In war, more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect’’

These famous sayings by two of the world’s most influential military thinkers seem to reflect the course of the THIRD ISRAEL-LEBANON WAR waged since 8 October 2023 when Hizballah started its unprovoked attacks against Israel, in support, as they have claimed ever since, of the Hamas war against Israel.

Leadership of Lebanon and its Future

Leadership of Lebanon and its Future

Lebanon has been integral to both cradles of civilizations and hotbeds of conflicts. A Semitic people, the Canaanites, occupied the littoral of Lebanon, out which emerged the Phoenician civilization that was held together by a string of independent Phoenician city-states from the north to the south of the country.

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