It is not Tehran led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It is Tel Aviv and Washington

In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

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Throughout the 2010s and early 2020s, Right-wingers frequently mocked the rhetoric and concepts popularised by the “woke Left”. They argued that ideas such as microaggressions, safe spaces, and pervasive claims of victimhood were being used to suppress free speech in academia and justify DEI programmes under the guise of anti-racism and “equity”. Yet now, in [...]Read More...

Ralph Leonard argues that the violence in Israel has modern, secular roots rather than religious ones.

Can Israel Survive For 100 Years? It may be, among other things, extremely banal and trivial to observe— or in the case of the Palestinians mourn — the supposed ‘immaculate conception’ of Der …

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At Sde Teiman, Khaled Mahajneh found a detained journalist unrecognizable as he described the facility’s violent and inhumane conditions.

Internet and social media companies are the public squares of the modern day. But our online public squares are at risk.

Big Brother Watch exposes and challenges threats to our privacy, our freedoms and our civil liberties at a time of enormous technological change in the UK.

Newspeak House

The managerialist elite no longer look like the solution to our woes, but the cause of many of them

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Hannah Arendt's experience of the Eichmann trial in 1961 and of the reaction to her book about this, Eichmann in Jerusalem, led her to think deeply about politics, truth, and plurality. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Samantha...

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