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#272 / Editorial - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
4+ hour, 33+ min ago (450+ words) #272 / Editorial K. Les Juifs, l'Europe, le XXIe si'cle There is the very real Palestine, the one that should be the name of a Palestinian state, provided that the national identity of its population allows for it, and that the internal and…...
Daoud, Egyptian nationalist and Zionist - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
18+ hour, 56+ min ago (451+ words) Excerpt from "The Jews, the Arabs, My Family, and Me" (Editions Textuel) That same yearbook entry noted that he had arrived in Alexandria in 1889. I would later find out that he had grown up in Tripoli, Libya, where his father…...
#270 / Editorial - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (598+ words) #270 / Editorial K. Les Juifs, l'Europe, le XXIe si'cle Events are unfolding rapidly, as Netanyahu's coalition government will ultimately not serve out its full term. Indeed, just as the opposition, with the support of the Orthodox parties, was preparing to bring a…...
Antisemitism and the Anti-Zionist Exploitation of the Universal
3+ week, 4+ hour ago (357+ words) Excerpts from Julien Chanet, "L'Incendie Universel. Le sujet de l'antisionisme " gauche' [The Universal Fire: The Issue of Anti-Zionism on the Left] (Crise et Critique, 2026) The memory of the extermination of the Jews paradoxically becomes the very foundation of this transcendence…...
The Defense of Israel and Its Anti-Judaism
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (423+ words) On "Reason of State" How can we explain how the defense of Israel has become a right-wing issue? And what is overlooked in the paradoxical political nature of the Jewish state when it is defended as an "outpost of the…...
Reason of State" - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (427+ words) The Defence of Israel and Its Anti-Judaism How can we explain how the defense of Israel has become a right-wing issue? And what is overlooked in the paradoxical political nature of the Jewish state when it is defended as an…...
Where Do the Jews Come From? (And Where Are They Going?)
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1187+ words) The evening of Pesach is framed by two questions: where do the Jews come from, and where are they going? The Haggadah begins by exploring the origin: we come from elsewhere. Our ancestors were not natives; they came "from across…...
Judaism, the word and the thing
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (197+ words) About David Lemler, The Invention of Judaism, Paris, Albin Michel 2025. What matters to David Lemler, then, is not so much that Judaism is an "invention," as all historical phenomena are by definition, but that it is a reflexive object: it…...
The conflicted memory of the last Jews of Izmir
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (277+ words) It may be more about promoting a Judeo-Spanish identity than a Smyrna identity, comments Ceki Hazan, who participated in this heritage preservation effort by developing the Despertar project, aimed at civil society. Although a synagogue bears witness to the presence…...
# 254 / Editorial - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (361+ words) # 254 / Editorial'K. Les Juifs, l'Europe, le XXIe si'cle There are events that, even though we would prefer to stay away from certain issues, come back to haunt us and force us to question ourselves. For the philosopher Vil'm Flusser'who had a…...