Antisemitism is wrong: on this point, everyone agrees, or claims to agree. But what political reasons do we have to fight against it? In response to this question, following the Dreyfus Affair, French socialism articulated an answer that proved decisive for the formulation of a coherent social-democratic policy. But what remains of that today? Certainly,…
Since October 7, the fight against antisemitism has divided the left between those who want to recognize its unique nature and those who seek to subsume it within the broader struggle against racism. But this division masks a deeper failure: socialism is no longer able to conceive of the integration of minorities. Bruno Karsenti reflects…
Israel goes to the polls on October 27, still at war on several fronts and still in the midst of the political crisis that began in early 2023 with the proposed judicial overhaul. Netta Barak-Corren, holder of the Chair of Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who in March 2023 published an analysis…
In a village nestled in the heart of the Serra da Estrela, some fifty descendants of Marranos continue to uphold, five centuries after the forced conversions of the Inquisition, a Jewish identity that was long lived in secret. Between the Beit Eliahu synagogue, inaugurated thirty years ago, and the museum that chronicles the prayers whispered…
The German federal elections – which will take place this Sunday, February 23, 2025 – are of decisive importance for the future of Europe. With this in mind, Monty Ott delivers for K. an investigation into the history of the AfD, which is growing strongly. Now supported by Trump and Musk, and championing Russian interests, since its creation about ten years ago this party has undergone a process of radicalization leading it towards increasingly anti-European and far-right positions. A dive into the networks and ideology of German sovereignism.
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The Jewish community of Rhodes did not survive the Shoah. Most of the Rhodesians rounded up by the Nazis on 23 July 1944 for deportation died on the way or were murdered on arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There are few traces left of the former Jewish presence in Rhodes today. But it is these traces that interest historian Dario Miccoli. Here he shares his impressions of his recent stay on the island and his desire to reinvest local Jewish history in order to think about its contemporary challenges.
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