Over the past year or so, you may have noticed Israel’s extraordinary ability to find itself at the center of the world and its problems. Since we will undoubtedly continue to wrestle with this tendency, it would be useful to clarify why it seems so suspicious. If Israel’s rightful place is not at the center of the world (even if it is Jewish), then where is it? This is the question at stake in the text written by Noémie Issan-Benchimol and Gabriel Abensour, who set out to map diasporisms. Dismissing religious Zionism and the neo-diasporism of those intellectuals who idealize exile from their American campuses, they point to a way out of their political impasse. If Israel is to be grasped as a political reality that can be criticized and improved, it must be stripped of its character as a metaphysical exception, whether thought of as redemption or damnation. In other words, it must be reinscribed in the political situation of the Jews: “there is no outside exile”.
Have you ever wondered whether anti-Zionism might not be our best hope of escaping planetary destruction caused by global warming? No? Then you haven’t read Andreas Malm, whose eco-Marxist theories and call to disarm the fossil fuel industry have found a wide echo in activist circles. Malm places the Palestinian cause at the heart of the ecological…
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How can we escape the sterile confrontation between messianic Zionism and obsessive anti-Zionism? In this diagnostic text, Noémie Issan-Benchimol and Gabriel Abensour suggest a way out of this fatal alternative. What is at stake? Reinscribing the State of Israel in the exilic condition, and thus stripping it of its exceptional character that inflames radical passions.
Did you know that Israel was responsible for the climate crisis, and Hamas an inspiration for environmental activism? In this article, sociologist Sylvaine Bulle describes the strange juxtaposition of anti-Zionism and political ecology by Andreas Malm, the charming intellectual of radical ecological criticism.
Our dear collaborator Karl Kraus has entrusted us with the fruit of his summer labors: two short texts inspired by events whose banality seemed to him to be fraught with meaning. From a Viennese park to a Parisian kosher supermarket, a short sentence is sometimes enough to bear witness to the stupidity of the times, or, on the contrary, to aptly express their grueling nature.
In our final summer issue, we present you with a selection of texts that have already appeared in our pages, grouped around a key theme. With the end of summer and the soon to be starting new Jewish calendar year, this week we turn our eye to the complexity of Jewish identity and experience and the culture of questioning that accompanies us throughout – with perspectives from Ivan Segré, Mona El Khoury, Ruben Honigmann, Astrid von Busekist and Noémie Issan-Benchimol.
The discovery of the bodies of the six hostages killed by Hamas, as the IDF approached the hideout where they were being held, has a profoundly contradictory meaning.
On the one hand, it shows the kind of enemy Israel is actually fighting: a movement whose aim is to murder Jews, one by one and as many as possible…
Every week this summer, K. brings you a selection of six texts that have already appeared in our pages, but have been brought together for the occasion around a few key themes. This week, we invite you to (re)discover texts on the relationship between Jews and the political left with Avishag Zafrani, Gérard Bensussan, Ivan Segré, Mitchell Abidor, Constance Pâris de Bollardiere, Elisheva Gottfarstein and Sylvaine Bulle.
Every week this summer, K. brings you a selection of six texts that have already appeared in our pages and have been brought together around a few key themes. This week, we invite you to (re)discover K.’s literary texts, with pieces by Moshe Sakal, Berl Kotlerman, Avishag Zafrani, Julia Christ, Stéphane Bou and Maxime Decout.
Each week this summer, K. brings you a selection of six texts that have already appeared in our pages, and have been brought together for the occasion around a few key themes. This week, we invite you to (re)discover K. ‘s work about the realities of and stories to be told from life in Eastern Europe. With texts by Benny Ziffer, Gabriel Rom, Romano Bolkovic, Yeshaya Dalsace, Emmy Barouh and János Gadó.
Every week this summer, K. brings you a selection of six texts that have already appeared in our pages, but have been brought together for the occasion around a few key themes. This week, we invite you to (re)discover some of the first-person accounts written for K. With texts by Ruben Honigmann, Yossef Murciano, Judith Lyon-Caen, Judith Offenberg, Ivan Segré, Gabriel Abensour and Frédéric Brenner.
This week, we invite you to (re)discover K. ‘s texts on Judeo-American symbiosis. And its deterioration? With texts by Mitchell Abidor, Elie Petit, Mona El Khoury, Macha Fogel and Christian Voller.
Every week this summer, K. brings you a selection of six texts that have already appeared in our pages, and have been brought together for the occasion around a few key themes. This week, we invite you to (re)discover interviews with Etgar Keret, Jean-Frédéric Schaub and Silvia Sebastiani, Tal Bruttmann, Shira Klein and Jan Grabowski, David Nirenberg and André Markowicz.
Each week this summer, K. brings you a selection of texts that have already appeared in our pages, but have been brought together for the occasion around a few key themes. This week, we invite you to (re)discover K.’s work on the words of conflict. With texts by Bruno Karsenti, Julia Christ, Danny Trom, Diana Muir and David Lemler.
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