Socialism in the Face of Antisemitism
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...
Bruno Karsenti
Bruno Karsenti is a philosopher and Director of Studies at the EHESS. At the intersection of political philosophy and social sciences, he seeks to rethink modern Europe through the lens of its minorities, particularly the Jewish experience. A significant part of his work addresses the relationship between Judaism, emancipation, and citizenship, as well as how Jewish presence and the post-Holocaust condition reshape the European political narrative.
Articles by Bruno Karsenti
The Left, the Jews, and the Gangster
How is it that France's far-left political party LFI’s antisemitic outbursts, even when recognized as such, do not disqualify the party in the eyes of...
The antisemitism of denial and the new trial of the Jews
For philosopher Bruno Karsenti, the form taken by the contemporary rise in antisemitism - which is organized primarily around denial - shows that Jews are...
Two years later. October 7 as a European event
October 7 did not only reopen the wound of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it also revived a fault line buried in the Western consciousness, particularly in...
Israel, August 17, 2025: the meaning of a general strike
At the call of the families of hostages and a large section of civil society, a general strike will take place on August 17 to...
May 1, 2025: A needed clarification
On May 1, cries of “dirty genocidal Zionists” and violence from hooded far-left activists targeted not only Jérôme Guedj, who is becoming accustomed to such...
The fate of the Bibas children
Shiri, Ariel and Kfir were buried yesterday, Wednesday, February 26, 2025. What hope did the Bibas family represent? What was at stake in the act...
From the Jewish question to the Republic, via Charlie
On the occasion of the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the 2015 attacks, and the evening organized jointly by the CRIF and Charlie Hebdo,...
Trump and the war of the Jews
Could the Jewish world, which is currently undergoing a process of division, go as far as an internecine war? For Bruno Karsenti, the possible election...
Student mobilization and the antisemitism of the future
What is it that explains the ability of anti-Zionism to unify protests in the name of emancipation, and the fact that Israel has become the...
Gaza : How to Get Out
How can we talk about Gaza without distracting ourselves from Israel's just cause? Faced with the attacks of October 7, the war had to be...
After October 7: the Palestinian question and the Jewish question
Two months after 7 October, Bruno Karsenti describes the turning point that such an event represents for Israel and the Diaspora. An existential coordinate of...