Who makes the law in Israel?
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...
Julia Christ
Julia Christ is a philosopher and research fellow at the CNRS. A specialist in critical theory, she works on the transformations of universalism and liberalism in dialogue with European Jewish history. Part of her research focuses on the place of Jews in modern political constructions, antisemitism, and the ways in which the Jewish perspective challenges classical categories of political thought.
Articles by Julia Christ
Israel: An illiberal democracy?
Born in 1948 in Fürth, in the same hospital as Henry Kissinger, Mordechai Kremnitzer is one of the principal architects of Israel’s General Penal Code....
Violence in the West Bank: The “protective presence” of Bnei Avraham
There are between 80 and 100 religious activists—Masorti and Haredi—who travel every week to Palestinian villages in the West Bank to accompany farmers on their...
Jürgen Habermas: The Prosaic Bedrock
Jürgen Habermas died on March 14, 2026. The entire work of this giant of philosophy rested on a single conviction: after the Holocaust, philosophy had...
By Julia Christ
On the evolution of the IDF: Interview with Yagil Levy
Much has been said and written about the Netanyahu government's conduct during the war in Gaza and its attack on Israeli democracy. But very little...
By Yagil Levy et Julia Christ
The Jewish question in the 21st century, or the state of European political consciousness
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has not only fractured the Middle East: it has reopened a rift at the heart of Europe. Why has this distant war...
By Julia Christ
Faust, Breaking Bad and the Jews: modern powerlessness and acting out
Faced with the collective experience of modern powerlessness, democracies are doubting and populists across the board are promising to regain control by 'taking action'. Goethe's...
By Julia Christ
Israeli academics face call to boycott their universities
How do Israeli academics react to the call for a boycott of their universities, and to the idea that they support the policies of the...
By Julia Christ
On the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
What are the implications of the arrest warrants issued by the ICC against Netanyahu and Gallant? Should they be seen as a political judgment? To...
By Julia Christ
The far right, the Jews and the others: If only we had known
We know without a shadow of a doubt that the far right is structurally antisemitic. We even know it so well that we sometimes forget...
By Julia Christ
Anti-Zionism: a realistic option?
"We have to differentiate between anti-Zionism and antisemitism", say those who don't like being called antisemitic. On the face of it, there's nothing foolish about...
By Julia Christ
On the road from undifferentiation to indifference. On the mass rapes in Israel on October 7.
What can we say about the sexual crimes committed by Hamas men on October 7 - documented a little more each day by the work...
By Julia Christ