Naza, or On the Political Uses of Shock Treatment

To shock Israeli society into facing up to the suffering of the Palestinians: this is the challenge taken on by the film Naza, whose underlying...

By Julia Christ

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...

By Netta Barak-Corren et 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....

By Mordechai Kremnitzer et Julia Christ

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...

By Dvir Warshavski, Julia Christ et Elie Petit

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