# 226 / Editorial

During this summer break, the magazine will suspend its publication of original articles. While we wait for the new season to begin, we will be offering our readers a weekly feature highlighting some of our most important articles. This is your chance to discover articles you may have missed, rediscover those that caught your attention, and share some of K.‘s publications with friends who are not yet familiar with us.

As a reminder, our archives are open, and we invite you to browse through the hundreds of articles we have published over the past four years.

To kick off the summer, this week we present a compilation of the most read articles from K. this year. It is a diverse collection, but one that reveals the concerns of our readers. Etgar Keret’s interview on the state of Israeli society post-October 7 was widely shared, as were a decisive analysis on the excesses of contemporary progressivism by Benjamin Wexler in “The Eternal Settler” and a call for moral vigilance by Jonathan Safran Foer. Next, it was the insightful interview with sociologist Eva Illouz that resonated most, followed by a report on the aftermath of the Tutsi genocide, attesting to the fact that confrontation and commemoration go hand in hand in Rwanda: “It’s hard to live with the people who killed us” by Stéphane Bou.

As an exclusive bonus for the start of summer, in addition to our latest issue devoted to the United States under Trump’s second term, we have two unpublished interviews with senior US officials involved in the fight against antisemitism, whom we asked about the tensions inherent in this struggle in the current context. This week, you can read the interview with historian Deborah Lipstadt, former Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism under the Biden administration. Next week, we will be talking to Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee.

Interviews
“Both things can be true at once: the fact that universities have mishandled the situation and the fact that Trump’s rhetoric exploits antisemitism to attack universities.”

Historian Deborah Lipstadt was the special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism under the Biden administration. In this interview, she shares her perception of the debates rocking the United States on this issue, between fears that Trump will exploit the fight against antisemitism and the progressive camp’s refusal to clean house.

Interviews
Etgar Keret: “When you say Israel is committing genocide, it means you don’t want to have any conversation.”

Etgar Keret is a leading Israeli writer, whose talent for blending the mundane with the magical is appreciated both in Israel and abroad. In this interview conducted by Emmy Barouh a week ago, Keret evokes the feeling that, since October 7 and as the government plunges the country into war, the reality experienced by Israelis is losing its consistency, and escaping any grip they may have had on it.

Politics
The Eternal Settler

In Canada, a fresh iteration of anti-Judaism takes shape. Ben Wexler, a recent graduate from McGill University in Montreal, watched with alarm as a wave of attacks swept through his hometown’s Jewish community. A series of firebombings, shootings, and vandalism targeted Jewish schools, synagogues, community centres, and businesses, beginning after October 7 and continuing into the present.  At the same time, protests against Israel often cross into explicit antisemitism and incitement. Wexler notes a curious variation on anti-Zionist formulas: Canada’s Jews – the Diaspora’s third-largest community, at 300,000 strong – are regarded as a distinctly ‘settler’ population, alongside the Yishuv and the modern state of Israel.

Jewish Questions
Jonathan Safran Foer: Acceptance speech of the 2025 Primo Levi Prize

At the 2025 Primo Levi Prize award ceremony in Genoa, the great American writer Jonathan Safran Foer delivered a powerful speech on memory, responsibility, and contemporary indifference. In a clear nod to Levi’s thinking, he evoked Gaza, called for moral vigilance in the face of global suffering, urged us to turn turmoil into ethical strength rather than weakness, and warned against becoming shadows of ourselves.

Interviews
Eva Illouz: “If Zionism is hijacked by an authoritarian and anti-democratic political project, what will be left of it?”

Accused by the Israeli Minister of Education Yoav Kisch of “anti-Israeli ideology”, sociologist Eva Illouz has seen her nomination for the Israel Prize contested. She revisits the affair, denounces the authoritarian excesses of the Netanyahu government and defends an intellectual position that is at once critical, universalist and deeply attached to the State of Israel. For her, “this government acts as if those who fight to prevent Israel from becoming a pariah state were enemies”.

Reports
Rwanda: “It’s hard to live with the people who killed us.”

Between April and July 1994, in just over three months, nearly a million Tutsis were murdered in Rwanda. Written in 2007, K. is republishing this text by Stéphane Bou today, on the occasion of the week of commemoration of the beginning of the genocide.It was first published in the Wednesday, April 11, 2007 issue of Charlie Hebdo. Thanks to Gérard Biard for allowing us to republish it. At a time when the survivors are growing old and the denial of the crime that struck them continues to circulate, it seemed important to us to give new life to this report, which delved into a country still petrified by horror, where memories of the massacres are infused everywhere, in words, silences, bodies, landscapes. It bears witness to the duration of the genocide – its psychological, social and political persistence – and to the memorial work specific to the ordeal of genocide.

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