This summer, K. invites you to rediscover a selection of five articles that have already appeared in the magazine. To kick things off, we have chosen the most read articles since the beginning of 2025: a diverse selection, but one that reflects the concerns of our readers. With texts by Benjamin Wexler, Jonathan Safran Foer, Stéphane Bou and interviews with Eva Illouz and Etgar Keret.
Etgar Keret: “When you say Israel is committing genocide, it means you don’t want to have any conversation.”
Interview by Emmy Barouh – Published June 14, 2024
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.
>>> Read the interview with Etgar Keret
The Eternal Settler
Benjamin Wexler – Published June, 2024
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.
>>> Reat the article by Benjamin Wexler
Jonathan Safran Foer: Acceptance speech of the 2025 Primo Levi Prize
Jonathan Safran Foer – Published May 22 2025
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.
>>> Read the speech by Jonathan Safran Foer
Eva Illouz: “If Zionism is hijacked by an authoritarian and anti-democratic political, what will be left of it?”
Stéphane Bou – Published April 10, 2025
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”.
>>> Read the interview with Eva Illouz
Rwanda: “It’s hard to live with the people who killed us.”
Stéphane Bou – Published April 10, 2025
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.[1] 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.
