In three years, the National Library of Israel has managed to catalog 1,430 books about October 7. At least 1,430 books, then, now stand between us and that traumatic event.”. 1,430 in three years – that’s nearly 480 per year, or, roughly speaking, between 9 and 10 per week. The phrase “work of remembrance” seems…
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 motivations Julia Christ examines. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the film’s structure, she reflects on the tools of political criticism and on what such criticism risks overlooking when it…
Three years after October 7, 2023, we are republishing twelve articles that originally appeared in K. Revisiting these analyses allows us to reflect on the questions raised by that event, but also to assess what the passage of time has helped us understand—and what remains unresolved. This special issue bears witness to the work undertaken…
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour grew up in Egypt, where he was taught that the liberation of Palestine was meant to give meaning to his life. In this ambitious and provocative essay, he examines the power of a word that has become a symbol—“Palestine”—which, in his view, no longer refers merely to a territory or a cause….
Jordan Bardella accused of antisemitic writings by Mediapart
Some people claim that the French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) is no longer antisemitic, and that the vast majority of Jews would vote for Bardella. To discuss these two dubious assertions, we spoke to film director and essayist Jonathan Hayoun– notably the author, with Judith Cohen-Solal, of La main du diable : Comment l'extrême droite a voulu séduire les Juifs de France (Grasset,2019) [TN:The Devil's Hand: How the far right tried to seduce the Jews of France] –, and Johan Weisz, journalist and editor-in-chief and committed founder of the online media StreetPress. Interviewed by Elie Petit, they question the idea that, beyond the communication strategy, there would be a real normalization of the RN, while questioning the feeling of danger in which the Jews of France live, and its political consequences.
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Before it is a matter of ideology or war, Israel is first and foremost, for the child, a holiday destination: Eilat, with its coral reefs, its desert, its Club in resort, and its bunker repainted with cartoon-style murals. Yet beneath this apparent innocence, other realities are surfacing: the incomprehensible Hebrew, the turmoil following Rabin’s assassination, and the first questions about belonging—amidst provocation, family legacies, and a Jewish identity that resisted any stable definition..
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