Month: February 2024

Sabrina Soffer is former Commissioner of the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism at the George Washington University and author of My Mother’s Mirror: A Generational Journey of Resilience and Self-Discovery. She argues that ‘the lasting effects of Nazi ideology on Arab-Israeli relations post-1948 underscore the imperative to critically address hateful propaganda and education in shaping Arab-Israeli tensions’.

Lucy Aharish is one of the most prominent television broadcasters in Israel—and the very first Arab Muslim news presenter on mainstream Hebrew-language Israeli television. Born and raised in a small Jewish town in Israel’s Negev desert, as one of the only Arab Muslim families, she has a unique lens through which to view the divisions in Israeli society, the complexity of the country’s national identity, and the Middle East more generally.

A review of the book by Matthias Küntzel.

Anti-Semitism always existed. Depending on the times, it has the freest way and the necessary legitimacy to demonstrate without shame. But these days there is also a less strident anti Semitism: the one that is based on the impossibility of repudiating the terrorist act perpetuated by Hamas without ifs or buts.

An important document, with the full judgement by judge Sebutinde, a judge on the International Court of Justice on the case brought by South Africa against Israel. She joined Judge Barak in her dissent.

Aharon Barak (Hebrew: אהרן ברק; born 16 September 1936) is an Israeli lawyer and jurist who served as President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006. Prior to this, Barak served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1978 to 1995, and before this as Attorney General of Israel from 1975 to 1978. He is one of the judges in the International Justice Court in relation to South Africa application.