An open letter signed by more than twenty intellectuals and activists contesting the Israel-centric definition of anti-Semitism employed in a recent resolution passed by European Parliament.
Written upon the initiative of Media Palestine, this collective piece was produced in reaction to Emmanuel Macron’s commemoration of the Vel d’Hiv round-up and first published in Mediapart. The authors denounce the position taken by the French president: "Macron is here following in the footsteps of all those who want to criminalise the struggles fighting for justice in Palestine and for Palestinians’ rights."
Israeli historian Shlomo Sand responds to Emmanuel Macron's speech in front of Benjamin Netanyahu, in commemoration of the 1942 Vel d’Hiv round-up of Jews. "Has this former student of philosophy, Paul Ricoeur’s assistant, read so few history books that he does not know that many Jews or descendants of Jewish heritage have always opposed Zionism, without this making them anti-Semites?"
Last week marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, in which the Israeli military occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights. In a strikingly illustrated essay for the Funambulist blog, Léopold Lambert reconstructs eleven crucial moments from the pivotal war.
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Israel's slow, cold violence, no less than the other kind, ought to be looked at and understood.
