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If your opponent is not a state, but a people whose land you have systematically appropriated and effectively forced into a ghetto, you can get away with almost anything.
Turns out Batman is the world's greatest philosopher. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. You ever notice how people making big decisions tend to get obsessed with hands? During the bushfire crisis, Scott Morrison told us he didn’t hold a hose. After murdering the king, Lady Macbeth gets all weird while washing her hands (mind you, post-Covid? Same, girl). Even the Bible features Pontius Pilate going all extra, literally washing his hands to deny responsibility for the subsequent crucifixion of Jesus.
Recently the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem came out with a definition/declaration of antisemitism that challenged the now widely used definition/guidelines published ten years ago by IHRA. The original is perceived by many progressives as too restrictive of the right to criticize Israel, for some a blow to Palestinian rights to freedom of expression. it threatens free speech and academic freedom and constitutes an attack on both the Palestinian right to self-determination, and the struggle to democratise Israel. Van Leer, an institute that consistently supports the Palestinian “narrative...
Portrait by Robert Adam Mayer It started with a bully. “The noise bully,” Nancy Rosenblum calls him, a man who lived in her Cambridge loft building years ago and tormented the family next door with a rooftop air conditioner whose roar and vibrations shook their apartment day and night. They couldn’t sleep. They tried earplugs and insulation; they tried moving their bed to the back of the room. Finally they tried selling their place. They received no offers. Meanwhile, the noise bully refused to move the air conditioner, even after Rosenblum and other neighbors confronted him on behalf o...
6 Ce billet est signé par un blogueur de la plateforme de Blogs en partenariat avec la Tribune de Genève et n’engage pas la rédaction. Le conseiller d'Etat genevois Pierre Maudet arrive au Palais de Justice pour son procès. Pierre Albouy Newspapers in France have scrupulously covered the trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy who was found guilty of corruption and influence-peddling by a court in Paris and sentenced to prison. The United States press is continually reporting on former President Donald Trump’s legal difficulties, which include calls to try to overturn the re...