Excessive tolerance for intolerance has been a major characteristic of the Netherlands in the past decades. A core element of this “pseudohumanism” is the emphasis on the needs and “human rights” of criminals, often at the expense of their victims. … [Read More]
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The false accusation of Holocaust inversion-the portraying of Israel, Israelis, and Jews as Nazis-is a major distortion of history. This anti-Semitic concept claims that Israel behaves against the Palestinians as Germany did to the Jews in World War II. “The … [Read More]
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been far from a marginal issue in Italian politics. A few decades ago the Italian Left started to use the conflict as a strategic instrument to build domestic political alliances. The Communist Party, which in the … [Read More]
On many accounts Europe – and the West at large – is facing increasingly unsolvable problems concerning matters such as security, immigration, xenophobia, international law, and civil liberties. European states over the past decades did not understand that the threats … [Read More]
There have been major developments in the role of Jewish women in the United States over the past four decades. The changes are undeniably related to what is happening in American society at large. They have, however, a specifically Jewish … [Read More]
The historical context of the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Middle East is fundamentally different from that between the whites’ Afrikaner ideology of apartheid and the blacks in South Africa. The latter was a system of discrimination and inequality based upon … [Read More]
On 26 February 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague published a judgment ruling that the July 1995 massacre of an estimated 7-8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb Forces was an act … [Read More]
Interview with Serah Beizer A few years ago it became public that Finland had handed over almost three thousand Soviet prisoners of war to the Germans during World War II. Until that time Finland had the reputation of a country … [Read More]
Published in Israeli-European Relations: Between Confusion and Change, 2006 “A number of major political divergences of view between the European Union and Israel also find their expression in legal positions. One such issue concerns the legality of Israeli neighborhoods in … [Read More]
The EU and Terrorism The EU’s political position on the Middle East must also be analyzed in the context of its domestic problems. Although far less than Israel, it is confronted with terrorism against civilians. Yet its position toward various … [Read More]