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Israel’s security cabinet has approved a set of administrative changes affecting day-to-day governance and law enforcement in the territories. Predictably, the response has been split between celebration and outrage. Supporters have hailed…

Since the acceptance of a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in October 2025 life in Israel has gradually returned to normal. Israelis, for the most part, no longer go to sleep thinking about their Maimad (safe room). Students have…

Gérard Bensussan is a philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Strasbourg. The Japanese translation of The Two Morals (Vrin, 2019)  is scheduled for publication in 2026.

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What could be more “common” than this…

In August 1990, Spike Lee penned a defensive op-ed in The New York Times titled “I Am Not an Anti-Semite,” responding to accusations that his film Mo’ Better Blues peddled antisemitic stereotypes through its portrayal of two Jewish club…

“We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a…

Thought is dangerous: it comes from outside.

It obeys no subject and no demand.

It is the singular event that passes through the living —

witness that the “human” is an output, not an origin.

Regime Survival Is Not Social Survival: The…

When President Donald Trump publicly demanded that Hamas disarm before the rebuilding of Gaza could begin, he was right about one essential principle. Reconstruction without demilitarization is not peacebuilding. It is rearmament with better…

I grew up in Chicago in the 1990s when Michael Jordan was cementing his legacy as the greatest to ever do it. When I was a kid I remember listening to the radio in my bedroom during the Finals, hearing the neighborhood erupt when the Bulls…

In reaction to the NSW Police’s crackdown on anti-Israel protests, Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi, who is Muslim, made the following comments:

“We have known that we are second-class citizens in this country for a very long time. Now…

On February 3, 2026, Congress enacted the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, and tucked inside it was a consequential health-security measure: the United States–Abraham Accords Cooperation and Security Act. (BHFS)

Its core move is…