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For decades, politics was perceived as a legitimate space for debating priorities. Right and left disagreed on economic distribution, state borders, and the character of society – but they did so within an agreed-upon framework and a shared…

When I watched the video of the car ramming into the World Chabad Headquarters early this morning, I was horrified—not only by the act itself, but by how easy it was to carry out.

In today’s antisemitic climate, violence against Jewish…

The shooting spree and mass murder of 15 people on Bondi Beach in Sydney at a Chanukah event on 14 December 2025 did not occur in a vacuum. It was a culmination of more than two years of vilification and demonisation of Jews and Israel, and…

How African Political Systems Limited Power, Enforced Law, and Sustained Order While Europe Fragmented

Series Introduction

History is often taught as if effective governance followed a single European arc—from Roman law to feudalism to…

The war in Gaza has become more than a humanitarian catastrophe and a regional shock. It has also accelerated and exposed a widening strategic rift between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates—two states whose partnership once anchored…

Words matter. A few years back, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, known as the Claims Conference, conducted a digital campaign called “#ItStartedWithWords” to put the spotlight on the rhetoric of hatred that…

Following the widespread protests against the Ayatollah regime that began on December 28, 2025 in Iran by millions inside the country, US and European news outlets and Middle East analysts have failed to discuss the numerous positive…

The Palestine Precedent—Defined

The Palestine Precedent refers to the post-2009 transformation of recognition doctrine in which a substantial number of states extended recognition to a claimed sovereign entity absent the Montevideo…

The counter was removed Tuesday, on the 843^rd day of October 7. The day after Ran Gvili’s return to Israel, the day before his burial. No more hostages in Gaza. Not a single Israeli hostage in Gaza for the first time since 2014. Good cause…

The home of Georgian Jews represents a major crossroad for multiple cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. Human histories and fates that intersected at this juncture had shaped each other’s material culture from time…