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Europe The Pickle

The Soviet-Jewish experience, revisited

A new book presents ambivalence as its core motif.

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Europe The Far Right The Pickle

Italy’s new Jew-ish bogeyman

Elly Schlein is taking on Meloni’s “post-fascists”.

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Europe Palestine-Israel The Pickle

Palestinians deserve a say on anti-semitism

Zionism has inextricably linked our oppressions.

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Europe Interview Palestine-Israel

Meet Yuval Gal, the anti-Zionist Israeli running in the Dutch elections

Gal left Israel aged thirty, appalled by the country’s trajectory. Now he’s continuing the fight against injustice from the Netherlands.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Europe Opinion

Why are anticolonial academics being accused of antisemitism?

Because we’ve uncoupled antisemitism from the coloniality of race – something Israel’s advocates are only too pleased about.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Europe Report

Spain’s Jews gave Vox an easy ride. Now they’re regretting it

Many Jewish organisations sat idly by while the far-right stoked Islamophobia. It was only a matter of time, however, before the party and its supporters came for them, too.

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Europe Report The Far Right

A faustian pact between Chabad and Orbán

How Hungarian Ultra-Orthodoxy found an ally in Europe’s most notorious antisemite.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Europe Jewish Culture Review

Will the last Jew to leave Europe please turn out the lights?

Joann Sfar has been called France’s “messiah of the comic book”. His buoyantly optimistic early work rewrote narratives of Jewish-Muslim animosity by sketching a shared history and delineating a path forward for interfaith relations. So why is Sfar’s new novel so full of despair?