the myth of russian might
One of those supposedly immutable laws of war is that you do not mess with Russia. Napoleon learned this in 1812. He invaded with 450,000...
Cheerleaders for Palestine ignore state of criminality
On the last day of April, Yehya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, delivered these instructions to the Palestinian people: “Let...
Revenge for 9/11, like the Holocaust, would be in thriving
A few weeks before the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945, a group of survivors of the Holocaust met in Bucharest to mark Passover,...
Revenge through Remembrance
Alex Ryvchin, Australian Jewish News, 1 April 2021 In The Jews of Silence, Elie Wiesel writes that there is only one reason why a Jew...
ICC's Israel stance betrays court's mandate, endangers western nations
Alex Ryvchin, Australian Institute of International Affairs In 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC) was facing a crisis. The...
Israel’s stand brings neighbours to the table
The White House has announced that Israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to sign a peace agreement which will see the two...
The Crisis of Zionism
When the French playwright Edmond Fleg attended Herzl’s Third Zionist Congress in Basel he marvelled at the scene. “I looked about me....
How Blindness to Antisemitism Threatens Parties and Movements
Keir Starmer, the post-Jeremy Corbyn leader of Britain's Labour Party, acted swiftly to demote a member of Parliament who tweeted an...
Palestinians choose ‘the cause’ over statehood
The latest US proposal to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been predictably rejected by the Palestinian side. In fact, it was...
Lest we forget? 75 years after Auschwitz, too many do
A new study released on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp has found that a quarter of French...