Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر
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Professor @ SOAS, University of London. Multilingual account solely dedicated to informing about my publications and activities. Started in March 2023.
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Al-Aqsa Flood, the West and the Holocaust: A Conversation
The rising wave of condemnation of Israel’s genocidal war and solidarity with the Palestinian people has occurred despite Al-Aqsa Flood rather than thanks to it.
@megaphone_news
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A Critique of Adam Tooze’s Take on Gramsci
In the latest instalment of his Chartbook blog,
@adam_tooze
criticizes what he calls “interregnum”-talk, which he attributes to a much overquoted sentence excerpted from Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks.
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ON HAMAS’S OCTOBER COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
#Gaza
,
#GazaUnderAttack
Repeated requests for an analysis of the ongoing events prompted me to write these initial comments:
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On Gramsci's Concept of Hegemony
Given the interest aroused by the discussion of
@adam_tooze
's take on Gramsci, here is an article discussing the concept of hegemony applied to Arab states. It is in open access.
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My booklet "Israel's War on Gaza" () now in South Korea. The presentation says: "The translation was handled by 'Palestine Peace Solidarity', which has been promoting the reality of Palestine in Korea and working on the BDS movement since 2003."
리시올의 2024년 첫 책인 질베르 아슈카르의 «이스라엘의 가자 학살»이 출간되었습니다. 번역은 2003년부터 한국에 팔레스타인의 현실을 알리고 BDS 운동에 힘써 온 ‘팔레스타인 평화 연대’에서 맡아 주셨습니다.
@gilbertachcar
@pps_kr
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EMEP'in Uluslararası Ortadoğu Konferansı: Halklar ancak kendi gücüne güvenebilir
@evrenselgzt
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Quand l’accusation d’antisémitisme devient une arme entre les mains du néofascisme
Netanyahu est devenu le chouchou de l’extrême droite mondiale en raison de ses efforts assidus pour laver ses camarades du monde entier de l’accusation d’antisémitisme...
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The Whitening of European Jews and the Misuse of Holocaust Memory
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GAZA: THE IMPENDING CATASTROPHE AND THE URGENCY OF STOPPING IT
#GazaAttack
,
#Gaza_under_attack
,
#Gazagenocide
In the last few days, Gaza has epitomized the global North-South divide more than any other conflict in contemporary history. ...
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What is the political endgame of Israel’s current Gaza war? For
@newlinesmag
, Middle East scholar
@gilbertachcar
examines two scenarios and maps out what they might entail for Israel, for the Palestinians and for the region.
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THE FIRST US-ISRAELI JOINT WAR
The Israeli military forces’ war on Gaza, following Hamas’s 7 October attack, is the first Israeli war in which Washington is a cobelligerent (OPEN ACCESS)
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Anti-Fascism and the Fall of Atlanticist Liberalism
through the collusion of its leaders with an Israeli state that is committing in the Gaza Strip the most heinous deliberate genocidal war waged by an industrialized state since the Nazi genocide.
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Here's a clip from my interview with
@poletheoryother
on my new book, The New Cold War - the full interview will be out tomorrow.
From the forthcoming episode with
@gilbertachcar
- Gilbert describes how Russia's economic collapse in the 1990s, and Western support for Boris Yeltsin's assault on the Russian parliament in 1993, helped lay the basis for the rise of Putin and Russian revanchism:
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Rivals in the Service of Empire: Abu Dhabi, Qatar and the United States
My latest piece, just released by
@Noria_Research
and skillfully edited by
@CPowers1986
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After his "FULLY, FULLY, FULLY" last Wed, Biden's new statement yesterday: "No administration has helped Israel more than I have. NONE. NONE, NONE." He's so proud of enabling a genocidal war. We should petition the ICC to add Joe Biden on their warrants list.
Biden yesterday: "Make no mistake, the United States is FULLY, FULLY, FULLY supportive of Israel"
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My book The New Cold War selected here among
The best books on the genesis of the “second" Cold War
@haymarketbooks
@SaqiBooks
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This Friday 6 October at 11am US ET, 4pm London time, an online conversation with host Sadia Abbas (
@RutgersEurope
) and guest
@SimonPirani1
on The New Cold War
@haymarketbooks
,
@SaqiBooks
Register here:
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THE PLAN TO COMPLETE THE NAKBA REVEALED
A document leaked in recent days confirms that the Zionist right is trying to implement its old “Greater Israel” project.
An English translation of my latest Arabic column for Al-Quds al-Arabi is available on my blog:
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Strategic Reflections on the Escalation of Israeli Intimidation in Lebanon
On intimidation, terrorism, asymmetric war, deterrence, counter-deterrence, and the Dahiya doctrine in the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Lebanon
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1,158,261 Americans murdered in three weeks!
Netanyahu to Biden, Oct 18: "On Oct 7th, Hamas murdered 1,400 Israelis... This would be equivalent to over 50,000 Americans murdered in a single day. That’s 20 9/11s." (accurate figures: ratio of Israel's 9.8M to US 333M x 1,400 =
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I was asked by a BBC World journalist on Thursday if I believed that Palestine was going to be granted full UN membership and why I believed that such recognition would be merely symbolic. Here are my answers:
1. It looks like the application won't get through because the Biden
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LA NOUVELLE GUERRE FROIDE: ETATS-UNIS, RUSSIE ET CHINE, DU KOSOVO A L'UKRAINE
Ravi de vous annoncer la parution en français de mon dernier livre, publié en anglais il y a quelques mois :
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The first translation of my latest book The New Cold War has just come out. It is Albanian! An Arabic and Turkish editions are on their way.
@haymarketbooks
,
@SaqiBooks
,
@roam_agency
,
@lea_ypi
,
@BrankoMilan
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رسالة مفتوحة إلى حكومات البلدان المصدّرة للنفط والغاز الأعضاء في جامعة الدول العربية
قبل خمسين عاماً، إبان حرب أكتوبر 1973، قمتم بإعلان مقاطعة الدول الداعمة لدولة إسرائيل وقد كان لإعلانكم وقعٌ عظيم على العالم.
إن حرب الإبادة الجارية اليوم في قطاع غزة تفوق وحشية وفتكاً ودماراً كل
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War of narratives:
My statement about Gaza etc., the response of Israel's former National Security Adviser and my reply - 11 mins (the whole 45' program is available online).
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This is the recording of the talk that I gave at KCL:
📢NEW EPISODE📢
@gilbertachcar
on the socioeconomic roots of the Arab Spring and how - despite counter-revolution and civil war - the MENA region is anything but restabilised, and instead remains embroiled in a long-term revolutionary process:
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GAZA: BETWEEN A SECOND CHAPTER OF THE NAKBA AND THE REVIVAL OF THE OSLO FICTION
An English translation of my latest Arabic column for Al-Quds al-Arabi is available on my blog:
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Interview on Al-Jazeera about Israel's onslaught on Lebanon/Hezbollah
Earlier today
@AJEnglish
(6 minutes)
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My book shows how "another world WAS possible". Understanding how we got to the dreadful situation in which we now are (this applies to international relations as well as to climate change btw) is key to knowing what MUST be changed as long as "another world IS STILL possible.
📻 Weekend listening 📻 -
@gilbertachcar
on his new book, 'The New Cold War: The US, Russia and China - from Kosovo to Ukraine', in which he argues that our perilous global situation is rooted in events and key decisions made during the 1990s:
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NARCISSISTIC COMPASSION
I defined it in 2002, in a comment on Western media coverage of 9/11, as "a form of compassion evoked much more by calamities striking “people like us,” much less by calamities affecting people unlike us."
Excerpt posted here:
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« L’Iran s’est trouvé mis au pied du mur par l’attaque contre son consulat »
L'entretien que j'ai accordé aujourd'hui au journal L'Humanité.
Texte intégral:
Site de L'Huma:
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Palestine-Israël : Où va-t-on après Gaza et la nouvelle Nakba ?
A l'invitation des Amis du Diplo
@amisdiplo
, j'interviendrai samedi 16 mars à Paris à 19h ainsi qu'à 14h, le même jour, à l’Hôtel de ville de Versailles.
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Hezbollah’s Miscalculation
The party fell into the trap set by Israel, by insisting on continuing to exchange fire with it “until a ceasefire in Gaza”, while it became clear that the weight of the battle was shifting from the wracked Strip to Lebanon.
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What’s behind the accusation of antisemitism hurled at Karim Khan
If all the Zionist and pro-Israel rage against ICC prosecutor Khan’s position indicates anything, it is the importance of this position, which it is no exaggeration to describe as historic.
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Another topical excerpt from my 2002 THE CLASH OF BARBARISMS, :
Each civilization has its own barbarism. Some people cut throats... Others ... kill massively at a distance... Some people hijack airliners so as to use them as missiles to murder civilians.
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Interesting parallels: Sociology banned in DeSantis's Florida after Stalin's USSR
"Florida will no longer allow a sociology course to count toward students’ graduation requirements at state universities, replacing it with a class that officials say will teach “factual history” in
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THE NEW COLD WAR BETWEEN THE US, RUSSIA AND CHINA
Don’t miss the great debate that I had with
@RobinNiblett
at the Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival 2023 on 14 October. It was moderated by
@Peter_Conradi
and took place in the city’s Town Hall, packed with an
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Interesting views by Dr Samah Jabr, chair of the mental health unit of Gaza's ministry of health in today's Observer. But why do Western media feel the need to say "Hamas-run Palestinian ministry of health"? So, why not Shas-run Israeli ministry of health or Tory-run British
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Under the Pretext of “Antisemitism”, the Suppression of the Palestinian People is Accompanied by an Attempt to Suppress the Defense of their Cause
(changed link)
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Orientalism: Found this ad in the New York Times, 1902, from a time were (Egyptian) Arabs were cigarettes :-)
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Le succès de Starmer prouve-t-il que la gauche doit se « recentrer » ?
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Israel shoots, the US place the bullets, and Europe acts as silencer...
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Anyone who believes that Israel is merely exercising a "right to self-defense" in its ongoing genocidal war on Gaza will be surprised to read the following premonitory comment that I made about Gaza in 2009, 14 years ago:
The 33-Day War in 2006 was already the most brutal
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ندوة ف��رية حول واقع اليسار العربي وآفاقه
تتشرف مختصة العمل الفكري لمنظمة الحزب الشيوعي العراقي في بريطانيا بدعوتكم لحضور محاضرة بعنوان: "واقع اليسار العربي وآفاقه المستقبلية" يلقيها البروفيسور في دراسات التنمية والعلاقات الدولية في معهد الدراسات الشرقية والأفريقية (سواس) في جامعة
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Of all Netanyahu rivals "not a single one is willing to ... withdraw from the entire Gaza Strip ... no one is genuinely in favor of ending the war and freeing the hostages ... no one intends ever to withdraw to the pre-1967 borders..."
Gideon Levy in Haaretz, 25 Aug. 2024
The head of the "Democrats" (Israeli "Left") on the FT today: "We should take the risk of having a much wider confrontation with Hizbollah ... Israel should keep 'security responsibility' in both the occupied West Bank and Gaza “until we are able to trust” the Palestinians..."
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My brand-new website:
Mon nouveau site :
موقعي الجديد
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مقالي لهذا الأسبوع، وهو متوفر كالعادة على موقعي () في حال كان موقع "القدس العربي" محجوباً لديك.
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Rafah and El Fasher: Genocidal War and Duty of Solidarity
While the Israeli army is preparing to attack Rafah, in South Gaza, the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces are preparing to attack El Fasher, in North Darfur...
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Israel’s Genocidal War After Four Months
English translation of my latest column for Al-Quds al-Arabi.
"Four months have elapsed since the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation and the start of the Zionist genocidal war that ensued. ..."
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When the accusation of antisemitism becomes a weapon in the hands of neofascism
Netanyahu has become the darling of the global far right because of his tireless efforts to clear his mates around the world from the accusation of antisemitism.
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On the Murder of Children and the Return of Genocide to Banality
My latest article for Al-Quds al-Arabi, translated from Arabic.
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Whither Israel’s War on Gaza?
It now seems probable that, by the end of this year 2023, the Zionist state will change the course of the war that it launched against the Gaza Strip and move to a new phase.
Adapted from my Arabic column published today.
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Another Left Is Possible
My keynote speech at the founding conference of Zabalaza for Socialism, a new eco-socialist, feminist and anti-racist organization in South Africa.
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ألف مبروك، يا محمد، مع الأمل بصدور كتاب مستند إلى اطروحتك في أقرب وقت.
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Another great review of The New Cold War by
@promiseli0
in
@NewPoliticsMag
, attn:
@haymarketbooks
,
@SaqiBooks
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@BrankoMilan
Many thanks again! Very gratifying that the book has been praised by great experts such as Noam Chomsky,
@samuelmoyn
, and Branko Milanovic. Although the mainstream media have shunned it, some of them (
@guardian
) even declining to get a review copy! (One exception:
@IrishTimes
)
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Quoted in the Washington Post (online today):
Achcar, the SOAS professor, said that the Oslo accords contained no provision to stop settlement building, which has exploded in the intervening decades. “To have the Palestinians accept something like a two-state solution, you would
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A reader sent me this morning the attached quote from my commenting: "Could have been written a week ago with a couple of name changes." Indeed.
@SaqiBooks
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The Crisis is Permanent: Middle East and North Africa After 2011
On the MENA region since the 2011 “Arab Spring,” and why this region has been in continuous upheaval ever since that year.
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GAZA, THE WEST, AND THE REST
By: Gilbert Achcar October 29, 2023
[Editors’ note: A major American liberal daily solicited from Gilbert Achcar an article about the ongoing Gaza war, but ended up rejecting his submission as “not a good fit for us.”]
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BOMBING OF GAZA, GENESIS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE
A webinar on Monday, with Yanis Varoufakis and me
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الأزمة دائمة
"سوف أشارككم آرائي في حالة المنطقة منذ «الربيع العربي» لعام 2011، وأحاول شرح سبب الاضطرابات المستمرة التي باتت تشهدها منذ ذلك الحين..."
محاضرة ألقيتها في يناير الماضي بمناسبة صدور الطبعة الإنكليزية الثانية من كتابي «الشعب يريد»
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مثقفون عرب يطالبون الدول العربية المصدّرة للنفط والغاز بوقف صادراتها لكل الدول الداعمة لإسرائيل
لندن-“القدس العربي”: أطلق عدد من المثقفين والمثقفات من شتى الدول العربية عريضة على الإنترنت () تطالب الدول العربية المصدّرة للنفط والغاز
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The US Administration’s Hypocrisy and Israel’s Insolence
"It is truly astonishing that Washington abstained in voting on the resolution adopted by the UN Security Council on Monday..."
English translation of my latest column for Al-Quds al-Arabi.
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'Sheer hypocrisy': Biden administration 'fully backing, enabling, empowering Netanyahu government'
@France24_en
yesterday evening. First published with the whole news program at
Then clipped out here (7 minutes):
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However dreadful some aspects of Hamas’s operation have been, they are not a continuation of Nazi imperialist violence in any meaningful historical perspective. They are inscribed instead in two very different historical cycles:
GAZA: THE IMPENDING CATASTROPHE AND THE URGENCY OF STOPPING IT
#GazaAttack
,
#Gaza_under_attack
,
#Gazagenocide
In the last few days, Gaza has epitomized the global North-South divide more than any other conflict in contemporary history. ...
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Dear fellow tweeters. Most of you have been "following" my account for several years, without seeing any tweet. This is my very first tweet indeed. From now on, I will be sending announcements about publications and related events. Thank you very much for your interest.
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The Zionist Genocidal War and Its Accomplices
English translation of my latest article in Arabic for Al-Quds al-Arabi.
Excerpt: The truth is that the current aggression against Gaza constitutes, in the clearest possible form, a genocidal war that includes
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Joe Biden’s Crime Against Humanity
He will alas not stand in the dock before the ICC. But the court of history, which is the fairest of criminal courts, will include his name prominently on the list of perpetrators of crimes against humanity. (ICYMI)
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"Some observers did get it right. None more so than Professor Gilbert Achcar whose ... book The People Want stands out for its refusal to pull punches when questioning the prevailing liberal doxa." F. Ghiles
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Gaza: is there any plan for ‘the day after’?
by Gilbert Achcar, Le Monde diplomatique, English edition,
@LMdiplo
, June 2024
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On The Arabs and the Holocaust and Israel's misuse of Holocaust memory
I stumbled by chance upon this book-related interview from Oct. 2011 at Berkeley, nicely illustrated with docu footage and pics by
@DavidZlutnick
. Very topical.
@HenryHolt
,
@SaqiBooks
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"Tehran found itself backed into a corner by the attack on its consulate."
Translation of the interview I gave today to L'Humanité, the French Communist Party's daily.
Original's webpage:
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Bombing of Gaza: Genesis, Human Rights & Justice
The webinar organised by
@PUCLindia
with
@yanisvaroufakis
and myself is now available online:
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Hypocrisy: The Conflict of Zionist Hawks and Vultures
What is the conflict within the Zionist power elite about? Do not believe that it is a conflict between hawks and doves as the Western media portrays it...
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Remarks on a tendentious review of my booklet, Israel’s War on Gaza
Fathom, a Zionist online journal, published by BICOM, posted a long review of the compilation of recent writings of mine that Resistance Books gathered in a booklet titled Israel’s War on Gaza.
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US 'practising doublespeak' by opposing ceasefire and distancing itself from Gaza toll
Interview with France 24 English today at 1pm GMT.
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Great exchange with Alex Doherty for his brilliant podcast program
Please consider subscribing and supporting.
The exchange, which is close to 100-minute long, is available in full at
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ISRAEL veut faire du LIBAN un nouveau GAZA
Interview avec Frank Barat (with automatic English subtitles)
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Under the Pretext of “Antisemitism”, the Suppression of the Palestinian People is Accompanied by an Attempt to Suppress the Defense of their Cause
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Cette nouvelle guerre froide, pour ne pas la nommer
Dans
@RevueBallast
, cet article sur la notion de nouvelle guerre froide qui s'appuie sur mon dernier ouvrage paru chez
@EdCroquant
:
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THE WEST CANNOT ESCAPE THE EXTENSION OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
This interview given in French to ProtestInfo, a Swiss Protestant press agency, has been published by three Swiss dailies. Here is the English translation.
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The Zionist Project’s Duality: Escaping Racist Oppression and Reproducing It in Colonial Context
A timely reading indeed. I was told this morning that it has just been translated into Greek:
The English original is here:
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An anti-totalitarianism that only sees antisemitism as the evil’s root, while ignoring the colonial legacy that is no less horrific than the Nazis' crimes, is unable to overcome the white supremacist complex that presided over the greatest crimes of modern times.
Anti-Fascism and the Fall of Atlanticist Liberalism
through the collusion of its leaders with an Israeli state that is committing in the Gaza Strip the most heinous deliberate genocidal war waged by an industrialized state since the Nazi genocide.
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I am pleased that my piece, "Engels: theorist of war, theorist of revolution" (), a translation of the 1997 French original "Engels, penseur de la guerre, penseur de la révolution" (), has been translated into Chinese:
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Over 1% of Gaza's population have been killed in 10 weeks: that same proportion would mean 3.3 million people killed in the US and 670,000 in the UK.
Israeli response to Oct 7th 'equivalent to a weapon of mass destruction over civilian population'
My interview yesterday with France 24 English
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On BBC World News less than one hour ago
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Lebanon and the Israeli Strategy of Intimidation
This article was written hours before the mass terrorist act that targeted Hezbollah members through pagers in the afternoon of 17 September, thus enhancing its title’s topicality.
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Voilà enfin un philosophe digne de Netanyahu !
At last, here is a philosopher worthy of Netanyahu!
¡Por fin tenemos un filósofo digno de Netanyahu!
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Just found this recent review (23 April) of my 2016 book Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising
@stanfordpress
,
@SaqiBooks
in an improbable outlet
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من الطرافة أن لكلمة "قمة" معنايين باللغة العربية: قِمة تعني أعلى كل شيء وقُمة تعني زبالة...
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