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Is Egypt Heading toward a Military Regime?
Europe and Israel
Could French Reporting on Israel Reflect a New Understanding?
The media in France show an inordinate interest in the Middle East and more specifically in the Palestinian issue and Israel. Read More »
Will Europe Define Hizbullah as a Terrorist Organization?
This is not the first time Europe has waffled when it comes to defining terrorism. Since the days of Maximilian Robespierre, the word Terreur has evoked horror and aversion and sparked philosophical and political debates. The organizations and militias that ... Read More »
Mordechai Nisan on Best of Times, Worst of Times: Memoirs of a Political Education by Walter Laqueur
Manfred Gerstenfeld on Never Again, Yet Again by Stephen D. Smith
Stephen D. Smith is a Christian theologian in his early forties. Together with his brother James, he founded the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre near Nottingham, England, which opened in 1995. Smith presently heads the Shoah Foundation Institute in Los Angeles ... Read More »
Manfred Gerstenfeld on Joop den Uyl 1919-1987: Dromer en doordouwer (Joop den Uyl 1919-1987: Dreamer and Pusher) by Anet Bleich
As a rule book reviews deal with the author’s basic message. Nonetheless, a book may contain information seemingly of secondary importance which can turn out to be of considerable interest, particularly for a journal devoted to Jewish political studies. One such case is the biography of Joop den Uyl, the late Dutch prime minister, which includes personal and political information bearing on his relationship with Jews and Israel. Joop den Uyl was a leader of the Dutch Labor Party. From 1973 to 1977, he served as prime minister of the most left-wing coalition government the Netherlands has ever known. His biographer, Anet Bleich is a well-known Dutch Jewish journalist, and her book attracted significant attention in the Netherlands. Read More »
Michelle Mazel on l’Europe et le spectre du Califat (Europe and the Specter of the Caliphate) by Bat Ye’or
Jewish Political Studies Review 23:1-2 (Spring 2011) Some books receive many reviews, critical or otherwise; others are met by a deafening silence. Such is the case with Europe and the Specter of the Caliphate, Bat Ye’Or’s latest contribution in her ceaseless ... Read More »
From Toulouse to Cairo
They would, in effect, be strengthening the movements that are currently undermining their internal security most directly. Read More »
Asaf Romirowsky on Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America by Kenneth L. Marcus
Jewish Political Studies Review 23:1-2 (Spring 2011) Why has the position of Jews at American universities deteriorated in the past decade and what can be done about it? Understanding the history of this dilemma requires going back a number of ... Read More »
Nidra Poller on Un Enfant Est Mort (A Child is Dead): Netzarim, 30 Septembre 2000, by Charles Enderlin
30 September 2000, Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip. State-owned France 2 TV airs footage of the allegedly fatal shooting, in real time, of a Palestinian youth and the critical wounding of his father, “targeted by gunfire from the Israeli position.” The news report, distributed free of charge to international media, created the icon of the Second Intifada, Muhammad al-Dura. Read More »
Looking Back on the Demjanjuk Trial in Munich*
In Munich, the seventeen-month trial of ninety-year-old Ivan (John) Demjanjuk, which may have been one of the last trials dealing with Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, ended with Demjanjuk’s conviction in May 2011. This trial was a novelty, marking one of the first times in German legal history that a non-German national had to stand trial for the murder, during the Third Reich, of non-German nationals that took place outside of Germany proper. Read More »
Institute for Global Jewish Affairs
The Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, established in 2008, includes the Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism Project as well as Changing Jewish Communities. Read More »
Sarkozy, Le monde juif et Israël
The book investigates political relations between France and Israel and compares the policy of Sarkozy with his predecessors. Read More »