I wrote this short review of Jeffrey Herf's book quite a long time ago, in the pre-October 7 era...it only came out now. Perhaps some of it still makes sense, but there is also a deafening silence that is hard to ignore...
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The GloBio reading group sessions for 2024/2025 are set! With sessions on 'Global Microhistory', 'The City and the Self', and 'Biographies, Cold War Espionage, and Deception' it promises to be yet another exciting season... You can sign up here: www.global.bio/upcoming-eve...
I wrote this as a micro-contribution to the current moment. Old ideas with perhaps just a tiny bit of new relevance for some...
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The BostonReview has published my views on the Gaza-genocide debate. I resist the temptation of deciding "genocide or not" to highlight the just-as-troubling acceptance of permanent security's terrible violence in international law and politics. www.bostonreview.net/articles/mor...
In an attempt to briefly distract myself and hopefully some of you on here: the programme for our GloBio reading group for this academic year. Sign-up via www.global.bio or by sending an email to info@global.bio.
This is for the Jewish/Israeli anti-Apartheid left. If it's not you - scroll on.
On our priorities now, a thread.
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