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Suez Canal to Jaffa Oranges: Jaffa Institute Founded

– by Martin Wein – 4/7/2024   June 13, 2024 was a “historic day” for the freedom of speech in the Holy Land. In Israel, Channel 13 received a new, presumably regime-loyal CEO, likely ending any critical TV coverage. This piece of news was important enough to be debated in a Haaretz editorial the week after. However, on the same […]

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This Is Not 1938: The Misuse and Afterlives of the Munich Agreement

– by Martin Wein – 23/6/2024   This is not 1938. It’s 2024. Since 1938, historical events have been called the 1938 equivalent, specifically in Israel. The year 1938 is usually a reference to the Munich Agreement, in which Western powers tried to “appease” Hitler and allowed for the breakup of Czechoslovakia, leading up to WWII. It is […]

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Is there a link between Gaza and the Shoah?

– by Martin Wein – 30/4/2024  It’s now eight decades since the Shoah and nearly the same after the First Nakba of 1948. The Shoah has been the textbook case of genocide, and the most documented and well-researched case — although probably not the largest, even if we add the millions of Christian victims, specifically […]

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Gaza-Israel Deaths: Why are we deluding ourselves?

– by Martin Wein – 28/3/2024  This article by Martin Wein was originally published in The Times Of Israel and published with the permission of the author. It discusses the unrealistically low representation of the death toll in the official records of both Hamas and Israel, and the reasons for their misrepresentations. Hamas death counts […]

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