Europe’s complicity has not only sustained the genocide of Palestinians, but also triggered a crisis of political legitimacy. If any political or moral credibility is to be salvaged, a different movement from below is needed.
In Japan and Germany, post-mortem cleaners have become unlikely interpreters of social breakdown. Four researchers from the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology consider the causes of and approaches to lonely death in advanced capitalist societies. What is owed to the dead, and by whom?
What began with attacks on Aleppo’s Kurdish neighbourhoods in January was only a starting symptom of a greater shift: in Syria and the entire region. In what form can Kurdish self-administration, as it is lived in Rojava’s regime of survival, have a future here?
“People unhappy with a state can call for a change in government, or in its regime, or they can call for the state’s eradication altogether”—this typology applies to Jewish criticism of Israel as well. Is the claim that such criticism is grounded in Jewish tradition really warranted?