Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Robert S. Wistrich http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 25 May 2013 08:23:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Holocaust Remembrance Day — a somber anniversary http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-remembrance-day-a-somber-anniversary/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-remembrance-day-a-somber-anniversary/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:32:20 +0000 Robert S. Wistrich http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=98516 International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013 inspires some somber reflections about the position of Israel in the world today and the lessons of history. It is no secret that we have been witnessing a steadily escalating campaign in the Western world and among certain international organizations (including NGOs) to delegitimize Israel. On university campuses this takes [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-remembrance-day-a-somber-anniversary/feed/ 0 The sinister alliance of the Islamist-Marxist axis http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-sinister-alliance-of-the-islamist-marxist-axis/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-sinister-alliance-of-the-islamist-marxist-axis/#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:59:04 +0000 Robert S. Wistrich http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=58110 Since the year 2000, there has been an increasing convergence between those who belong to the radical left and those who promote Islamism in the West. One of the key areas in cementing their rapprochement has been the Palestinian question. The new “alliance” was further reinforced during the past decade by the Iraq war, the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-sinister-alliance-of-the-islamist-marxist-axis/feed/ 7 Blind in one eye: Galtung and the toxic European left http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/blind-in-one-eye-galtung-and-the-toxic-european-left/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/blind-in-one-eye-galtung-and-the-toxic-european-left/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 03:16:29 +0000 Robert S. Wistrich http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=25684 The dark spirit of anti-Western ressentiment and knee-jerk anti-Zionism that has come to characterize a growing sector of Europe’s intellectual left is no secret to seasoned observers of these cultural pathologies. The world-renowned 82-year-old Norwegian Professor Johan Galtung – who over fifty years ago founded Oslo’s International Peace Research Institute – is only the most recent prime [...]

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