Anders Persson, at The Blogs

Oct 5, 2021, 3:49 PM

IHRA reminds me of the Mohammed cartoons

The Mohammed cartoons closed down the debate and made people afraid of discussing issues about Islam. There is now a big risk that IHRA’s definition and examples of antisemitism will go down the same path. Every time I raise...

Oct 29, 2020, 3:36 PM

Beware of the authoritarian peace Trump is making in the Middle East

Egypt and Jordan are less free and more authoritarian today than when they signed their peace treaties with Israel, according to Freedom House’s data. Will we see the same development with the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan? Israel’s recent normalization and peace...

Aug 9, 2020, 5:18 PM

Why has the EU been so obsessed with the Israeli-Arab conflict?

The EU flag painted at the West Bank wall in Bethlehem. Photo by the author.

The past years have seen many commemorations in the Israeli–Arab conflict: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration (2017), seventy years since Israel was created (2018), fifty years since the 1967 war (2017), thirty years since the first intifada (2017),...

Jul 19, 2020, 8:11 PM

Stalled Israeli annexation is a win for the world

Israel’s annexation of its West Bank settlements was supposed to have taken place right after Trump presented his ‘deal of the century’ in January this year, but it was stalled by officials in the Trump administration, reportedly by the...

May 16, 2019, 7:42 AM

Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ could become a new Sykes-Picot for the Middle East

Just like the Sykes-Picot agreement and the Treaty of Versailles were among the worst deals of the last century for the Middle East, Trump’s peace plan could become the worst deal of this century A hundred years ago this year,...

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Anders Persson is a political scientist at Linnaeus University, Sweden, specializing in EU-Israel/Palestine relations. His new book, EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967–2019, will be published by Edinburgh University Press in July. Twitter: @82AndersPersson

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