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Isaac Nahon-Serfaty

Feb 17, 2026, 6:14 PM

Reactionary Moment: The Case of Venezuela

One nail drives out another. This popular saying fits perfectly to understand what we are witnessing in Venezuela and across the Western Hemisphere. It would also be appropriate to invoke Newton’s second law, which states that only a greater...

Dec 15, 2025, 8:32 AM

The Easy Target

I must confess that, while I am not an Orthodox Jew and am rather skeptical of any orthodoxy, I have a particular admiration for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Under the leadership of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), this movement,...

Aug 20, 2025, 9:56 PM

Letter to a young person living in Germany: Israel, Gaza and the lies they tell you

I know the "conversation" we had the other day was harsh, at least on my part. It wasn't really a conversation, but my reaction to your insistence that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, and that Israel's own prime...

Aug 3, 2024, 7:05 PM

Stolen elections and Islamist influence: Why Venezuela matters?

The stolen presidential elections in Venezuela that took place on July 28 have implications for the Americas, the Middle East and the world. This country in the north of South America has been in the epicentre of a global...

Jan 26, 2024, 8:27 PM

The intellectual fall of Nassim Nicholas Taleb and the explosion of ‘sincerity’

The massacre committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, caused many masks to fall, including the masks of public personalities who seemed to be solid thinkers or meritorious academics. That day the floodgates of “sincerity” opened, putting several intellectual...

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Isaac Nahon-Serfaty is Professor in the Department of communication at the University of Ottawa (Canada). He studies visual representations of the grotesque in public space, including terrorist propaganda.

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