Peter Biro, at The Blogs

May 13, 2024, 12:51 AM

Thoughts on Israel’s public relations disaster

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 26: Pro-Palestinian supporters continue to organize a protest encampment on the campus of Columbia University on April 26, 2024 in New York City. All classes at Columbia University have been held virtually today after school President Minouche Shafik announced a shift to online learning in response to recent campus unrest. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

It is well known that Israel is seen in a negative light worldwide, and one has become accustomed to it in its traditionally milder form. What is new is the vehement outbreak of global hatred towards Israel, which is...

Apr 28, 2024, 12:06 AM

The infamy of anti-Israeli protest movements in the Western world

The actual vociferous and media-effective spectacle of anti-Israeli protests in Western countries, in which Israel is confronted with unfounded accusations, is unfortunately unsurprising. In the so called “global South”, which is mainly composed of authoritarian dictatorships and failed states,...

Oct 11, 2023, 8:00 PM

What will surely come as an automated reflex

The brutality of Hamas in the first hours when the localities around Gaza were left vulnerable to marauding gangs will soon be forgotten. The mass murder of defenseless civilians, mostly families with children and elderly people, including Holocaust survivors,...

Jun 29, 2021, 12:13 AM

The inevitable compassion with the underdog

The Collins Dictionary explains the term “underdog” as follows: The underdog in a competition or situation is the person who seems least likely to succeed or win. In other words, the underdog is an inherently inferior party to the...

Apr 23, 2020, 10:24 PM

About the dangers of prolonged home quarantine

It has been long enough explained how important is to isolate oneself in the times of a virulent pandemic. We were told to restrict our freedom of movement and to sit still on the sofa for as long as...

Apr 3, 2020, 7:27 PM

Interview with a corona virus

Directly on the door handle to the parking garage under the opera house, I unexpectedly met Virginia Crown, a female coronavirus who was just about to ambush an unprotected opera visitor. Careful as I am, I wore gloves when...

Jan 9, 2019, 11:16 AM

An evolutionary approach to understanding xenophobia and anti-Semitism

Xenophobia is a widespread phenomenon in all human cultures and manifests itself in a variety of forms: from aversion to strange-looking, foreign neighbours with their unfamiliar behaviour, to a genocide against a group of people, preferably a defenceless minority,...

Dec 30, 2018, 2:57 PM

About the origins of the Ashkenazi Jews

We live in times of vividly proliferating political correctness, when deviating remarks from the declared “all humans are equal” attitude is met with vociferous rejection of real or self-declared progressives. Dealing with differences in ethnicity, or even with so-called...

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As a single child of Shoa survivors, Peter emigrated from socialist Romania to Germany in 1970. Two decades later he moved to Switzerland, where he worked as a Senior Physician and Professor of Anesthesiology until his retirement in 2022. He occasionally writes satirical short stories in German literature magazines and in Romanian for the Transylvanian online journal Baabel.ro. He also published books about his childhood memories from socialist Romania in the 60ies and 70ies as well as several collections of satirical short stories. For Peter, humor is a vital substance whose importance is surpassed only by oxygen, water and vanilla pudding.

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