Tobias Gisle

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Jan 13, 2025, 5:00 PM

Tim Snyder Understands Fascism, But not Israel

When I heard Timothy Snyder was going to speak about the Israel-Hamas war, I was excited. This polyglot professor of the Holocaust, Nazism, Communism, and the Ukraine-Russia war has offered stunning insights into the nature of fascism, populism, and...

Jan 5, 2025, 8:03 AM

What Yuval Noah Harari got wrong about terror

Yemenis set fire to US and Israeli flags during a demonstration in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on December 27, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Don't think terrorists are trivial just because their goals don’t lead to democracy; they are powerful, their ideas inspire millions, and we must fight them

Jul 22, 2020, 9:48 AM

What to do when you are wrong

Ever been wrong about something? Ever had to backtrack? It's hard, isn’t it? For many people backtracking on something you believe in just isn’t an option. We all know the worst-case scenarios, the fact that people can be molded...

Jul 8, 2020, 9:21 AM

Palme, Rabin and the Murderers of Hope

”Satans Mördare!” Damn Killers! Are perhaps the most famous words of the Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme. He was talking about the Franco dictatorship in Spain that was executing anti-fascist rebels by firing squad. It was...

Jun 3, 2020, 6:50 PM

Its About Race, Stupid

”Its obviously not about race” Sam Harris said in his podcast a few weeks ago, talking about the root causes of the Trump phenomenon. Now Sam Harris is a brilliant thinker in many ways, but here he shows the...

May 1, 2020, 9:40 AM

Pitfalls and Promise in National Myths

That internet troll that is the prime minister’s son had his own pearls to give about the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Day Ceremony that takes place every year on Israel’s Memorial Day. “We have one day in a year to...

Apr 26, 2020, 12:48 PM

Fossil Fuel Free Futures

When the Oil Era Ends What if all the fossil fuels stopped being used? All of a sudden the taps were switched off in the oil rigs, the gas rigs and coal mines would grind to a halt. There would...

Mar 31, 2020, 10:30 AM

We Need to Talk About Religion

A biblical pandemic stalks the earth and swarms of locusts are working their way through parts of Africa and Asia. Perhaps now is the time to pray and take comfort in religion. Perhaps. When religion is used in this...

Mar 2, 2020, 12:28 AM

Keep Looking Left, the Right Has Nothing for Us

Tomorrow is groundhog… Sorry I mean election day. So, we are stuck in the same conundrum, who to choose and why. On one hand we have Netanyahu, with friends like terrorist friendly Ben Gvir, Mr annexation Bennet, “lets pack the...

Nov 4, 2019, 3:52 PM

Personal responsibility for the environment?

What is our own environmental responsibility? In the scale of the destruction that is going on against the natural world it seems obvious to many people that we need to make better choices. So people who care often choose...

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About Me

Toby Gisle is 47 years old, has a Masters in Middle Eastern Studies and is a trained circus performer who now works as an English teacher in Tel Aviv. He is from Sweden but raised in London. His writings have been published in Sweden and the UK in publications such as Unherd, Omvärlden, Ordfront and Fokus.

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