Back in the ghetto

The Israeli Right nurtures the image of the nation of Israel as a bastion under eternal siege but fails to see that Israel is laying siege to the Palestinians. The window of opportunity opened by the Oslo agreement has been closed for good, fears Göran Rosenberg. [Italian version added] [more]

The unwinnable war

An interview with Zygmunt Bauman

In the East, impoverished masses are lured into anti-Westernism; in the West, the State seeks to regain its legitimacy via the War on Terror. A vicious cycle of global insecurity is underway. [more]

All history is the history of migration

Throughout history, the ambivalent presence of the migrant Other has aroused extremes of sentiment within the host community. [more]

Religion and the profane

"The difference between the success of Islam and the failure of Marxism is that [...] Islam never claimed that work is sacred." Ernest Gellner, speaking in 1995, draws surprising comparisons between Marxism and Islam. [more]