K., Jews, Europe, 21st century

Jürgen Habermas passed away today at the age of 96. The greatest thinker of post-Shoah Europe never yielded on the centrality of the Jewish question neither in his work, nor in his public interventions. K. had the honor of publishing his last analysis : k-larevue.com/.../from-here-…

"What characterizes anti-Zionism is an enthusiasm for the idea that the end of Zionism will free us, here in Europe, from what has inhibited the pursuit of emancipation." "Unabashed anti-Zionism and a clear conscience" by Gustave Kaplan : k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/08/…

"Ben Gurion made clear what he thought of Israel’s ongoing occupation of the territories conquered in 67. They must be returned if Israel wants to remain a democratic state with a Jewish majority population" How the Israeli government is betraying Zionism:k-larevue.com/en/2025/10/30/…

"The symbolic appropriation of the wars actually waged by Israel deprives Israeli society of its autonomy, its ability to define itself and defend its own interests." Read the text by @noemie_issan & Elie Beressi : k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/16/…

"He who assumes himself to be Jewish should try to stand above the events, not in the unhuman geopolitical distance, but in a distance that permits him to commit himself to his specifically Jewish obligations." ➡️k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/29/…

"Yiddish is a stubborn language, full of contradiction, angry; tired and alive, perpetually thrown into the ironic game of misunderstandings, slips, double meanings; a tender language too, intimate, deep, mysterious." ➡️k-larevue.com/en/2021/06/23/…

"To meet the expectations for Judaism’s specialness, Israel would have to demonstrate something beyond the politics of power found in all other states and contribute to the world " ➡️k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/29/…

Amidst the advertising signs for Sukkot and bakery windows filled with matzos, live the Lamed Vovniks of Brooklyn. Susan Daitch immerses us in urban Jewish life, introducing us to a cast of colorful and unexpected characters. ➡️ k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/29/…

"To be Jewish is to assume special obligations toward mankind, and these obligations have to do with justice." October 1973 – Vilém Flusser’s “The Jewish War” : k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/29/…

As the debate exhausts its own language, Gadi Luzzatto Voghera argues that “antisemitism” no longer captures the changing forms of anti-Jewish hatred—and proposes “J-Hate” not as an act of rupture but of responsibility ➡️Read the full text : k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/22/…

Zionism aimed to free Jewish destiny from antisemitism. However, today, Israel’s actions are justified by the idea of eternal hatred. Alexandre Journo calls for a self-criticism of Zionism. Not as a concession, but as a condition of its fulfillment : k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/22/…

After Gaza, Israel and Germany: In Berlin, Haaretz and the Heinrich Böll Foundation asked how Germany can balance historical responsibility toward Jews and Israel with the demands of international law, without blindness. k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/15/…

Claude Lanzmann would have turned 100. To mark the occasion, Danny Trom revisits the debates surrounding the representation of the Shoah, highlighting the tension between the attempt to keep the event strictly contemporary and the movement of life. k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/15/…

"The sacred object in post-Shoah Europe—both desirable and forbidden, i.e., taboo—is nothing more than a certain peace of mind, a state of calm consciousness." Unabashed anti-Zionism and a clear conscience : k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/08/…

Where does the idea that Israel does the West’s “dirty work” come from? Why do both anti-Zionists and pro-Israelis converge on this rhetoric? Noémie Issan-Benchimol,Elie Beressi excavate the Christian roots of the mythical figure of the sacred executioner k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/16/…

"As with all first women, there was pressure to do as well as or better than a man in this role. People told me they were "waiting for me to slip up." I received threats, even physical ones at times." Interview with P. Bebe, France’s first woman rabbi : k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/08/…

Claude Lanzmann would have turned 100. To mark the occasion, Danny Trom revisits the debates surrounding the representation of the Shoah, highlighting the tension between the attempt to keep the event strictly contemporary and the movement of life. ➡️k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/15/…

Where does the claim that Israel does the West’s “dirty work” come from? Noémie Issan-Benchimol & Elie Beressi trace the Christian roots of this shared rhetoric of the “sacred executioner. k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/16/…

French economist and philosopher Frédéric Lordon put forward a strange proposition in a text entitled “Zionism and its destiny”: “Anti-Zionism is not the equivalent of antisemitism: it is its only bulwark.” ➡️ k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/08/…

“Saravá Shalom confronts antisemitism by dismantling the monolithic image of "the Jew," revealing instead a multiplicity of experiences that resist attempts to reduce Jewish identity to dominant stereotypes in Brazil and beyond.” ➡️k-larevue.com/en/2026/01/08/…