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The reviewer does not mention the formation of nation states in Europe. Did that have no effect on Zionists? Does the author himself incorporate the nation state in The Foundations of Zionism ?

A liberal take As Greg Bovino strode towards the stage, the crowd erupted into chants: “USA! USA! USA!” It was late May, several months since Bovino’s ignoble ousting as the greatcoat-clad “commander at large” of US border control. But for this audience, Bovino’s record was not a liability. It was his calling card. In Figueira da Foz, a sleepy Portuguese beach town just south of Porto, a few hundred of Europe’s most important far-right influencers, decision makers and activists had gathered for the “Remigration Summit”.  A gathering to strategise how to expel millions of migrants deemed ethnically “unsuitable” from Europe, by force or encouragement, including those legally settled. The Americans — not just Bovino but several dozen, including Stefano Forte, president of the New York Young Republican Club — were the guests of honour. Remigration, Bovino told his audience, is the defining political issue of our time. “I’ll make you a deal, Europe,” he said. “We get this remigration un...

A good article by Julia Neima. The following are excerpts only. Access to the full article requires a subscription . Cuba is undergoing its biggest economic transformation in decades: private firms are back and small businesses employ a quarter of the workforce. But market reform has brought no political opening. TaTamanía is Cuba’s first private care home, which opened this spring in the capital’s Vedado district. This type of business was long prohibited under the revolution, but in recent years, a lack of resources has left public care facilities in a critical state. The economic, commercial and financial vice is tightening as Washington expands the scope of its sanctions…  Trump’s strategy is to throttle the state monopoly and force the Cuban government to allow a private sector to develop. This challenge has caused major upheaval in what has until recently been one of the world’s most state-controlled economies.  The agricultural reform of 1959, the sweeping nationalisati...

Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People…  Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances — every day, in every part of the world. Italian writer Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism, The New York Review of Books,  1995