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The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation – Facebook page “Three years ago today, the Islamist terrorist organisation Hamas launched a coordinated large-scale attack on southern Israel. “More than 1,200 people were killed, including around 800 civilians and 36 children. More than 4,000 people were injured, and 251 were taken hostage and abducted to the Gaza Strip. “The attack also marked the beginning of the genocide in Gaza carried out by the Israeli government and military.” Paradoxically, the word 'terrorist' does not occur even once in the interview. “ Gil Shohat, West Asia Programme Manager at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin, headed the Foundation’s Israel Office in Tel Aviv from March 2023 to August 2026. “In an interview with Neues Deutschland , he reflects on his time in Israel, October 7 and the trauma it caused, as well as the brutalisation and militarisation of Israeli society, the dehumanisation of Palestinians, the role of the media, the upcoming parliamentary electio...

I keep on thinking: If one attack—as barbaric as it was, and it was barbaric—if one attack pushes so many Israelis to become inhuman... imagine yourself what it does to Palestinians who live under those attacks for decades. — Gideo Levy

From an article available to subscribers “In  May 1945, soon after Germany surrendered, the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) asked people which country they felt had contributed the most to its defeat. At the time, respondents were highly conscious of the millions of Soviet troops who had died on the eastern front and their decisive role in weakening the Nazi forces, as well as the United States’ late entry into the war: 57% chose the Soviet Union and only 20% the US. When IFOP asked the same question this year, the ratio was inverted: the US scored 60% against 25% for the Soviet Union. “For many years, D-Day was seen as a relatively minor event…  In 1964 De Gaulle himself refused to attend: ‘Why should I go and commemorate their landings when they were a prelude to a second occupation of France? I won’t do it!’ “That all changed in 1984 amid growing US-Soviet tension…  The countries of the ‘free world’ made a show of unity, presenting themselves as defenders of ...