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...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51