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Palestinian Rights Groups That Document Israeli Abuses Labeled “Terrorists” by Israel

The Intercept 23 Oct 2021

The late historian Tony Judt had explained in 2010 that economic and cultural ties to Europe were of vital importance to Israel ... As long as it continues to get American aid without conditions it can do stupid things for a very long time, damaging Palestinians and damaging Israel without running any risk,” Judt told The London Review of Books ... .

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Lies Are Being Told About Sally Rooney Because She Refuses to Ignore Israeli Apartheid

The Intercept 16 Oct 2021

Because these same arguments have been made since the BDS movement was created by Palestinian activists in 2005, the late historian Tony Judt had time to debunk them thoroughly before his death. In 2010, Judt told The London Review of Books . ... In the same interview, Judt explained ...

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Leader: The great British sell-off

New Statesman 13 Oct 2021

As the late historian Tony Judt observed in his book Ill Fares the Land (2010), until the 1980s, “such advertising as there was confined itself to placards mounted around the pitch; the idea of attaching commercial announcements to the players themselves would simply never have ...

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The Guardian view on the 20th anniversary of 9/11: no end in sight | Editorial

The Guardian 10 Sep 2021

That evening, the historian Tony Judt wrote that he had seen the 21st century begin. The nearly 3,000 lives stolen by al-Qaida were only a small part of the toll ... It is still unfolding ... ....

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In the Balkans, Let Us Remember to Forget

Balkan Insight 09 Sep 2021

Government-backed memorialisation projects only perpetuate post-war divisions and ethnic hatred in the Balkans - so forgetting could be a better way than politicised remembrance to deal with past violence ... An ethical testament to being human ... Over 100 years after Renan, author Tony Judt wrote in his monumental work Postwar ... Here’s some context. ... .

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Commentary: US foreign policy is ‘sanctions happy.’ Here’s why it doesn’t work

Finger Lakes Times 17 Aug 2021

Iranian proxies are accused of carrying out the attack ... No longer ... In the mid-1980s, East Germany solved the access problem by installing a cable from West Germany to the Dresden area in the east “in the wishful belief that if East Germans could watch West German television at home they would not feel the need to emigrate,” wrote historian Tony Judt.

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Op-Ed: U.S. foreign policy is ‘sanctions happy.’ Here’s why it doesn’t work

The Los Angeles Times 15 Aug 2021

Iranian proxies are accused of carrying out the attack ... No longer ... In the mid-1980s, East Germany solved the access problem by installing a cable from West Germany to the Dresden area in the east “in the wishful belief that if East Germans could watch West German television at home they would not feel the need to emigrate,” wrote historian Tony Judt.

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From the river to the sea, Jews and Arabs must forge a shared future

The Observer 23 May 2021

The fundamental problem, as Tony Judt observed in 2003, is that Israel seeks to be both a democracy and “a state in which Jews and the Jewish religion have exclusive privileges from which non-Jewish citizens are forever excluded”. Judt, once a Zionist, came eventually to accept ...

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Israel faces greater dangers than HamasIsrael has been steadily losing its moral stature as a ...

Deccan Herald 16 May 2021

The historian Tony Judt, who was a fervent Zionist in his youth, warned in 2003 that “the very idea of a ‘Jewish state’ — a state in which Jews and the Jewish religion have exclusive privileges from which non-Jewish citizens are forever excluded — is rooted in another time and place.”. Judt’s belief that Israel is an “anachronism” feels truer today.

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Class isn’t dead – and Labour needs to relearn how to talk about it

New Statesman 11 May 2021

In his 2010 book, Ill Fares the Land , the academic and essayist Tony Judt noted that a renascent right was aided in overthrowing the postwar social democratic settlement by the “narcissism of student movements, new left ideologues and the popular culture of the Sixties generation [which] invited a conservative backlash”.

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Downplaying Trumpism Is Dangerous

truthout 15 Jan 2021

For instance, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) claimed that impeaching Trump will turn him into “a martyr.”. One of Trump’s most egregious lackeys, Rep ... 6,” according to The New York Times ... He writes. ... Lost here is what the late Tony Judt called “the thick mesh of mutual obligations and social responsibilities” to be found in any substantive democracy ... Mr ... .

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Now comes the big parting of EU ways for Ireland and UK after 47 years

Irish Independent 31 Dec 2020

From the beginning, amid the ashes, misery and poverty of the post World War II world, Ireland’s European fate was largely driven by London. Britain was decidedly cool about early efforts at greater European co-operation ... English historian Tony Judt wrote, the UK towed Ireland behind it as if it were “attached by an umbilical chord” ... .

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Joe Biden Must Learn from America’s Failed Wars

Scheerpost 29 Dec 2020

manhhai / CC BY-NC 2.0] By Andrew Bacevich / TomDispatch In choosing a title for ...

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The lessons of two failed wars

Alternet 29 Dec 2020

In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, published in 1770. Judt found his book's title in the first words of this couplet.. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ... Harding ... John F.

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The Madness of War, American-Style

Antiwar 23 Dec 2020

>. Originally posted at TomDispatch ... On May 1st, President George W ... So, the wins were piling up ... In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, published in 1770. Judt found his book’s title in the first words of this couplet..