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(Image by https://genocide-museum.am) The Israeli government recognized the deaths of one and a half million Armenians during World War I as genocide for political reasons, and Armenia is not even the intended addressee here. Prime Minister Pashinyan quite rightly noted that his country is not interested in turning the recognition of the Armenian genocide into […]
Much of the discussion surrounding the current war on Iran focuses on its potential outcome for the United States. One of the most frequently asked questions is whether Washington will suffer yet another loss of face in the Middle East. But this is the wrong question. Even if the war produces chaos and ultimately harms […]
Israel is a democracy. This makes it difficult to hide the inconvenient fact that it is profoundly racist. The recent episode involving Minister Ben-Gvir taunting an international group of pro-Palestine activists is in many ways revealing. The activists were on board unarmed boats bringing food and medical supplies to the long-besieged Palestinians of Gaza when […]
A synagogue is bombed in the middle of Passover. This would be, prima facie, an antisemitic act. Few would argue otherwise—unless, of course, the bombing was carried out by the Israeli Air Force. Many people conflate Jews with Israelis, and Judaism with Zionism. They cannot imagine that Israel would act against Jews—in other words, commit […]
The man of understanding is he who has the ability to grasp and ponder the hidden causes of things. By hidden causes we mean those from which things originate, and these are to be investigated more by reason than by sensory experience. Pierre Abélard, mid-1120 Maintaining religious and ethnic diversity is an important aspect […]
With missiles flying across West Asia, I am reminded of my trip to Iran in 2016, when I discovered a fascinating country and a vibrant Jewish community.* Every day, I ask about the safety of friends and loved ones in both Iran and Israel. The situation there is tragic and criminal. Many criticise Israel for […]
With missiles flying across West Asia, I am reminded of my trip to Iran in 2016, when I discovered a fascinating country and a vibrant Jewish community. Every day, I ask about the safety of friends and loved ones in both Iran and Israel. The situation there is tragic and criminal. Many criticize Israel for not […]
During a sabbatical I spent in West Jerusalem in the late 1980s, my 7-year-old daughter was enrolled in an Israeli school. One day, she came home and could not find her tricycle anywhere. “Arabs must have stolen it,” she said. We later found the tricycle behind the building, but her immediate assumption gave me pause. […]
(240812) — GAZA, Aug. 12, 2024 (Xinhua) — People flee from the Hamad City, a neighborhood in the northwest of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Aug. 11, 2024, following the latest evacuation order issued by the Israeli authorities. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua) (Image by Xinhua) Modern Israel attracts much attention from […]
(Image by Prensa Latina) Every year, Jews recite the entire Pentateuch aloud in synagogues. It is divided in weekly portions. Last week’s one (Vaet’hanan, Deuteronomy 3 :23 – 7 :11) contains passages that are central to Jewish liturgy, including the Shema, a declaration of loyalty to God, or more precisely, a declaration of love […]
This post is also available in: Spanish, French Anti-Semitism is making the headlines. The Israeli Prime Minister describes as anti-Semitic the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and even American students who are calling for a ceasefire. What Israel is doing does in fact provoke anti-Semitic acts against synagogues, Jewish schools and even individual Jews. […]
Pogrom. This Russian term denotes a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring Jews and destroying their property. One of the deadliest pogroms (50 Jews were killed and nearly 600 wounded) took place in Kishinev a hundred and twenty years ago, in April 1903. But the trauma of Russian Zionists facing the oppression in […]
This post is also available in: French (Image by Bansky, London december 2023) Palestinians in Gaza are being decimated. Over 20 000 have been killed, mostly women and children. Three times more have been wounded. Some experts qualify it as genocide, others as massacre. Two million people have been displaced, many more than during the entire […]
Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1944, people in the street were hugging each other and weeping with joy. They were celebrating the end of a nearly 900 days brutal siege. Soviet forces lifted the siege of Leningrad after ferocious battles. Exactly a year later they liberated Auschwitz. Even today, walking in Saint-Petersburg’s main avenue, […]
On the night of the October 7, 2023 attack in Southern Israel, I was staying overnight at my nephew’s place in Saint Petersburg, in the apartment I had grown up in, prior to emigrating from the Soviet Union over fifty years ago. The following morning, as I walked in the neighbourhood located in the very […]
Эта статья доступна также по-русски. The Brandenburg Gate and the White House are laser-painted in Israeli blue-and-white colours. They used to harbour the Ukrainian blue-and-yellow colours. In both cases, Western governments pledge unlimited support and declare the recent attacks on Israel, as earlier on Ukraine, allegedly unprovoked and evil. Déjà vu. But there […]
(Image by Demolition of a memorial to the Soviet army in Poland.) A few days ago, I raised questions that stem from the standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian veteran of the SS in the Canadian parliament (https://www.pressenza.com/2023/09/a-nazi-on-the-parliament-hill-is-an-antidote-to-self-righteousness/) . These questions deserve answers. Here are some of them. How is it that the background […]
The triumphant visit of President Zelenskyy to Ottawa in late September was marred by an episode in the Parliament of Canada. Anthony Rota, the Speaker of the House of Commons, invited Yaroslav Hunka, an elderly Ukrainian from his riding to attend Zelenskyy’s speech. He was honored during a session of Canadian parliament in which Zelenskyy […]
Este artículo también está disponible en: francès, ruso e inglés (Imagen de Yakov Rabkin) Hace cincuenta años emigré de la Unión Soviética. Mi única razón fue el deseo de libertad. Deploraba el pensamiento único mantenido por la ausencia de publicaciones extranjeras y la interferencia de emisiones de radio occidentales como la BBC o Radio Canadá […]
This post is also available in: Spanish (Image by Yakov Rabkin) Nearly fifty years ago I emigrated from the Soviet Union. My only reason for leaving all that was known to me was a deep longing for freedom of expression. I resented restrictions on foreign publications and deplored the practice of jamming foreign radio stations like […]
The war in the Ukraine has revived Western plans of dismembering Russia and, in the words of the promoters of this idea, to complete the dismantlement of the Soviet Union. Active efforts, including ample funds, are being spent on fomenting ethnic nationalism among Russia’s many ethnic groups. Meetings are convened outside Russia in order to […]
In February 2022, began the longest military conflict in Europe’s post-World War history. But what were its main causes? Although the war in the Ukraine has inflamed emotions across the Western world like never before, the answer requires a realistic and cool-headed approach. Aristotle, admittedly neutral as far as this conflict is concerned, outlined three […]
Peter the Great: Celebration and Legacy Yakov M. Rabkin, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Montreal, co-author of Demodernization: A Future in the Past. My arrival in Saint-Petersburg coincided with a celebration. June 9 was the 350th anniversary of Peter the Great, the founder of this city. He changed Russia’s course of history, turning the country […]
A spectre is haunting the United States—the spectre of a “China-centric world”. By voicing this concern President Trump pledges to “Keep America Great”. Some of the European allies echo this concern. Others remain conspicuously silent. But what exactly is this concern about? The United States has enjoyed the status of a sole superpower for three […]
On April 19 Google disabled the accounts of Press TV, an Iranian news service. Google denied Press TV access to all its services, including the video streaming platform YouTube and the e-mail service Gmail. The company’s move took place without prior notice or subsequent explanation. Iran is a founding member of the United Nations and a country that […]
Introduction Globalisation affects children’s values, self-images and world outlook through targeted marketing of fairy tales, games and assorted media products. This article analyses these effects and proposes a number of measures to counteract them. Pro-active, grassroots approaches on the part of educators, writers, and artists should help produce specially designed storybooks, animated cartoons, and online […]
This article is not an exhaustive analysis of Russia’s foreign policy. Rather, it is a reflection based on Russian and Western sources, without adopting mainstream positions of either. Society gives university professors time to think; presenting original views is our way of repaying our debt to society. Regurgitating mainstream ideas would betray this vocation of the intellectual. It […]
The recent massacres in Paris have so far produced predictable emotional reactions. President Hollande called for national unity and intensified bombardment in Syria. Citizens lit candles and commemorated the victims. Observers continued to mull over the content of the Koran, deploring “the alienation of Muslims from Judeo-Christian civilization”. The focus has shifted to essentialism, to […]
“This is not my victory, this is your victory.” This sentence uttered by the elated Trudeau on the election night is not a compliment to the millions of Canadians who voted strategically to bring about change but a call for continuing engagement. Civil society’s engagement must not end in the wake of the Liberals’ victory […]
Stephen Harper has been changing our collective self-image. He has emphasized the martial, rather than the peace-making episodes, in our history, and had a war memorial replace art and literary images on the ubiquitous 20-dollar bill. Now his government wants to leave an even more durable trace of its rule: a “monument to the victims […]
It took years of intense negotiations, travel by diplomats equal to 16 around-the-world trips and thousands of pages of position papers to solve a problem … that never existed. Intelligence services of major powers, such as the 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, repeatedly concluded that Iran was not developing a nuclear weapon. Crude attempts to […]
a talk at McGill University, September 20, 2006. President Bush cast the battle against Islamic extremism as a “struggle for civilization” that will set the course for the world in the 21st century. Harper believes that Canadians live in a “dangerous world.” In the wake of the arrests in Toronto last summer, he said that […]
Книга Якова Рабкина «Еврей против еврея» — это история неприятия еврейского национализма со стороны мыслителей и духовных лидеров иудейства, которые в принципе отрицают идею политического самоопределения евреев. Яков Рабкин демонстрирует идейное многообразие еврейской общественной жизни и тем самым подрывает антисемитскую ложь о мировом еврейском заговоре. Выдвигая убедительные аргументы против антисемитских теорий, эта книга никого не […]
Рабкин Я.М. Израиль: война и мiръ Автор: Рабкин Я.М. Год издания: 2024 ISBN: 978-5-248-01101-8 Аннотация:В сборник вошли труды известного историка, профессора Монреальского университета Якова Рабкина, в том числе его монография «Современный Израиль. От замысла к жизни», вышедшая на нескольких языках. В ней профессор Рабкин рассматривает проект создания приверженцами сионизма государства на Святой земле, основные проблемы […]
Israel se entiende a menudo como la realización del sueño secular de volver a la patria histórica, es decir, como la culminación triunfal de la historia judía. Pero los fundadores del movimiento sionista pretendían romper con la historia para construir una nueva sociedad y crear un hombre nuevo. Y, como demuestran la sociedad y la […]
Израильский вопрос актуален для всего мира. Сборник предлагает глубокий анализ, который поможет читателям переосмыслить сложные исторические и политические аспекты этого региона. Книга издана в Москве и представляет собой русский вариант работы, ранее опубликованной на английском, арабском, итальянском, французском и японском языках. Израиль зачастую воспринимают как воплощение многовековой мечты еврейского народа о возвращении на историческую родину, […]
Auteur: Patrice Sabater Yakov Rabkin, Israël et la Palestine – Rejets de la colonisation sioniste au nom du judaïsme. Paris, avril 2024. Editions i littérature. 64 pages. 7,50 € Plus que jamais, il est essentiel d’intégrer le discours de l’antisionisme judaïque dans les débats sur le passé, le présent et l’avenir de l’Etat d’Israël, de son rapport […]
Israël, l’État de tous les juifs? Dans son plus récent ouvrage, le professeur d’histoire de l’Université de Montréal Yakov Rabkin explore jusqu’à la racine la mythologie israélienne pour montrer que l’État qui claironne être celui de tous les juifs du monde est loin de faire l’unanimité parmi les principaux intéressés. Métro l’a rencontré. Au lendemain […]
Le concept de « Terre d’Israël » fait partie des termes qui soulèvent l’enthousiasme des masses. Pourtant, il est d’origine prophétique et ne se trouve pas dans le Pentateuque qui se réfère à « Terre de Canaan », « Terre des Amoréens » ou « Terre des Hébreux ». En outre, les frontières d’Israël, dans […]
Ce recueil est un ouvrage inédit de Yakov Rabkin. Certains chapitres reprennent en les adaptant les propos de diverses études et articles qu’il a consacrés au fil des ans au rapport entre le judaïsme et l’islam ainsi qu’à celui du judaïsme et des sciences et de la politique dans le monde contemporain. Cet ouvrage est […]
Medici che guidano i taxi, architetti che vendono birra agli angoli delle strade, istituti scientifici chiusi in mezzo a impianti industriali arrugginiti, esecuzioni capitali in favore di telecamera; ancora, il sentimento nazionale che cede il passo al ritorno di identità tribali, etniche e confessionali; le fake-news, onnipresenti, che si diffondono in tutto il mondo, grazie […]
Im Namen der Thora: Die jüdische Opposition gegen den Zionismus
La storiografia contemporanea non riconosce gli ebrei haredi, (parola che si può tradurre con “i timorati”, dai media definiti ultra-ortodossi) come parte del pensiero europeo e non rende giustizia al pluralismo culturale ebraico. Come sostiene Malachi Hacohen, eminente studioso israelo-americano di storia ebraica, sarebbe necessario aprire “nuovi ambiti e ridisegnare nuovi concetti affinché la storia […]
Medical doctors driving taxis, architects selling beer on street corners, scientific institutes closed down amid rusting carcasses of industrial plants—these images became common at the turn of the twenty-first century in many once modern “civilized” countries. In quite a few of them, longtime neighbors came to kill each other, apparently motivated by the newly discovered […]
Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel. What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding ideology – Zionism – is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist and therefore a natural advocate for the state of Israel, Yakov Rabkin points to the […]
В книге представлены основные аспекты жизни израильского общества. Кроме того, автор анализирует причины непрекращающихся уже много десятилетий нападок на легитимность сионизма и созданного на его основе государства.
Comme il fait régulièrement la \”Une\” des journaux, l’État d’Israël nous semble familier : une démocratie à l’occidentale armée jusqu’aux dents au cœur d’un Proche-Orient hostile, protégé par les Etats-Unis et opprimant le peuple palestinien. Mais qu’en est-il vraiment ? Comprendre l’État d’Israël et ses fondements, voilà ce à quoi nous invite l’historien Yakov Rabkin, […]
Bir milliyetçi proje olarak ortaya çıkan Siyonizmin temel hedefi belliydi: Yeni bir dil, yeni bir toprak, yeni bir siyasal anlayış yaratarak tek ortak yönleri aynı dine mensubiyet olan, farklı diller konuşan ve dünyanın dört bir köşesinde yaşayan geniş yelpazeden bir grup insanı seküler bir ulusa çevirmek. Bu radikal projenin Musevi olmayanlar kadar Museviliğe sıkı sıkıya […]
מדוע הציונות מאיימת במיוחד על היהדות החרדית? מה הקשר בין ציונות לאנטישמיות? מדוע הצהרת בלפור זכתה לגינוי כאנטישמית, דווקא מצד שר יהודי בקבינט הבריטי? האם מדינת ישראל מגינה על יהודי העולם או חושפת אותם לסכנה? מדוע הראשונים שטענו כי הציונות הינה גזענית היו רבנים והוגים יהודיים, זמן רב לפני שהחליט כך האו”ם ב־1975? כיצד מעוגנת […]
近代国家主義の権化である近代国家主義の権化であるシオニズムによって建国されたイスラエルは、ユダヤ教徒たちの国ではない。日本人読者のための書き下ろし。シオニズムによって建国されたイスラエルは、ユダヤ教徒たちの国ではない。日本人読者のための書き下ろし。
シオニズム運動とイスラエル建国がいかにユダヤの教義トーラーに反すると考えられてきたかを歴史的に辿る。パレスチナ問題と反ユダヤ主義の歴史の冷静な理解に不可欠の書。
Книга Якова Рабкина “Еврей против еврея” – это история неприятия еврейского национализма со стороны мыслителей и духовных лидеров иудейства, которые в принципе отрицают идею политического самоопределения евреев. Яков Рабкин демонстрирует идейное многообразие еврейской общественной жизни и тем самым подрывает антисемитскую ложь о мировом еврейском заговоре. Выдвигая убедительные аргументы против антисемитских теорий, эта книга никого не […]
Existe divergência entre o movimento sionista e a prática religiosa do judaísmo? Quais razões levam judeus a serem contrários à política sionista? Em Judeus contra Judeus – A história da oposição judaica ao sionismo, o historiador Yakov Rabkin realiza um minucioso estudo sobre as razões históricas e religiosas que levam judeus a se oporem ao […]
El sionismo proclama que el Estado de Israel representa a todos los judios del mundo. Si esto fuera verdad por que cada vez con mas frecuencia miles de judios protestan publicamente contra el Estado de Israel Yakov Rabkin explica como el sionismo y la creacion del Estado israeli fue un invento europeo y nacionalista que […]
Patronat: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny Zadaniem tej książki jest zaprezentowanie czytelnikowi historii oporu przeciwko “nieubłaganemu i wszechogarniającemu” zagrożeniu syjonizmu, oporu, którego konceptualne podłoże niewiele się zmieniło przez ostatnie 120 lat. Książka ta rzuca światło na żywotną, upartą postawę, którą zwolennicy syjonizmu postrzegają z kolei jako świętokradztwo. Wśród krytyków syjonizmu, z którymi spotykamy się na kartach książki, […]
A Threat from Within presents a history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, and challenges the myths that lie at the very root of contemporary or ‘new’ anti-Semitism. A principled and enduring opposition to Zionism has come from spiritual leaders of Judaism and has not died away despite the State of Israel existence as an imposing […]
Yakov M. Rabkin es profesor de Historia en la Universidad de Montreal, Canadá. Sus campos de investigación son la Historia judía contemporánea y la Historia de las ciencias. La asociación de los judíos con el Estado de Israel es fácil, casi automática. ?Estado judío? y ?Estado hebreo? se han convertido en términos de uso corriente. […]
Vrome joden hebben zich altijd fel verzet tegen het zionisme. Sinds Israël bestaat, groeide er echter een feitelijke coalitie tussen zionisten en vrome joden, al blijft een minderheid principieel tegen de seculiere staat gekant. Dit joodse antizionisme is een groot taboe in de media. Professor Yakow M. Rabkin (1945), historicus aan de Universiteit van Montreal, […]
Associare gli ebrei allo Stato di Israele è un riflesso quasi automatico. “Stato degli ebrei” e “Stato ebraico” sono diventate espressioni di uso corrente. Tuttavia, tra i sostenitori incondizionati di Israele, ci sono più cristiani che ebrei. La presente opera spiega questo paradosso apparente e mette in evidenza un fenomeno poco conosciuto, tanto agli ebrei […]
An extremely interesting and valuable book. Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Je ne peux que saluer la rédaction d’un ouvrage «non conventionnel» sur des faits trop souvent occultés. À nous d’en tirer les enseignements. Rabbin Moshé G.Ackermann, Directeur de Nerlitz, Institut francophone d’études juives, Jérusalem En tant que patriote israélien et en […]
The end of this century has witnessed dramatic changes in morality, history and geography. These changes were felt throughout the world, and also across the entire gamut of professional concerns. Even relatively remote and seemingly insulated activities such as science and technology have experienced, and up to a point contributed to, these dramatic changes. This […]
This volume looks at the impact of science on the Jewish community, in terms of two broad topics: the impact of science on traditional Jewish cultures; and the role of Jews in the scientific professions in the 19th and 20th centuries.
