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Anne Rethmann

@arethmann.bsky.social
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Postdoc at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Theory and History of Human Rights, Political and Legal Theory

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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My article "Was kommt nach dem Leiden in Israel und Gaza?" is out in @faznet.bsky.social. Taking Carolin Emcke's reflections on "asymmetrical empathy" as a point of departure, I ask: Does the claim that every life counts equally have to rest on our capacity to feel with others? t.ly/ZOu77
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Wieviel Empathie ist möglich? Neues Buch von Carolin Emcke
Carolin Emcke möchte sich mit viel Pathos in alle Opfer des Nahostkonflikts einfühlen und scheint das auch von anderen zu verlangen. Dabei führt sie in ihrem neuen Buch selbst vor, dass Gefühle partik...
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In der Galerie Camera Work, Kantstraße 149, Berlin. #September11 #NeverForget
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Almost one week at the @dubnow.bsky.social behind me and glad to be spending two months here as a visiting fellow. I particularly value its interdisciplinary approach and its understanding of Jewish history as a seismograph of broader historical developments.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The difference that makes all the difference between Heidegger and Arendt, in a nutshell: “As she later wrote, ‘Heidegger never thinks “about” something; he thinks something.’” True and more importantly, he rarely thought from the standpoint of someone else. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Hannah Arendt’s American Education
Hannah Arendt arrived in New York in 1941 with a formidable German training in philosophy. What she still had to learn, she learned on the Upper West Side.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In the shadow of the recent military confrontation between the United States and Iran, these are some of the people sentenced to death in Iran. They are very young, and this gives a sense of who took part in the January protests.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
According to The Economist, Anthropic's Claude draws on Kant and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part of its constitutional framework. I wonder how AI would change if it also incorporated Adorno's Negative Dialektik and Probleme der Moralphilosophie. Article: archive.md/zTzSJ
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Philosophie Magazin @philosophiemagazin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Mit Ernst Noltes Deutung, der Holocaust sei primär eine Reaktion auf sowjetische Verbrechen, begann der Historikerstreit. Für Habermas war diese Sicht revisionistisch. Im Gespräch erläutert der Historiker Dan Diner die Frontlinien des Streits. shorturl.at/mUvik
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Dan Diner: „Habermas winkte wütend und zeigte an, dass es einen Skandal gebe“
Mit Ernst Noltes Deutung, der Holocaust sei primär eine Reaktion auf sowjetische Verbrechen, begann der Historikerstreit. Für Habermas war diese Sicht revisionistisch. Im Gespräch erläutert der Historiker Dan Diner die Frontlinien des Streits und die Präzedenzlosigkeit der Schoah.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My dissertation, The Nonidentical of Human Rights: The Individual and the Concept of Dignity after 1945, has been shortlisted for the Körber Foundation Dissertation Prize. I am very grateful to the jury for this recognition. Further information: t.ly/HrR1E #DeutscherStudienpreis #HumanRights
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Looking forward to presenting in Berlin next week. My paper explores how early postwar Jewish engagements with human rights complicate the opposition between universalism and particularism that continues to shape debates about human rights, memory, and the Holocaust. t.ly/pN7QC
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ASSESSING THE STATE OF HOLOCAUST STUDIES IN THE MID-2020s
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My article "The Death Penalty and the Future of Law in Israel" has been published in "K. – Jews, Europe, the 21st Century" and is also available in French and Italian. Many thanks to the editors and translators. k-larevue.com/en/2026/04/1...
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The Death Penalty and the Future of Law in Israel
On March 30, 2026, the Knesset passed the “Death Penalty for Terrorists Law.” Anne Rethmann, a researcher in the history and theory of human rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem…
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Interesting detail: “The F-15E fighter jet was shot down in a region of Iran where there is significant opposition to the Iranian government. As a result, the airman may have been able to rely on locals for shelter and assistance.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...
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U.S. Rescues Downed Air Force Officer Deep Inside Iran, Trump Says
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is a really lovely insight into the indeed very famous Tel Aviv Central Bus Station. No hip party scene, but people from the neighborhood and volunteers who did an amazing job cleaning up the space. Video by unpacked.media
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Photo by Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, taken in Tel Aviv on Monday morning.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It is important that any discussion about how this war is unfolding includes these voices. Arash Azizi spoke with several Iranians about how they see the war and what they fear. t.ly/kYT8e
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‘You Want to Leave Us Alone With Mojtaba?’
I’ve spoken with more than a dozen Iranians since the start of the war. Most are terrified, and some are losing faith in America.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
While we were sitting in the shelter in #Jerusalem last night, I was reading news from #Tehran. I don’t have an answer. But it is difficult to speak about this war without also thinking of the mostly very young Iranians whose lives are at stake.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Something nice for a change today: alongside this image, Paul Celan's voice in Jerusalem, 1969: www.dichterlesen.net/veranstaltun...
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Martin Clemens Winter @martincwinter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Blick in die Forschungswerkstatt: Im neuen Blogbeitrag habe ich umrissen, welche Erkenntnisse die Veröffentlichung der #NSDAP -Karteien in den National Archives für das #HASAG- Projekt mit sich bringt. Es geht um Parteimitglieder in der "Betriebsgemeinschaft", neue Daten und Fotos zu NS-Tätern. ⬇️
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Millionen neue Puzzleteile: Die HASAG in den Karteien der NSDAP
Vor kurzem hat die US-Amerikanische National Archives and Records Administration eine vollständige digitale Kopie der mikroverfilmten NSDAP-Zentralkartei sowie -Ortsgruppenkartei veröffentlicht. Damit...
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Since the 1970s, Schohreh Baddii has campaigned for a free Iran. In 1992, her husband was murdered in Berlin by the mullah regime. In the video, she shares her—and many Iranians'—view on the current war. Full interview (in German): archive.md/1GoyD www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SMp...
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Iranische Oppositionelle im Interview | Iran-Krieg, Diaspora, Berlin
YouTube video by Tagesspiegel
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
So the humanities, and philosophy in particular, are back—not on the sidelines, but as another battlefield. In this case, the battle can be won. It may take a few rounds, but Larijani isn't the first to try to enlist Kant in the service of an antihumanist philosophy. A great article. t.ly/QjBgU
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Ruthless leader, brilliant philosopher: Ali Larijani, Iran's most powerful man
He Orchestrated Iran's Massacre of Protesters. He Is Also a Philosopher Who Has Written Books on Kant. The Writings of Ali Larijani, the Islamic Republic's Top Security Official, Reveal an Elusive and...
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
In 2012, Jürgen Habermas delivered the first Martin Buber Memorial Lecture at the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities: "A Philosophy of Dialogue." He died today at 96, one of the last representatives of a generation that sought to rethink Germany's intellectual life after 1945. t.ly/uwQBT
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Wie immer klug, Ronya Othmann. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Luftanschläge im Iran-Krieg: Zu viele Tote Winkel
Ständig erreichen einen neue Nachrichten auf dem Handy, was seit den amerikanischen Luftangriffen auf Iran passiert. Der Blick der Welt konzentriert sich aber nur auf einen Bruchteil der betroffenen R...
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Broad Jumper is still one of my favorite pictures for March 8. #InternationalWomensDay
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"Sein Begriff von Kultur und Geschichtsverständnis weist darauf hin, dass er der falsche Mann am falschen Platz ist. Um es gelinde zu sagen." (Jürgen Kaube über Wolfram Weimer am 27.04.2025, FAZ) www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/bezir...
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Kritik an Ausschluss von Buchhandlungspreis: „Wir würden gerne wissen, welche Erkenntnisse der Verfassungsschutz angeblich hat“
Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer hat den „Buchladen zur schwankenden Weltkugel“ in Prenzlauer Berg vom Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis ausgeschlossen. Die Buchbranche reagiert mit Unverständnis.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Alongside Reza Mosayebi's article that I posted two days ago, I would also recommend a very worthwhile piece by Resa Memarnia, which places the question of human rights at the center of the debate around the war in Iran and critically questions a rigid, formalistic reliance on international law.
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Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus @monacensia.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
1938 beginnt für Walter Grab das Exil. Jahrzehnte später wird er Professor für Deutsche Geschichte in Tel Aviv. Im #MON_Mag erzählt Shelly Kupferberg seine Geschichte. Beitrag zur Ausstellung #LiteraturHaltung, ab 20. Mai. @alfredlandecker.bsky.social​
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Walter Grab – Exil, Rückkehr und eine geistige Heimat
Flucht, Exil und Neubeginn: Walter Grabs Weg von Wien nach Palästina.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Bringing Human Rights Theory Back In: A highly recommendable interview with @r-mosayebi.bsky.social on the current war against the Iranian regime and on whether the allegations of breaches of international law by the U.S. and Israel are as legally unambiguous as many claim.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The sky over Jerusalem is beautifully blue this morning after a short night. News keeps arriving without pause: images of a destroyed building in Tel Aviv, an endless stream of commentary about what may come next. I do not know. And I cannot bring myself to say that this will inevitably end (1/2)
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The relativization and marginalization of both the Holocaust and antisemitism are recurring phenomena across different countries and political milieus, in the past as well as today. Of course, Germany has its own history of subsuming distinct historical experiences under broader, (1/2) t.ly/fR4Lz
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Poland’s Jewish museum director returns, 7 years after being pushed out by nationalist politics - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Dariusz Stola called his return to the Polin Museum "a victory of justice and rule of law."
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
#Iran www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
For those who are on Mount Scopus once in a while.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Germany has never lacked narratives about itself. One of the newest – shared by the domestic far right and by transnational activist milieus – is that Germany has become a country of censorship. Yet many of the same actors still seek institutional support. Everyone wants to be an underdog. (1/2)
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about this event on HaGalil (www.hagalil.com/2025/12/mich...). The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities has published a short reel today showing the beginning of Michael Walzer's talk. A full recording is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=urSB...
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Interesting take, and a thought-provoking reflection by Len Gutkin in The Chronicle of Higher Education. www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Opinion | What’s Max Weber Doing in the Columbia Antisemitism Report?
The great sociologist knew that activism can be a threat to scholarship — and so can government.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Eine lesenswerte Intervention von @ronyaothmann.bsky.social, die der allzu euphorischen Begeisterung für die Damaskus-Buchmesse widerspricht. Sie kritisiert v.a. die romantisierende, orientalisierende Perspektive, mit der manche im Westen auf die Region blicken. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Buchmesse in Damaskus: Warum so euphorisch?
Während Minderheiten in Syrien weiter um ihr Überleben fürchten müssen, wissen westliche Orientreisende nach ihrem Buchmessenbesuch in Damaskus gar nicht mehr wohin mit ihrer Euphorie.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The mobilization by the European Iranian diaspora in #Munich was genuinely impressive. It should not be interpreted as the glorification of one individual, nor as an attempt to restore a Shah-style monarchy, but rather as an effort to build effective forces both inside and outside #Iran. (1/2)
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The nuclear program is secondary. “‘We are already in a war with our own government—there has been so much death,’ he said. ‘These people will take the hand of anyone offering to pull them from drowning. Literally anyone.’”
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I've never thought about it this way, but even the cultural boycott seems to have had an unintended positive effect: as a recent Haaretz article noted, it pushed the Israel Museum to open up its storerooms. The result looks pretty amazing. www.imj.org.il/en/exhibitio...
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A highly readable portrait of Yair Golan, one of the leading voices in Israel’s opposition to the current government.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“Whatever the final number proves to be, it may have carried out one of the worst state-sanctioned massacres of unarmed civilians anywhere in nearly a half century in order to survive.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
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Opinion | In Counting the Dead in Iran, a Picture of Ferocity
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
What kind of deal can follow after a regime has killed up to 30,000 of its own civilians within just two days and continues to hold more than 40,000 people in prison, many of them facing execution? 😔 #Iran
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
An Arte report traces Iran’s renewed uprising since late 2025. Protesters speak of fear, repression of unprecedented brutality, and the hope that drove them into the streets. It ends with their gaze toward the sky—waiting for international support. www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I'm grateful to be included in this German-language edited volume, "Contested History: Interventions against the Reinterpretation of October 7," edited by Klaus Bittermann and Christoph Hesse, published by Edition Tiamat. My contribution is titled "In the Name of Morality. Academic Boycott Calls."
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Grateful to contribute a short guest piece to the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (TAU) on Franz R. Bienenfeld's "The Religion of the Non-Religious Jews": from humanistic conviction to law, institutions, and Zionism after the Shoah. en-cenlib.tau.ac.il/wiener/archi...
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
At the Hebrew U, as elsewhere across the country, banners calling to bring the hostages home were taken down after the remains of the last hostage, Ran Gvili, were brought back to Israel. More than two years had passed. The cats are still there, walking through the hallways alongside the students.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
On the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, haGalil has published a slightly expanded version of my recent talk at the Wannsee Conference Memorial @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social, in both German and English. www.hagalil.com/2026/01/erin...
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Erinnern als Staatsräson? - haGalil
Der Text geht auf eine Veranstaltung zum Jahrestag der Wannsee-Konferenz zurück, die unter dem Titel Erinnern als Staatsräson? Deutsche Erinnerungskultur und israelische Perspektiven auf das Gedenken ...
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Ulrich Gutmair berichtet in der heutigen taz über die Veranstaltung "Erinnern als Staatsräson?" am 20. Januar an der Gedenkstätte @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social, bei der neben Jacob Eder, Ronen Steinke, Mascha Wilke und Christian Heldt auch ich gesprochen habe. taz.de/Achtung-Staa...
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This coming Tuesday, an event marking the 84th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference will take place at the @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social. Simultaneous German–English translation will be provided. It would be lovely to see some of you there. #HausderWannseeKonferenz #Erinnerungskultur #Staatsräson
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Seeing the shocking death toll in Iran, I understand why people in the diaspora call on Trump to intervene—despite the fears this entails. It echoes recent months in Israel: calling on a president who undermines democracy in his own country for help. The world is what it is.
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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Hillel Cohen's Army of Shadows will appear in German translation in spring 2026. It is a thought-provoking book. For readers seeking a concise entry into Cohen's argument, an interview with him from November 2024 is particularly illuminating and timely: blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-fantasy-...
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