‘No solidarity with the victims and hostages, no word of empathy’: Reactions from European club culture to the Supernova Festival Massacre Tanja Ehmann asks why, despite the massacre at the Supernova music festival, parts of the European club culture scene have… Read more > The Re-emergence of the Jewish Question The Jewish communities of Europe and the US increasingly find themselves caught between the rising forces of the far right… Read more > Israel70 | Innovation: Africa Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has visited African three times in the last 18 months, with the continent increasingly being… Read more > ‘The Jews Are Guilty’: Christian Antisemitism in Contemporary America Alvin Rosenfeld holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University and is the Director of the… Read more > Can Israel remain secure in a world of Arab disintegration, American retreat, and Iranian ambition? 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