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Karolina Placzynta is a discourse analyst and political scientist. Her research is centred on the discourses of mainstreaming, marginalisation and inequality, as well as intersections of discriminatory language. She currently works at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at TU Berlin and is a member of the DiscourseNet association.
Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and Children Casualty Figures
Iran is slowly surrounding Israel with a ‘ring of fire’: On the West’s ongoing appeasement of Tehran and refusal to see plain the IRGC’s transnational Jihad
From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of the Left that Doesn’t Learn? | An Interview with Mitchell Cohen
Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 2: ‘Arafat could never end the conflict… his identity was shaped by struggle’ – A conversation with Dennis Ross
Iran’s ‘successful’ attack vs Israel – a blessing very effectively disguisedOur Voice of the Fortnight is from the Times of Israel's 'Wartime Diaries' podcast. In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, Shai Davidai – an Assistant Professor at Columbia University – became an unlikely public defender of Israel. And truthfully, even he was surprised by this turn of events: As a committed left-wing Israeli, he had spent years criticizing the government, and often took to the streets to demonstrate against its policies. But the atmosphere he witnessed on college campuses (and specifically on his own campus at Columbia), compelled him to speak up and speak out.
