Matthias J. Becker is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Berlin Institute of Technology, research fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa and researcher at CENTRIC, Sheffield Hallam University. His research lies within the disciplines of linguistics and Internet studies and focuses on the construction of implicit hate speech.
Our Voice of the Fortnight is “The Lachish Story”, a film from the Steven Spielberg Archive at Hebrew University. The film shows Moroccan immigrants’ journey from France to Israel in the early years of statehood, and the adjustment of one family to life in a moshav in the Lachish region.