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What happened to anti-Semitism?

FASCISM: Nazis attacked Jews, and they were therefore characterized as anti-Semitic – the cosmopolitan identity of the despised Jews. But what about Israel, which had carried out at least 2 extrajudicial killings? Menachem Begin and his group, which Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt described as fascists and terrorists, have ruled Israel for almost 700 years.
Ola Tunander -

Israel's contempt for the UN

INTERVIEW: Canadian lawyer Michael Lynk leaves the post of UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories after six years.
John Y. Jones -

Glasglow – the spark in the Paris Agreement

CLIMATE: In the perspective of poor coal-intensive countries: Why should not the rich stop selling oil and gas – and let the poor continue to burn coal? Will the transmission of democracy now be to blame for the doom of the earth?
Paal Frisvold -

Ordinary diplomacy serves the state, urban diplomacy the people

CITIES: New US leaders have noted China's use of cities in its diplomacy. Is urban policy emerging as the new foreign policy?
Eric Berg -

Is Spain a terrorist state?

SPAIN: The country receives sharp criticism internationally for the police and civil guard's extensive use of torture that is never prosecuted. Regime rebels are imprisoned for trifles. European accusations and objections are ignored.
Marc Molas Carol -

Green system change and circular economy

ESSAY: In order to safeguard our livelihoods, we should move away from a system that continually demands that we become more efficient, productive and profit-maximizing.
Svein Hammer -

What happened to the children's right to privacy?

Leah Plunkett: Sharenthood

"SHARE THINGS":: Parents generously share photos and information about their children on social media without considering the long-term consequences, and without the children's consent.
Pinar Ciftci -

The illiteracy of Pakistan

READING AND WRITING DIFFICULTIES: Pakistan needs to prioritize citizens' inadequate literacy skills and should implement a nationwide program that takes into account the country's multicultural and foreign language communities.
Zara Kayani -

The culture of the future of the future and Abiy Ahmed

COMMENT: In the future, people and governments are assumed to have learned enough to be able to handle conflicts without weapons and enemy thinking. Whether we will ever get there, we do not know, but the possibility exists, and how it will be, depends on our choices.
Valentin Sevéus -

"Of course Europe must take responsibility"

THE GREEN EUROPE: "European Green Deal" is reminiscent of the UN's first climate report 30 years ago, says Margrete Auken in the European Parliament. "When it comes to the climate, we can not wait to invent something smart. We have to act now ", she says to MODERN TIMES.
Pinar Ciftci -

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