By Guido Vitale “That was a turning point for many,” said Lisa Spies, a veteran Republican fundraising consultant and former staffer of the Republican Jewish Coalition. “It forced people to say, I’m going to hold off right now’ or to say, I just can’t vote for this guy.” (The Washington Post)
Guido Vitale In seinen Büchern und Reden empfahl Benjamin Netanjahu Härte und Unnachgiebigkeit gegen Terroristen, wie einst in Uganda. Während seiner zweiten Amtszeit als Ministerpräsident war er jedoch für den größten Gefangenenaustausch in der Geschichte Israels verantwortlich. Im Gegenzug für den von der Hamas nach Gaza verschleppten israelischen Soldaten Gilad Schalit ließ Netanjahu vor fünf …
By Guido Vitale Indeed, far from Brexit hurting minorities, the real problem for minorities comes when politics ignores such concerns – when the mainstream loses touch with people and the only vehicles left to make a point are extremists. Marine Le Pen is surging in France not because all the French are fascists but because …
By Guido Vitale “(…) I felt the reality that we are living in a time of enormous pain. But I also felt that the night was a tremendous learning experience for me. I learned that when a rabbi and members of an Orthodox synagogue walk into a gay African American bar, it is not the …
By Guido Vitale “It’s not something you talk about willingly. Many of the generation afterwards preferred not to know. But I felt a duty. Because if the survivors did not speak now, there was a risk of forgetting, of saying that it never happened”. (Virginia Gattegno, number A-24324, Jewish retirement home in the Venetian Ghetto …
By Guido Vitale “This is what a little peace looks like in the Middle East. A room cleaner named Ahmad. A dishwasher named Mohammad. And a man with a vacuum in the lobby of an Israeli beach hotel. Israel and Jordan signed their peace treaty in 1994 — that is a generation ago — but …
By Guido Vitale It might seem odd to view the vileness that the Labour Party has disclosed over these last few days as an opportunity. But I’m tempted to believe that Ken Livingstone has done the Jews a service – after years of dodging and weaving, he has finally laid his cards on the table. …
By Guido Vitale “Zero tolerance towards antisemitism” (Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London)
By Guido Vitale* «Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference» (Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken)
By Guido Vitale …If we are the first to tolerate this massacre of the correct information concerning Israel, the first to consent to anyone, graphomaniac or exhibitionist, only to give vent to their ravings, to speak inappropriately about Israel, how can we expect that public broadcasting and mass television do not expose to the public …
By Guido Vitale “The Polish government, led by Law and Justice, a radical nationalist party, appears intent on politicising historical discussion — and even criminalising it.” (The Economist – April 8th 2016)
By Guido Vitale “Noch bevor wir mit dem Interview beginnen, lassen Sie mich sagen, wie sehr ich Axel Springer schätzte. Mein Vater traf ihn, kurz nachdem mein Bruder bei der Gei-selbefreiungsoperation in Entebbe 1976 gefallen war. Sie trafen sich in Berlin in Springers Büro. Er nahm meinen Vater ans Fenster, zeigte auf die Berliner Mauer …
By Guido Vitale “There is no normal life in Venice. Here everything and everyone floats”. (Peggy Guggenheim)
By Guido Vitale Identificar «los movimientos sectarios y las corrientes totalitarias» como una «interpretación perniciosa y distorsionada» del islam. Detectar el lenguaje del fanatismo. Reconocer «en qué momento un individuo se identifica con el radicalismo violento» o valorar la importancia de concienciar contra «las perversiones» del extremismo en uno de los grupos de mayor riesgo: …
By Guido Vitale “The Venice ghetto was always more open to the city than the Roman ghetto, which was beset by the conversion mania of the church”. (Riccardo Calimani, The New York Times)
By Guido Vitale “The ghetto is not an easy place; it does not produce a clear-cut message nor does it have the arresting beauty of the rest of Venice”. (Shaul Bassi, The Jewish Chronicle)
By Guido Vitale “With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the retreat of Marxist socialism around the world, militant energies have needed somewhere to go. The battle against inequalities under liberal capitalism has mobilised some of that passion, but postcolonial guilt has fired up the war against its prize whipping boy, Zionism, like no …
By Guido Vitale “It is a weak identity that creates the need for an enemy” (Umberto Eco – Pagine Ebraiche)
By Guido Vitale “Les juifs sont forts, voilà la vérité. Oui. D’abord parce qu’ils ont, eux qui ont toujours été si seuls, des alliés solides – à commencer par les chrétiens. Ensuite parce que leurs ennemis sont idiots, illettrés, véritables crànes rasés de la pensée – rien à voir avec les Céline ou les Paul …
By Guido Vitale “Il n’est pas demandé de croire, mais de savoir” (Bernard Henry-Lévy)