Macron’s approval rating hits a new low: just 16% view his presidency favorably, while 81% are unfavorable. A dramatic reversal from the beginning of his first term. It's really a pity, it would be nice to have a slightly more popular head of state. I dare not writing "next time"... 😱

Israel's Culture Minister Threatens to Revoke Citizenship of Gaza Doc Filmmakers. Miki Zohar described the film as "vile," saying it "constitutes treason." "The core of the film is a system of killing that has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, how it worked & how the world allowed it to happen".

Israel's culture minister threatens to revoke citizenship of Gaza doc filmmakers

The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. It reveals 'in detail the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza' following the e...

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4th year of the Russian imperial war: Caen/France: 40 people injured after a train Rouen-Caen derailed, disrupting rail traffic. A huge piece of rail found on the tracks. Ukraine–Poland: A train Kyiev-Warsaw was targeted by a Russian drone near the Polish-Ukrainian border (no casualties reported).

David Enoch in @haaretzcom.bsky.social "If you vote in a way that causes more suffering to people, then you should not vote. If you vote in ways that infringe on people's freedom in unjustified ways, then you should not vote. The duty is not 'it's the participation that counts.'"

Your vote won't change a thing. This is why you should cast it anyway

Ahead of the October 27 election, philosophers David Enoch and Saul Smilansky confront an uncomfortable truth – no single vote decides the outcome – and explain why staying home still can't be justifi...

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Nous – Société française pour la philosophie et la théorie juridiques et politiques – commençons la quatrième édition des Rencontres de la SFPJ. Avec François OST sur les temps du droit ! Les temps du droit | The Times of Law philosophiejuridique.fr/les-temps-du... #SFPJ #4RencontresSFPJ

Remarquable paper in @haaretzcom.bsky.social about the extent of treason of the current israeli PM. Details of how Netanyahu received explicit warning days before October 7, but did not inform the IDF and Shin Bet. Excerpts from "Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment," by Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval.

נתניהו קיבל התרעה מפורשת ימים לפני 7 באוקטובר אך לא עדכן את צה"ל ושב"כ

בימים האחרונים של ספטמבר 23', בשיחת טלפון שנמשכה 45 דקות, נשיא איחוד האמירויות מוחמד בן זאיד מסר לנתניהו התרעה חריפה לגבי כוונות סינוואר. ומה עשה ראש הממשלה? לא כלום ● תחקיר נרחב, שנערך עבור הספר "חטו...

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Reading about Gloria, I discover her grandmother, Pauline Perlmutter Steinem (1864-1940), a Jewish American suffragist born in Radziejów, Poland. This is where my own mother was born, and where my father died. Sharing a shtetl with Gloria, I didn't expect this.

Grandmothers' Lessons

by Gloria Steinem

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In Metz, France: "I would like to be like the climate change. Even hotter in 40 years". #𝐋𝐚𝐃𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐨

Jack Khoury: New poll for A Place for All (Makom Lekulanou), the Jewish-Arab party would not cross the electoral threshold alone, but could add up to 3 SEATS within an alliance. Both Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am reject the proposal. ML must now decide whether to withdraw or run independently.

RAAM, Mansour Abbas' Arab Israeli moderate party, added Yoav Segalovich to their list – first Jew ever there, former cop, might be good with crime within the Arab sector in Isr. Today, disappointment: the reaction of Hadash, communist Arab Israeli party, trashing Abbas. Not NOW, let Netanyagu go!

My latest paper, analyzing recent polls in Israel and in Palestine. Not electoral polls, but the ones which ask about a shared (or not so shared) future.

The Conversation France@france.theconversation.com · 3w ago

Que pensent vraiment les Israéliens et les Palestiniens ?

I’m writing about the tensions between the Bund and the Zionists: In response to [Zionist] ideas, the Bund—the General Jewish Labour Union of Lithuania, Poland, and Russia—was founded in 1897 in Vilnius, in so called "Russian Empire"; i.e. on Polish and Lithuanian territories colonized by Russia.

More than four decades after his Holocaust story Maus transformed the graphic novel genre, Art Spiegelman discusses Trump, the shadow of 9/11 and the rise of fascism in America www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Hedva Eyal, Zvika Orr, Zohar Lederman, Ohad Bitan & Seth M Holmes on Dr Abu Safiya's necessary release and on the urgent need of the moral medical leadership in Israel. An important letter published by @thelancet.com

Health care under fire: the need for medical leadership

The World Report, which discusses calls to boycott the Israeli Medical Association,1 and the insightful Perspective, written amid the ongoing destruction of southern Lebanon by Israel's Government,2 p...

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At the Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw, Poland, with the spirit of @jennyholzer.bsky.social everywhere. THE FUTURE IS STUPID

From today's readings: Pierre Roussel in 1775 not only gave an essentializing description of a "woman" (mostly "infantile"), but also of a man, who should be "tall" and "proud". So this is not a feminine fantasy, men's height and discrimination that follows, but it is masculine self-depreciation.

Reading now Robert Jay Lifton, "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide" (1986). And it is weird, this recurring question: what conception of human world is the right one, the one of the camps, or the one of a beautiful life in Haifa for those who do not suffer?

Truly exciting: Yoav Segalovitz, Jewish lawmaker who won trust among Arab public for fighting violent crime, will to take a spot on Ra’am’s [Arab party] electoral list. He will also be the party’s preferred to become the next national security minister should Ra’am join a governing coalition.

In major shift, Yesh Atid MK reportedly set to run as No. 2 in Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am party

Yoav Segalovitz, Jewish lawmaker who won trust among Arab public for fighting violent crime, will reportedly meet Abbas to join revamped, historically Islamist party next week

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“Only slowly could they [former prisoners from Auschwitz] be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.” V. FRANKL, Man’s Search for Meaning [... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen, 1946], p. 112‑113.

The fact that Noah Efron is one of my favorite people comes as no surprise. The fact that I drag him along to listen to jazz with me is not shocking either. But then Noah’s pre-jazz musical culture allows him to understand #Shalosh in a way I never could.... check The Promised Podcast, around 1:50 💙

The “Picking Sides” Edition - The Promised Podcast

We discuss: 1) The primaries in the “Democrats Party” and what they say about the only leftist Zionist party 2) Whether or not our contemporary politics are infected by "baseless hatred."

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Fascinating (too early to have a clear judgment): In Moselle (Eastern France), a massive hydrogen deposit is reviving hopes for the former mining basin. Scientists and the industry claim to have discovered the world’s largest natural hydrogen deposit. They now search for an extraction permit.

En Moselle, un immense gisement d’hydrogène ravive les espoirs de l’ancien bassin minier

Des scientifiques et l’industriel la Française de l’énergie affirment avoir découvert le plus grand gisement d’hydrogène naturel au monde. La société, soutenue par les politiques locaux, espère obteni...

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Israel has approved the first phase of Trump’s Gaza “Board of Peace” plan: a limited multinational force in Rafah and the gradual entry of a Palestinian technocratic committee meant to take over governance in designated areas. Netanyahu meets Trump tomorrow; Ben-Gvir opposed the move.

Discussing with my friend from Ramallah, Mohamad Jamous. "You know Anna, we live here.... no, I cannot say this. I don't think that this is 'living'".

"The kingdom will not cease its tireless efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state, and we affirm that the kingdom will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without one," MBS declared. Want Abraham accords? #FreeMarwanBarghouti Without him the state is unthinkable today.

Analysis • Normalization with Israel and Saudi nuclear deal may bring Palestinians back in

The Americans' demand for a Saudi-Israeli accord may seem like an achievement for Netanyahu, but Trump would now have room to act on his pledges in his 20-point plan for Gaza

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Status of the blocs: 59 for the Zionist opposition, 50 for the coalition. 11 seats for the Arab parties. Only 72% of coalition voters are confident that they will go to the polls - compared to 80% of the opposition. #Israelielections www.maariv.co.il/news/politic...

#ESR L'usage de l'IAgen n'a pas eu l'effet égalisateur annoncé dans la rédaction d'articles scientifiques, mais un creusement des inégalités en plus de l'effet ravageur pour les normes éthiques. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

AI promised to democratise academic publishing – the evidence says otherwise - LSE Impact

It was thought AI would level the playing field in academic publishing for non-native English speakers. A growing body of evidence to reveals the opposite.

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Delighted to see yet another legal action of @asso-sherpa.bsky.social against Total Energies, and even more this time – as they WON! The case was made with @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social @fne.asso.fr & @villedeparis.bsky.social

Sherpa@asso-sherpa.bsky.social · 3mo ago

⚖️ This Thursday, 25th of June, in the midst of a European heatwave, the ruling in the TotalEnergies case was handed down: the oil and gas giant was found liable for failing in its duty of vigilance. Read our release 👉 www.asso-sherpa.org/totalenergie...

People I hate the most (for a couple of years already) are those old men (it was always VERY gendered), from 20 to 80, who were saying since 2022: "we're always afraid of novelty, this is human nature, you are the problem, not AI". J'irai cracher sur vos tombes. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/23/w...

AI could breach government and business defenses in months, US and its intelligence partners warn | CNN

AI models capable of launching major cyberattacks that could overwhelm the defenses of governments and businesses are months – not years – away, an international alliance of intelligence agencies warn...

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In Israel, before October 7, the number of citizens injured in hostile acts and recognized by the National Insurance Institute as disabled due to mental health issues was at 6,412. Now: more than 69,000. Tenfold increase. "What's happening over here is simply insane" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...