In this open letter to the former Federal Councillor, writer Nadine Richon expresses her concern at the one-sided discourse on Israel and Palestine promoted by the Socialist Party, and calls for greater nuance within this political family.
The Iran-Israel crisis has revived an old Western temptation: regime change. The illusion of immediate political transformation, however, runs up against the fact that regimes come and go, while peoples, their history and culture remain.
On September 5, 1972, eleven Israeli athletes were murdered during the Munich Olympic Games, against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A look back at a tragedy that has become part of our collective memory.
«Palestine will be free from the river to the sea», «Our cause is more important than the law»... The radicalism of some of the pro-Palestinian students occupying the universities no longer needs proving. Report from Freiburg, where some Jews have even been intimidated.
It was necessary to separate the man from the work; will it be necessary to separate the researcher from the professor, and the professor from the citizen who harangues students and supports the occupation of universities?
Pro-Palestinian students camp out night and day at the University of Lausanne to put pressure on the rectorate. These activists claim to be peaceful. They are not.
Houthis firing missiles and drones, American retaliation, reciprocal threats: the escalation of violence is driving hopes of peace away in Yemen. This situation, initially linked to the war in Gaza, is now spreading far beyond it.
The license Israel is giving itself in its response to Gaza is shaking the fragile balance between military necessity and the imperatives of humanity. All of which further weakens the prospects of a peace that is anything other than a prologue to future confrontations.
Selective indignation about the Middle East is abhorrent. The most widespread example of this phenomenon? The pro-Palestinian and above all anti-Israeli music that damages its own cause with every intervention - and every silence.
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