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Aug 11, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Andrew Fox |Nigel Biggar |Jonathan Kay |Roya Hakakian
Since Hamas attacked southern Israel on 7 October 2023, Israel and its allies have faced a staggering 18,221 individual rocket and drone attacksâfrom Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, from Hezbollah in Lebanon, from the Houthis in Yemen, from militias in Iraq and Syria, and from Iran itself. Over the past fortnight, Israel has launched a number of high-profile strikes on the senior membership of these regional enemies. This is not a new development.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Nigel Biggar |Jonathan Kay |Roya Hakakian |Herbert Bushman
When, in June, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor sought arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and defence minister over their conduct in Gaza, the Conservative government objected that the ICC lacks jurisdiction over Israeli citizens. Last week, the new Labour incumbents of No. 10 abandoned that challenge. But lack of jurisdiction is only the weakest ground for objection.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Zoe Booth |Jonathan Kay |Roya Hakakian |Herbert Bushman
My guest, Suha Hassen, is originally from Iraq and now lives in the United States, where she is currently a doctoral candidate at George Mason University's School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Suha's work is crucial in promoting global safety by countering extremist narratives. In this conversation, Suha discusses the shifting dynamics within Islam, including how Hamas, traditionally Sunni, is moving towards Shiaism.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Roya Hakakian |Herbert Bushman |John Lloyd
IntroductionJonathan Kay:Welcome to the Quillette podcast. Iâm your host, Jonathan Kay. Todayâs guest is Joan Smith, whom our Quillette readers will know from her detailed and scathing articles about the state of gender politics in Scotland, including her most recent offering, which appeared on August 4th, under the title, Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of Trans Inclusion.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Roya Hakakian |Herbert Bushman |John Lloyd |Kevin Mims
On 28 November 2023, the profile of a tenured professor at Oberlin College disappeared from the schoolâs website. Only a day earlier, typing Mohammad Jafar Mahallatiâs name into the siteâs search box returned a page with an extensive biography and links to several of his posts and videos. His photograph was there, too: a bearded man with a greying hairline and a reticent smile that suited his title of Professor of Peace and Friendship Studies.
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May 9, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Roya Hakakian
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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May 9, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Roya Hakakian
In the war between Israel and Hamas, there have been far too many casualties—thousands of innocent civilians have died, primarily in Gaza. But this war has another less visible casualty: the hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants to Israel from the Middle East and North Africa known as Mizrahi, whose history is being erased from the popular narrative about Israel. My community is among them.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
theatlantic.com | Roya Hakakian
Of all the cataclysmic events I have ever experienced, October 7 affected me like no other. The videos of hateful protests and bloody or charred bodies unearthed memories I’d long kept buried. In one, I am a girl standing in the doorway of our home in Tehran, staring at graffiti that appeared overnight on a neighbor’s wall. Punctuated by a Swastika—something I had never seen before—were three words, scrawled in black paint on red brick: Kikes get lost.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Roya Hakakian |Jeffrey Herf |Michael Mandelbaum |Nicole Penn
“How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” is one of the viral TikTok questions du jour. I can’t speak for any of my male friends, but for my part, it’s a bit complicated. In addition to the Roman Empire, quite a few chunks of history generally live rent-free in my head. But ever since I signed up for an unusual class in George Mason University’s History department this past spring, I’ve had one specific historical figure top of mind.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Roya Hakakian |Jeffrey Herf |Michael Mandelbaum
While Russia has been bombarding Ukrainian civilians and seeking to subjugate a country of forty million people, Putin has also been lying to the world about who Ukrainians really are. Putin has pushed lies that Ukraine is an authoritarian state that has persecuted its religious communities, especially Christians. Nothing could be further from the truth.
