Willard Wood

2 weeks ago | portside.org | Rachel Shabi |Enzo Traverso |Willard Wood |Peter Beinart

‘Infinite License’ Published April 6, 2025 On January 12, 1904, the Herero people of German Southwest Africa—today’s Namibia—launched a series of attacks on scattered German farms in the territory. The Herero, a pastoral group of about 80,000, depended on their vast cattle herds for their economic, social, and cultural life, but the German settlers who had begun to arrive in the late nineteenth century increasingly encroached on their grazing lands.

Oct 4, 2024 | lithub.com | Enzo Traverso |Willard Wood

The press and especially the news channels are constantly warning us that antisemitism is everywhere on the rise. They don’t point to specific episodes, content instead to denounce an ancient prejudice that in the context of a Middle East crisis is staging a resurgence. No, they describe a gigantic wave of antisemitism that has been sweeping across the globe since October 7.