Brian Klug, Author at Contending Modernities

Hear, O Israel!: An Open Address to the Jewish Mainstream

Brian Klug
January 10, 2024January 10, 2024

If, confronted with the hell unleashed on the people of Gaza in our name, we could do as Levi says then we would not efface the humanity of the children, women, and men of Gaza.

George Orwell, Gaza, and “The Debasement of Language”

Brian Klug
December 15, 2023January 10, 2024

Thinking is not political unless it is grounded, and it is not grounded when, to quote Orwell, “the concrete melts into the abstract.”

Why is the Jewish Question Different from All Similar Questions?

Brian Klug
August 29, 2022March 19, 2024

The National Question was about ethnic difference and how Europe should deal with it. The Jewish Question was about the alien within—so deep within as to be internal to Europe’s idea of itself.