Colombia Unbecoming: Hate Week Comes to Latin America
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/colombia-unbecoming-hate-week-comes-to-latin-america/
What is known in English as Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) has made it to Colombia in the form of the Semana contra el Apartheid Israelí. The “week” consisted of a 4 hour session on April, Friday 22, at a public university in Bogotá, featuring Palestinian, South African, Brazilian and Colombian speakers, and a 4 hour […]
Mimesis, Antisemitism, Terror
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/mimesis-antisemitism-terror/
How can we explain the virulence and brutality—the gratuitous barbarity—of Islamist mass-murder terrorism? More than ideology, more than neurosis, we should consider mimesis, rivalry and mimetic contagion. Some ten days before the attacks in Paris last November, the immortel René Girard died, bringing to an end a long and uniquely productive intellectual career. For decades, […]