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Carlo Strenger is a sought-after political commentator and publicist on Israeli Politics and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is a classical liberal, i.e. a defender of individual liberty who argues for high standard of public discourse, and he is a proponent of a just and sane solution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is a columnist for Israel’s leading liberal newspaper Haaretz, a columnist for Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and he occasionally writes for New York Times, Guardian, Foreign Policy and Huffington Post.
For speaking engagements contact strenger@post.tau.ac.il
Strenger’s psychohistorical study of Israel: Israel: Einführung in ein schwieriges Land (2011: Suhrkamp), has been described as “one of the most important books about Israel written in the last years” in Die Zeit. His treatise against political correctness Zivilisierte Verachtung: eine Anleitung zur Verteidigung unserer Freiheit has been favourably reviewed in many German language media, and the French translation Le Mépris Civilisé is published by Belfond on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, January 7 2016 .
Selected Political Opeds, Blogs and Interviews
Israel’s Extreme Right is not Jewish, it’s Totalitarian. Haaretz December 2015
Die “Weisse Stadt” Tel Aviv und Amy Winehouse, NZZ September 2015
Hat Rabins Mörder sein Ziel Erreicht? NZZ August 2015
Israeli-Palestinian Peace is dead, and Both Sides Killed it. Haaretz August 2015
Videoblog mit Richard Schneider: Politische Korrektheit und die Schwäche der Linken, March 2015
Video: Interview on TVO on Homo Globalis and World Citizenship, February 2014
Don’t Blame Secular Israelis for lack of Dialogue with US Jewry. Haaretz February 2014
Dear Palestinian Leaders: Your Destiny is in your own Hands. Haaretz November 2013
Israel’s Secular Liberals Should Claim Minority Status, Haaretz October 2013
Judith Butler: Zionism and Occupation are opposed to Jewish Values, Haaretz, December 2012
Salman Rushdie, and the Right to Offend, Haaretz, October 10 2012
Zionism 2012: A Guide for the Perplexed, Haaretz, July 18 2012
National-religious Messianism is Endangering Israel, Haaretz June 13 2012
Open Letter to Hamas: You are Responsible for your People’s Fate, Haaretz, March 14 2012
Netanyahu’s Partners, Democracy’s Enemies, New York Times, September 16 2011
SAT 3 Interview on Israel’s Isolation and Palestinian UN Bid, September 13 2011 (in German)
September may Bring Death of Two-State Solution, and the Jewish State, Haaretz, September 8 2011
Social Justice Instead of Nationalism, Haaretz August 28 2011
Israel’s Boycott Ban is Down to Siege Mentality. Guardian, June 12 2011
Israel is tearing Apart the Jewish People, Haaretz, 24.6.2011
Netanyahu’s Win is Israel’s Loss. Haaretz, May 25 2011
From the Slavery of Falsehood to the Freedom of Truth. Haaretz, April 18 2011
Israel should Endorse UN Recognition of a Palestinian State. Foreign Policy, March 31 2011
Tel Aviv is Up There with Harvard, MIT and Princeton – for Now. Haaretz, March 18 2011
The Decline and Fall of Messianic Politics, Haaretz, March 4 2011
Israel’s Right have Eyes, but do not See, Ears, but do not Hear. Haaretz, January 10 2011
Why Anti-Zionism is a Collective Neurosis. Panorama Italy, September 10 2010 (in Italian)
Talking Cure Diplomacy. New York Times February 2010
The Silence of Israel’s Liberals. Guardian February 2010
Israel’s Just Fears of a Palestinian State. Guardian, December 2009
Why I Celebrate the Tel Aviv Centenary. Guardian, October 2009
The Self-Righteous Left’s Simplistic World. Guardian July 2009
How the Enlightenment taught us to laugh. Guardian May 2009
Dawkins is Wrong about Believers. Guardian, May 2009
What Victimology doesn’t Account For. Guardian, December 2008
Why Obama’s Win is ´Good for the Jews´. Haaretz November 2008
Danger of the Gut-Level Sympathy Vote. Guardian, October 2008
´I Accuse´. Haaretz September 2008
Talking Tough on Ahmadinejad. Guardian September 2008
Israel and Palestine need Europe to Make Peace. Guardian July 2008
When Freedom goes up in Smoke. Haaretz November 2007
The Honor of the Elites Must be Reestablished. Haaretz October 2007
Applying Lessons from Northern Ireland. Haaretz July 2007
Why Israel Does not Engage with the Saudi Peace Initiative. Haaretz June 2007
