Melis Erdur, at The Blogs

Jul 26, 2018, 3:36 PM

If you don’t agree with me, you are a racist!

But seriously, there are so many reasons to oppose the UN plan for asylum seekers that have nothing to do with racism

Jul 11, 2018, 12:38 AM

Maha Ighbaria has an article (Haaretz, 8/7/2018) entitled “I am a Palestinian Woman in Israel. You Don’t Get to Define my Labels”, where she describes how her application for a seminar in Germany has been rejected. Apparently, the seminar...

Jun 28, 2018, 4:04 PM

Historical Truth Should not be a Political Bargaining Chip

It seems that negotiations with Israel and pressure from international organizations have paid off: Poland is “softening” its sixth-month old “Holocaust Law”, which criminalizes accusing the Polish nation of complicity in the Nazi crimes, mainly by tossing out the...

Jun 25, 2018, 3:44 PM

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No justification to ban the Chabad event in Tel Aviv

Illustrative: Runners take part in a marathon in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv on February 24, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tel Aviv's mayor has no moral case against the Chabad event that would separate men and women

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Melis is originally from Izmir, Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from New York University in 2013, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Open University of Israel.

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