Tag: Hannah Arendt
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Why do we have anti-fascism?
Andre Callus of Moviment Graffitti has written a very patronising and garbled explanation about his antisemitic celebration of Hamas as “decolonisers” and “freedom fighters” in the form of a pseudo-historical response – or, rather, a pseudo-intellectual explanation on why Hamas is justifiable, BDS is good, antisemitism is not antisemitism and the Jews in Israel are…
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On bloody lawyers
“I’m just doing my job, like anyone else”. In Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt explains how people who commit gruesome and evil acts will try to dissociate from their behaviour as they justify it with external factors. The most common type of dissociation made in the Nuremberg Trials…
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“The essence of being an intellectual is that one fabricates ideas about everything” – Hannah Arendt
After two years in government, Prime Minister Robert Abela has made his first albeit small legal step forward to reform institutions and restore rule of law. He appointed a committee to propose a reform in response to the conclusion of the Public Inquiry on the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The government has not missed…