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Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’ 16 juin 2025 à 06:00

Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’

16 juin 2025 à 06:00

Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

She finds the whole idea absurd. To Prof Marci Shore, the notion that the Guardian, or anyone else, should want to interview her about the future of the US is ridiculous. She’s an academic specialising in the history and culture of eastern Europe and describes herself as a “Slavicist”, yet here she is, suddenly besieged by international journalists keen to ask about the country in which she insists she has no expertise: her own. “It’s kind of baffling,” she says.

In fact, the explanation is simple enough. Last month, Shore, together with her husband and fellow scholar of European history, Timothy Snyder, and the academic Jason Stanley, made news around the world when they announced that they were moving from Yale University in the US to the University of Toronto in Canada. It was not the move itself so much as their motive that garnered attention. As the headline of a short video op-ed the trio made for the New York Times put it, “We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the US”.

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Netanyahu attacked Iran to avert an ‘existential threat’. He may have made it worse | Jonathan Freedland 13 juin 2025 à 18:06

Netanyahu attacked Iran to avert an ‘existential threat’. He may have made it worse | Jonathan Freedland

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Par :Jonathan Freedland

13 juin 2025 à 18:06

Israel has eliminated many of the brains behind Tehran’s nuclear programme. But don’t expect the regime to back down

This is a war 30 years in the making. Benjamin Netanyahu was talking about the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb back in the 1990s and he has scarcely let up since. For decades he has believed that a nuclear Iran would represent the one truly existential threat to Israel and that military force is the only sure way to prevent it. Several times during the many years in which Netanyahu has sat in the prime minister’s chair, an all-out strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities has been weighed up, debated and planned for. In the early hours of this morning, it finally happened.

Netanyahu will be pleased with the early results, including the elimination of key Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists. But the ultimate consequences could look very different. By his actions, he may only have accelerated the very danger he has feared for so long.

Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist

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