“Nowhere in his justification does [Etienne] Balibar note the fact that Israel is a racist Jewish State; his opposition is only to its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.”

— Joseph Massad

Ibid.
"The legacy of Jean-Paul Sartre"

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