Results for “Islamic State

The United States Serves Up Kurdistan to Iran on a Silver Platter

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 18, 2017

‘We should not have abandoned Kurdistan, the only real pole of stability in the region’.

Who Betrayed the Kurdish People?

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 22, 2017

Two years after the Kurds fought against the Islamic State, America turned its back as they sought independence.

Why I Defend Israel

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Time, November 27, 2023

The philosopher, journalist and human rights activist explains why we must support Israel in its war against the terrorist Hamas.

Israel Mourns and Prepares for War

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Wall Street Journal, October 20, 2023

Two weeks ago, the Jewish state was bitterly divided. After Hamas’s atrocities, it is united in a just and necessary defense.

Bernard-Henri Levy: ‘I’ve always found it quite shocking and beautiful to speak to one’s enemy’

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), The Times of Israel, June 10, 2017

On recent trip to Israel, French-Jewish intellectual promoted his new book on Judaism and explained what it’s like to be a modern-day Jonah.

Celebrity philosopher ‘BHL’ talks gritty warzone films and rising anti-Semitism

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), The Times of Israel, January 10, 2020

From the Balkans to IS in Kurdistan, French thinker/filmmaker Bernard-Henri Levy’s films document the harsh reality of combat front lines. Now showing in NYC and LA through Jan. 18

The Genius of Literature

Paul Berman, Tablet, May 16, 2017

Bernard-Henri Lévy draws from the well of late-18th-century French philosopher Chateaubriand for a broad defense of the aesthetics and morals of liberalism.

A Monstrous Betrayal

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 10, 2019

Caroline Fourest’s ‘Sisters in Arms’ arrives just in time for the Ottoman Anschluss against Syrian Kurdistan.

Requiem for Syria

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 28, 2018

It is fashionable to second-guess the cost of interventions that did not deliver on all of their promises, but what we’re witnessing now is far more bloody and disastrous than timely intervention could possibly have been.