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Victor Pinchuk, Mistral Warships, and the Jews of Ukraine

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The HuffPost, November 26, 2014

On Nov. 18, in Kiev, philanthropist Victor Pinchuk was awarded the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Medal of Honor by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine for his contributions to Ukrainian-Jewish understanding and cooperation. What follows is a version of my remarks at the ceremony.

Why Putin is a danger to Europe

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Kyiv Post, February 09, 2015

Bernard-Henri Lévy discusses the Ukrainian crisis and the danger that Putin represents for democracy and Europe.

A Marshall Plan for Ukraine

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The HuffPost, May 03, 2015

If, in 200 days, your suggestions and proposals are persuasive enough to convince the world to invest massively in the birth of the new Ukraine, you will have helped to make Ukraine another Poland or another Czech Republic. You will have heeded the call of your brothers and sisters and opened to them the doors of Europe.

Putin, Ukraine and historical revisionism

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Kyiv Post, May 09, 2015

The following is the English-language translation of a Bernard-Henri Levy speech delivered on April 16 at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris as part of an international colloquium entitled The Second World War in Russian Political Discourse.

Bernard-Henri Levy: European leaders may be abandoning Ukraine

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Kyiv Post, May 25, 2015

French playwright Bernard-Henri Levy will perform his play "Hotel Europe" on May 28 in Lviv. The play will be staged in Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Solomiya Kryshelnytska, beginning at 7.30 p.m. The play is dedicated to the events of EuroMaidan Revolution. In this op-ed, Levy anticipates and answers some of the most frequent questions directed his way.

Bernard-Henri Lévy – CNN Amanpour : France will not bow down to ‘new form of terror’ (Jan 7, 2015)

Posted on Friday 22 November 2024

French intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy talks to Christiane Amanpour following a terror attack at the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie...

Kurdistan

From Peshmerga to The Battle of Mosul, from The Empire and the Five Kings to Another Idea of the World, Bernard-Henri Lévy has never ceased to plead the cause of the Kurds, a long-suffering people repeatedly abandoned by their western allies. To the Kurds who fought ISIS and count the mountains as their only friends, Lévy promises : “I will stand by your side until the day I die.”

Ukraine

On February 2014, Bernard-Henri Lévy delivers a speech on the thronged central square known as the Maidan, occupied around the clock by the people of Kiev. It is the beginning of an ongoing struggle for the hearts and minds of the Ukrainian’s “fellow Europeans.” Despite, or perhaps because of, the defeatists inclined to accept the aggressions of Putin’s Russia, Lévy covers all 450 kilometers of the front line across which the defenders of democracy and of Europe face off against pro-Russian separatists.

Biography (2016)

On 3 February 2016, Bernard-Henri Lévy publishes L’Esprit du Judaïsme (Grasset) (The Spirit of Judaism, Random House, 2017). Reworked several times, the book,...

Biography (2005-2015)

In 2005, Atlantic Monthly publishes excerpts from American Vertigo, where Lévy predicts the election of Barack Obama in an article entitled “A Black...