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Kurdish President Massoud Barzani Speaks

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, September 29, 2017

The day after his successful independence referendum, the commander of the Peshmerga talks with Bernard-Henri Lévy about Kurdistan’s neighbors Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, French President Macron, and the future of his people.

Mosul Is Liberated – But Not Yet Free

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, July 12, 2017

Who will rebuild the destroyed Iraqi city? Who will shepherd the refugees to safety? Who will reward the Kurds with the regionally stabilizing state they deserve?

‘Slava Ukraini’ Review: Tour of a War-Torn Nation

Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Times, May 04, 2023

The French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy travels to different parts of Ukraine in this dispatch-documentary, shot in the second half of 2022.

The Kurds Are Not Children

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Foreign Policy, September 06, 2017

They have earned their independence, and the West must get out of the way.

ISIS Stages a Comeback in Iraq

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Wall Street Journal, September 08, 2022

The fate of Kurdistan is entwined with the fate of beleaguered Ukraine.

Bernard-Henri Lévy – The aftermath of Kurdish independence vote brings to mind Israel in 1948 (2017)

Posted on Thursday 19 September 2024

At a film screening at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage on October 2nd 2017, famed philosopher and humanitarian Bernard-Henri...

Israel

Unfailingly present whenever Israel is in danger, Bernard-Henri Lévy has rolled up his sleeves since the 1970s to find peaceful solutions. But when the philosopher thinks about Israel, he is also thinking about the entire world. And when he becomes involved in Bosnia, Georgia, Sudan, Sri Lanka, or Afghanistan that involvement reflects his thinking about Israel. The post-Holocaust principle of “Never Again” inhabits his words and deeds with respect to Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

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.”