Search

Results for “Speech”

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: Ukraine ‘exhausted but still on its feet’

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Kyiv Post, September 13, 2015

French playwright Bernard-Henri Levy, a frequent visitor to Ukraine, participated in the 12th annual Yalta European Strategy conference in Kyiv from Sept. 10-12. He participated in a panel discussion about truth, media and propaganda. In this op-ed piece, he answers questions.

The comedian VS the hero of Ukraine

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Wall Street Journal, April 08, 2019

Petro Poroshenko, the man who stood up to Putin, deserves better than to be fired at history’s whim.

The View from Here

James Kirchick, Air Mail, October 23, 2021

Bernard-Henri Lévy will never give up on hopeless causes.

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.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: “Cancel culture is churning out imbeciles”

Celia Walden, The Telegraph, October 15, 2021

The author known as BHL mulls over cross-Channel relations, the wars worth fighting and how to find hope in a world of misery.

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.