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“... offer a compromise between the old Stoic ideal of equanimity and a new Christian ethos that Esther Cohen has called ‘philopassianism’, the love of pain. It differs from masochism in that pain is valued, not as a perverse source of pleasure, but as a moral and spiritual good. Admittedly, the theology is dubious, for if God did not shield his own son from ...”

“... wrote to a British official: ‘We don’t desire to turn out Mohammed in order to put in Mr Cohen as a large landowner.’ Segev observes: ‘The Arab was merely “Mohammed”, while the Jew was “Mr Cohen”.’ Weizmann dismissed the Arabs along with their claims. ‘There is a fundamental difference in quality ...”

“... and suffering like we see in Gaza’. Meanwhile, Israel’s supporters abroad claim that, as Bernard-Henri Lévy put it on X, ‘Israel is not invading Lebanon, it is liberating it.’ Such rhetoric is hardly new. The 1982 invasion of Lebanon was advertised as ‘Operation Peace for the Galilee’. It not only failed to destroy the Palestinian ...”

“... over Suez and the war in Algeria. It was France that first came to the aid of Libyan rebels, after Bernard-Henri Lévy’s expedition to Benghazi. That adventure, once the US got involved, freed Libya from Gaddafi, but then left it in the hands of militias – a number of them jihadist – and arms dealers whose clients include groups like IS. France has ...”

“... Thom’s lists the pork butcher at 1-2 South William Street as being Thomas Gribben (p. 1551). Bernard Ferenbach (Joyce misspelled his name) was a pork butcher directly across the street at 68 South William Street (Thom’s 1901, p. 1551), but this had closed by 1903, since the 1904 Thom’s lists that property as vacant (p. 1623). So, technically, it ...”

“... page. ‘You are the only one who talked about me as I would have wished,’ the novelist Albert Cohen told him. It was a charmed life, particularly for a Jew who’d spent his youth on the run from the Gestapo and the collaborationist Milice. But the war never really ended for Lanzmann. Seventy-five thousand Jews were deported by Vichy, and, as Beauvoir ...”

“... be produced, the general condition of intellectual life is suggested by the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri Lévy, far the best-known ‘thinker’ under 60 in the country. It would be difficult to imagine a more extraordinary reversal of national standards of taste and intelligence than the attention accorded this crass booby in France’s public ...”