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January 22, 2025

What Bernard-Henri Lévy Doesn’t Understand about Israel and Its Friends

A nation alone? Hardly.

Since the 1970s, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been one of France’s leading public intellectuals, and has distinguished himself for possessing moral clarity about subjects that usually provoke moral confusion, or worse, from French public intellectuals. Yet this perceptiveness does not make him correct about all particulars. Meir Soloveichik in 2017 dissented from the conventional wisdom about the Algerian-born Jewish philosopher’s The Genius of Judaism. Now he takes issue with Lévy’s post-October 7 book.

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