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Shany Mor

Shany Mor is an Associate Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College and a Research Fellow at the Chaikin Center for Geostrategy at the University of Haifa. He served as a Director for Foreign Policy on the Israeli National Security Council.

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    Nobody Understands Democracy Anymore

    A wave of recent books warning about a ‘crisis of democracy’ reveals that even our experts are confused about how democracies actually work

    byShany Mor
  • Israeli soldiers at an army base in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights look out across the southwestern Syrian province of Quneitra, visible across the border on July 7, 2018.
    Israeli soldiers at an army base in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights look out across the southwestern Syrian province of Quneitra, visible across the border on July 7, 2018.
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    The Golan Heights and the Depths of Hypocrisy

    The ‘norms’ invoked to challenge Israel’s claims to the Golan are selectively applied, totally contradictory, and would actually invalidate Palestinian territorial claims. Other than that, they make perfect sense.

    byShany Mor
  • Israeli Prime Minister and leader of the ruling right-wing Likud Party, at a campaign speech on Jan. 5, 2014
    Israeli Prime Minister and leader of the ruling right-wing Likud Party, at a campaign speech on Jan. 5, 2014
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    Illiberal Democracy Spreads in Israel

    If the Israeli right keeps winning elections without any real challenge, the country’s liberal democratic institutions will continue to crumble

    byShany Mor
  • Israeli security forces stand at a checkpoint near the site where a Palestinian assailant rammed a car into a group of Israeli soldiers near Mevo Dotan in the northern West Bank on March 16, 2018.
    Israeli security forces stand at a checkpoint near the site where a Palestinian assailant rammed a car into a group of Israeli soldiers near Mevo Dotan in the northern West Bank on March 16, 2018.
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    Brexit Is Britain’s West Bank

    Like the West Bank in Israeli politics, Brexit presents the British with a hopeless dilemma

    byShany Mor
  • Palestinians walk past the Dome of Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound before the Friday prayer in Jerusalem's Old City on October 14, 2016. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
    Palestinians walk past the Dome of Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound before the Friday prayer in Jerusalem's Old City on October 14, 2016. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Debunking UNESCO’s Dangerous Anti-Semitic Myth That Israel Is Trying to Destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque

    The U.N. body was criticized for omitting Jewish ties to the Temple Mount. But what their resolution did affirm is far more troubling.

    byShany Mor
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