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The Geometry of Revelation: Maximal Tangency Without Collapse

A covenant is not union. It is sustained distinction under contact. The Problem of Closeness There is a classical question in mathematics known as the...

yesterday 6

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Ten percent for an anti-fact governance device…

Ten percent for an anti-fact governance device: Braun’s “Crown,” 1968 without Jews, and the exportable technology of sacred jurisdiction This is...

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Antisemitic Paparazzi

When an author stops being an interlocutor and becomes a machine for manufacturing insinuation, the proper response is not to litigate each claim, but...

saturday 30

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

The War That Begins Before the First Shot

There is a genre of writing that pretends to describe “what is happening.” In fact it performs prior work: it sets the conditions under which...

20.02.2026 30

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The war’s name is a switch, not a description

The war’s name is a switch, not a description David Horovitz’s warning about the attempt to brand the Gaza war as a “War of Revival” is not...

19.02.2026 30

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

‘Encouraging Migration’ Is Not ‘Extreme’

“Encouraging Migration” Is Not “Extreme.” Extreme Is Our Selective Amnesia Link to the triggering article (for context, not as a moral...

18.02.2026 30

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Regime Survival Is Not Social Survival

Thought is dangerous: it comes from outside. It obeys no subject and no demand. It is the singular event that passes through the living — witness...

17.02.2026 40

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Kosherness or Managed Fragility

11.02.2026 20

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Whistles, Boos, and the Fabrication of ‘Outsiders Within’

09.02.2026 30

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

The Jewish Alibi Market in American Politics

02.02.2026 50

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Iran and the Mechanics of Media Caution

09.01.2026 20

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Bread on the Hearses

06.01.2026 20

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

For Truth’s Sake: Love Vance

27.12.2025 60

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The Commission TRICK

24.12.2025 20

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Diaspora, Revolution, and the Comfort of Myth

23.12.2025 20

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Israel: From Democracy to Confessional Rule

18.12.2025 50

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Hanukkah in Sydney and the Test of Public Visibility

15.12.2025 60

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A Plan Designed So No One Can Win

13.12.2025 10

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Covenant as a Separative Operator: Against Soft Universalism

10.12.2025 50

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Three Fixations, Two Political Peoples, One Dismantling of Law

08.12.2025 30

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

The Eurovision Boycott: Europe’s Cheapest Morality Against Israel

05.12.2025 60

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Netanyahu’s Pardon Request: Are Israelis Still Citizens – Or Already Subjects?

01.12.2025 50

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Ireland’s Herzog Park Moment: When the Colonized Learn to Erase

30.11.2025 60

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Tel Aviv as Signal Hub: When Solidarity Becomes a Market of Intensity

19.10.2025 40

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Erdogan’s ‘Beyond Hitler’ Line Is an Obscenity, Not Diplomacy

09.10.2025 30

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Yom Kippur: Avodat Shem, not guilt

04.10.2025 20

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Toys That Close the World

13.09.2025 30

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

When Immunological Polemic Disguises Itself as Method: A Response to E.V. Sapir

05.09.2025 40

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Let the Throne Remain Empty

31.08.2025 70

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Justification as a Machine of Illusion: I Have Seen It

25.08.2025 20

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig