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Reevaluating NAFTA : theory and practice
Has NAFTA integrated North America? A fifeteen year appraisal finds trade expansion booting optimism, but also unviels asymmetry between developed and developing countries as well as regulations constraining integration.
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Before and after October 7: Changes in Italian Undergraduates’ Attitudes towards Jews and Muslims
On October 7, 2023, a Hamas-led terrorist attack in Israel killed 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped about 250 others. The almost immediate spread of news and images of the attack produced heavy emotional reactions in public opinion in many countries. The article analyzes data from a representative survey on the attitudes toward Jews and Muslims of Italian undergraduates conducted between late September and late October 2023, encompassing both those dramatic events and the war that followed. Four main findings emerge. First, Italian students tend to organize attitudes towards Jews around three main dimensions, those toward Muslims around one. Second, attitudes towards the two groups vary according to cultural values of reference, commitment to study, and political orientation. Third, negative attitudes towards Muslims are more prevalent than those toward Jews, but this difference narrows between center-left and left-leaning students and, in some cases, reverses. Finally, the analysis shows that one of the dimensions organizing unfavourable attitudes towards Jews experienced very substantial growth on the days immediately following October 7, that is, the date of the Hamas terrorist attack inside Israeli territory.
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Surrounded by Darkness, Enfolded in Light: Factors Influencing the Mental Health of Australian Jews in the October 7 Aftermath
This study examines the effects of social media use on anxiety levels of Australian Jews during the 5-week post-October 7 aftermath. It considers this relationship in the context of the mediating roles played by concerns about rising antisemitism in Australia and concerns about Israel. It further examines the moderating effects on these relationships of non-Jewish friends reaching out with messages of sympathy and concern, and the effects of Jewish communal ties. The analysis is based on data collected from 7611 Australian Jewish adults and employs a series of ordinary least squares regression analyses to assess the direct, indirect, and interaction effects of these variables on anxiety. The results indicate significant direct effects of social media use on anxiety levels. Additionally, concerns about antisemitism in Australia and concerns about Israel were found to mediate these relationships. Non-Jewish friends reaching out frequently with messages of sympathy and concern was found to attenuate the effects of concerns about antisemitism in Australia on anxiety. By contrast, Jewish communal ties were not found to significantly moderate the effects of concern about Israel on anxiety. These findings underscore the complex interplay between social media use, concern about local antisemitism, concern about Israel, and forms of social support in shaping anxiety levels of Australian Jews during this particular time period. The implications for mental health of ethnoreligious groups during crisis and avenues for future research are discussed.
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After October 7th: No Atonement Before Repair
Robinson-Divine reflects on the tensions inherent in Zionism and the processes of establishing the Israeli state and nation. She points out that those tensions had boiled over in the months preceding October 7, 2023 in the form of the \"judicial overhaul\" that was attempted by the Netanyahu government and the mass demonstrations that brought tens of thousands of Israelis out into the streets over a period of months. The turmoil of those months, followed by the trauma of October 7th, together seem to place Israel and much of the Jewish world at a moment of decision regarding choices for the future. If one of Zionism's central aims was to mend what was deemed a brokenness of Jewish life, what repair, what healing, might emerge from the sense of crisis, catastrophe, and breakdown since October 7th.
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Return to Jewish History
In memory of my PhD student Yinon Fleischman, killed on the border with Lebanon on October 29, 2023, survived by a wife and a baby. From the eulogies that were given for Yinon at his graveside, perhaps the most moving one concerning Yinon as a scholar was given by one of his brothers, who described how every time he encountered him, Yinon was carrying some esoteric book that he was in the middle of reading. His brother said that he could not possibly understand what or why Yinon was reading. This is a beautiful refection on the breadth and depth of Yinons intellectual mind. His death is a loss to the world and a loss to the world of knowledge.
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Some Reflections on the October 7th Catastrophe in Historical Perspective
Halamish seeks to situate the October 7, 2023 attack on the Gaza Strip by Israel in the context of the history of Zionism and Israel. Kishinev and the Holocaust reverberate loudly in her analysis, alongside the 1929 riots in Palestine and a number of key moments in the broad historical view that she lays out. How Zionism is understood, and how Israel's leaders interpret the circumstances in which they operate, she suggests, will have crucial ramifications for what impact October 7th will prove to have on Israel's future
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The Narrative of the ‘Persecuted People’ and the Israeli Public’s Response to the October 7 Terrorist Attack: A Social Movement Theory Analysis
There was an unprecedented mobilization by the Israeli public in support of the war effort following the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas. Utilizing various definitions of social movements, the discussion explores the idea of characterizing this form of organization as a social movement. Employing tools from the cultural approach to social movements, the subsequent analysis focuses primarily on collective identity and emotions within social movements as key elements in understanding this movement. Based on an examination of coverage in the media and on social networks, it is argued that the Jewish narrative of the ‘persecuted people,’ which has had a dominant role in shaping the collective identity of ‘being an Israeli’, has also shaped the emotional response of Israelis to the atrocities. The sense of abandonment, fear, a desire for retribution, and most notably profound patriotism, coupled with chauvinistic nationalism, have collectively contributed to the massive recruitment of the public to the war effort.
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Gendered Perceptions of Threat and Challenge during Regional Conflict: A Multi-generational Study of Holocaust Survivors and Descendants
Gender differences in wellbeing and trauma response have been a significant focus of psychological research, particularly among populations that have experienced extreme stressors, such as Holocaust survivors and their offspring. This study aims to explore the psychological impact of the “sense of threat” and “sense of challenge” experienced during the war in the 7 October aftermath (2023), with a specific emphasis on gender differences across different generations affected by the Holocaust. The study utilized a cross-sectional design to analyze secondary data. Research data were collected during the war in the 7 October aftermath. A total of 120 individuals, from three Holocaust cohorts (survivors, second-generation, and third generation) participated. Data on sociodemographic characteristics, as well as perceptions of threat and challenge, were gathered using the Stress, Appraisal, and Coping Questionnaire developed as reported by Lazarus and Folkman (Springer, New York, 1984). Females report a higher mean score (M = 3.36) for “sense of threat” compared with males (M = 2.85). Conversely, for the “sense of challenge,” although females exhibit a slightly higher mean score (M = 2.54) than males (M = 2.49), there was no statistically significant difference. The trauma of the Holocaust continues to afflict survivors and their descendants and is particularly pronounced during periods of extreme stress, such as war. Females exhibited an elevated “sense of threat” compared with males, which increases with each subsequent generation. Such insights stress the critical importance of incorporating a gender perspective in the design of interventions aimed at supporting trauma survivors.
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October 7th, 2023 From The Perspective Of Zionist History: A Crucial Wakeup Alarm
Lavsky argues that analogies to the Holocaust and the October 7, 2023 Black Shabbat on October 7, 2024 are in a fundamental sense wrong-headed, given the profound difference between the situation of the Jews in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, and the post-1948 reality, in which Jews have expected to be able to rely on the protection of a Jewish state and a Jewish army. The combined state and military failure on October 7th raises profound questions, she argues, as to the essence and meaning of that state, and she is hopeful that the tragedy of these months may at least have the potential to stir a renewed exploration and reckoning.
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