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Articles by Alexandra Barcea
The Orban regime takes Horthy’s Hungary as an example
One 1941 law passed under the ultra-nationalist and Nazi collaborator Miklos Horthy banned all forms of sexual intercourse between Jews and Gentiles in the name of ethnic purity. I have known the dark ages of Hungary. As a child during World War Two I experienced first-hand Hungarian ultra-nationalism and anti-Semitism. I managed to avoid deportation and murder in Auschwitz by fleeing to Palestine in 1943, along with 49 other Jewish children.
FP October 18 | openDemocracy
Rely on the UK media for your information about Syria, and you probably think it was Russia and Assad. Here is what goes unreported.
FP October 17 | openDemocracy
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to be suspended once may be regarded as a misfortune; twice looks like carelessness. But whose?
FP October 16 | openDemocracy
As information technologies and the internet expand, the kinds of rights we need are often difficult to pin down, but pin them down we must if those rights are to be properly protected.
FP Oct 1 | openDemocracy
The evidence that these powers are all needed is thin indeed. And the cost to all of our privacy is huge.
Jackie Walker: a suspense mystery
Like all great mysteries, the defenestration of Jackie Walker from the Vice-Chair-ship of Momentum, and her renewed suspension from the Labour Party, has quite a back story. Where to begin? In 1954 when she was born? On May 14, 1948, Israel’s birth date? On 12 September 2016, when Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party? In 1920 when the organisation Poale Zion affiliated to the UK Labour Party, or in 2004 when it was re-launched as the Jewish Labour Movement?
ISIS's squeeze, al-Qaida's return
The combined Russian-Syrian bombardment of eastern Aleppo continues to be intense and often indiscriminate. In this the operation resembles the destruction of Grozny in the two Chechen wars of the 1990s. Strong opposition in western states includes a demand that relevant actions be designated as war crimes. In practice, such calls will not resonate much in the Middle East, for two reasons.
The crushing of independent press in Hungary
October 8, 2016 will go down in Hungarian history as the day when the ideals of the 1956 revolution (when Népszabadság was established) were finally betrayed by Hungary's autocratic government. Imagine a situation where you woke up in the UK and discovered that the Guardian newspaper had overnight shut down all operations, that its paper version was never to be published again and that its decade old internet archive was unavailable to the public.
Bob Dylan, in and out of time
Longevity is in these days. A young meteor of film or music racing through fast life to early death will always have romantic appeal. A mid-career artist's grapple with setback or misfortune can have a nobility of its own. But a rock of ages pressing on against the fading of the light now seems to win readier and more heartfelt acclaim, including across generations. In part that reflects demographic, commercial and social trends.
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