Göran Rosenberg
@goranrosenberg.bsky.social
Writer and journalist. www.rosenberg.se
The masked face of a religious settler attacking Palestinian olive harvesters with the visible backing of the IDF. Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh. See full story in @haaretzcom.bsky.social.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The masked face of a religious settler attacking Palestinian olive harvesters with the visible backing of the IDF. Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh. See full story in @haaretzcom.bsky.social.
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This is not only sad and false but self-delusional, refusing to acknowledge the all-too obvious; the eternal victims have become the unabashed perpetrators.
One might think that after Amnesty, B'Tselem, the UN and the International Association of Genocide Scholars have accused Israel of genocide, rabbis would feel some need to answer their arguments. Instead, they simply waive them away.
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This is not only sad and false but self-delusional, refusing to acknowledge the all-too obvious; the eternal victims have become the unabashed perpetrators.
”Rosenberg is not a household name, although he may become one on the strength of this brilliant appraisal of Israel’s political path.”
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Israel, a Personal History: A Personal History - Manhattan Book Review
Swedish author and journalist Goran Rosenberg is a fearlessly straightforward writer. A Personal History of Israel demands open-minded readers. First published almost a generation ago, and supplemente...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
”Rosenberg is not a household name, although he may become one on the strength of this brilliant appraisal of Israel’s political path.”
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An incisive review of my book “Israel, a Personal History”, Other Press, NY. Also forthcoming in UK, Penguin Modern Classics, London, January 2026.
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The Promised Land Reconsidered: Göran Rosenberg and the Fragility of Redemption
by Eric Göran Rosenberg’s Israel: A Personal History is a reckoning disguised as reminiscence, a confession of belief betrayed by history and ideology. In revisiting his formative years in the...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
An incisive review of my book “Israel, a Personal History”, Other Press, NY. Also forthcoming in UK, Penguin Modern Classics, London, January 2026.
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Russia is amassing nuclear weapons and attack submarines in the Arctic Circle as it prepares for war with Nato,Norway’s defence minister has warned,the Telegraph reports.
▪️"Russia is building up on the Kola peninsula ...where one of the largest arsenals of nuclear warheads in the world is located.⤵️
▪️"Russia is building up on the Kola peninsula ...where one of the largest arsenals of nuclear warheads in the world is located.⤵️
October 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Russia is amassing nuclear weapons and attack submarines in the Arctic Circle as it prepares for war with Nato,Norway’s defence minister has warned,the Telegraph reports.
▪️"Russia is building up on the Kola peninsula ...where one of the largest arsenals of nuclear warheads in the world is located.⤵️
▪️"Russia is building up on the Kola peninsula ...where one of the largest arsenals of nuclear warheads in the world is located.⤵️
The battle for the meaning of being a Jew.
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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
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October 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The battle for the meaning of being a Jew.
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Nytt poddsamtal Israel och Palestina spotify.link/urAoYW5JtXb
54. Göran Rosenberg – Live från Bokmässan (Swedish)
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October 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Nytt poddsamtal Israel och Palestina spotify.link/urAoYW5JtXb
My book "Israel, a Personal History", will be forthcoming in January 2026 in Penguin Modern Classics. The US edition, Other Books, NY, is now available wherever good books are sold.
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Israel
On 22 April 1962 what remains of Göran Rosenberg’s family board a train to Venice, the first step of their passage from his native Sweden to Israel. Transplanted into a nation only a few months older ...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
My book "Israel, a Personal History", will be forthcoming in January 2026 in Penguin Modern Classics. The US edition, Other Books, NY, is now available wherever good books are sold.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/475752...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/475752...
My book "Israel, a Personal History" is now out. Here a first review. "In a powerful account of his growing disenchantment with his parent’s conception of Israel as a utopia for Jews, Rosenberg presents Zionism as a flawed vision with a tragic aspect."
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A Lost Utopia - Public Seminar
Göran Rosenberg dismantles myths of Zionism and traces Israel’s history from utopian ideals to nationalist violence, writes Coleson Smith.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:38 AM
My book "Israel, a Personal History" is now out. Here a first review. "In a powerful account of his growing disenchantment with his parent’s conception of Israel as a utopia for Jews, Rosenberg presents Zionism as a flawed vision with a tragic aspect."
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En kommentar till vad som nu också en tung FN-kommission, i en väldokumenterad rapport kommer fram till är ett pågående folkmord.
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GÖRAN ROSENBERG: Språket bereder mark för folkmord
I sociala medier kommenterar Israels försvarsminister Israel Katz entusiastiskt förstörelsen av Gaza stad. Göran Rosenberg ser historiens avhumaniserande mörker gå igen.
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September 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
En kommentar till vad som nu också en tung FN-kommission, i en väldokumenterad rapport kommer fram till är ett pågående folkmord.
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What’s next? Palestine Action in London? Designate them terrorists and bomb them.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
What’s next? Palestine Action in London? Designate them terrorists and bomb them.
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Good news!
🇩🇰🇺🇦 A new plant for the joint production of missiles and drones is being built in Denmark, — Zelensky
There is also an agreement that 🇱🇹Lithuania and 🇱🇻Latvia and other countries will also follow this path.
There is also an agreement that 🇱🇹Lithuania and 🇱🇻Latvia and other countries will also follow this path.
September 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Good news!
Denying the obvious is getting harder.
September 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Denying the obvious is getting harder.
En replik och förhoppningsvis en fördjupning i debatten om journalistik efter Gaza-uppropet.
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GÖRAN ROSENBERG: Journalistiken kan inte vara konsekvensneutral
Efter Gaza-uppropet svallar debatten om journalistikens natur. Vad bör en journalist sträva efter i sitt arbete? Göran Rosenberg svarar på kritiken från Erik Fichtelius och föreslår ett nytt begrepp –...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
En replik och förhoppningsvis en fördjupning i debatten om journalistik efter Gaza-uppropet.
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The president emblazoning his name on the ICE cars suggests 1) that ICE is intended to be a personal, partisan police force, and that 2) he does not intend to leave office in a mere three years. What *other* conclusion could you draw from it?
Fascist Secret Police Cars
The next president should spend his first weekend feeding ICE into the wood chipper.
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August 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The president emblazoning his name on the ICE cars suggests 1) that ICE is intended to be a personal, partisan police force, and that 2) he does not intend to leave office in a mere three years. What *other* conclusion could you draw from it?
Mitt bidrag till debatten om det sk Gad-uppropet i helgens Expressen. Artikeln är öppen så läs gärna hela.
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GÖRAN ROSENBERG: Opartiskhet handlar inte om journalisters åsikter
Efter det så kallade Gad-uppropet har debatten om mediers och journalisters opartiskhet rasat. Göran Rosenberg föreslår att vi riktar fokus rätt – från enskilda reportrar till själva journalistiken.
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August 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Mitt bidrag till debatten om det sk Gad-uppropet i helgens Expressen. Artikeln är öppen så läs gärna hela.
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Högsta nivån av svält har konstaterats i Gaza, enligt IPC och unicef. Samtidigt är detta en förstanyhet i Sveriges största dagstidning.
August 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Högsta nivån av svält har konstaterats i Gaza, enligt IPC och unicef. Samtidigt är detta en förstanyhet i Sveriges största dagstidning.
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Jag känner igen en "flytt" när jag ser en. Saddam "flyttade" mig när jag var fyra.
August 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Jag känner igen en "flytt" när jag ser en. Saddam "flyttade" mig när jag var fyra.
Den 7 oktober kommer min bok "Det förlorade landet" (efter nära trettio år) äntligen ut på engelska.
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Israel, a Personal History
Combining poignant memoir and historical research, a son of Holocaust survivors grapples with the dream of Zionism and its consequences. Israel: A Personal History takes off where Göran Rosenberg...
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August 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Den 7 oktober kommer min bok "Det förlorade landet" (efter nära trettio år) äntligen ut på engelska.
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The most troubling part of the Israeli genocide (next to the famine and the killings).
August 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The most troubling part of the Israeli genocide (next to the famine and the killings).
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The fascists are on the march. They are going to do whatever it takes to rig the midterms. meidasnews.com/news/governo...
Governor Abbott Orders Arrest of Absent Texas House Democrats
Democrats accused of abandoning duties amid legislative standoff
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August 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The fascists are on the march. They are going to do whatever it takes to rig the midterms. meidasnews.com/news/governo...
The ideological roots (and the moral rot) of a genocide on display. The complicity and passivity of the "international community" will be a shame on humanity for generations to come.
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Israeli forces kill at least 27 at food site while minister’s al-Aqsa visit causes outrage
Six more people die from malnutrition, while Itamar Ben-Gvir is first minister to publicly pray at sensitive site
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August 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The ideological roots (and the moral rot) of a genocide on display. The complicity and passivity of the "international community" will be a shame on humanity for generations to come.
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Jag har delat den här texten från 2004 förut och varje gång har den tyvärr känts mer aktuell – om jag får säga det själv. Israel är inte bara i full färd med att att begå ett folkmord utan också ett moraliskt och politiskt självmord.
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Israels självmordspolitik — Göran Rosenberg
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August 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Jag har delat den här texten från 2004 förut och varje gång har den tyvärr känts mer aktuell – om jag får säga det själv. Israel är inte bara i full färd med att att begå ett folkmord utan också ett moraliskt och politiskt självmord.
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The dam of Israeli denial is breaking. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
With ‘a broken heart,’ Israeli literary giant David Grossman labels Gaza war a ‘genocide’
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August 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The dam of Israeli denial is breaking. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...