Human rights groups warn that deporting people to countries experiencing armed conflict violates international law and fundamental humanitarian protections. As the war in Ukraine continues, governments should prioritize human dignity and civilian protection instead of facilitating removals that could place vulnerable people directly in danger.
Today’s podcast guest is Dimitris Eleas, a political scientist, writer, and independent researcher. His work explores the role of personality in the social-historical, philosophy, global politics, antisemitism, and modern history, with a particular focus on the Holocaust.
In this episode, we discuss the repercussions of the October 7 attack on Israel and Israel’s retaliation, the rise of antisemitism, and the Israel-Iran war.
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Dimitris Eleas is a New York City–based political scientist, writer, and independent researcher. His work explores the role of personality in the social-historical, philosophy, global politics, antisemitism, and modern history, with a particular focus on the Holocaust.
He has written a plethora of articles, and his writing has appeared several times in the letters sections of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
Dimitris Eleas supports the democratic ideals of Israel and the Jewish people. He believes in civil liberties, and that all people deserve a decent income, quality food, clean water and air, and equal human rights. He strongly opposes wars, because in the end it is always the poor, their children, and the workers who pay the price of every war.
He has published several books in Athens, and is the author of the novel-essay When Shakespeare Was Lost, 1585–1592, published in 2025 by Govostis Publishers (Est. 1926).
He is currently developing his long-term project, the novel-essay The Black Birds of Warsaw.
Any political future that denies either Israelis or Palestinians their fundamental dignity and rights violate this principle at its core. A just and lasting peace, therefore, is not simply a matter of political expediency; it is a moral necessity. At the end of all wars, all ideologies, and all illusions, one truth remains immovable: neither people will disappear, and neither can secure freedom at the expense of the other’s humanity. The land they share does not yield to force, nor does history bend to power. It waits, unforgiving and unchanged, for recognition, demanding truth, mutual justice, reciprocal dignity, and a conscious choice for peace. That land has absorbed enough blood to prove what force cannot resolve. Without recognition and political courage, both sides risk losing not only territory, but the moral and human future they still struggle to preserve.
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In my recent podcast with Lulzim Peci, principal founder and Executive Director of the Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development and former Ambassador of Kosovo in Stockholm, we discussed the upcoming election in the country - the third in 18 months - and what the results may be. Listen to this and more from my latest episode, available now. Link in bio.
Human rights groups warn that deporting people to countries experiencing armed conflict violates international law and fundamental humanitarian protections. As the war in Ukraine continues, governments should prioritize human dignity and civilian protection instead of facilitating removals that could place vulnerable people directly in danger.
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The next live episode of my podcast is this upcoming Tuesday, June 9, at 10:00am EDT with Anne Speckhard, Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE). She serves as Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine and is an Affiliate in the Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University.
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The growing controversy surrounding Camp East Montana in Texas is a reminder that immigration enforcement must never come at the expense of human dignity. A newly filed lawsuit alleges that people held at the facility have faced conditions that no human being should endure, including inadequate healthcare, unsafe living conditions, and mistreatment while in custody. Federal authorities deny the accusations, and the facts will ultimately be examined in court. But the case raises a larger question: How does a democratic society treat those who are most vulnerable and have the least power? Human rights are not reserved for citizens alone. They belong to every person. Allegations of abuse in detention facilities must be taken seriously, investigated independently, and addressed with full transparency and accountability.
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There seems to be no object, institution, or symbol Donald Trump does not want stamped with his name. From grand infrastructure fantasies like a new arch and ballroom, to the Kennedy Center, Penn Station, Dulles Airport, and even a proposed $250 bill bearing his face, the impulse is the same: relentless self glorification. This is not leadership; it is branding masquerading as public service. Policies and projects become mere vehicles for personal marketing, often pursued through executive fiat or backroom pressure rather than durable legislation. History will not remember this as greatness. It will record a presidency consumed by self promotion, indifferent to consequence, and corrosive to the dignity of public office. What remains is not legacy, but spectacle—and a diminished image of the presidency of the United States before the world.
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Just show us his name on a tombstone 🪦
he loves driving the morons nuts and he's good at it
