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Hannah Arendt wanted political thinking to be urgent and engaged. She is a philosopher for our times

Hannah Arendt wanted political thinking to be urgent and engaged. She is a philosopher for our times

This is why, going against the grain of the triumphalism that greeted the founding of the state of Israel, Arendt lamented that “like virtually all other events of the 20th century, the Jewish question merely produced a new category of refugees, the Arabs, thereby increasing the number of stateless and rightless by 700,00 to 800,000 people”.