by Husam Maarouf,* Gaza
(29 August 2025) (CH-S) “Starving the civilian population in Gaza will neither bring Israel the desired ‘complete victory’ over Hamas, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law.” This was stated by the Central Conference of American Rabbis on 27 July 2025.
by Alain Pichard*
(22 August 2025) (CH-S) The gradual change in the perception of the teaching profession is outlined using the example of an experienced teacher. Key aspects of the professional identity appear to have been lost during the “school development” of recent decades.
by Robert Seidel*
(8 August 2025) In politics, there is a common tactic for avoiding objective debate: labelling your opponent as “strange” or even “inhuman”. This allows you to impose things on them without having to address the issue itself. However, to justify wars, more devious techniques are implemented. Otherwise, hardly anyone would carry out the barbaric acts of war that are expected from them. Certainly not if you end up getting hurt yourself, or perhaps your wife, son, daughter ...
by Michael Felten*
(8 August 2025) The Intercantonal University of Special Education Zurich (HfH) has made a remarkable shift in its approach to inclusion. It now states in one of its guiding principles on inclusion: “The goal is for all children and young people to learn together. If special needs cannot be met in an inclusive setting, separate or partially separate measures may be appropriate.”1
by Marlen Simeon,* Switzerland
(18 July 2025) (CH-S) Eighty years ago, on 6 and 9 August 1945, American atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The horror grips everyone who contemplates the consequences of these acts – the suffering is incomprehensible. It is also incomprehensible that today, the use of atomic bombs is being considered again.
by Prof. Dr. Rüdiger H. Jung*
(18 July 2025) “The ‘spirit of our time’ [...] keeps us in a frenzy of activity so that we do not come to our senses and ask ourselves what this restless devotion to goals and achievements actually has to do with the meaning of the world and the meaning of our lives.”