#4 - Prof. Raphael Cohen-Almagor - The Dark Side of The internet

Raphael Cohen-Almagor, DPhil, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford; Professor of Politics, Founding Director of the Middle East Study Centre, University of Hull; Olof Palme Visiting Professor, Lund University, and Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC. Raphael taught, inter alia, at Oxford (UK), Jerusalem, Haifa (Israel), UCLA, Johns Hopkins (USA) and Nirma University (India). He was also Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College London. In 2022, he was a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and in 2023 The Olof Palme Guest Professor, Lund University, Sweden.

Raphael has published 19 books and more than 300 articles in the fields of politics, philosophy, education, law, sociology, history, media ethics, medical ethics, business ethics, and poetry, including most recently Confronting the Internet's Dark Side (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism (CUP, 2021) and The Republic, Secularism and Security (Springer, 2022). He is now writing Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Critical Study of Peace Mediation, Facilitation and Negotiations between Israel and the PLO and another book on Euthanasia in Belgium.

Raphael was a co-founder of Israel’s “Second Generation to the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance” Organization, the founder of The University of Haifa Center for Democratic Studies and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Medical Ethics Think-tank, and is presently the Founding-Director of The University of Hull Middle East Study Centre.

We invited prof. Cohen-Almagor to the Otherweb to discuss his views on the tradeoff between free speech and social responsibility, and how the two can be reconciled.