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Joel Schalit

Co-founder, Editor-in-Chief
Joel Schalit is an Israeli-American journalist who has covered European, Middle Eastern and US politics since 1994. The former news and network editor of Euractiv and managing editor of Tikkun, Schalit has commented on EU, German and Italian affairs for Israeli broadcaster i24News since 2016 and contributed to numerous outlets, including El País, France 24, Euronews and The Guardian. His books include Losing Europe, Israel vs. Utopia, Collective Action, The Anti-Capitalism Reader, and Jerusalem Calling. Schalit is based in Torino, Italy.

117 articles

Joel Schalit / 26 Oct 2025

Innovating in The European Press

Ari Paul’s Ruthless Cosmopolitan

Punk Planet wasn’t a Jewish magazine. But, in the second half of the 1990s, the Chicago music publication, for which I served as Minister of Information (aka Associate Editor) during graduate school, was a great space to write about politics.(...)
Joel Schalit / 04 Sep 2025

Brussels is a Country

Aperture Priorities Contact Sheet #31

There was no way around it. Even though I was supposed to go on a well-deserved break, a grant opportunity arose, and it would take two weeks to apply for it.(...)

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