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The 🇿🇦 ICJ genocide case re 🇮🇱 is unraveling the German political class. In the last 3 days, 3 frenzied articles attacking anticolonial thought have appeared to shore up 🇩🇪 and western colonial Weltanschauung, proving the point about the coloniality of the entire situation. 1/
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Would a German newspaper dare publish this searing essay by Raz Segal? “Here’s what the mass violence in Gaza looks like to a scholar of genocide” - Los Angels Times. @PBahners latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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When 🇩🇪 politicians talk of “hartes Vorgehen” to describe the mass slaughter of civilians I wonder if they realise this is a German tradition & whether they’ve learned anything from their genocidal history going back to colonial massacres, starvations & scorched earth in 🌍
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"Berlin Museum Removes All Artwork Depicting Rivers or Seas. The German media praised the move, accusing several international bodies of water of antisemitism." #GermanCatechism
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I signed this statement to protest misuse of Holocaust invocations in the Israeli state's destruction of Gaza. I commend it to anyone who wishes the destruction to stop. Such misuses by anyone/side in this conflict do not aid the cause of peace and justice.
An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory go.nybooks.com/3SNLpcW
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The Where’s Daddy? program that allowed missile operators to wait till targets arrived at home (where it easier to kill them) entailed killing their families at a 15-20 to 1 ratio, far above usually accepted proportionality principles. 1/
I spoke with Israeli intelligence officers about the AI-based target machine they used which marked 37,000 Gazans as suspects for assassination. These whistleblowers expose numerous machines & policies that killed thousands of civilians since October.
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UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war | OHCHR ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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The @BostonReview has published my views on the Gaza-genocide debate. I resist the temptation of deciding "genocide or not" to highlight the just-as-troubling acceptance of permanent security's terrible violence in international law and politics. bostonreview.net/articles/mo…
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“Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?” by @maricohen95 who interviewed everyone in the field for this extensive and exacting analysis of the political and conceptual crisis highlighted and accentuated over the past 13 months. jewishcurrents.org/can-genoc…
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Germany defunds 2 Israeli human rights groups dw.com/en/germany-defunds-2-…
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All with German govt support.
Mehr Zerstörung als in Aleppo, Mariupol oder bei der Bombardierung Deutschlands im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Kein historischer Militäreinsatz war Analysen zufolge so verheerend wie Israels Gazaoffensive. spiegel.de/ausland/krieg-in-…
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The Israeli scholars Alon Confino, Amos Goldberg & Raz Segal have published an important corrective to the dated views on the Holocaust, colonialism & Zionism by Yehuda Bauer and others. As it's in German, I offer an English translation in a long thread. berliner-zeitung.de/wochenen…
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I've written an article "Western Civilization and Conservative Hysteria" about @Australian and federal government's extraordinary campaign against universities abc.net.au/religion/articles… via @abcreligion @DenisShanahan1 @HyperbolicGreg @chriskkenny @ESIaustralia
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This ignorant and tone-deaf statement reveals the moral blindness of German liberals.
Unsere Sprecher*innen @NDeitelhoff und Rainer Forst haben mit Klaus Günther und Jürgen Habermas die Stellungnahme "Grundsätze der #Solidarität" zur aktuellen Situation in #Israel, #Gaza und hierzulande verfasst. Zu finden ist sie auf unserer Website ➡️normativeorders.net/2023/gru…
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Finally in hand after many years, our new anthology with haunting cover image by @muradsubay
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1/ If it's possible to imagine, a new low in German discourse on antisemitism and postcolonialism, as Thomas Thiel alleges in @faz that universities are systematically antisemitic for having produced a petition contesting the Habermasian liberal bromides.
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@kilderbenhauser and I wrote a response to the historical distortion that “fascism is socialism” @MikeCarlton01 @JennaPrice @vanOnselenP @marcialangton abc.net.au/religion/articles…
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Unterzeichner Michael Barenboim: "Die Menschenrechte gelten für alle, außer anscheinend für Palästinenser" | rbb24 rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/202…
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A Swiss, not German, publisher has translated Rashid Khalidi’s monumental work on the 100 year war against Palestine into German.
Eine Chance, den Dialog über die palästinensische Perspektive auf die Geschichte des Nahostkonflikts zu beginnen: Rashid Khalidi: „Der Hundertjährige Krieg um Palästina“ ist im @Unionsverlag auf deutsch erschienenen. @dlf Rezension 👇🎧
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It speaks highly of @faznet that is has published this plea for an actual human rights-led German foreign policy. “Leid der Palästinenser: Deutschland braucht eine neue Nahostpolitik” faz.net/aktuell/politik/krie…
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Years in the making, _The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations_ is published today. I was flattered to be asked to write the chapter on "The Diplomacy of Genocide." Thanks to the editors who herd the cats with aplomb.
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Here they are: taz.de/Debatte-um-Israels-Se… /3
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A typically German take on its political culture by @RonenSteinke who has written better takes in the past. Here he links far-right/ultra-nationalist critiques of German memory culture with what he and other establishment Germans quaintly call "postcolonials" (singling out me) 1/
Deutschland habe Komplexe, Israel zu kritisieren? Früher wurde das von der extremen Rechten behauptet, nun auch von Linken. Falsch war es immer. Essay von @RonenSteinke #SZPlus sz.de/lux.AfAgK4Mgtgf4zc1SBt…
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Must-read report from the front of the German memory wars by @weserhag massreview.org/node/11675 #germancatechism
"For white Germans to stand for the rights of Palestinians to life, health, safety, and freedom, they would need to study our world from outside Germany’s myopic narratives."
From Prof. Dr. Sabine Broeck's "Staatsraison: Dispatch From Germany": massreview.org/node/11675
ALT Image of the flags of Germany and Palestine side by side
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It’s an outrageous statement, typical of formulaic ones that German institutions feel compelled to issue if they think their funding will be cut.
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I finally mounted my Australian spoon wall map to hang the many vintage spoons collected from/of from country towns. A high point of Stralyan civilization (sic.) IMHO.
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Proofs finally in hand for this blockbuster of an OUP handbook global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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The German Staatsräson will be enforced no matter the cost to freedom there and to the country’s (declining) reputation as a serious polity.
„What is deeply disappointing to us at The New School is that your cancellation of her appointment disrupts our decades-long ties to Germany.“ Brief der Präsidentin der New School New York an den Rektor der Uni Köln
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This is correct: many German journalists regard themselves as guardians of Germany’s Staastsraison instead of doing their job, thereby restricting freedom there.
"Viele Journalisten/innen hierzulande verstehen sich vor allem als Hüter der Staatsraison. Sie sind mehr damit beschäftigt, abweichende Meinungen zu verurteilen, als den dt Schulterschluss mit Israel zu hinterfragen. Als vierte Gewalt fallen sie aus." taz.de/!5981361
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I've written this text - "Why the International Community Made it so Difficult to Prosecute the Crime of Genocide" - for @DAWNmenaorg in relation to #GazaMassacre dawnmena.org/why-the-interna…
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This AfD submission to the 🇩🇪 parliament attacking a state program on the “global south” as antisemitic repeats familiar points re: “postcolonial studies” long made in the mainstream press. It demonstrates a nasty Volksfront from the Greens to the AfD. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/… 1/
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“der postkolonialen Theorie zu ihrer Vormachtstellung in den Geisteswissenschaften”: the quaint belief of members of the German political class that “postcolonial theory” dominates universities there shows that the propensity to believe in conspiracy theories never disappeared.
Stark-Watzinger-Apologetik aus der Bizarro-Welt („Vormachtstellung“ der „postkolonialen Theorie“ in den Geisteswissenschaften). welt.de/kultur/article252188…
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“The [DW] findings indicate that the defunding of Zochrot and New Profile are part of a larger pattern of cutting federal funds for human rights organizations that have been critical of the Israeli government's policies and the ongoing war in Gaza.”
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Pankaj Mishra · “The Shoah after Gaza”: a different view of never again lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/…
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What this article about racial "cleansing" and terror in US history reveals is that the US fascism debate has it backwards. It's not that Jim Crow was fascist (what historians call anachronism) but that interwar fascists were fascinated with settler colonial genocide & slavery.
Political Scientists Turned a Blind Eye to America’s Democratic Failures—I’m in @ForeignPolicy discussing the weirdness of Polity scores and the prevalence of political violence in US history foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/18…
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Epic thread on the developing German memory authoritarianism by social psychologist @JoRayVo with innumerable links to the key scholarship. Must read 👇
Germany's new "Resolution against Antisemitism" is a self-serving joke: full of contradictions, abusing Holocaust memory to legitimize repression, racism, xenophobia, geopolitical interests, undermine Jewish pluralism & harm Jews it claims to serve. spiegel.de/politik/deutschla… 🧵(1/)
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Here I reply to the philosopher Jürgen Habermas who intervened in the so-called Historikerstreit 2.0 on 9 September. berliner-zeitung.de/wochenen… Thread
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Chris, this is the hysteria I'm talking about. Think about your own piece a few days ago. It showed that you have no idea what goes on within Australian unis. Rather than debate, you censure and seek to censor. Who is being authoritarian? Is this what you really want? nitter.app/chriskkenny/status/100…
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If you want to understand the deeper reasons for the German memory mess, read this “The German State and the Creation of Un/Desired Communities” by Hannah Tzuberi and Nahed Samour contendingmodernities.nd.edu…
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It also means the human shield argument is nonsense: operators waited till targets were among civilians. Each is likely a war crime, but what about at scale? A crime vs humanity? How will courts assess the quality of intention when the policy takes killing tens of thousands of 2/
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Others have tweeted this book already but my copies arrived only today, 8 yrs (?) since @MarcoLDuranti 's conference @ArtSS_Sydney. The cover is of officials arriving at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, July 30, 1972. Thanks to all. @CUPAcademic
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Apparently, writing books like this can get you arrested. I met Nadera in Haifa in 2013. She is an inspirational & courageous scholar & human being who belongs in the classroom & not in prison. Shame on institutions that imprison faculty & arrest students on paranoid pretexts.
In 2021, we ran a Book Forum on Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's _Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding_ (CUP 2019) featuring commentaries by @NiAolainF, Sherene Razack, Smadar Ben-Natan, and @NoamPeleg with Nadera's response. tandfonline.com/toc/cjgr20/2….
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In this piece, I contextualize the outlandish plan to deport Palestinians from Gaza in the long history of imperial statecraft & nation-state foundation/consolidation. Unlike a recent WSJ article on the subject, I don't think this is a good idea #Gaza #EthnicCleansingOfPalestine
Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected them. Now the US is not just abandoning those norms — it appears to be actively legitimizing ethnic cleansing in Gaza. jacobin.com/2025/02/gaza-tru…
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Mainstream Nakba denial in 🇩🇪: "Zwei Drittel der 900 000 in Palästina lebenden Araber flüchteten vor allem aufgrund der Propaganda ihrer Führer. Von den Israelis hatten sie in der Regel wenig zu befürchten und erhielten auch die Staatsbürgerschaft" nd-aktuell.de/artikel/117141…
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Look what arrived in the mail today. The book of @EUI_History dissertation I was privileged to advise. Huge congratulations to @boyd_vandijk on this and other achievements on an alas all-too-relevant subject: the laws of war.👏🍾✨
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The hitjobs on Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian continue. Here an 🇮🇱 tv "report" trundles through her work, including the @JournalGenocide forum on her book on the unchilding of children to allege that she relies only on interviews with children who lie and are actually terrorists 1/
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The German Catechism in full flight
Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been cancelled because of their essay on Gaza. lithub.com/masha-gessens-han…
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I wrote this over two months ago in response to the demented reaction to @juergenzimmerer and M. Rotbherg's article in Die Zeit. A German journal agreed to publish it but then got cold feet, fearing possible controversy and bearing out the article's thesis. 1/
Die Erinnerung an den #Holocaust als Zivilisationsbruch ist für viele das moralische Fundament der Bundesrepublik. Der Vergleich mit anderen Genoziden gilt daher als Häresie. Es ist Zeit, diesen Katechismus zu verabschieden, sagt @dirkmoses.
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The German position is entirety predictable. “Please bomb and blockade those Arab-Nazis just as the allies rightly bombed and blockaded our Nazi ancestors, as we need to stop a Holocaust.” This is the Israeli frame, and the Germans have adopted it for their intl’l rehabilitation
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Available today I'm told!
5/7 New Books: The Problems of #Genocide - Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression, by @dirkmoses cambridge.org/gb/academic/su…
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For arguing that the Holocaust is also (not rather) accountable by traditions of violent expansionism ("redemptive imperialism") in some recent publications, German reviewers went crazy. Now that their "arguments" are appearing in English, people are noticing, and that's good.
"The fact that the Holocaust can’t be explained by theories of imperialism" is an absolutely insane thing for anyone, especially a German, to suggest. Lebensraum was the justification for basically everything the Nazis did, including the Holocaust
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2/ with Michael Rothberg & I as "matadors of Holocaust relativization." That a supposedly serious newspaper allows such defamatory nonsense--which incl. attacks on @Deborah_Feldman--is a sign of new intensity with which #Germancatechism is being enforced by the political class.
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Germans upset that author Lana Bastašić questions their geopolitical morality. How dare a Bosnian do so after all that her German press has done for her. tagesspiegel.de/kultur/wegen…
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CUP is virtually giving away my book. Discount till 31 December! The perfect cheery gift. 🙄
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International lawyers are now writing long and exacting treatments of the genocide charge re #Gaza. The first in a @JournalGenocide series by @MsJamshidi has dropped. @FranceskAlbs @itamann @samuelmoyn @4noura
We have published the first instalment in a new Forum on Gaza: International Humanitarian Law and Genocide by @MsJamshidi - “Genocide and Resistance in Palestine under Law's Shadow” @karinloevy @NimerSultany @AeyalGross tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Delighted to be giving the Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Annual Lecture tomorrow on “German Memory Culture at a Crossroad?” I will be arguing that it’s actually the end of the road. events.berkeley.edu/ies/even…
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Unterkomplex is one of those lazy accusations Germans make when things get sticky for them. Another favourite is “Täfer-Opfer Umkehr.” Let’s see how long it takes for that one to appear.
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women and children as a given in attacking a military target? The article also reveals the cavalier manner in which these targets were identified. Are we seeing the blurring of military and genocidal logics? This case will test courts’ customary distinction between them. End
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I wrote this a few weeks ago and now it’s out: “The Ukraine Genocide Debate Reveals the Limits of International Law” @samuelmoyn @oonahathaway @eugene_finkel @ErinFarrellRos1 @HolodResearchEd @FranHirsch lawfareblog.com/ukraine-geno…
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The Pronouns of History: An Interview with Enzo Traverso: jhiblog.org/2023/03/24/the-p…
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My boss said "If you were a historian, you would say, 'over the past 20 years, the greatest crown risk to research intensive universities has not been foreign governments. It has been the Australian government slashing research funding'." I am a historian. He is right.
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I give the background/context to the @mashagessen cancellation by @BoellStiftung in this article about #documenta15. In light of recent events, including the Oyoun defunding, its conclusion that "cultural freedom is in mortal danger in Germany" seems right dirkmoses.com/uploads/7/3/8/…
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Alas it was taken down after the usual complaints. German Staatsräson
Glad to see this article on Palestinian trauma, the Nakba, and its denial in Germany, published in German: "Obwohl zutiefst verflochten mit der Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, wird die Nakba aus dem deutschen kollektiven Gedächtnis und öffentlichen Diskurs ausgegrenzt,... 1/3
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Exclusive interview with @mashagessen by @hahauenstein that details her careful and ethical arguments and how German elites can't understand or abide them. I hope it appears in English.
.@mashagessen ist in den letzten Tagen nicht gerade mit Samthandschuhen angefasst worden. Hier mein Versuch eines empatischen Gesprächs mit Masha Gessen—über Deutschland, Hannah Arendt und einen umstrittenen Essay.
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"This volume will undoubtedly prove too theory-heavy for most lay readers. However, for scholars of the postcolonial world it will prove immensely valuable. The breadth of time & place covered ensure that a range of scholars will find use within its pages. It adds nuance & depth"
@RiggioPhd from Trinity University, Texas, reviews
📖Decolonization, self-determination, and the rise of global human rights politics
edited by @dirkmoses @MarcoLDuranti and Roland Burke
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The author is an expert of the Armenian Genocide. They assess the status of civilians in modern warfare and in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies—in relation to Gaza. Must read 👇
The 5th instalment in our Israel-Palestine-Atrocity Crime forum has been published: “A World Without Civilians,” by Elyse Semerdjian tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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"For 🇩🇪, its commitment to Israel is offered as a test of whether the country has overcome its Nazi past. This is politics as psychology or, better, put, psychoanalysis. There are no limits of prudence or public reason. Reality is of no consequence, what matters is redemption" 1
For 3 months I have been trying to make sense of Gaza, not just what is happening in the Strip but everything around it. I wanted to wait a bit but finally here it is, a long essay @TIME was generous enough to publish. Please read and spread if you can
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Daniel Cohen is not on social media so he’s asked me to announce his new book: ‘a genealogy of European “philosemitism” and its problems from the Holocaust to October 7, 2023.’
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One does not expect anything more from academic careerists but that Habermas signed this discredits his legacy. If this is what all his work comes to over 70 years, what can it be worth.
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Congrats to @FrankGerits for this tremendous book, drafts of which I marked up years ago @EUI_History. Wonderful to see it in book form and so handsomely produced.
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Hey Minister, your friends @theramsaycentre may disagree. Aren't the Straits of Gibraltar on the faultline of Western Civ? If you want us to use chestnuts from the lexical repertoire of Western Civ, it seems the barbarians are not only inside the gates, they are the gatekeepers.
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Delighted to pick up a hard copy of matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch… expertly translated and edited by @davidfrrrr
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Now it’s a pile on. Let’s see if the FU Berlin can withstand the bullying from articles like this: ‘“Eine Schande, spricht Albanese dort“: Israels Botschafter schreibt an Berlins FU-Präsidenten wegen Vortrags von UN-Politikerin’ tagesspiegel.de/berlin/eine-…
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In this piece, I respond to Saul Friedländer's article in @DIEZEIT from last week: zeit.de/2021/29/holocaust-si… There are many "fundamentale Verbrechen" in Western history...
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I recommend this article by Omar Yousef Shehabi on UNRWA and the campaign against it verfassungsblog.de/unrwa-as-… #UNRWA
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We are honouring our UC Berkeley doctoral adviser Martin Jay on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Some of us started with him (over) 30 years ago. His landmark first book, The Dialectical Imagination, appeared in 1973.
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"Zum ersten Mal wird nun auch eine jüdische Künstlerin Opfer der aktuellen Serie von Absagen und Ausladungen wegen Aussagen, die als antisemitisch gelesen werden. Zur Absurdität dieser Situation gehört, dass Breitz‘ Werk, das nun nicht gezeigt werden wird... 1/
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The well-known Israeli Holocaust historian Amos Goldberg has written an essay (free access) for the @JournalGenocide forum on atrocity crimes in Israel-Palestine.
In our Forum on Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies we have published
“The Problematic Return of Intent” by
Amos Goldberg tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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"The effects of the use of starvation as a method of warfare, together with other attacks and collective punishment against the civilian population of Gaza are acute, visible and widely known" says @KarimKhanQC. Given the 🇮🇱 defendants' statements widely regarded as genocidal 1
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.@howierechavia and I wrote "The Herero and Nama Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Question of German Reparations" for @E_IR
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This article on the Gaza situation by @hahauenstein is a rare voice of reason in the German "debate". akweb.de/politik/krieg-in-is…
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Good job Torsten. I would not say that the German discussion is unserious. The German clerics busy excommunicating people like Gessen are deeply serious in their self-righteousness. The German discussion is obsessional, as I argue in @JuergenZimmerer new book, Erinnerungskämpfe.
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Key intervention on Germany’s memory culture, long a model, now provincial. @juergenzimmerer and Michael Rothberg zeit.de/2021/14/erinnerungsk…
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The @ABCaustralia goes after its employees with Arab heritage. Also 'hesitancy to use particular terminology such as “invasion”, “occupation”, “genocide”, “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing” in its reporting.' Hello, this is the vocab of international law.smh.com.au/business/companie…
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Finally a German newspaper starts to listen rather than moralise and scandalise. @anthroprofhage is interviewed about the student protests and his work 👇
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In honor of Hayden White's scholarly life, History and Theory has collected online all of the works by and about him that it has published since 1960–37 items, including Hayden's articles and review essays, articles about him, and reviews of his books. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page…
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“Der Diskurs in 🇩🇪 ist sich in dieter Frage sehr einig. Man unterstützt hier…eine nationalistische Politik in 🇮🇱, statt sich für Gerechtigkeit und Gleichheit einzusetzen…Es herrscht eine Überwachungswut über die Sprache und die Begriffe.”
Das Recherchekollektiv #ForensicArchitecture erhält den Alternativen Nobelpreis. In Deutschland ist es wegen seiner Kritik an Israels Politik umstritten. Ein Interview mit seinem Gründer, dem Architekten und Autor Eyal Weizman trib.al/sB0ShOS
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