… als Tatsachen endgültig bestätigt wurden. Die Idiotie dieser Argumentation, @pen_berlin, hebelt die großspurige Berufung auf ‚Menschenrechte‘ mit einem simplen assoziativen Fehlschluss aus: ‚guilt per association‘ – wer sich für die Hamas ausspricht, weil er … /4

Was meine ich mit "autoritärem Anti-Antisemitismus"? Nun kann man es nachlesen in der aktuellen Zeitschrift "Luxemburg" der @rosaluxstiftung und online. Link im Kommentar.

Shaking my head the entire time that I’m in Germany so that everyone knows I don’t approve.

Bild dir deine Meinung ein.

My faculty colleagues and I have been banned from Widener Library for two weeks to punish us for reading quietly while displaying quotations from the Library's statement of values

Astonishing that FAZ and Welt would agree to publish laudatory death notices for Rudolf Hess in 1987:

Adorno zum Begriff der Staatsräson: "Kritisch zu behandeln wäre...ein so respekatabler Begriff wie der der Staatsräson: indem man das Recht des Staates über das seiner Angehörigen stellt, ist das Grauen potentiell schon gesetzt." (Erziehung nach Auschwitz, vorletzte Paragraph)

The long, sad saga of Robert Habeck, who thought he cracked the code of climate politics -- an excerpt (gift link!) from my new book:

For more on the bureaucracy behind Germany's heavy-handed response to pro-Palestine movements, listen to our latest episode with @plk here:

last-minute notice to anyone in Washington DC: I'm doing an event about my new book at Dupont Circle at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation—please do join! should make for an interesting conversation

One slight clarification— to the best of my knowledge, health care has not been directly interrupted due to claims of antisemitism. Though closing community centers and the social services they provide can certainly have real effects on the health of vulnerable communities.

Had a great time on the @spassbremse_pod and I think the conversation will continue to be relevant and important for a long time to come.

The German police recommend "intensive" social media monitoring of visa applicants in a document I obtained as part of an externalization monitoring project with @StatewatchEU and @MigControl I wrote an article about it here:

Haaretz mocks the German Bild newspaper as a Netanyahu propaganda mouthpiece

“Who needs the AfD when Chancellor Olaf Scholz is willing to call for deportations “on a grand scale” on the cover of Der Spiegel or when the Green Party leader Robert Habeck is happy to traffic in fear and xenophobia?” @plk in @nytimes

8. Sep: "Das Boykott-Dilemma – BDS, Strike Germany und kein Ende". Auf dem internationalen Literaturfestival Berlin diskutieren Candice Breitz,@StefanLaurin, Fellow Per Leo und @plk, es moderiert @svoppen1:

Auch wenn der Nahe Osten derzeit durch einen noch näheren Osten aus der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit verdrängt wurde, wird das Thema bleiben: Das Boykott-Dilemma – BDS, Strike Germany & all das. Gespräch mit Candice Breitz, @StefanLaurin, Per Leo & @plk. Moderation: @svoppen1.

extremely good analysis of symbols vs substance by @plk, must-read

It’s also worth noting that Martin Langer, who took the picture of Ewert, was one of the really great German photographers and one of the really great German humorists of recent times. We are all poorer for his death in 2022.

Very pleased to have made my @nytimes debut today with this piece on the forthcoming German elections.