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The new year 2013 will be a very important year in the struggle against the Iranian threat. Israel is facing international pressure and silence about the Iranian as well as the Islamist threat is prevailing. However, the situation is even more complicated if we look at supposedly pro-Israel and pro-Jewish individuals as well as at supposedly high-profile scholars in the…
read moreAround November 9, 1938, the night of pogroms of National Socialism, several hundred Jews have been killed, synagogues were burnt, Jewish shops demolished and many thousand Jews deported to concentration camps (KZ). Everyone in Germany, ordinary Germans as well as ordinary members of the Nazi party, was witness of what happened and many have been involved. It is tremendously timely…
read moreBERLIN – Dr. Julius H. Schoeps, a distinguished German- Jewish historian and a member of the Interior Ministry’s commission to fight anti-Semitism, accused last week the majority of Bundestag deputies of not understanding Jew-hatred and the importance of a regular legislative report on German anti-Semitism. “Cluelessness” ran the headline of Schoeps’s essay about the German deputies attitudes toward dealing with…
read moreSeveral days ago Clemens Heni accused some German pro-Israel groups and intellectuals of spreading “anti-Jewish feelings”. His statement, “Imagine! Anti-circumcision, ‘pro-Israel’ Germans,” appeared in the San Diego Jewish World, which the SPME-homepage also posted: The journal Bahamas “urged (!) their readers and followers [sic.] in a short statement on September 4 not to join the pro-circumcision rally because they detest…
read moreThe Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at the Berlin Technical University in April 2012 appointed as a co-worker an outspoken supporter of antisemite Edward Said: Achim Rohde. A scholar in Islamic Studies, Rohde was hired because he conducts research to evaluate the similarities of “antisemitism” and “Orientalism” “in the sense of Edward Said,” as the ZfA newsletter of May…
read moreGermany awards anti-ZionismThe case of Judith Butler, September 11, 2012 Description of a Book project – by Edition Critic, publishing house, Berlin On September 11, 2012, Judith Butler, professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California in Berkeley, will be awarded the Theodor-W.-Adorno-Prize of the city of Frankfurt, Germany. On that day in 1903 philosopher Adorno was…
read moreOn June 1, 2012, it was announced that Judith Butler will be awarded the Theodor-W.-Adorno-Prize of the city of Frankfurt, Germany, on September 11, 2012. September 11 is the birthday of Adorno, though, today we associate 9/11 with that date, particularly when it comes to scholars like Butler. She is “Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative…
read moreRobert S. Wistrich: Muslimischer Antisemitismus: Eine aktuelle Gefahr.Berlin, Edition Critic, 2011 (161 S.) Der Historiker Robert Wistrich hat den Neuberger-Lehrstuhl für die Geschichte des modernen Europa und jüdische Geschichte an der Hebräischen Universität in Jerusalem inne. Seit 2002 ist er Direktor des Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism an der Universität. Nach den hauptsächlich von saudischen Muslimen…
read moreHistorian Robert Wistrich holds the Neuberger Chair for Modern European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2002, he has served as Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of anti-Semitism at this university. After the mass murders in New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 which was perpetrated mainly by Saudi Muslims,…
read moreNach dem 9. September 2001 begann die Tendenz, Kritik am politischen Islam in Europa zu unterbinden. Muslimischen Vereinigungen gelang es mit staatlicher und medialer Unterstützung mit der Schaffung des Kampfbegriffes „Islamophobie“ davon abzulenken, dass Antisemitismus nicht nur in den arabischen und muslimischen Gesellschaften, sondern auch unter den Millionen europäischer Muslime mit „Migrationshintergrund“ leider weit verbreitet ist. Im Vorwort zum Sammelband…
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