Wie immer klug, Ronya Othmann.
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Broad Jumper is still one of my favorite pictures for March 8. #InternationalWomensDay
"Sein Begriff von Kultur und Geschichtsverständnis weist darauf hin, dass er der falsche Mann am falschen Platz ist. Um es gelinde zu sagen." (Jürgen Kaube über Wolfram Weimer am 27.04.2025, FAZ)
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Alongside Reza Mosayebi's article that I posted two days ago, I would also recommend a very worthwhile piece by Resa Memarnia, which places the question of human rights at the center of the debate around the war in Iran and critically questions a rigid, formalistic reliance on international law.
1938 beginnt für Walter Grab das Exil. Jahrzehnte später wird er Professor für Deutsche Geschichte in Tel Aviv.
Im #MON_Mag erzählt Shelly Kupferberg seine Geschichte.
Beitrag zur Ausstellung #LiteraturHaltung, ab 20. Mai.
@alfredlandecker.bsky.social
Bringing Human Rights Theory Back In: A highly recommendable interview with @r-mosayebi.bsky.social on the current war against the Iranian regime and on whether the allegations of breaches of international law by the U.S. and Israel are as legally unambiguous as many claim.
in deaster, nor that it will be a great success culminating in a free Iran and sweeping changes across the region. I read a moving comment yesterday. In a few almost stenographic lines, he captures the present moment for many Iranians: the stark coexistence of facts, emotions, and histories. (2/2)
The sky over Jerusalem is beautifully blue this morning after a short night. News keeps arriving without pause: images of a destroyed building in Tel Aviv, an endless stream of commentary about what may come next. I do not know. And I cannot bring myself to say that this will inevitably end (1/2)
more comfortable narratives. News like this from Poland is therefore a reminder that the rule of law and institutional independence protect scholarship from turning into convenient stories that serve only one's own group narratives. (2/2)
The relativization and marginalization of both the Holocaust and antisemitism are recurring phenomena across different countries and political milieus, in the past as well as today. Of course, Germany has its own history of subsuming distinct historical experiences under broader, (1/2)
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#Iran
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For those who are on Mount Scopus once in a while.
Jonathan Guggenberger traces these allegations in detail: who funds whom, and who gets to speak where. Here too, an English version of the text would be good. (2/2)
SZ article: t.ly/1nNLJ
Photo above: Taken from the website Reisevergnügen: "11 Fairy-tale places in Germany you should visit."
Germany has never lacked narratives about itself. One of the newest – shared by the domestic far right and by transnational activist milieus – is that Germany has become a country of censorship. Yet many of the same actors still seek institutional support. Everyone wants to be an underdog. (1/2)
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about this event on HaGalil (www.hagalil.com/2025/12/mich...). The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities has published a short reel today showing the beginning of Michael Walzer's talk. A full recording is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=urSB...
Interesting take, and a thought-provoking reflection by Len Gutkin in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Eine lesenswerte Intervention von @ronyaothmann.bsky.social, die der allzu euphorischen Begeisterung für die Damaskus-Buchmesse widerspricht. Sie kritisiert v.a. die romantisierende, orientalisierende Perspektive, mit der manche im Westen auf die Region blicken.
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It was #Zelensky who found the right words – concrete and unambiguous. This stood in sharp contrast to Merz's speech on Friday (and not only because he quoted Sloterdijk). If I'm not mistaken, he didn't even mention the Iranian protests. (2/2)
The mobilization by the European Iranian diaspora in #Munich was genuinely impressive. It should not be interpreted as the glorification of one individual, nor as an attempt to restore a Shah-style monarchy, but rather as an effort to build effective forces both inside and outside #Iran. (1/2)
The nuclear program is secondary.
“‘We are already in a war with our own government—there has been so much death,’ he said. ‘These people will take the hand of anyone offering to pull them from drowning. Literally anyone.’”
And here is the link to the Haaretz article cited above: t.ly/f4tCI
I've never thought about it this way, but even the cultural boycott seems to have had an unintended positive effect: as a recent Haaretz article noted, it pushed the Israel Museum to open up its storerooms. The result looks pretty amazing.
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A highly readable portrait of Yair Golan, one of the leading voices in Israel’s opposition to the current government.
“Whatever the final number proves to be, it may have carried out one of the worst state-sanctioned massacres of unarmed civilians anywhere in nearly a half century in order to survive.”
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What kind of deal can follow after a regime has killed up to 30,000 of its own civilians within just two days and continues to hold more than 40,000 people in prison, many of them facing execution? 😔
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An Arte report traces Iran’s renewed uprising since late 2025. Protesters speak of fear, repression of unprecedented brutality, and the hope that drove them into the streets. It ends with their gaze toward the sky—waiting for international support.
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I'm grateful to be included in this German-language edited volume, "Contested History: Interventions against the Reinterpretation of October 7," edited by Klaus Bittermann and Christoph Hesse, published by Edition Tiamat. My contribution is titled "In the Name of Morality. Academic Boycott Calls."
Grateful to contribute a short guest piece to the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (TAU) on Franz R. Bienenfeld's "The Religion of the Non-Religious Jews": from humanistic conviction to law, institutions, and Zionism after the Shoah.
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At the Hebrew U, as elsewhere across the country, banners calling to bring the hostages home were taken down after the remains of the last hostage, Ran Gvili, were brought back to Israel. More than two years had passed. The cats are still there, walking through the hallways alongside the students.
