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  • Mosche Zimmermann is an Israeli historian and was a visiting professor at several German universities for many years
    Israeli historian Moshe Zimmermann

    UN Gaza resolution is a "step along the way"

    On 10 June, the UN Security Council voted in favour of the U.S. plan for a ceasefire in Gaza. Israeli historian Moshe Zimmermann says this is progress towards peace. The coming days will reveal whether it is a "breakthrough"

  • Israeli peace activist and former director of the Sulha Peace Project Yoav Peck
    Israeli peace activist Yoav Peck on the Gaza war

    "I am appalled by the hard-heartedness"

    Peace activist and former Sulha Peace Project director Yoav Peck talks about the Gaza war, the hardening of the fronts in Israel – and his vision for the future

  • Photo artist Steve Sabella in his studio in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
    Palestinians in Germany

    End of the Berlin Spring

    The German capital has attracted many Palestinian artists and intellectuals in recent years. Yet since the war in Gaza began, a sense of disillusionment has set in within the community

  • People attend the rally "Against terror and antisemitism! Solidarity with Israel" organised by Germany's Central Council of Jews, political parties, unions and civil society, at Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, 22 October 2023
    The quagmire of historical responsibility

    Germany's misguided fight against anti-Semitism

    Assessing Israel more critically than other nations is considered anti-Semitic. Yet treating Israel more favourably is problematic too. Philo-Semitism – the unquestioning endorsement of anything Jewish – does not help in the fight against anti-Semitic prejudice

  • Even before the mass protests against the AfD in 2024, a cultural movement was forming against the rise of the far right
    German culture scene unites against far-right

    "The Many" against the AfD

    Germany's right-wing AfD continues to gain ground in the polls. Many involved in the country's cultural scene fear the party will restrict artistic freedoms following the next election and have therefore launched their own campaign

  • Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, wearing a saffron cap, greets supporters from an open vehicle
    General election in Modi's India

    "Muslims are the principal target"

    With elections on 19 April, India looks set to re-elect Narendra Modi's BJP party, greenlighting an ongoing process of Hinduisation on the subcontinent. The persecution of Muslims and other minorities will intensify. Yet India has little to fear in the way of criticism from its Western allies, says political scientist Achin Vanaik

  • Historian and Holocaust researcher Omer Bartov
    Holocaust researcher Omer Bartov

    "Germany could help Israel and Palestine on the path to reconciliation"

    In interview with Qantara.de, leading Holocaust researcher Omer Bartov talks about the indictment against Israel at the International Court of Justice, the instrumentalisation of anti-Semitism and Germany's possible role in a two-state solution

  • Prabowo Subianto (left) declares victory in Indonesia's presidential election
    Indonesia's presidential election

    K-Pop not Islam

    This year's Valentine's Day saw a presidential election in Indonesia, the world's third-largest democracy. Conservative-Islamic morals and panic-mongering tactics took a back seat on social media channels filled with music, cat videos…and elderly presidential hopefuls dancing

  • Around 35,000 people also took part in the protests in Hanover
    German demonstrations against right-wing extremism

    "Never again" is now

    Ever since the AfD's plans to deport immigrants were publicised, hundreds of thousands of people across Germany have taken to the streets in protest

  • A sticker that says "Defend Europe" attached to a roadside post
    Germany's 'remigration' debate

    Calls to ban far-right AfD

    Far-right groups in Germany reportedly have a plan for the mass deportation of millions of citizens. Lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany party are implicated

  • A group of Kashmiri Muslim men attending Friday prayers
    India's pro-Israel shift

    Muslims barred from supporting Palestinians

    From Western capitals to Muslim states, protest rallies over the Israel-Hamas war have made headlines. But one place known for its vocal pro-Palestinian stance has been conspicuously quiet: Indian-controlled Kashmir

  • Indian authorities are downplaying inconvenient macroeconomic facts so that they can celebrate seemingly flattering headline figures while hosting the G20 summit. But in covering up the growing struggles faced by the vast majority of Indians, they are playing a cynical and dangerous game.
    India's fake growth story

    The economy according to Modi

    Indian authorities downplayed inconvenient macroeconomic facts so that they could celebrate seemingly flattering headline figures as hosts of the G20 summit. But in covering up the growing struggles faced by the vast majority of Indians, they are playing a cynical and dangerous game. By Ashoka Mody

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