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  • Ein Mann mit Benzinkanistern in einer Straße im Gazastreifen (picture alliance / Zumapress | D. El-Baz Apaimages)
    New books on Gaza

    Turning point, failure, moral abdication

    Four well-known authors address the global consequences of Gaza's destruction and Western support for Israel, or as one frames it: the "world after Gaza". Charlotte Wiedemann takes a look.

  • Radfahrer vor Wahlkampfplakaten
    German elections 2025

    Debates on the Middle East, migration and antisemitism

    Germany heads to the polls on 23 February. Where do the main parties stand on migration, Israel and Gaza, antisemitism and the future of Syria?

  • Angela merkel stands at a podium speaking into a microphone. An Israeli flag hangs in the background.
    Israel in new Merkel memoir "Freedom"

    Merkel's reason of state

    When Angela Merkel used the word "Staatsräson" in a 2008 speech to the Israeli Knesset, she may not have expected the enduring intensity of the debate it would ignite. In the new memoir "Freedom", the former chancellor reveals her idealised view of Israel, and her reluctance to acknowledge Palestinian perspectives.

  • Seven people sit in a press conference room
    Support for Palestine in Germany

    A nation gripped by moral panic

    The Bundestag has passed a new resolution against antisemitism, which critics warn could endanger freedom of expression. Sociologist Donatella della Porta examines recent debates on antisemitism in Germany, arguing that a moral panic has resulted in the construction of an administrative apparatus that suppresses progressive voices.

  • Annalena Baerbock stands at a podium in the centre giving a speech to a crowd of seated people wearing suits.
    German resolution on antisemitism in education

    A brazen act of state repression

    German lawmakers are considering a new draft resolution that claims to combat antisemitism in educational institutions. Instead, it presents a one-dimensional view of Jewish life and erases crucial space for debate on Israeli politics and Germany's role in Gaza.

  • A broken pane of glass with the Jewish star after an attack on a synagogue in Istanbul
    30 essays trace a problem that affects society as a whole

    Everyday Anti-Semitism in Turkey

    What is the origin of anti-Semitic ideologies in politics, media and society in Turkey? And what impact does this have on today's politics? A new book provides answers.

  • A damaged Star of David on a gravestone in Berlin (symbolic image)
    What is anti-Semitism?

    How do you differentiate?

    A new anthology sheds light on the various forms of anti-Semitism and the academic debate surrounding it in the light of current controversial debates

  • Professor Kai Hafez from Erfurt University
    German coverage of the Middle East

    "Germany's reputation is suffering"

    Media expert Kai Hafez talks to Qantara.de about German coverage of the Gaza war, traditional narratives and the link to Islamophobic attitudes within society

  • 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

  • An handout picture provided by the Israeli Goverment Press Office on 4 May 2008 shows Arabs fleeing with just the possessions they are able to carry as they make their way toward Lebanon from villages in the Galilee during Israel's 1948 War of Independence
    Middle East conflict

    Two peoples' experience of displacement

    The Israel-Palestine conflict is multilayered and very complex. The greatest problem is that both sides have reason to believe the other wants to destroy them

  • Islam, Judaism, Christian: symbols of the 3 monotheistic religions
    Germany and the Gaza war

    Jewish and Muslim communities search for solidarity

    Six months of Israeli retaliation in Gaza for the October 7 Hamas terror attacks have put Jewish-Muslim relations in particular peril. Germany's hypersensitivity to anti-Semitism adds an extra layer of difficulty

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