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Generation Palestine " The Left Berlin
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (246+ words) Generation Palestine is an organisation which we formed at the end of 2010. It unites German-speaking youth and young adults from 14 years old, who have a mutual interest in bringing Palestine, its history and its reality into society. Since our formation,…...
Why anti-Zionist Jews are not welcome in Germany
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1561+ words) Before we start, perhaps I should declare an interest. Wieland is a friend and comrade. I have interviewed him more than once for theleftberlin. com," most recently about this book. In this sense, I am not an impartial reviewer (but…...
Victory for Jewish Voice " and a heavy blow to the German Staatsr'son!
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1120+ words) A Berlin court overturns the "extremist" designation of Jewish Voice As criticism of Israel continues to be criminalized, Jewish anti-Zionists are increasingly coming into the crosshairs of the intelligence services and political actors. A heavy blow to Germany's Staatsr'son: On…...
The mainstream narrative is broken
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (855+ words) An interview with the editors of HEIST, a new worker-owned magazine in Berlin Ruthie Weissmann: My name is Ruthie, I was an editor at The Berliner and now I'm a founding editor at HEIST. Peter Matthews: I'm Peter Matthews, I'm…...
Australian literary festival collapses after axing Palestinian author
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (505+ words) Mc Carthyite censorship leads 180 writers to withdraw from Adelaide Writers" Week A fortnight ago, Australia"s biggest literary festival rescinded its invitation to Palestinian Australian author and academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. In the time since, the furore of anti-authoritarian outrage…...
Palestine and the Modern Day Heretics
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (1381+ words) A photo essay The perspective and worldview I'll be sharing here is that of the subaltern. Subalterns "are the colonial populations who are socially, politically, and geographically excluded from the hierarchy of power of an imperial colony and from the…...
Can We Say Holocaust Again?
11+ mon, 20+ hour ago (412+ words) Gaza, German Memory Politics and the Struggle Over Language On April 24, this year, a Berlin Court sentenced an activist for incitement to hatred after she walked around the Bundestag on November 3, 2023 with two signs reading "No to the murder of…...