Michael Rothberg

„The Targeting of the Palestinian Academy“ sollte eine wissenschaftliche Konferenz an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social heissen. Die Universität hat beschlossen, dieses Targeting selbst aktiv zu unterstützen. Ein Skandal. 1/

Wait till you get to Volume II...

Bitte!

It's a really nice portrait (especially by German standards ;) ).

It's a brilliant book!

...Speakers will address how denial operates in political, cultural, and legal arenas; how it affects survivors, descendants, and broader publics; and what responsibilities scholars have in confronting denial today."

...This panel brings together scholars working on different histories and contexts—including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, genocide in Bosnia, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine—to reflect comparatively on the strategies, logics, and consequences of denial across time and place....

"Denial is a recurring and devastating dimension of genocide, shaping how violence is remembered, justified, and perpetuated.....

The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."

Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."

Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Opinion | We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust

Such an important conversation between @mashagessen.bsky.social and Marianne Hirsch about Holocaust memory, genocide, and Palestine.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Finally some new ideas for solving the conflict in the Middle East!

Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!

Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think

The whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

i am pretty sure this isn’t how this works

Clearly what went wrong is that they had the wrong adjective ending. It should have been NeuesHouse.

the truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king

Informed and important--though depressing.

Great piece by M Gessen and the start of what sounds like a crucial series on international law.

Good morning! My comrade @annakornbluh.bsky.social and I published today in Hyperallrgic ean op-ed about the gutting of our right to culture and the ways to defend and fight back. Link below!

How to Protect Your Right to Culture The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.

"The right to culture is fundamental, and its revocation has grave consequences for the texture of daily life." You should definitely read this, by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @isanchezprado.bsky.social

I just list it as any other one and then put "(via Zoom)" at the end.

Tomorrow at UW-Madison!

This sounds great. Have you published anything along these lines? I'm working on the comparison/exception relation--although in a quite different context (the Holocaust).

How Germany Silenced Its Artists to Support Israel As Israel intensified its genocide in Gaza, Germany ramped up its long-simmering war on dissent, silencing Palestine solidarity while bolstering its own far right.

My primer on German cultural politics in the October issue of @thenation.com brings together stories first reported separately, but need to be understood in concert. It’s the companion piece to my text on the US art world. “Fascism repeats itself: first as antisemitism, then as anti-antisemitism.”

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews.

Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

Impunity

“All opposing forces seem as though vanished from the face of the earth. It is this utter collapse of powers only recently present, no, their complete disappearance … that I find so staggering.”
Victor Klemperer, 1933