Germany’s Israel Obsession

The combat against anti-Semitism successful Germany is empowering those with the closest ties to its fascist past.

Prominent Jewish Australian writer Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, Germany, to analyse however the country’s impulse ne'er to repetition the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust has resulted successful the suppression of immoderate disapproval of Israel and its actions successful Gaza. With critics of Israel being sacked, cancelled, silenced, arrested and banned from Germany, 1 Jewish philosopher has called this a “McCarthyism” for the 21st century. We’ll spot however successful today’s Germany, a federation that killed astir of his household but granted him citizenship successful 2011, Loewenstein is told, arsenic a Jew, what is acceptable to accidental astir Israel. To find retired wherefore the German authorities are truthful committed to stifling immoderate disapproval of Israeli actions and what it means for ideology and quality rights successful the country, helium volition conscionable those being arrested and suffering occupation losses for criticising Israel, the radical enforcing these laws and those connected the acold close claiming to enactment Israel. The travel volition uncover the eventual irony – however determination to combat anti-Semitism is really being utilized to empower the precise forces, the acold right, with the closest ties to Germany’s acheronian fascist past.