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Bue Rübner Hansen explains the historical background for the idea that Germany’s atonement for the Holocaust is essentially connected to support for the state of Israel.

Bue Rübner Hansen explains the historical background for the idea that Germany’s atonement for the Holocaust is essentially connected to support for the state of Israel.

A conversation about “peace and justice and freedom for all Palestinians and Israelis” with Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor.

When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the imp...

Sunday Times that Dr Lwazi Lushaba told first-year University of Cape Town political science students in an online lecture that Hitler “committed no crime” because “all Hitler did was to do to the white people what white people had normally reserved for black people”.  This article, which came out the day before Holocaust Memorial Day or Yom HaShoah, created consternation on social media and was seen by some to be yet another antisemitic expression of Holocaust denial. After reading th...

In the 21st century Germany needs to recognise a diversity of memories, writes the American Holocaust researcher Michael Rothberg.