1y ago

German university rescinds US scholar’s job offer over pro-Palestinian letter

www.theguardian.com

German university rescinds Jewish American’s job offer over pro-Palestinian letter

A leading Jewish American philosopher has been disinvited from taking up a prestigious professorship at the University of Cologne after signing a letter expressing solidarity with Palestinians and condemning the killings in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces.

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1y ago

German university rescinds Jewish American’s job offer over pro-Palestinian letter

www.theguardian.com /education/2024/apr/10/nancy-fraser-cologne-university-germany-job-offer-palestine

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A leading Jewish American philosopher has been disinvited from taking up a prestigious professorship at the University of Cologne after signing a letter expressing solidarity with Palestinians and condemning the killings in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces.
When I was telling people over here that Germans have literally gone crazy, as far as claiming that a bunch of JEWISH academics and intellectuals were antisemitic, people were telling me I'm overreacting lmao
- Germans selecting "Good Jews" from "Bad Jews".
  There's something oddly familiar about it...
By blindly supporting Israel, Germany is making themselves complicit in all crimes committed by Israel. Because of how blindly and willfully Germany is walking into helping with the in progress ethnic cleansing, the slogan "never again" has never sounded so empty to me before.
- Never again makes absolute sense along with this support when interpreted within a racist mental architecture, as "Never again will Germans do this to Jews".
  These two things don't make sense together for those who are Humanists because we see it as "Never again shall people be mass murdered for their etnicity", which is an entirelly race-agnostic take that doesn't deem some humans more or less worthy of life (and hence protection from would be aggressors) based on their etnicity.
  If there is one thing all this has painfully shown is that the racist architecture of the NAZIs was not torn down in Germany after their defeat in WWII and instead they kept that way of thinking and just did some shifting in their mental lists of unter- and undermenschen to make it "politically correct".
The German government has gone insane out of a misplaced sense of guilt for the holocaust. The government is incapable of nuance. There have beens bans on protests, and blocks on visas if they find out you're pro palistine. Being anti-zionaism is illegal.
- Ironic that you are complaining about a lack of nuance with the most generalized and misinformed post I've seen in a minute. Also, this whole situation is completely unrelated to the government.
  
  German public universities and institutions are part of the government
You’re a real one, Nancy Fraser
Well that's dumb. Shouldn't rescind it over a very nuanced conflict. Imagine trying to be an arbiter for such an old and complex conflict. If the scholar didn't make clear anti-Semitic remarks, then there's no real basis. Honestly this might be illegal in Germany.
For an institution called the University of Cologne, they really stink
Im generally not a fan of the socalled "horseshoe theory" but Germany has gone so far to "atone" for the holocaust that its actively persecuting Jewish people again which isnt exactly promising.
This is how zionists censor dissent.
Cologne University said in a statement its decision to cancel the invitation had been made “with great regret”. It said the reason was that in the letter signed by Fraser, “Israel’s right to exist as an ‘ethno-supremacist state’ since its foundation in 1948 is called into question. The terror attacks by Hamas on Israel of 7 October 2023 is [sic] elevated to an act of legitimate resistance.”
She got a little too based there.
I did NAZI that coming.

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