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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

8 months

The 🇿🇦 ICJ genocide case re 🇮🇱 is unraveling the German political class. In the last 3 days, 3 frenzied articles attacking anticolonial thought have appeared to shore up 🇩🇪 and western colonial Weltanschauung, proving the point about the coloniality of the entire situation. 1/

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7 months

The German state ideology is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions, so its proponents are reduced to gutter comments, drivel, and abuse. Watch this space.

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7 months

Bauchfrei für Islamisten, Fashion wartet immer wieder mit spektakulären Überraschungen auf 💪

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10 months

Would a German newspaper dare publish this searing essay by Raz Segal? “Here’s what the mass violence in Gaza looks like to a scholar of genocide” - Los Angels Times. ⁦ @PBahners ⁩

Here's what the mass violence in Gaza looks like to a scholar of genocide

Imagining possible futures beyond Israel’s Jewish supremacy is a political act for me, rooted in my people's history.

www.latimes.com

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

8 months

When 🇩🇪 politicians talk of “hartes Vorgehen” to describe the mass slaughter of civilians I wonder if they realise this is a German tradition & whether they’ve learned anything from their genocidal history going back to colonial massacres, starvations & scorched earth in 🌍

DW News

@dwnews

8 months

"One can criticize the Israeli military for using harsh measures in the Gaza Strip. However, that does not constitute genocide," said Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck.

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5 months

"Berlin Museum Removes All Artwork Depicting Rivers or Seas. The German media praised the move, accusing several international bodies of water of antisemitism." #GermanCatechism

Berlin Museum Removes All Artwork Depicting Rivers or Seas

The German media praised the move, accusing several international bodies of water of antisemitism.

hyperallergic.com

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

8 months

I sensed the apocalyptic potential of genocidal Biblical tropes in Israel political culture in an article in 2011 called "Genocide and the Terror of History." Netanyahu was at it then too #amalek #GazaGenocide

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

8 months

His dare an African state take Israel -- and by extension its western supporters — to task on the civilisational grounds of international law! /2

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

10 months

I signed this statement to protest misuse of Holocaust invocations in the Israeli state's destruction of Gaza. I commend it to anyone who wishes the destruction to stop. Such misuses by anyone/side in this conflict do not aid the cause of peace and justice.

The New York Review of Books

@nybooks

10 months

An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

5 months

The Where’s Daddy? program that allowed missile operators to wait till targets arrived at home (where it easier to kill them) entailed killing their families at a 15-20 to 1 ratio, far above usually accepted proportionality principles. 1/

Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם

@yuval_abraham

5 months

I spoke with Israeli intelligence officers about the AI-based target machine they used which marked 37,000 Gazans as suspects for assassination. These whistleblowers expose numerous machines & policies that killed thousands of civilians since October.

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

10 months

The @BostonReview has published my views on the Gaza-genocide debate. I resist the temptation of deciding "genocide or not" to highlight the just-as-troubling acceptance of permanent security's terrible violence in international law and politics.

More than Genocide - Boston Review

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

www.bostonreview.net

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

4 years

It's nice to finally see the proofs.

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

9 months

All with German govt support.

DER SPIEGEL

@derspiegel

9 months

Mehr Zerstörung als in Aleppo, Mariupol oder bei der Bombardierung Deutschlands im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Kein historischer Militäreinsatz war Analysen zufolge so verheerend wie Israels Gazaoffensive.

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

4 months

@hahauenstein @kaiwegner Did the violence and sadism in German culture really disappear after 1945?

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

5 months

Prof Wolf Gruner ⁦⁦ @USC ⁩ where he teaches Holocaust and Genocide Studies on its outlandish cancellation on Asna Tabassum. Based on growing up in East Germany, he writes “Punishing personal opinions is the first step toward authoritarianism” 👏👇

Punishing personal opinions is the first step toward authoritarianism - Daily Trojan

I cofounded the resistance to genocide minor. It is appalling that USC has caved to unfounded accusations against the valedictorian.

dailytrojan.com

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

1 year

Touching history

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

3 years

The Israeli scholars Alon Confino, Amos Goldberg & Raz Segal have published an important corrective to the dated views on the Holocaust, colonialism & Zionism by Yehuda Bauer and others. As it's in German, I offer an English translation in a long thread.

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

6 years

I've written an article "Western Civilization and Conservative Hysteria" about @Australian and federal government's extraordinary campaign against universities via @abcreligion @DenisShanahan1 @HyperbolicGreg @chriskkenny @ESIaustralia

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

10 months

This ignorant and tone-deaf statement reveals the moral blindness of German liberals.

Normative Orders

@NormativeOrders

10 months

Unsere Sprecher*innen @NDeitelhoff und Rainer Forst haben mit Klaus Günther und Jürgen Habermas die Stellungnahme "Grundsätze der #Solidarit ät" zur aktuellen Situation in #Israel , #Gaza und hierzulande verfasst. Zu finden ist sie auf unserer Website ➡️

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

2 years

Finally in hand after many years, our new anthology with haunting cover image by ⁦ @muradsubay ⁩

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

10 months

1/ If it's possible to imagine, a new low in German discourse on antisemitism and postcolonialism, as Thomas Thiel alleges in @faz that universities are systematically antisemitic for having produced a petition contesting the Habermasian liberal bromides.

Wissenschaft: Uneinigkeit im Kampf gegen Antisemitismus

Die Wissenschaft demonstriert im Kampf gegen den Antisemitismus ihre Uneinigkeit. Die Verurteilung des Hamas-Terrors fällt mancherorts zweideutig aus.

www.faz.net

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

6 years

⁦ @kilderbenhauser ⁩ and I wrote a response to the historical distortion that “fascism is socialism” ⁦ @MikeCarlton01 ⁩ ⁦ @JennaPrice ⁩ ⁦⁦ @vanOnselenP ⁩ ⁦ @marcialangton ⁩

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Dirk Moses

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1 year

Coming soon....

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4 months

Unterzeichner Michael Barenboim: "Die Menschenrechte gelten für alle, außer anscheinend für Palästinenser" | rbb24

"Die Menschenrechte gelten für alle, außer anscheinend für Palästinenser"

Berliner Uni-Dozenten verteidigen in einem offenen Brief pro-palästinensische Proteste an der Freie Universität. Aus der Politik ernten sie dafür scharfe Kritik. Dafür hat ein Unterzeichner des...

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

2 months

A Swiss, not German, publisher has translated Rashid Khalidi’s monumental work on the 100 year war against Palestine into German.

Stephan Detjen

@stephandetjen

2 months

Eine Chance, den Dialog über die palästinensische Perspektive auf die Geschichte des Nahostkonflikts zu beginnen: Rashid Khalidi: „Der Hundertjährige Krieg um Palästina“ ist im @Unionsverlag auf deutsch erschienenen. @dlf Rezension 👇🎧

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

8 months

Here they are: /3

Debatte um Israels Selbstverteidigung: Ein ur-linkes Anliegen

Linksidentitäre Kritik an Israel verhallt zu Recht, erkennt sie doch sein Existenzrecht nicht an. Der „Kontext“, von dem viele sprechen, geht anders.

taz.de

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

4 months

None of this is surprising in 🇩🇪. The alarm bells have been sounding for years

Michael Wildt

@micwildt

4 months

Unglaublich, die Hetze von BILD erreicht eine neue Qualität! Fehlt nur noch, dass die Adressen veröffentlicht werden!

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1 year

Years in the making, _The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations_ is published today. I was flattered to be asked to write the chapter on "The Diplomacy of Genocide." Thanks to the editors who herd the cats with aplomb.

The Diplomacy of Genocide

AbstractThis chapter delineates a particular domain of international relations: the ‘diplomacy of genocide’. This domain comprises the intranational and in

academic.oup.com

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

2 months

A typically German take on its political culture by @RonenSteinke who has written better takes in the past. Here he links far-right/ultra-nationalist critiques of German memory culture with what he and other establishment Germans quaintly call "postcolonials" (singling out me) 1/

Süddeutsche Zeitung

@SZ

2 months

Deutschland habe Komplexe, Israel zu kritisieren? Früher wurde das von der extremen Rechten behauptet, nun auch von Linken. Falsch war es immer. Essay von @RonenSteinke #SZPlus

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Dirk Moses

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9 months

Must-read report from the front of the German memory wars by @weserhag #germancatechism

Massachusetts Review

@MassReview

9 months

"For white Germans to stand for the rights of Palestinians to life, health, safety, and freedom, they would need to study our world from outside Germany’s myopic narratives." From Prof. Dr. Sabine Broeck's "Staatsraison: Dispatch From Germany":

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3 years

I finally mounted my Australian spoon wall map to hang the many vintage spoons collected from/of from country towns. A high point of Stralyan civilization (sic.) IMHO.

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7 months

@anthroprofhage It’s an outrageous statement, typical of formulaic ones that German institutions feel compelled to issue if they think their funding will be cut.

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

1 year

Proofs finally in hand for this blockbuster of an OUP handbook

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@dirkmoses

5 months

The German Staatsräson will be enforced no matter the cost to freedom there and to the country’s (declining) reputation as a serious polity.

Stephan Detjen

@stephandetjen

5 months

„What is deeply disappointing to us at The New School is that your cancellation of her appointment disrupts our decades-long ties to Germany.“ Brief der Präsidentin der New School New York an den Rektor der Uni Köln

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@dirkmoses

8 months

This is correct: many German journalists regard themselves as guardians of Germany’s Staastsraison instead of doing their job, thereby restricting freedom there.

Charlotte Wiedemann

@chawichawi

8 months

"Viele Journalisten/innen hierzulande verstehen sich vor allem als Hüter der Staatsraison. Sie sind mehr damit beschäftigt, abweichende Meinungen zu verurteilen, als den dt Schulterschluss mit Israel zu hinterfragen. Als vierte Gewalt fallen sie aus."

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Dirk Moses

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9 months

I've written this text - "Why the International Community Made it so Difficult to Prosecute the Crime of Genocide" - for @DAWNmenaorg in relation to #GazaMassacre

Why the International Community Made It So Difficult to Prosecute the Crime of Genocide

Today, international law on genocide is working as it was designed to: allowing states to ruthlessly exterminate security threats while making it difficult to apply that law.

dawnmena.org

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

2 years

It’s dropped: congrats @SusanNeiman27 and @WildtMichael

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

2 months

This AfD submission to the 🇩🇪 parliament attacking a state program on the “global south” as antisemitic repeats familiar points re: “postcolonial studies” long made in the mainstream press. It demonstrates a nasty Volksfront from the Greens to the AfD. 1/

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@dirkmoses

2 months

“der postkolonialen Theorie zu ihrer Vormachtstellung in den Geisteswissenschaften”: the quaint belief of members of the German political class that “postcolonial theory” dominates universities there shows that the propensity to believe in conspiracy theories never disappeared.

Patrick Bahners

@PBahners

2 months

Stark-Watzinger-Apologetik aus der Bizarro-Welt („Vormachtstellung“ der „postkolonialen Theorie“ in den Geisteswissenschaften).

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Dirk Moses

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6 months

Pankaj Mishra · “The Shoah after Gaza”: a different view of never again

Pankaj Mishra · The Shoah after Gaza

Memories of Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and...

www.lrb.co.uk

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8 months

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Linker Antisemitismus: Warum die Palästinenser als Ersatzproletariat dienen

Blinde Empörungen: Warum die Palästinenser als Ersatzproletariat dienen müssen und andere Irrwege der intellektuellen und ästhetischen Linken.

www.faz.net

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

4 years

What this article about racial "cleansing" and terror in US history reveals is that the US fascism debate has it backwards. It's not that Jim Crow was fascist (what historians call anachronism) but that interwar fascists were fascinated with settler colonial genocide & slavery.

Thankful Musgrave 🦃

@profmusgrave

4 years

Political Scientists Turned a Blind Eye to America’s Democratic Failures—I’m in ⁦ @ForeignPolicy ⁩ discussing the weirdness of Polity scores and the prevalence of political violence in US history

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3 years

Here I reply to the philosopher Jürgen Habermas who intervened in the so-called Historikerstreit 2.0 on 9 September. Thread /1

Antwort an Habermas: Warum auch Afrikaner und Muslime Gerechtigkeit verdienen

Jürgen Habermas’ Intervention schlug einen neuen Ton an. Doch er wiederholt alte Annahmen, die der Einwanderungsgesellschaft nicht gerecht werden. Eine Antwort.

www.berliner-zeitung.de

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Dirk Moses

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6 years

Chris, this is the hysteria I'm talking about. Think about your own piece a few days ago. It showed that you have no idea what goes on within Australian unis. Rather than debate, you censure and seek to censor. Who is being authoritarian? Is this what you really want?

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6 months

If you want to understand the deeper reasons for the German memory mess, read this “The German State and the Creation of Un/Desired Communities” by Hannah Tzuberi and Nahed Samour

The German State and the Creation of Un/Desired Communities | Contending Modernities

The birth of a morally “improved” German collective necessitates the memory of the Holocaust to remain in vivid proximity, but also requires a sense of perpetual vulnerability of Jews in the present...

contendingmodernities.nd.edu

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5 months

It also means the human shield argument is nonsense: operators waited till targets were among civilians. Each is likely a war crime, but what about at scale? A crime vs humanity? How will courts assess the quality of intention when the policy takes killing tens of thousands of 2/

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

4 years

Others have tweeted this book already but my copies arrived only today, 8 yrs (?) since ⁦ @MarcoLDuranti ⁩ 's conference ⁦ @ArtSS_Sydney ⁩. The cover is of officials arriving at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, July 30, 1972. Thanks to all. ⁦ @CUPAcademic ⁩

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5 months

Apparently, writing books like this can get you arrested. I met Nadera in Haifa in 2013. She is an inspirational & courageous scholar & human being who belongs in the classroom & not in prison. Shame on institutions that imprison faculty & arrest students on paranoid pretexts.

Journal of Genocide Research

@JournalGenocide

5 months

In 2021, we ran a Book Forum on Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's _Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding_ (CUP 2019) featuring commentaries by @NiAolainF , Sherene Razack, Smadar Ben-Natan, and @NoamPeleg with Nadera's response. .

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2 years

Mainstream Nakba denial in 🇩🇪: "Zwei Drittel der 900 000 in Palästina lebenden Araber flüchteten vor allem aufgrund der Propaganda ihrer Führer. Von den Israelis hatten sie in der Regel wenig zu befürchten und erhielten auch die Staatsbürgerschaft"

Propaganda und Desinformation

Jetzt erstmals auf Deutsch: »Von Moskau nach Beirut« - Léon Poliakovs grandiose Studie über den Ursprung des linken und linksliberalen Antisemitismus vor dem Hintergrund des Palästina-Konflikts.

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@dirkmoses

5 months

The hitjobs on Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian continue. Here an 🇮🇱 tv "report" trundles through her work, including the @JournalGenocide forum on her book on the unchilding of children to allege that she relies only on interviews with children who lie and are actually terrorists 1/

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3 years

Look what arrived in the mail today. The book of ⁦ @EUI_History ⁩ dissertation I was privileged to advise. Huge congratulations to ⁦ @boyd_vandijk ⁩ on this and other achievements on an alas all-too-relevant subject: the laws of war.👏🍾✨

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9 months

The German Catechism in full flight

Literary Hub

@lithub

9 months

Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been cancelled because of their essay on Gaza.

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8 months

The German position is entirety predictable. “Please bomb and blockade those Arab-Nazis just as the allies rightly bombed and blockaded our Nazi ancestors, as we need to stop a Holocaust.” This is the Israeli frame, and the Germans have adopted it for their intl’l rehabilitation

darryl li

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maybe they ought to sit this one out, given the history there

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3 years

I wrote this over two months ago in response to the demented reaction to @juergenzimmerer and M. Rotbherg's article in Die Zeit. A German journal agreed to publish it but then got cold feet, fearing possible controversy and bearing out the article's thesis. 1/

GdG

@G_der_Gegenwart

3 years

Die Erinnerung an den #Holocaust als Zivilisationsbruch ist für viele das moralische Fundament der Bundesrepublik. Der Vergleich mit anderen Genoziden gilt daher als Häresie. Es ist Zeit, diesen Katechismus zu verabschieden, sagt @dirkmoses .

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10 months

For arguing that the Holocaust is also (not rather) accountable by traditions of violent expansionism ("redemptive imperialism") in some recent publications, German reviewers went crazy. Now that their "arguments" are appearing in English, people are noticing, and that's good.

Samuel Miller McDonald

@sjmmcd

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"The fact that the Holocaust can’t be explained by theories of imperialism" is an absolutely insane thing for anyone, especially a German, to suggest. Lebensraum was the justification for basically everything the Nazis did, including the Holocaust

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2/ with Michael Rothberg & I as "matadors of Holocaust relativization." That a supposedly serious newspaper allows such defamatory nonsense--which incl. attacks on @Deborah_Feldman --is a sign of new intensity with which #Germancatechism is being enforced by the political class.

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4 years

Available today I'm told!

Cambridge University Press Bookshop

@CUPBookshop

4 years

5/7 New Books: The Problems of #Genocide - Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression, by @dirkmoses

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Germans upset that author Lana Bastašić questions their geopolitical morality. How dare a Bosnian do so after all that her German press has done for her.

Wegen Schweigen zu Israels Vorgehen im Gaza-Krieg: Autorin Lana Bastašić verlässt den S. Fischer...

Die in Zagreb geborene und in Bosnien aufgewachsene Schriftstellerin wirft ihrem Verlag „systemische und systematische Zensur“ vor und dass er „moralisch fragwürdig“ agiere.

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4 years

CUP is virtually giving away my book. Discount till 31 December! The perfect cheery gift. 🙄

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4 months

International lawyers are now writing long and exacting treatments of the genocide charge re #Gaza . The first in a @JournalGenocide series by @MsJamshidi has dropped. @FranceskAlbs @itamann @samuelmoyn @4noura

Journal of Genocide Research

@JournalGenocide

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We have published the first instalment in a new Forum on Gaza: International Humanitarian Law and Genocide by ⁦ @MsJamshidi ⁩ - “Genocide and Resistance in Palestine under Law's Shadow” ⁦ @karinloevy ⁩ ⁦ @NimerSultany ⁩ ⁦ @AeyalGross ⁩ ⁦

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Draft cover finally ready

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10 months

Delighted to be giving the Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Annual Lecture tomorrow on “German Memory Culture at a Crossroad?” I will be arguing that it’s actually the end of the road.

Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Annual Lecture: German Memory Culture at a Crossroad?

Established to honor the life and work of former IES Director, Gerald Feldman, the Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Annual Lecture brings eminent schola...

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women and children as a given in attacking a military target? The article also reveals the cavalier manner in which these targets were identified. Are we seeing the blurring of military and genocidal logics? This case will test courts’ customary distinction between them. End

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I give the background/context to the @mashagessen cancellation by @BoellStiftung in this article about #documenta15 . In light of recent events, including the Oyoun defunding, its conclusion that "cultural freedom is in mortal danger in Germany" seems right

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2 years

I wrote this a few weeks ago and now it’s out: “The Ukraine Genocide Debate Reveals the Limits of International Law” ⁦ @samuelmoyn ⁩ ⁦ @oonahathaway ⁩ ⁦⁦ @eugene_finkel ⁩ ⁦ @ErinFarrellRos1 ⁩ ⁦ @HolodResearchEd ⁩ ⁦ @FranHirsch ⁩

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1 year

The Pronouns of History: An Interview with Enzo Traverso:

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My boss said "If you were a historian, you would say, 'over the past 20 years, the greatest crown risk to research intensive universities has not been foreign governments. It has been the Australian government slashing research funding'." I am a historian. He is right.

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Exclusive interview with @mashagessen by @hahauenstein that details her careful and ethical arguments and how German elites can't understand or abide them. I hope it appears in English.

Hanno Hauenstein

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. @mashagessen ist in den letzten Tagen nicht gerade mit Samthandschuhen angefasst worden. Hier mein Versuch eines empatischen Gesprächs mit Masha Gessen—über Deutschland, Hannah Arendt und einen umstrittenen Essay.

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Alas it was taken down after the usual complaints. German Staatsräson

Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social)

@JoRayVo

2 months

Glad to see this article on Palestinian trauma, the Nakba, and its denial in Germany, published in German: "Obwohl zutiefst verflochten mit der Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, wird die Nakba aus dem deutschen kollektiven Gedächtnis und öffentlichen Diskurs ausgegrenzt,... 1/3

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2 months

One wonders whether Germany is in on it.

+972 Magazine

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2 months

Israel is beginning to launch a large-scale operation alongside its ongoing military campaign: the biggest crime cover-up in the country’s history. By Dan Owen of @Yesh_Din .

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The author is an expert of the Armenian Genocide. They assess the status of civilians in modern warfare and in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies—in relation to Gaza. Must read 👇

Journal of Genocide Research

@JournalGenocide

8 months

The 5th instalment in our Israel-Palestine-Atrocity Crime forum has been published: “A World Without Civilians,” by Elyse Semerdjian

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"This volume will undoubtedly prove too theory-heavy for most lay readers. However, for scholars of the postcolonial world it will prove immensely valuable. The breadth of time & place covered ensure that a range of scholars will find use within its pages. It adds nuance & depth"

Cold War History

@coldwarhistoryj

1 year

@RiggioPhd from Trinity University, Texas, reviews 📖Decolonization, self-determination, and the rise of global human rights politics edited by @dirkmoses @MarcoLDuranti and Roland Burke 👉

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8 months

"For 🇩🇪, its commitment to Israel is offered as a test of whether the country has overcome its Nazi past. This is politics as psychology or, better, put, psychoanalysis. There are no limits of prudence or public reason. Reality is of no consequence, what matters is redemption" 1

Bruno Maçães

@MacaesBruno

8 months

For 3 months I have been trying to make sense of Gaza, not just what is happening in the Strip but everything around it. I wanted to wait a bit but finally here it is, a long essay @TIME was generous enough to publish. Please read and spread if you can

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One does not expect anything more from academic careerists but that Habermas signed this discredits his legacy. If this is what all his work comes to over 70 years, what can it be worth.

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@dirkmoses

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When German leaders say their country shares values with Israel, they are right. “Draft Israeli law to limit academic speech labelled ‘McCarthyite’”

Draft Israeli law to limit academic speech labelled ‘McCarthyite’

Law allowing committee to fire staff for ‘supporting terror’ backed by education minister and national student union

www.theguardian.com

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@dirkmoses

1 year

Delighted to pick up a hard copy of expertly translated and edited by @davidfrrrr

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6 years

@Birmo @SenKimCarr Hey Minister, your friends @theramsaycentre may disagree. Aren't the Straits of Gibraltar on the faultline of Western Civ? If you want us to use chestnuts from the lexical repertoire of Western Civ, it seems the barbarians are not only inside the gates, they are the gatekeepers.

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@dirkmoses

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Congrats to ⁦⁦ @FrankGerits ⁩ for this tremendous book, drafts of which I marked up years ago ⁦ @EUI_History ⁩. Wonderful to see it in book form and so handsomely produced.

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@dirkmoses

6 months

Amazing lecture

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

3 years

In this piece, I respond to Saul Friedländer's article in @DIEZEIT from last week: There are many "fundamentale Verbrechen" in Western history...

Holocaust: Gedenkt endlich auch der Opfer kolonialer Gräueltaten!

Saul Friedländer hat den Holocaust ein "fundamentales Verbrechen" genannt. Aber man sollte ihn mit den vielen Verbrechen der westlichen Zivilisation zusammendenken.

www.zeit.de

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

7 months

I recommend this article by Omar Yousef Shehabi on UNRWA and the campaign against it #UNRWA

UNRWA as Sui Generis: UNRWA’s Palestinian Staff as Sui Generis International Civil Servants

Since UNRWA preemptively disclosed Israel’s claim to have evidence that 12 UNRWA employees participated in the 7 October 2023 attacks, at least 16 donor states and the European Union, which collect...

verfassungsblog.de

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

10 months

"Zum ersten Mal wird nun auch eine jüdische Künstlerin Opfer der aktuellen Serie von Absagen und Ausladungen wegen Aussagen, die als antisemitisch gelesen werden. Zur Absurdität dieser Situation gehört, dass Breitz‘ Werk, das nun nicht gezeigt werden wird... 1/

ingo_berlin

@ingo_berlin

10 months

Artistic freedom in Germany? Once again, Elke Buhr nails it...

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@dirkmoses

4 months

We are honouring our UC Berkeley doctoral adviser Martin Jay on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Some of us started with him (over) 30 years ago. His landmark first book, The Dialectical Imagination, appeared in 1973.

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@dirkmoses

4 months

"The effects of the use of starvation as a method of warfare, together with other attacks and collective punishment against the civilian population of Gaza are acute, visible and widely known" says @KarimKhanQC . Given the 🇮🇱 defendants' statements widely regarded as genocidal 1

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@dirkmoses

8 months

The @ABCaustralia goes after its employees with Arab heritage. Also 'hesitancy to use particular terminology such as “invasion”, “occupation”, “genocide”, “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing” in its reporting.' Hello, this is the vocab of international law.

ABC federal politics reporter resigns over Gaza coverage

Nour Haydar told this masthead her decision was straightforward after the broadcaster’s coverage came under scrutiny from journalists within its own newsrooms.

www.smh.com.au

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

3 years

.⁦ @howierechavia ⁩ and I wrote "The Herero and Nama Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Question of German Reparations" for @E_IR

The Herero and Nama Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Question of German Reparations

Legacies of dispossession and murder in relation to diasporic and continental Africans, their histories, and their lifeworlds have been demoted by the German state.

www.e-ir.info

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

3 years

Key intervention on Germany’s memory culture, long a model, now provincial. ⁦ @juergenzimmerer ⁩ and Michael Rothberg

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@dirkmoses

9 months

@torte81 @BoellStiftung @faznet Good job Torsten. I would not say that the German discussion is unserious. The German clerics busy excommunicating people like Gessen are deeply serious in their self-righteousness. The German discussion is obsessional, as I argue in @JuergenZimmerer new book, Erinnerungskämpfe.

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@dirkmoses

4 months

Finally a German newspaper starts to listen rather than moralise and scandalise. @anthroprofhage is interviewed about the student protests and his work 👇

Ghassan Hage

@anthroprofhage

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This article on the Gaza situation by @hahauenstein is a rare voice of reason in the German "debate".

Israel und Gaza: Die Linke muss ihren moralischen Kompass neu ausrichten

Das Massaker der Hamas und der begonnene Krieg können nur mit humanistischen Grundsätzen beantwortet werden

www.akweb.de

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

6 years

In honor of Hayden White's scholarly life, History and Theory has collected online all of the works by and about him that it has published since 1960–37 items, including Hayden's articles and review essays, articles about him, and reviews of his books.

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

3 years

My response to German critics who want to divert the debate to the question of the Holocaust's singularity whereas I think the central question is the state instrumentalization of memory. (I didn't choose the accompanying image btw.)

Hanno Hauenstein

@hahauenstein

3 years

Der 2. Teil unserer Reihe zur #Catechism Debatte: @dirkmoses mit einer scharfsinnigen Antwort auf seine Kritiker:innen, die (so Moses) Meinungsfreiheit und Menschenrechte missachten. Eine Streitschrift für ein anderes Erinnern in D. @berlinerzeitung am WE

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@dirkmoses

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In the @tazgezwitscher today, @JanFeddersen claims I use the term "Schuldkult," which I never have. Upon informing him of this when he first alleged it 2021, he wrote to apologize on 15 July: "ich bitte um entschuldigung, das war misslich und fälschlich." So why repeat it now?

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@dirkmoses

8 months

It’s called asymmetrical empathy

Hanno Hauenstein

@hahauenstein

8 months

Neujahrsansprache die Terror auf Israels Süden vom 07. Oktober zurecht verurteilt, das Leid das Israels Regierung seit Wochen über die Zivilbevölkerung Gazas bringt, jedoch mit keinem Wort erwähnt—das ist nicht Staatsraison, das ist selektiver Humanismus.

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Leading Holocaust historian, Dan Stone: "In Germany, Coming To Terms With Its Past Is An Ongoing Struggle: The Holocaust and colonialism in the competition over who controls German memory," @aguigah @juergenzimmerer @PBahners @Emilydische @MichaelsRalf

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@dirkmoses

2 years

This is a banger of an interview about the crisis of Israeli democracy and consequent crisis of the German Staatsräson by Eva Illouz #germancatechism

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Dirk Moses

@dirkmoses

4 years

This apparently how American baristas here my name. But this flat white was good.

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@dirkmoses

5 months

The people who cancelled Nancy Fraser would not even know who and what she’s talking about in her explanation of the non-Jewish Jewish tradition she discusses with @hahauenstein

Hanno Hauenstein

@hahauenstein

5 months

As Nancy Fraser spoke to me about her recent cancellation at the University of Cologne, she explained why she considers Germany's unconditional allegiance to Israel to be a betrayal. And why she’s far from repentant about signing open letters in solidarity with Palestine.

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Roundtable on "Postcolonialism, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust: The Achille Mbembe Case in Germany" hosted by North Carolina German Studies Seminar, Friday November 20. @UNChumanities @UNChistory @UNCEurope @Blackgermans

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