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Germany’s anti-antisemitic complex and the question of settler colonialism
Author(s): Veracini, Lorenzo
Date: 2024
Topics: Antisemitism: Opposition to and Activism Against Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Palestinian Solidarity and Activism, Post-Colonial, Israel: Attitudes to Israel
Abstract: This discussion article argues that contestations about antisemitism in current German public discourse and an uncompromising and institutionally mandated support for Israel, even in the face of plausibly genocidal actions, are related to and enabled by an unreconstructed embrace of a settler colonialist ethos. In this context, an unwillingness to come to terms with a history of colonial violence is only one component among multiple determining factors. And yet the question of settler colonialism, while not immediately recognisable, should be recovered and foregrounded to explain the operation of what is here defined as an anti-antisemitic complex, where institutions, the media, and the law combine to enforce a ban on discussions of Israeli history and policies towards Palestinians.