"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

https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1745175865514737816

"As Daniel Marwecki argues..., Israel serves 'as displacement object onto which different ideas of German national identity can be articulated'. It serves as 'a form of reconciliation that seeks to cleanse 🇩🇪 of antisemitism, which time & again seems to creep back into view.'" 2

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

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. berliner-zeitung.de/wochenende/isr… The recent debate over the Holocaust, including Dirk Moses’ article on the “German Catechism,” continues. It centers, among other issues, around the relations of the Holocaust to colonialism, and the relations between antisemitism and the question of Israel-Palestine. 1

This will be interesting: Friedländer "Während der Antisemitismus weltweit grassiert, wird im Namen postkolonialer Ideen immer stärker Kritik am Holocaust-Gedenken geübt. Doch Auschwitz war etwas völlig anderes als die kolonialen Untaten des Westens." zeit.de/2021/28/holoca… So SF misreads my catechism pieces in several ways 1) when I talk about UK, US and Israeli elites, I mean their political classes, not "the Jews." That has been obvious to every other reader so far ... 1/