The new year 2013 will be a very important year in the struggle against the Iranian threat. Israel is facing international pressure and silence about the Iranian as well as the Islamist threat is prevailing. However, the situation is even more complicated if we look at supposedly pro-Israel and pro-Jewish individuals as well as at supposedly high-profile scholars in the field of...

  Around November 9, 1938, the night of pogroms of National Socialism, several hundred Jews have been killed, synagogues were burnt, Jewish shops demolished and many thousand Jews deported to concentration camps (KZ). Everyone in Germany, ordinary Germans as well as ordinary members of the Nazi party, was witness of what happened and many have been involved.  It is tremendously timely...

  BERLIN — On Sunday, September 9, 2012, the first ever rally  favoring circumcision and Jewish (and Muslim) life in Germany was held in Berlin. In May 2012 a Cologne court had ruled against a Muslim circumcision and generalized that the rights of children are threatened by every single circumcision, regardless at what age it is made. This is probably the most hardcore attack by a...

  The Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at the Berlin Technical University in April 2012 appointed as a co-worker an outspoken supporter of antisemite Edward Said: Achim Rohde. A scholar in Islamic Studies, Rohde was hired because he conducts research to evaluate the similarities of "antisemitism" and "Orientalism" "in the sense of Edward Said," as the...

  Germany awards anti-Zionism The case of Judith Butler, September 11, 2012 Description of a Book project – by Edition Critic, publishing house, Berlin   On September 11, 2012, Judith Butler, professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California in Berkeley, will be awarded the Theodor-W.-Adorno-Prize of the city of Frankfurt, Germany. On that day in...