Joel Schalit / 03 Nov 2021
State and Antisemitism in Germany
The Problem With Police
The rhetoric is increasingly hollow. If only it weren’t that way.(...)
Angela Merkel
Joel Schalit / 11 Oct 2021
Civil Rights, Not Ethnicity
Germany’s Racism Crisis
It was a transparent failure. Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old ex-secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp, had disappeared the day her trial was to begin, having been accused of complicity in the deaths of over 10,000 Jews.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 13 Sep 2021
Minority Outreach Problems
Jews and the German Elections
September 2021: general election time in Germany. It will be the first since 2005 in which Angela Merkel will not be a candidate for chancellor.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 30 Oct 2020
Equal Opportunity Racism
Jews and Palestinians in Germany
While the discriminatory nature of Philosemitism in Germany is not always obvious, due to a lack of knowledge of Jewish culture and politics, it is easier to recognise racism in the way Palestine solidarity advocates are treated.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 01 Apr 2020
Rock Against Corona
Die Ärzte Hearts Merkel
After days of reading one depressing news story after another about the pandemic that has turned our world upside down, I was desperate for anything that would brighten my spirits. (...)
Joe Keady / 12 Feb 2020
German Democracy in Crisis
Alternative für Deutschland in Thuringia
Given the extent of the far-right resurgence in Europe over the last decade, it's often difficult to predict where the shock waves are going to come next. On 5 February, it was Thuringia's turn. (...)
Maxim Edwards / 04 Nov 2019
The Nord Stream 2 Tug of War
Caught Between Two Gas Giants
Nord Stream 2 is going ahead. Last Wednesday, after two and a half years of delay, Denmark’s government gave permission for a section of the natural gas pipeline to pass through its exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea. (...)
John Foster / 01 Nov 2019
Return of the Repressed
Cas Mudde’s The Far Right Today
“Populism...is the buzzword of the twenty-first century,” according to Dutch sociologist Cas Mudde, its best-known analyst. But that’s largely due to our misunderstanding it, he claims.(...)
Joel Schalit / 11 Sep 2019
Dangerous Outsiders
The European Commission’s New Migrant Brand
Nationalism is here to stay. The far-right may never take over the European Commission. But its politics are now mainstream and have changed the way the executive frames multiculturalism.(...)