Playing the Refugee Card
The Polish Border Crisis
Snow fell. The sight of it at first evoked a deeply ingrained childhood joy in me. However, a correction came almost immediately.(...)
The Polish Border Crisis
Snow fell. The sight of it at first evoked a deeply ingrained childhood joy in me. However, a correction came almost immediately.(...)
Britain’s Immigration Debate
Borders bring almost as much insecurity as security.(...)
Austrian Healthcare Apartheid
The JID Interview, Part I
Israelis in Germany. Say what? Few stories about European immigration have been as loaded, and complex as those about Jews moving from the Middle East to Germany. (...)
A Central Asian Perspective
The Samos Refugee Experience
For thousands of years, Samos was known as the idyllic homeland of Pythagoras, a land of white wine. And for decades, a destination for sun-hungry tourists. (...)
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.(...)
Profiling the Ideologues
Despite the contemporary far-right’s propensity for hard-line nationalism, it's a global phenomenon. (...)
Berlin on Greece
Slavoj Žižek’s Pandemic!
Today's philosophers don’t do well in crises. The case of Giorgio Agamben, in which he wrongly downplayed the danger posed by COVID-19, is a perfect example. (...)