In a recent feature in French cultural weekly Télérama, several members of the Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA) collective are profiled for their stance against Germany’s silencing of dissent on Palestine. The article highlights how Germany’s memory politics, shaped by the Holocaust, has led to severe repression of pro-Palestinian expression — from cultural institutions to academia.
PJs featured are Michael Barenboïm, violinist and co-founder of the Make Freedom Ring collective; Tyme Khleifi, Palestinian musician and co-organizer of Kilmé Talks; Nahed Samour, a legal scholar and jurist based in Berlin and the Netherlands; Marc Siegel, film studies professor at the University of Mainz; Aurélia Kalisky, literature scholar at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin; Elad Lapidot, philosopher at the University of Lille; and José Segebre, Palestinian-Mexican scholar and lecturer in art at NYU Berlin.
As Kalisky states, “Each human life is considered a world. Tens of thousands of these worlds have already been destroyed in Gaza.”
Read the full article here.
Telerama source (paywall): https://www.telerama.fr/debats-reportages/en-allemagne-le-soutien-a-gaza-se-heurte-au-devoir-de-memoire-7026005.php
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