A leading Jewish American philosopher has been disinvited from taking up a prestigious professorship at the University of Cologne after signing a letter expressing solidarity with Palestinians and condemning the killings in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces.

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    7 months ago

    A leading Jewish American philosopher has been disinvited from taking up a prestigious professorship at the University of Cologne after signing a letter expressing solidarity with Palestinians and condemning the killings in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces.

    When I was telling people over here that Germans have literally gone crazy, as far as claiming that a bunch of JEWISH academics and intellectuals were antisemitic, people were telling me I’m overreacting lmao

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      7 months ago

      Germans selecting “Good Jews” from “Bad Jews”.

      There’s something oddly familiar about it…