18:00 - 20:30
Arnold-Bode-Strasse 10, Raum 1309, Whoops
A lecture by Moshe Zuckermann, Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University.
Tuesday, 9. July, 18h (s.t.)
Raum: Arnold-Bode-Strasse 10, Raum 1309, Whoops (subject to room change)
organizer: Development Policy and Postcolonial Studies
The accusation of anti-Semitism is serious, especially in Germany. Centuries of persecution ended here, Exclusion and murder of Jewish communities in Europe in the systematic extermination of six million Jews under National Socialism.
As a reaction to this centuries-long persecution and exclusion, the... 19. century the Zionist movement. She pursued the goal of a Jewish state - in the year 1948 realized in the founding of Israel.
Zionism has always been controversial within Judaism - both theologically and politically.
Because Zionism is to be understood as a reaction to European anti-Semitism, Today, the accusation of anti-Semitism is always linked to discussions about Israeli politics. Whether and when anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism can be equated, is however, also in internal Jewish discussions, controversial.
To the critics:The historian and sociologist Moshe Zuckermann counts in this equation.
According to him, equating anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism not only leads to a trivialization of real hostility towards Jews. The accusation of anti-Semitism serves, so to speak, as an internal one- and foreign policy instrument of rule, u.a. in Germany and Israel. Moshe Zuckermann will explain this in a lecture followed by a discussion. Moshe Zuckermann will join in via Zoom from Tel Aviv.