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Populism: giving the people a voice? • Globalisation vs Sovereignty: does the nation state still matter? • Gender Wars: Kein Ende in Sicht? • Rebellious youth: what does left and right mean for Gen Z? • The Bauhaus wars: #moderndenken versus #deutschdenken • Absturz oder Transformation: Ist die deutsche Wirtschaft noch zu retten? • Podcast Live: A Distanza – Aufklärung und Kritik • Wo hört der Spaß auf? Comedy im Meinungskorridor • In God We Trust? Das Revival der Religion • Free-Speech Emergency: how do we fight back? • Should we tolerate the intolerant?
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Antizionism post-10/7, including the genocide libel, was a historical event of mass hysteria and social psychosis. There can be no truth, reconciliation, or healing, until there is honest recognition of this fact.
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»Wir sind keine Juden«: Die hässliche Fratze der französischen Krawalle. Es zeigt sich eine Querfront der Aggression, bei der sozialer Frust, postkolonialer Opfermythos und tiefsitzender Judenhass verschmelzen. juedische-allgemeine.de/meinung/wir-si…
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🇮🇱 🎗️ Vor drei Jahren begingen extremistische Muslime den schlimmsten Massenmord an Juden seit dem Holocaust.
Teile der Welt und Deutschlands solidarisieren sich mit den Mördern. Westliche Regierungen sind weitgehend untätig und dulden die Umtriebe. Eine andauernde Schande.
Teile der Welt und Deutschlands solidarisieren sich mit den Mördern. Westliche Regierungen sind weitgehend untätig und dulden die Umtriebe. Eine andauernde Schande.
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“My husband and my son were murdered on October 7th”.
Sabin Tasa stepped in front of a screening of the movie NAZA in the Netherlands, hoping to share he story. She was met with boos and "we don't care".
The audience was willing to listen to the film, but not to a first-hand that took her loved ones.
Sabin Tasa stepped in front of a screening of the movie NAZA in the Netherlands, hoping to share he story. She was met with boos and "we don't care".
The audience was willing to listen to the film, but not to a first-hand that took her loved ones.
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Millions are now addicted to hating Israel. They get daily dopamine hits from graphic content fuelling their need to be outraged. It's a compulsion & a community. No ceasefire will end it. If there are no Israelis to hate, any Jew will do. It has nothing to do with Palestinians.
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Macklemore has found a new tour to open for after being dropped by Ed Sheeran.
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Just to be clear, this is about to become an online media circus. No one said anything when Matisyahu or other Jewish and Israeli performers were forced to cancel their gigs because pro-Palestinian people harassed the venues. Now the shoes are on the other foot, so we are gonna hear non-stop about free speech.
EXCLUSIVE: Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage 'Free Palestine' Statements
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In der neuen Ausgabe der casa|blanca habe ich über Asexualisierung, Volkmar Siguschs Thesen zur „neosexuellen Revolution“ und die massentaugliche Erregung über „sexuelle Verwahrlosung“ geschrieben. Das Heft kann hier bestellt werden:
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9/11 was an Islamic terrorist attack. It was the beginning of the war on the West by Islam. Have the guts to say it out loud. It’s the truth. It’s why 2,977 people were murdered that morning.
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Two Israelis made a film accusing their own country of war crimes, genocide and more.
Venice film festival gave it a record 24-minute standing ovation. Within minutes the replies became a massive attack on them, thousands calling them thieves, terrorists, human filth and more.
case against the film and these producers. I didn't need one. Being Israeli and Jewish was their offense from the start. They’ll never forgive that.
Venice film festival gave it a record 24-minute standing ovation. Within minutes the replies became a massive attack on them, thousands calling them thieves, terrorists, human filth and more.
case against the film and these producers. I didn't need one. Being Israeli and Jewish was their offense from the start. They’ll never forgive that.
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That's just it
Any pretense about caring about Gaza's future is long gone
What remains is the "cultural elite" signaling a visceral hatred of Israel and its people
The atavistic pleasure they get from invoking Nazi comparisons tells you all you need to know
Any pretense about caring about Gaza's future is long gone
What remains is the "cultural elite" signaling a visceral hatred of Israel and its people
The atavistic pleasure they get from invoking Nazi comparisons tells you all you need to know
"Genocidal policy" for a bunch of anonymous people saying a story that reality doesn't fundamentally demonstrate happened.
Nor does it weigh possible prosecutions of people who may have committed criminal conduct in Gaza, nor does it weigh the possibility of military necessity.
All this does is cheapen the reality of Hamas and its conduct that harms Palestinians. @Variety doesn't give a shit about Palestinians unless they can blame the Jews and find token Jews to carry out their propaganda fantasy against the only Jewish state that was actually the victim of genocidal violence.
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In der @NZZ habe ich über Joan Didion und ihren von linksliberaler Seite übergangenen Konservativismus geschrieben:
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Remember, wearing keffiyeh did not save a gay man from being murdered by terrorist with the same ideology as Hamas
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One of the cruellest, sickest parts of the last few years has been young people at music festivals in the west celebrating the murder and rape of young people at a music festival in Israel.
Electric Picnic 2026
If my memory serves me correctly, Palestinians don't really like music festivals, right?
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Für das @philomagde habe ich über Tragweite und Grenzen der Idee vom Horrorkino als Spiegel gesellschaftlicher Ängste geschrieben.
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This is correct.
The story of Jason Arday is incredibly sad. But this is not a story about right-wing media being bad as many are trying to argue now. This is a story of once eminent intellectual institutions failing in their mission and, in the process, failing our civilization, their students and Arday himself.
The New York Times, which can't really be suspected of right wing bias, has done a good summary of Cambridge's failures in the Arday case. They are unacceptable and an indication of the decline in our best institutions.
I have been writing about this decline for a while, initially in my 2024 essays on the disappearance of the so-called “Weird Nerd” from academia and their replacement by a type of person who “stumbles upon academia not so much out of a love for The Truth, as due to an inability to thrive in corporate settings for various other, unrelated reasons.” The Failed Corporatist nevertheless brings with them a thoroughly conventional mindset: a love of process and social conformity.
The Arday case and the broader de-weirdification and conformist-ification of academia are, I think, epiphenomena of the same deeper problem. Both are downstream of the politicization of academic life during the last decades and accelerating particularly in the times of the Great Awokening: the replacement of older norms organized, however imperfectly, around intellectual eccentricity and truth-seeking with a new set of norms organized around ideological conformity, institutional process, and the policing of acceptable social and political attitudes.
I am not a nihilist and I am aware academia still houses some of the most important basic research that is happening right now. I think even in humanities, there are glimmers of hope. I think tearing the edifice down, as many argue, might come with consequences that are worse than the treatment. Intellectual excellence is fragile thing, the result of a myriad of factors that are hard to fully quantify or understand and as a result has been reached by few civilizations across history. I do not have the best ideas as to how, but my instinct is that the steps from here are to try to rectify the wrongs while preserving what makes our intellectual institutions still good in many ways, instead of tearing it all down.
The story of Jason Arday is incredibly sad. But this is not a story about right-wing media being bad as many are trying to argue now. This is a story of once eminent intellectual institutions failing in their mission and, in the process, failing our civilization, their students and Arday himself.
The New York Times, which can't really be suspected of right wing bias, has done a good summary of Cambridge's failures in the Arday case. They are unacceptable and an indication of the decline in our best institutions.
I have been writing about this decline for a while, initially in my 2024 essays on the disappearance of the so-called “Weird Nerd” from academia and their replacement by a type of person who “stumbles upon academia not so much out of a love for The Truth, as due to an inability to thrive in corporate settings for various other, unrelated reasons.” The Failed Corporatist nevertheless brings with them a thoroughly conventional mindset: a love of process and social conformity.
The Arday case and the broader de-weirdification and conformist-ification of academia are, I think, epiphenomena of the same deeper problem. Both are downstream of the politicization of academic life during the last decades and accelerating particularly in the times of the Great Awokening: the replacement of older norms organized, however imperfectly, around intellectual eccentricity and truth-seeking with a new set of norms organized around ideological conformity, institutional process, and the policing of acceptable social and political attitudes.
I am not a nihilist and I am aware academia still houses some of the most important basic research that is happening right now. I think even in humanities, there are glimmers of hope. I think tearing the edifice down, as many argue, might come with consequences that are worse than the treatment. Intellectual excellence is fragile thing, the result of a myriad of factors that are hard to fully quantify or understand and as a result has been reached by few civilizations across history. I do not have the best ideas as to how, but my instinct is that the steps from here are to try to rectify the wrongs while preserving what makes our intellectual institutions still good in many ways, instead of tearing it all down.
Suicide is a tragedy, not an argument, by Samuel Rubinstein (@si_rubinstein)
It could have been otherwise: if the Times Higher Education had been able to report the story as intended, this exposé might have looked more like the Observer’s impressive investigation last year of .
Instead, the story unfolded in agonising slow-motion, with Arday and those around him having to attempt live damage control (sometimes contradicting each other) as his life came crashing down. The press was relentless — one can only imagine the effect of a drip-fed character assassination on a vulnerable psyche.
Here, perhaps, the straightforward demolition of his fantasies by the Guardian was, if anything, more distressing than the litany of anti-DEI columns — precisely because the facts of the matter were damning enough.
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If you go to the Al Jazeera Facebook page you will see thousands of laugh reacts on their post about the Berlin pride parade terrorist attack. Hundreds of comments from Muslims celebrating
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Suicidal empathy in action.
"People are trying to divide our society and set some people against others. As the CSD in Berlin, we will not allow this."
The organisers of Berlin Pride say yesterday's attack must not be used "for political ends".
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