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Jewish star of David painted on the German national flag.

Anti-Zionism’s German Roots

While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.

Gerfried Ambrosch

18 Nov 2024 · 11 min read

Detail from cover of Summer of Fire and Blood by Lyndal Roper. Warriors on horseback, illustration.

When Germany Waged War on Itself

In a forthcoming book, Lyndal Roper argues that the German Peasants’ War of 1524–25 was a missed opportunity to enshrine a Christian theology centred on equality and brotherhood.

Jonathan Kay

18 Sep 2024 · 9 min read

Podcast #250: Israel: Germany’s Reason of State

Iona Italia talks to Gerfried Ambrosch about pro-Israel feeling on the German Left, antisemitism among Muslim immigrants and why Israel’s safety is “Germany’s reason of state.”

Quillette

4 Sep 2024 · 27 min read

The back of a middle-aged white man wearing a black yarmulke with a star of David embroidered on it. Backdrop of German flag.

The German Left’s Jewish Dilemma

Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals.

Gerfried Ambrosch

25 Jul 2024 · 11 min read

Narratives, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Government data about German antisemitism, widely cited in the English-language press, is wrong.

Andrew Hammel

13 Feb 2024 · 12 min read

Can the Revolution in German Foreign Policy Last?

During the fierce debate over the Iraq war, the German political scientist Karl Kaiser said, “Europeans have done something that no one has ever done before: create a zone of peace where war is ruled out, absolutely out.” And, he added, “Europeans are convinced that this model is valid for

Brian Stewart

11 Apr 2022 · 6 min read

Remembering Berlin’s Post-Communist Art Colony—Before It Became ‘Kitsch for the Rich’

The Berlin winter sky is orange one evening as we turn off Oranienburger Strasse into Tacheles courtyard, where a Trabant is planted nose-first in the sand, a laconic memorial to a lifestyle that no longer exists.

Ulrich Gutmair

29 Dec 2021 · 12 min read

The Cold War’s Morbid Sage: Theodor W. Adorno and the Philosophy of 'Post-Existence'

Adorno was smuggling a work of social analysis full of difficult philosophical references into his readers’ reach by disguising it as literature.

Philipp Felsch

17 Nov 2021 · 10 min read