Postdoc, Martin Buber Society of Fellows @HebrewU | Theory and History of Human Rights, Political and Legal Theory | @arethmann.bsky.social
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The "Statement Against the #Boycott of Israeli Academics" now has a dedicated website. It includes relevant media related to the Statement and the problem of boycotting Israeli academics. Feel free to share it. bit.ly/AgainstAcademicBoycot… @SmithHelmut @Daniel_Newcast
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Dear followers, when you see hostile comments deriding young Israelis for singing about peace in a music festival, please follow my example and block these accounts. We need every ounce of hope and positive vibes as our election date draws closer. ❤️🩹
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A video of young Israelis singing "Song for Peace" at InDNegev, ain indie music festival in the Negev Desert, near Gaza has gone viral, stirring nostalgia for a time when Israeli-Palestinian peace seemed possible | Video by @tomerappelbaum
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Yosef Aziadna, from the Bedouin community in the Negev, recalls #October7 for Edut 710:
"I didn't wait for it, and I didn't expect to be called a hero. I'm Israeli, and they're Israelis... We're all human. I did what is expected of a human being." (1/2)
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My article "Was kommt nach dem Leiden in Israel und Gaza?" is out in @faznet. Taking Carolin Emcke's "asymmetrical empathy" as a point of departure, I ask: Does the claim that every life counts equally have to rest on our capacity to feel with others?
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Almost one week at the @DubnowInstitut behind me and glad to be spending two months here as a visiting fellow. I particularly value its interdisciplinary approach and its understanding of Jewish history as a seismograph of broader historical developments.
In the shadow of the recent military confrontation between the United States and Iran, these are some of the people sentenced to death in Iran. They are very young, and this gives a sense of who took part in the January protests. Via @ICHRI
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Mit Ernst Noltes Deutung, der Holocaust sei primär eine Reaktion auf sowjetische Verbrechen, begann der Historikerstreit. Für Habermas war diese Sicht revisionistisch. Im Gespräch erläutert der Historiker Dan Diner die Frontlinien des Streits. shorturl.at/mUvik?utm_source…
My dissertation, The Nonidentical of Human Rights: The Individual and the Concept of Dignity after 1945, has been shortlisted for the Deutscher Studienpreis of the Körber Foundation. I am very grateful to the jury for this recognition.
Further information: t.ly/HrR1E
Looking forward to presenting in Berlin next week. My paper explores how early postwar Jewish engagements with human rights complicate the opposition between universalism and particularism in debates about human rights, memory, and the Holocaust. t.ly/pN7QC
My article "The Death Penalty and the Future of Law in Israel" has been published in @KJewsEurope and is also available in French and Italian. Many thanks to the editors and translators.
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La Knesset adopte la peine de mort pour les terroristes. Anne Rethmann,chercheuse en histoire des droits humains, analyse ce basculement de l'État de droit :dans la lignée de la réforme Netanyahu, le droit ne sert plus de cadre, mais d'instrument politique k-larevue.com/peine-de-mort/
This is a really lovely insight into the indeed very famous #TelAviv Central Bus Station. No hip party scene, but people from the neighborhood and volunteers who did an amazing job cleaning up the space. Video by @unpackedmedia
It is important that any discussion about how this war is unfolding includes these voices. @arash_tehran spoke with several Iranians about how they see the war and what they fear.
Link: t.ly/kYT8e
While we were sitting in the shelter in #Jerusalem last night, I was reading news from #Tehran. I don’t have an answer. But it is difficult to speak about this war without also thinking of the mostly very young Iranians whose lives are at stake.
Something nice for a change today: alongside this image, Paul Celan's voice in Jerusalem, 1969:
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Since the 1970s, Schohreh Baddii has campaigned for a free Iran. In 1992, her husband was murdered in Berlin by the mullah regime. In the video, she shares her—and many Iranians'—view on the current war. Full interview (in German): archive.md/1GoyD
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So the humanities, and philosophy in particular, are back—not on the sidelines, but as another battlefield. It may take a few rounds, but Iran's Larijani isn’t the first to enlist Kant in the service of an antihumanist philosophy. A great article.
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