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German university rescinds Jewish American’s job offer over pro-Palestinian letter (www.theguardian.com)
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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.

They said the letter, titled Philosophy for Palestine, which was signed by Fraser and several hundred other academics, was separate from Fraser’s work as a scholar and that her guest professorship had nothing to do with the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Cologne University said in a statement its decision to cancel the invitation had been made “with great regret”. It said the reason was that in the letter signed by Fraser, “Israel’s right to exist as an ‘ethno-supremacist state’ since its foundation in 1948 is called into question. The terror attacks by Hamas on Israel of 7 October 2023 is [sic] elevated to an act of legitimate resistance.”

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Framing Israel as “the oppressor” is one of the other expressions I find difficult.

Really? The guys running a concentration camp starving 2.2 million people and committing Genocide are "not the oppressors"....

I encourage you to read up a little on the West Bank where people are regularly murdered by israel to steal their land without any Hamas in the equation. Israel has been a brutal oppressor for 75 years.

The history of the conflict between Palestina and Israel is huge and complex

Yes the Nazis have a long and complex history too. World War 2 was long and complex as well. Many different events happened. But that is irrelevant. You don't have to know the entire history of WW2 to know Nazi Germany was bad. And you don't have to know the entire history of Palestine to know that israel committing the same style of Genocide as the Nazis makes them not the good guys.