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.
By blindly supporting Israel, Germany is making themselves complicit in all crimes committed by Israel. Because of how blindly and willfully Germany is walking into helping with the in progress ethnic cleansing, the slogan “never again” has never sounded so empty to me before.
Never again makes absolute sense along with this support when interpreted within a racist mental architecture, as “Never again will Germans do this to Jews”.
These two things don’t make sense together for those who are Humanists because we see it as “Never again shall people be mass murdered for their etnicity”, which is an entirelly race-agnostic take that doesn’t deem some humans more or less worthy of life (and hence protection from would be aggressors) based on their etnicity.
If there is one thing all this has painfully shown is that the racist architecture of the NAZIs was not torn down in Germany after their defeat in WWII and instead they kept that way of thinking and just did some shifting in their mental lists of unter- and undermenschen to make it “politically correct”.
It’s especially ironic in cases like this (and the Jewish Voice for Peace thing) where they are literally oppressing Jewish people in order to do it.