Anne Rethmann

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/AgainstAcademi… @SmithHelmut @Daniel_Newcast

🇮🇱Ilana Dayan, one of the most prominent Israeli journalists, in a 2-min monologue about human life, every human's life. About 💔 Yaron and Ilana from Ramat Gan 💔 Mary Ann from the Philippines, and Rachel 💔 The children Yaakov, Sarah, and Avigail from Beit Shemesh 💔 Amit from Petah Tikva 💔 Ali, Wa'ad, and their small children Mohammad and Othman from the village of Tammun We must insist on sanctifying life. there is no greater “total victory” than that. ✊This the Israel we are fighting for. @Uvda_tweet @ilanadayan1

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: dichterlesen.net/veranstaltunge…

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 youtube.com/watch?v=6SMpc3…

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. t.ly/QjBgU

In 2012, Jürgen Habermas gave the first Martin Buber Memorial Lecture at the @IsraelAcademy of Sciences and Humanities. He died today at 96, one of the last representatives of a generation that sought to rethink Germany's intellectual life after 1945. t.ly/uwQBT

Ständig bekommt man Nachrichten aufs Handy, was seit den amerikanischen Luftangriffen auf Iran passiert. Der Blick der Welt konzentriert sich aber nur auf einen Bruchteil der betroffenen Region, schreibt @OthmannRonya in ihrer Kolumne. faz.net/aktuell/feuill…

Broad Jumper is still one of my favorite pictures for March 8. #InternationalWomensDay

Der Angriff auf die Islamische Republik Iran stellt einen wichtigen Schritt zur Befreiung dessen Bürger dar, meint Resa Memarnia. Wer die Menschen ernst nimmt, müsse ihnen die Fähigkeit zutrauen, einen freien und demokratischen Staat aufzubauen. is.gd/Nd6gj6?utm_sou…

Bringing Human Rights Theory Back In: Great interview with @R_Mosayebi on the current war against the Iranian regime and on whether the allegations of breaches of international law by the U.S. and Israel are as legally unambiguous as many claim. t.ly/aRQJG

in deaster, nor that it will be a great success culminating in a free Iran and sweeping changes across the region. I read a moving comment. In a few almost stenographic lines, @Ammir captures the moment for many Iranians: the coexistence of facts, emotions, and histories. (2/2)

The sky over Jerusalem is beautifully blue this morning after a short night. News keeps arriving without pause: images of a destroyed building in Tel Aviv, an endless stream of commentary about what may come next. I can't bring myself to say that this will inevitably end (1/2)

more comfortable narratives. News like this from Poland is therefore a reminder that the rule of law and institutional independence protect scholarship from turning into convenient stories that serve only one's own group narratives.

The relativization and marginalization of both the Holocaust and antisemitism are recurring phenomena across different countries and political milieus. Of course, Germany has its own history of subsuming distinct historical experiences under broader, (1/2) t.ly/fR4Lz

#Iran nytimes.com/interactive/20…

✨ The Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights is honored to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “In the Beauty Salon of History“ on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 12:15 at the Max and Iris Stern Little Gallery, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The exhibition is the outcome of the Research Group “Paying for the Past: Reparations after the Holocaust in Global Context” which convened at the Israeli Institute for Advances Studies (2023/24). Combining historical research and artistic expression, the exhibition explores one of the most urgent moral and political questions of our time: How should societies confront historical injustice? Using the 1952 Holocaust compensation agreement between West Germany, Israel, and the Jewish Claims Conference as a case study, it invites reflection on the possibilities and limits of reparations and reconciliation. Inspired by Ronny Someck’s poem “Tractors,” the exhibition asks whether history can undergo a “beauty treatment” – and what might be gained or lost in the process. The exhibition will be on display for one year. We hope to see you there! Scientific Research: Prof. Gideon Reuveni, Dr. Iris Nachum Research Assistant: Avishag Ben-Yosef Curation: Dr. Michal Mor, Eli Ben-Arye Graphic Design: Idan Vaaknin Exhibition Design and Production: Eli Ben-Arye, Yuval Ayali Graphic Production: Kzat Aheret Ltd. 📅Wednesday, 18.3.2026 🕐12:15 📍Max and Iris Stern Little Gallery, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem For campus entry permits, please contact Inbal Levin at inballev@savion.huji.ac.il

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about this event (hagalil.com/2025/12/michae…). @IsraelAcademy of Sciences and Humanities has published a short reel today showing the beginning of Michael Walzer's talk. The full recording is linked there.

Während Minderheiten in Syrien weiter um ihr Überleben fürchten müssen, wissen westliche Orientreisende nach ihrem Buchmessenbesuch in Damaskus gar nicht mehr wohin mit ihrer Euphorie. @OthmannRonya faz.net/aktuell/feuill…

Right now, on the streets of Munich and other cities, people are calling for support for freedom in Iran. We saw it. Ukraine does not share a border with Iran. We’ve never had a conflict of interest with the Iranian regime. But the Iranian Shahed drones they sold to Russia are killing our people and destroying our infrastructure. The Iranian regime has already done – and can still do – more harm than many other regimes could do in a century. And yet this regime still exists. And it hopes to survive everything – even this crisis. Today, the people of Iran expect from the world what we in Ukraine needed on February 24, when the Russian invasion began – unity, determination, and speed. Of course, speed. Speed in support. And regimes like the one in Iran must not be given time. When they have time, they only kill more. They must be stopped immediately. And this is exactly what should have happened with the Ayatollah – after all the wars his regime unleashed and all the lives it took – and with Putin as well: after the war in Georgia, after Syria, after 2014 and the occupation of Crimea.

The Iranian regime has targeted wounded protesters seeking help. In response, medical workers throughout the country have forged secret units to treat those injured in the uprising. newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…