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A Renaissance painting of hell by Hieronymus Bosch.

Cynical Uses of Suffering: Gaza, Antisemitism, & the New Digital Right

By Aya Labanieh. During the pandemic, the landscape of the Anglophone Internet, especially in North America, drifted rightward—rewarding influencers who churned out pandemic disinformation and conspiracy theories with high engagement, fame, and easy income. The popular term online for such a person is a “grifter”: someone who betrays their convictions, political or otherwise, for material gain, transforming what they claim to believe based on what is trending or what sells. While one can never be sure what a particular influencer truly believes, especially since many content-creators became as radicalized as their own audiences during lockdown, grifters can serve as useful indicators of where money can be made online.

Three Questions That Make One

By Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh. Over the past two decades, Middle Eastern and European politics have been impacted by three critical developments that call into question dominant understandings of nationalism, citizenship, and decolonization. The aggressive and ongoing colonization of Palestine created irreversible realities that cast serious doubts on the feasibility of partition and the “two-state solution.”

Annette Weinke

„Das Narrativ der universalen Menschenrechte ist nach wie vor wirkungsvoll“ – ein Interview mit Annette Weinke

Annette Weinke ist Privatdozentin am  Jena Center Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Nach ihrer Habilitation an der Philosophischen Fakultät Universität Jena war sie 2015/16 Visiting Fellow am History Department...