“Now You Are Part of It. Our German Guilt. Our Memory”
A Lebanese scholar in Berlin on carrying war in your body through a city that cannot hear it, and being ...
Tag: Racism
Diaries of an Academic of Color: On the Limits of Academic Spaces, and Life in Two Places
As Beirut is bombed, an academic speaks about justice and extractivism as she is caught between war at home and ...
Diaries of an Academic of Color: All Shades of Anger – Notes from an Arab Woman in European Academia
In the shadow of Gaza’s genocide, an Arab academic navigates funding, contracts, and collaboration while confronting the quiet violence of ...
Inside Europe’s Largest Neo-Nazi Gathering: The Quiet Normalisation of Fascism
Each February, the Day of Honour in Budapest—a neo-Nazi commemoration—exposes how fascist mythmaking, transnational networks, and uneven policing are becoming ...
Targeted by Design: Technoviolence, Xenophobia, and Algorithmic Injustice in SWANA
In the global majority, big Tech policies are often complicit in the rise of digital fascism, hate speech, and systemic ...
Palestine on Berlin’s Walls: Street Art, Censorship, and the Politics of Solidarity in Germany
From erased graffiti to banned symbols, Germany’s crackdown on Palestinian street art exposes how aesthetics become acts of resistance, memory, ...
Decolonizing AI at the Border: When Algorithms Decide Who Can Move
Marketed as innovation, AI border control deepens racial discrimination. Black advocates call to decolonize technology and reclaim movement from algorithmic ...
Heavy baggage: A German reckoning with guilt, hypocrisy and responsibility
We Germans remember the Shoah with guilt, but refuse to confront our complicity in a present-day genocide. What does 'never ...
An asylum system designed to silence: How documenting dehumanization becomes a crime
Asylum seekers in Bavaria face more than just borders—they navigate a system where attempts to expose wrongdoing are punished by ...
The terror we are living in for a year and a lifetime
The word terror means extreme fear, and there is no greater terror than being dehumanized by the world's most powerful ...
EU funds, Turkish xenophobia: How foreigners are mistreated in detention centers
A testimony from a detention center in Turkey reveals how the EU's outsourcing of border control results in severe detainee ...
How has Turkey become unsafe for Syrian people?
Recent violent attacks against Syrian refugees in Turkey reveal a deep discontent with the country’s politics. A Turkish journalist explains ...
We need to talk about the hypocrisy of Germany’s environmental movement
There is a mutually reinforcing link between racist, colonial, and fascist tendencies at the core of much of Western environmentalism.
