Europe

  • Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” This poem by Martin Niemöller, he wrote thinking about what happened in the 19th and 20th century in Europe. However, reflecting on Syria,…

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  • In the last few weeks I was busy researching  for German a magazine that comes out in August. But I also had two texts published in taz, which were however not put online. On the vulnerability of the London Underground to terror (contribution in a text of many authors) Read here in German On Europe,

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  • Half of Brits, according to latest polls, want to leave the EU. I shall not stay here, when the country crumbles to pieces and human rights get cut the way social services are cut at present. The problem is that both Tories and Labour bent down for too long to populist sensationalist ethnocentric phobia on

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  • Islam is also European!

    Now the hard work and soul searching must begin.  In my opinion there is a big job for all of us ahead.  I mentioned it earlier today in a facebook post where I argued that pupils in Europe ought to all visit Andalusia, Albania and Istanbul.  Europeans must stop excluding Islam and Arab empires in

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  • ENGLISH: Read my interview in the German Jüdische Allgemeine with Jewish Board of Deputies  (BOD) president Vivian Wineman, assessing the ultra right successes of the European elections (use google translate to get translation) DEUTSCH:  Mein interview mit dem Präsidenten des Zentralrates der Juden in Großbritannien über den Ultrarechtsrutsch in den #Europawahlen  in der Jüdischen Allgemeinen.  

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