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Risk and Extortion LXXIX: Autobiographical Intermezzo
What Anti-Semtism meant in the 1970s With the semantic expansion of anti-Semitism abandoning its historical consistency and now embracing every possible “critique of Israel”, the accusation of being anti-Semitic has… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXVIII: Anti-Semitic, Anti-Semantic, Anti-Somatic 3
Semantics matter, but they require clear historical analysis. Anti-Semitism is an ideological product of geo-political and economic dynamics affecting Europe in the 19th Century. As I have argued in previous… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXVII: Anti-Semitic – Anti-Semantic – Anti-Somatic 2
Zionism as metabolized anti-Semitism In 1896 Theodor Herzl published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State). A year later, the first Zionist congress was held in Basel, which was the official birth… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXVI: Anti-Semitic – Anti-Semantic – Anti-Somatic 1
A European Phenomenon The word Semite – derived from the biblical reference (Genesis 10) to Shem, one of the sons of Noah – was coined by German historian August Ludwig… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXV: Ethnic Cleansing Matters
Ethnic Cleansing as Public Discourse: Applying the UN’s Definition to the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem Note: Gaza is not included here as it is the site of genocide,… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXIV Semantic Politics 2
Genocide and Antisemitism In the ongoing debate over Israel’s actions in Gaza, a profound asymmetry has emerged in the way key legal and moral categories—genocide and antisemitism—are semantically interpreted and… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXIII: Semantic Politics 1
Aligning Truth and Justice versus Anti-Semanticism. I used to believe that because all definitions are arbitrary, there is very little purpose in analysing semantics. This was, however, extremely naïve. Since… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXII: Corporatism
The case of Rheinmetall AG. Thyssen and Krupp are not the only current major German arms manufacturers with a history of alignment with the Third Reich. It is well documented,… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXI: Corporate Giants and the Third Reich
Thyssen and Krupp: Germany’s own export laws contain contradictions: According to German export control guidelines, weapons should not be sold to countries engaged in active conflict or human rights abuses.… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXX: Between Human Rights and Staatsräson
The Planetary Class War. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gaza-israel-deutschland-100.html Now and then, even in Germany, snippets of sense enter the mainstream media’s otherwise completely uncritical accounts of the genocide in Gaza. Although most of… Read more.
Disaffected Sociology 