He currently holds a position at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg.Mbembe is an extreme anti-Israel inciter. He added that the SWC is considering including Görgen’s actions on its list of top 10 antisemitic and anti-Israel activities of 2020. In South Africa, the rubble piles never reached those dimensions.”Mbembe denied the charges in an email to the national daily On April 23, Posener doubled down with an article entitled “The Three Major Untruths of the Israel Hater,” which used Mbembe’s self-defense as a case study. Mbembe wrote that Israel has a “fanatic policy of destruction which aims to turn the life of the Palestinians into a pile of trash which has to be cleaned. Debatte über Achille Mbembe: Klein bekommt Unterstützung. BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. Dabei braucht es jetzt Leidenschaft und Parteilichkeit. In 2018, Mbembe received the Gerda Henkel prize of €100,000.Mbembe’s defenders have created one of the most aggressive antisemitism whitewashes of recent years. He noted that Mbembe has contested Israel’s right to exist and compares Israel to apartheid South Africa, “a well-known antisemitic motif.” Klein said a major speech by Mbembe at a festival that received public money would cause political damage.The Mbembe quandary became a non-issue at the end of April, when the festival was canceled due to coronavirus. Its citizens are more discontented than the Palestinians.A corruption scandal involving sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation against whistleblowers, and lots of business-class travel has gripped the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). KritikerInnen werfen ihm aufgrund dieser Aussagen Antisemitismus vor.Kritiker Felix Kleins hingegen sehen in dessen Antisemitismusvorwürfen eine Einschränkung der Meinungsfreiheit und beklagen, Klein missbrauche den Antisemitismusbegriff, um eine offene Diskussion über Menschenrechte in den israelisch besetzten Gebieten zu verhindern. Carp’s contract, which was set to expire later this year, was not renewed.German antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein also came out against Mbembe’s invitation. In der Debatte um den Antisemitismus-Vorwurf gegen Achille Mbembe dominiert klassisches Lagerdenken. In the German press, several commentators have also pointed out Achille Mbembe’s positions on the “BDS” (“Boycott-Disinvest-sanctions”) campaign. Für Fragen zu Rechten oder Genehmigungen wenden Sie sich bitte an lizenzen@taz.de In 2015, he received the Geschwister Scholl prize. In late March, Deutsch wrote an open letter to Stefanie Carp, the festival’s artistic director, asking her to disinvite Mbembe. FDP parliamentarian Frank Müller-Rosentritt questioned the foreign office about Görgen’s tweets, but the ministry gave an evasive answer.German and international scholars wrote a letter declaring their solidarity with Mbembe, but a second letter was far worse. The “BDS” polemic. Because anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian positions are one of the few rallying cries that unite Europe.In an academic ranking of countries according to happiness level, the “Palestinian Territories” are far from the bottom of the list – something of a surprise, as the never-ending lamentations about the “Israeli occupation” would suggest a different outcome. It would be a mistake if the SWC in its annual list of top 10 antisemitic incidents of the year singled out the German official Görgen. The letter was addressed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Walter Steinmeier. The French black comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala is a serious contender for the title of France’s leading antisemite. Achille Mbembe, photo by Heike Huslage-Koch via Wikipedia Zuerst hatte die Der Streit um Mbembe und Klein wird ausgetragen vor dem Hintergrund zweier größerer Debatten: zum einen über die Mbembe sieht in der israelischen Herrschaft über die palästinensischen Gebiete eine „koloniale Besatzung“ und kritisiert diese mit umstrittenen Vergleichen mit der südafrikanischen Apartheid sowie mit dem Holocaust – Letzteres explizit mit einem Hinweis auf die Grenzen der Vergleichbarkeit.