Germany's Cultural Elite's Perverted "Debate" on Israel
by Gerald M. Steinberg
January 21, 2025 at 5:00 am
Fringe activists and their "positions of moral outrage" continue to be funded by the German government, with high visibility platforms to promote their blatant anti-Israel and antisemitic campaigns.
In the face of poisonous propaganda, the Bundestag resolutions calling for an end to German government funding to "organizations or projects that spread antisemitism [or] question Israel's right to exist" are important. Implementing them and stopping the support via cultural and academic institutions will not "silence" the voices of hate, but at least the German state will no longer be providing them with resources or legitimacy.
Klaus Biesenbach, director of Berlin's National Gallery, was recently shouted down when he attempted to distance himself from anti-Israel statements made at his institution in a speech by American photographer and political activist Nan Goldin.
On November 22, 2024, at the National Gallery of Berlin, the American photographer and political activist Nan Goldin asked, "Why can't I speak, Germany?" With apparently no sense of irony, she spoke at a lectern in front of a large audience, with numerous phones pointing at her, at the opening of her retrospective, titled "This will not end well." The subject of her talk was not her artistic portfolio but rather her political agenda on Israel.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21338/germany-cultural-elites-israel
