Januar 23, 2026 - Keine Kommentare
Berlin, August 2025
In the course of the year that Bashir Bashir and I spent as co-fellows at Berlin’s renowned Wissenschaftskolleg, he presented himself to the German public twice, once in an interview and once in a lecture. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the country’s most influential newspapers, took these appearances as occasions to comment on him. How does a paper that considers itself to be the Iron Dome of Germany’s special relationship to Israel—infamously known as “Staatsräson”—respond to a partisan of Enlightenment? The case of an intellectual whose name can be translated as “Bringer of Good News” is a prime example of everything that Germans refuse to know, confirming once again: where moral judgments come easily, there is a lack of political thinking. (mehr …) 
