ISBN:
9781478008378
,
9781478007852
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 244 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2020
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.892/4043
Keywords:
Politische Ethik
;
Palästinenser
;
Israeli
;
Nahostkonflikt
;
Deutsche
;
Berlin
;
Germans / Germany / Ethnic identity
;
Palestinian Arabs / Germany / Ethnic identity
;
Israelis / Germany / Ethnic identity
;
Jewish-Arab relations
;
Arab-Israeli conflict
;
Guilt / Political aspects
;
Germany / Ethnic relations
;
Germany / Foreign relations / Israel
;
Israel / Foreign relations / Germany
;
Berlin
;
Palästinenser
;
Israeli
;
Nahostkonflikt
;
Deutsche
;
Politische Ethik
Abstract:
Introduction: The TRIANGLE -- Chapter 1. TRAUMA, HOLOCAUST, NAKBA -- Chapter 2. VICTIM and PERPETRATOR -- Chapter 3. GERMANY and ISRAEL/PALESTINE -- Chapter 4. GERMANY and MIGRATION -- Chapter 5. ELUSIVE DEMOGRAPHY -- Chapter 6.NEUE HEIMAT BERLIN? -- Chapter 7. MORAL RESPONSIBILITY -- Chapter 8. RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, ISLAMOPHOBIA -- Chapter 9. URBAN SPACES and VOICES -- Chapter 10. POINTS of INTERSECTION -- Chapter 11. BETWEEN GUILT and CENSORSHIP -- Conclusion: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE -- Postscript
Abstract:
How does Germany's legacy of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Holocaust guilt affect the experiences of Israelis and Palestinians living there today? Co-authored by Katharina Galor, who is Israeli-German, and Sa'ed Atshan, who is Palestinian-American, THE MORAL TRIANGLE is an ethnography of immigrant communities in Berlin that shows how migration, trauma, and contemporary state politics are inextricably linked. The authors demonstrate that Germany's steadfast support for the state of Israel challenges Palestinian immigrants, who view this as an abdication of the country's moral responsibility. At the same time, they show that Berlin offers spaces and opportunities for interfaith activism and queer solidarity among Israelis, Germans, and Palestinians, offering a vision of restorative justice that can account for and respond to historical trauma. The book is divided into eleven short chapters, each of which takes up another aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian-German relationship.
Abstract:
Atshan and Galor begin by drawing a comparison between the generational trauma resonating from the Holocaust and that from the Nakba, the word Palestinians use to refer to the loss of life and land that happened during the establishment of an Israeli state in 1948. Germans, Israelis, and Palestinians alike assume a narrative link between the Holocaust and the Israel/Palestine conflict - such that Holocaust commemoration programs in Germany, which disproportionately focus on Jewish victims of the Holocaust, are often linked to support for Zionism and the Israeli state. From the perspective of Palestinians in Berlin, this narrative complicates notions of victim and perpetrator, and raises questions about whether the German state has any moral responsibility towards Israel and its treatment of Palestinians.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
