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Silvia Steininger

@silviasteininger.bsky.social
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(international) law, social sciences & interdisciplinarity at @hertiecfr.bsky.social & @mpil.de. member of the board of @esil-sedi.bsky.social. #firstgen , 🐶, she/her. too loud & too excited about too many things.

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 30/06/2026
Gender equality is a value in Art. 2 TEU – but it is nearly absent in the CJEU’s Commission v Hungary. @silviasteininger.bsky.social & SEONA KIM apply a feminist re-reading to the Court's arguments and ask what a non-patriarchal European society would actually require. buff.ly/sn5U9qP @mpil.de
Quote: “An anti-patriarchal society is not anti-men but focuses on challenging interlocked systems of domination.”
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A great example of how concepts rarely - if ever - used in legal studies, like creolization & semiperiphery, can shed light on both legal & sociological, literary & historical aspects of #Europe and #Europeanness! Many thanks to @silviasteininger.bsky.social & @jennyos.bsky.social for the dialogue!
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European Law Open @europeanlawopen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Take a walk on the dark side of European society: @silviasteininger.bsky.social and @jennyos.bsky.social on who is (and who is not) recognised. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Decolonising European Society | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Decolonising European Society
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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It's much worse than this. The 'review' is pervaded by the most astonishing case of anti-Italianism I've ever seen on print, and it beggars belief how any journal could even remotely consider to publish it. It's so unhinged that it becomes hilarious at times, but only because we're not the targets
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Last class tomorrow of international law, wrapping up the course. Decided we should talk about the boat strikes because it combines many concepts throughout the semester. I love using current events to understand course material, but oof it's a lot sometimes (all the time?).
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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
When someone says I have to work more on and unpack my analysis
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Henning Lahmann @hlahmann.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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MPIL Heidelberg @mpil.de · 22/10/2025
And so many voices from #MPIL! MPIL director Armin von Bogdandy, Jannika Jahn, @goldmatt.bsky.social, @kemmereralex.bsky.social, @danaschmalz.bsky.social, @silviasteininger.bsky.social, Anna Sophia Tiedeke & Moritz Vinken! (6/6)
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MPIL Heidelberg @mpil.de · 22/10/2025
🇪🇺 Marking 75 years of the #EuropeanConvention on Human Rights, #MPIL co-hosted a symposium with the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, warmly welcomed by Minister Stefanie Hubig & Deputy State Secretary Johannes Dimroth, exploring transnat. perspectives and glob. interaction. (1/6)
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MPIL Heidelberg @mpil.de · 09/10/2025
Stuck on a train? Join our event on 75 years of the European Convention of Human Rights via livestream from anywhere! www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/V... #ECHR75 #HumanRights
Image of a laptop inside a train, showing a still of the livestream.
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Leiden Journal of International Law @ljil-leiden.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
In this latest issue, we are also excited to announce our new Legal Sightseeing section! More details can be found at: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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Renske Vos @renskevos.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
@silviasteininger.bsky.social launches the new standing Legal Sightseeing section at the @ljil-leiden.bsky.social with a snap from Berlin, a visual commentary on German memory culture in the heart of Empire. Are you legal sightseeing too? We welcome your visuals! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Wilhelmstraße 92, 10117 Berlin: German Memory Culture in the Heart of Empire | Leiden Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core
Wilhelmstraße 92, 10117 Berlin: German Memory Culture in the Heart of Empire - Volume 38 Issue 2
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🇮🇱🇪🇺⚖️🇵🇸 I am somewhat disappointed - but perhaps not surprised - that what one of the brightest minds in European public law can conjure in response to what is happening in Gaza amounts to a blog post that's simply an excerpt from the Bible with some bolded parts and one sentence from the author.
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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Tax the Poor! Together with my colleague Alan Desmond (University of Leicester), we highlight the international legal regulation of migrant remittances - and why the new Trump tax on remittances will have disastrous consequences in @ejiltalk.bsky.social www.ejiltalk.org/tax-the-poor...
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Tax the Poor! Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” and International Standards on Remittance Transaction Costs
Nearly one in seven people worldwide is either a sender or recipient of remittances, defined by IOM as “personal monetary transfers… made by migrants to individuals or communities with whom the migran...
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🇵🇱⚖️Adam Bodnar is out as the Polish Minister of Justice/Prosecutor General, why? First, being a good academic/human rights defender doesn't necessarily make you a good politician; second, you can't please everyone who wants to be pleased; third, timid people aren't suited for savage times. 1/
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Cornelia Woll @corneliawoll.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🖤 With Christian Joerges’ passing, we have lost an intellectual giant, who has left a deep mark on the Hertie School. Our thoughts go out to his family.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
25 nations demand end to war on Gaza; slam Israel killing aid seekers Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK


“We, the signatories listed below, come together with a simple, urgent message: the war in Gaza must end now.

The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity. We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food. It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law.

The hostages cruelly held captive by Hamas since 7 October 2023 continue to suffer terribly. We condemn their continued detention and call for their immediate and unconditional release. A negotiated ceasefire offers the best hope of bringing them home and ending the agony of their families.

We call on the Israeli government to immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid and to urgently enable the UN and humanitarian NGOs to do their life saving work safely and effectively.

We call on all parties to protect civilians and uphold the obligations of international humanitarian law. Proposals to remove the Palestinian population into a “humanitarian city” are completely unacceptable. Permanent forced displacement is a violation of international humanitarian law.

We strongly oppose any steps towards territorial or demographic change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The E1 settlement plan announced by Israel’s Civil Administration, if implemented, would divide a Palestinian state in two, marking a flagrant breach of international law and critically undermine the two-state solution. Meanwhile, settlement building across the West Bank including East Jerusalem has accelerated while settler violence against Palestinians has soared. This must stop.

We urge the parti…
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 15/07/2025
Die Menschenwürde spielt in der Debatte um Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf eine zentrale Rolle. Das ist kein Zufall, meint VICTOR LOXEN (@victorloxen.bsky.social) – denn das deutsche Verständnis der Menschenwürde als „Wert“ könne enthemmte Diskurse geradezu begünstigen. verfassungsblog.de/die-sache-mi...
Zitat: „Die Behandlung der Menschenwürde in spezifisch juristischen Kontexten, mitsamt deren methodischen und geltungstheoretischen Annahmen, lässt sich umstandslos in die polemische Gefechtszone universalistischer Moral hineintragen.“
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 21/06/2025
Wie fühlt es sich an, in der derzeitigen Lage Völkerrecht zu lehren? Für unser Editorial haben wir Dutzende deutsche Völkerrechtsprofessor*innen befragt. Ihre Antworten schwanken zwischen Hoffnung und Verzweiflung. verfassungsblog.de/zwischen-hof... Ein erster Einblick ⬇️
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
when tiktok said y2k is back i thought it meant frilly tops and low rise jeans not the west invading countries and pretending it’s all about WMDs
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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
„die implizite Billigung der Angriffe, lässt sich hingegen nur als grundlegendes Versagen deutscher Außenpolitik bezeichnen … In Fragen des Völkerrechts darf nicht mit zweierlei Maß gemessen werden.“ Mehrdad Payandeh must read im @verfassungsblog.de t.co/AiT11OgCTR
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Germany seemingly endorsing a broad preemptive self-defence, something Germany opposed explicitly in the days of George W Bush. Is this cleared with your legal adviser?
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 13/06/2025
The Fall and Rise of German Arms Exports to Israel: Questions for the International Court of Justice By Professor @adhaque.bsky.social #Germany #Israel #GazaWar #ICJ
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German Arms Exports to Israel and the ICJ
International law scholar discusses discrepancy between Germany’s recent disclosure of military support to Israel and what Germany told the International Court of Justice about its practices.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it does not breach the ECHR if EU Member States tax cross-border transactions within the EU (on the basis of EU law) more favourably than comparable domestic transactions. Analysis by Dr Samira Allioui: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/firs...
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First decision by the European Court of Human Rights on suspicion of reverse discrimination in tax matters
Dr Samira-Asmaa Allioui , Research fellow, Centre d'études internationales et européennes, Université de Strasbourg Photo credit  : ...
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Centre for Fundamental Rights - Hertie School @hertiecfr.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿, 𝗶𝗳 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿?" @silviasteininger.bsky.social unpacks in a timely post @verfassungsblog.de, how nine member states are challenging the ECtHR's migration and asylum standards. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2s3yppj9
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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I am trying to put some academia things now also on Linkedin in case you want to follow. Today it is on the research publication planner, in my experience a severely overlooked element for ECRs and PhD candidates. In case you want to learn more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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research-publications-planner.pdf | Silvia Steininger
As I am preparing for my next mentorship session, let me introduce you to 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗿 - in my experience a severely overlooked element of the PhD process 📚 You should not just "publi...
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Have finished quick reading of 30k AG Ćapeta Opinion. Lots to unpack. Something which struck me was repeated use of "negation of" values (about 16 times) and "deviation from" (6 times) values / model of a constitutional democracy / model of good society. Use of "red lines" (6 times) also striking.
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Dana Schmalz @danaschmalz.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Some thoughts on the case Lithuania vs Belarus before the ICJ and how it will not solve the problem of migrant "instrumentalization": verfassungsblog.de/migrant-inst... @verfassungsblog.de With many thanks to @anjabossow.bsky.social for her incisive comments and edits.
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Migrant 'instrumentalisation' before the ICJ
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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
one research workshop (the first one on remittance regulation!), one five pound second hand find, one project sneak peek 🩵
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Klaas Müller @klaasmueller.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Paradox auch die affirmative Bezugnahme auf eine "rule-based international order" bei gleichzeitiger Absage an zentrale Prinzipien wie non-refoulement: Was denn nun? Lesenswerte Einordnung von Silvia Steininger👇
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/06/2025
‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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Selma Dabbagh | In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible
‘Can you believe this has been going on for six hundred days?’ one of my fellow panellists asked the audience at...
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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Thanks @silviasteininger.bsky.social for this post which uphelds the universalist idea of human rights against recent attacks against the ECtHR
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Maciej Grześkowiak @mgrzeskowiak.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“What are human rights for, if not to protect the rights of foreign criminals?” A highly recommended read by @silviasteininger.bsky.social.
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 02/06/2025
Nine member states have launched a direct attack on the ECtHR and its migration and asylum standards. SILVA STEININGER (@silviasteininger.bsky.social‬) asks: What are human rights for, if not to protect the rights of foreign criminals? verfassungsblog.de/letter-human...
Zitatkachel der Autorin Silvia Steininger mit dem Inhalt: "From the publication of the letter [...] to its populist tone and lack of legal clarity, it is apparent that the letter is not sufficient to account for an actual attempt at institutional reform (so far)."
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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Many thanks to @verfassungsblog.de for asking me to comment on the Danish-Italian public letter to the ECtHR. 1. I argue that this is neither new nor unprecedented but 2. it is deeply troubling as it aims to strip away human rights protections from migrants ➡️ verfassungsblog.de/letter-human...
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What Are Human Rights For?
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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
+++Eil+++ Jetzt gibt es eine Entscheidung zu den Zurückweisungen, die die Bundesregierung seit Mai durchführen lässt. Das VG Berlin hat in mehreren Fällen heute die Maßnahmen als europarechtswidrig beurteilt. Auch Berufung auf Art. 72 AEUV wurde verworfen. www.berlin.de/gerichte/ver...
Pressemitteilung vom 02.06.2025

Personen, die bei Grenzkontrollen auf deutschem Staatsgebiet ein Asylgesuch äußern, dürfen nicht ohne Durchführung des Dublin-Verfahrens zur Bestimmung des zuständigen Mitgliedstaates für die Prüfung des Asylantrags zurückgewiesen werden. Das hat das Verwaltungsgericht in mehreren Eilverfahren entschieden.

Die drei somalischen Antragsteller, zwei Männer und eine Frau, gelangten mit dem Zug aus Polen kommend ins Bundesgebiet. Am 9. Mai 2025 wurden sie am Bahnhof Frankfurt (Oder) durch die Bundespolizei kontrolliert und nach Äußerung eines Asylgesuchs noch an demselben Tag nach Polen zurückgewiesen. Die Zurückweisung wurde seitens der Bundespolizei mit der Einreise aus einem sicheren Drittstaat begründet. Hiergegen wandten sich die Antragsteller, die sich derzeit in Polen aufhalten, mit Eilanträgen.
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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Today, I was invited back to the university of the state police in brandenburg to spend a morning teaching human rights, in particular the implementation of ECHR judgments from the perspective of civil society, to young police officers - always a very rewarding experience!
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🔥 ⚖️ #ClimateLitigation history happening right now at Higher Court of Hamm🇩🇪: follow with us this precedent-setting ruling in #SaulvsRWE. 🗣️ Today's decision cld be a turning point in efforts to make polluters pay for climate harms. 🧵 thread with context, insights from the Court & legal arguments👇
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Patrick Bahners @pbahners.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
„Herr Professor, vor wenigen Tagen war der Judenhass noch unter Kontrolle…“
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Michaela Hailbronner @mhailbronner.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Some might say "too little, too late and too slow" describes the German position on Gaza rather well: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Israel-Gaza war live: aid coming into Gaza is too little, too late, Germany says
On Thursday, 107 aid trucks entered territory according to Israeli military, compared with 500 trucks a day before war
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 18/05/2025
🇷🇴 Bucharest: Supporters of Nicușor Dan are gathering and celebrating in the city center as he looks set to win Romania’s presidential election. Vote counting is still underway, but the momentum is clearly on his side.
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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
the mayor of warsaw and the mayor of bucharest, all in one day? 🤗
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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Vielen Dank an @amnesty.de für die Einladung nach Göttingen. Nach der Vorstellung des Amnesty Reports von der grossartigen Katja Müller-Fahlbusch, durfte ich zu rechtlichen und politischen Fragen von Genozidklagen vor internationalen & nationalen Gerichten berichten.
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
So weit sind wir schon: Holocaust-Überlebende abschieben.....😱 Man soll sich nichts vormachen. Wenn die Geschichte eines lehrt: Die völkischen Geister, die - nicht nur die AfD - rief, wird man nicht mehr los....Sie zerfressen dieses Land, erneut. taz.de/Unsicherer-A...
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Unsicherer Aufenthaltsstatus: In Berlin nicht willkommen?
Das Landesamt für Einwanderung droht einer Holocaust-Überlebenden die Abschiebung an. Ihre Tochter ist entsetzt. Die Politik kritisiert die Behörde.
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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I might have been a #firstgen student, but I am definitely not the last graduate - happy bachelor thesis submission day to my mom! 🎓🥹💗
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Nicole Gohlke, MdB @nicolegohlke.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Antisemitismus ist ein reales und wachsendes Problem in Deutschland und weltweit. Gleichzeitig wird immer öfter versucht, Kritik an der israelischen Regierung als antisemitisch zu diffamieren.
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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Es gibt viele Diskussionen innerhalb der Linken (#dieLinke) zur #Antisemitismus-Definition, die meisten Argumente sind bekannt, die Aktualität angesichts des zunehmenden Autoritarismus der auch die Definition instrumentalisiert aber entscheidend - man kann sich schlecht wegducken.
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Anna Katharina Mangold @feministconlaw.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Re #Antisemitismus-Definitionen bei Die Linke: 1. Streit um Definitionen wird das Problem des Umgangs mit dem völkerrechtswidrigen Handeln der israelischen Regierung nicht lösen. 2. Warum unter allen Definitionen die Jerusalem Declaration noch die beste ist: verfassungsblog.de/antisemitism...
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Wer darf jüdische Identität in Deutschland definieren?
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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Join us in Berlin in September! As part of the Organizing Committee, I am so very proud of this programme and so grateful to everyone who contributes to those discussions (including separate IG programmes): www.esil2025.de/_files/ugd/b...
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