Anne Rethmann
@arethmann.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Theory and History of Human Rights, Political and Legal Theory
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Anne Rethmann
@arethmann.bsky.social
· Jun 10
The "Statement Against the #Boycott of Israeli Academics" now has a dedicated website. It includes relevant media related to the Statement and the problem of boycotting Israeli academics. Feel free to share it.
bit.ly/AgainstAcade...
bit.ly/AgainstAcade...
It is almost painful to read Peter Beinart's public statement on X in which he apologizes for having given a talk at Tel Aviv University. The degree to which one can submit oneself to humiliation—what a friend aptly described as a Stalinist-style exercise in self-criticism (1/3)
BDS activists blast Jewish Israel critic Peter Beinart for speaking at Tel Aviv University https://www.timesofisrael.com/bds-activists-blast-jewish-israel-critic-peter-beinart-for-speaking-at-tel-aviv-university/
BDS activists blast Jewish Israel critic Peter Beinart for speaking at Tel Aviv University
Boycotters claim Beinart, a fellow BDS supporter who opposes Jewish statehood, is 'whitewashing genocide' as right-wing activist calls on TAU to cancel event
www.timesofisrael.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 AM
It is almost painful to read Peter Beinart's public statement on X in which he apologizes for having given a talk at Tel Aviv University. The degree to which one can submit oneself to humiliation—what a friend aptly described as a Stalinist-style exercise in self-criticism (1/3)
All the luck to them!
"In Jerusalem, there are people whose pub is their synagogue. They are familiar with it, they have been drinking there for 15 years."
www.haaretz.com/life/2025-10...
"In Jerusalem, there are people whose pub is their synagogue. They are familiar with it, they have been drinking there for 15 years."
www.haaretz.com/life/2025-10...
Saving Jerusalem nightlife: 'For some people, their pub is like their synagogue'
With Three Iconic Bars Set to Close, Jerusalemites Are Launching a Community Campaign to Buy and Run Them as a Shared Enterprise
www.haaretz.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
All the luck to them!
"In Jerusalem, there are people whose pub is their synagogue. They are familiar with it, they have been drinking there for 15 years."
www.haaretz.com/life/2025-10...
"In Jerusalem, there are people whose pub is their synagogue. They are familiar with it, they have been drinking there for 15 years."
www.haaretz.com/life/2025-10...
Impressive collection of Israeliana at Harvard. But there is also truth in how the article ends: "'In the present atmosphere, the thought that material like this is also in the hands of a foreign university, which completely controls its exposure and use, is somewhat disturbing.'"
t.ly/HrFnW
t.ly/HrFnW
At a secret Harvard site, a massive archive of Israeliana is kept – in case Israel falls
The Entirety of Israeli Culture Is Stored and Catalogued in Vast Halls at Harvard University
www.haaretz.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Impressive collection of Israeliana at Harvard. But there is also truth in how the article ends: "'In the present atmosphere, the thought that material like this is also in the hands of a foreign university, which completely controls its exposure and use, is somewhat disturbing.'"
t.ly/HrFnW
t.ly/HrFnW
Sometimes all it takes is one person who refuses to join a boycott. Yesterday, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting posted part of a November 14, 1997 interview with Ruby Bridges, in which she recalled how white parents boycotted the school when she became the first Black child (1/2)
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Sometimes all it takes is one person who refuses to join a boycott. Yesterday, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting posted part of a November 14, 1997 interview with Ruby Bridges, in which she recalled how white parents boycotted the school when she became the first Black child (1/2)
This is good news: The Max Planck Center for Democracy, Security and Human Rights is being established at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem — joining the network of only 19 such Centers worldwide.
@maxplanck.de
@maxplanck.de
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is good news: The Max Planck Center for Democracy, Security and Human Rights is being established at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem — joining the network of only 19 such Centers worldwide.
@maxplanck.de
@maxplanck.de
“Did you stop to ask yourselves what change your decision has truly achieved?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
Israeli Academics Find Themselves Isolated Despite Gaza Cease-Fire
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“Did you stop to ask yourselves what change your decision has truly achieved?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
In his talk, Dan Diner exemplified much needed restraint—avoiding hasty analogies—through Camus’ unfinished Der erste Mensch. He saw it as a masterly reflection on the tension between moral universalism and particular belonging. A novel that teaches without prophesying.
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
In his talk, Dan Diner exemplified much needed restraint—avoiding hasty analogies—through Camus’ unfinished Der erste Mensch. He saw it as a masterly reflection on the tension between moral universalism and particular belonging. A novel that teaches without prophesying.
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Breaking the rule of law in the name of the rule of law.
Recommend this Haaretz podcast with Eran Shamir-Borer — for over 20 years in the IDF’s International Law Dept, now heads the Center for National Security and Democracy at the Israel Democracy Institute.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Recommend this Haaretz podcast with Eran Shamir-Borer — for over 20 years in the IDF’s International Law Dept, now heads the Center for National Security and Democracy at the Israel Democracy Institute.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
A leak, a cover-up and a battle for Israel's rule of law: the Sde Teiman Affair explained
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www.haaretz.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Breaking the rule of law in the name of the rule of law.
Recommend this Haaretz podcast with Eran Shamir-Borer — for over 20 years in the IDF’s International Law Dept, now heads the Center for National Security and Democracy at the Israel Democracy Institute.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Recommend this Haaretz podcast with Eran Shamir-Borer — for over 20 years in the IDF’s International Law Dept, now heads the Center for National Security and Democracy at the Israel Democracy Institute.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
In Haaretz, Steven Levitsky notes that while authoritarian shifts are unfolding in Israel, the situation remains reversible — in fact, more encouraging than in the U.S., where democracy eroded faster and pushback has been weak. Even in wartime, Israel can rely on a strong civil society.
t.ly/JmKoX
t.ly/JmKoX
'Israel has crossed into authoritarianism,' says leading expert on decline of democracy
Political Scientist Steven Levitsky, One of the World's Foremost Experts on the Disintegration of Democracies, Is Deeply Troubled by the Events Unfolding in Israel. Still, He Believes the Situation Is...
t.ly
November 4, 2025 at 5:56 AM
In Haaretz, Steven Levitsky notes that while authoritarian shifts are unfolding in Israel, the situation remains reversible — in fact, more encouraging than in the U.S., where democracy eroded faster and pushback has been weak. Even in wartime, Israel can rely on a strong civil society.
t.ly/JmKoX
t.ly/JmKoX
Reposted by Anne Rethmann
„Niemand ist so am Frieden interessiert wie die #Ukraine“
„Im Gespräch” mit dem Historiker Karl Schlögel, der Meister der Vororterkundung
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/archaeologe-...
„Im Gespräch” mit dem Historiker Karl Schlögel, der Meister der Vororterkundung
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/archaeologe-...
October 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
„Niemand ist so am Frieden interessiert wie die #Ukraine“
„Im Gespräch” mit dem Historiker Karl Schlögel, der Meister der Vororterkundung
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/archaeologe-...
„Im Gespräch” mit dem Historiker Karl Schlögel, der Meister der Vororterkundung
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/archaeologe-...
An interesting read while stuck in traffic.
"But there are also countries in regression, like the United States, where Trump has dismantled many systems. And there's Israel."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"But there are also countries in regression, like the United States, where Trump has dismantled many systems. And there's Israel."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
From Charlie Kirk rumors to AI-based scams: How Israel became anti-fake news powerhouse
The Gaza War, the Collapse of Israel's PR and a Plague of Disinformation Have Bred a New Crop of Companies Monitoring and Neutralizing Online Campaigns
www.haaretz.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:25 AM
An interesting read while stuck in traffic.
"But there are also countries in regression, like the United States, where Trump has dismantled many systems. And there's Israel."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"But there are also countries in regression, like the United States, where Trump has dismantled many systems. And there's Israel."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
While Trump this week portrayed Hamas at one moment as some kind of security force—and the usual groups were quick to highlight Israel's alleged breaches of agreements without mentioning Hamas's failure to honor its own—I came across grassroots street installations in Jerusalem this morning (1/2)
October 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
While Trump this week portrayed Hamas at one moment as some kind of security force—and the usual groups were quick to highlight Israel's alleged breaches of agreements without mentioning Hamas's failure to honor its own—I came across grassroots street installations in Jerusalem this morning (1/2)
Over the last two years, while listening to comments — mainly from people in the academia and art world, and most recently at some GSA panels in Arlington — I began to wonder whether a new spectre is haunting Europe, this time bearing the name "antideutsch." (1/3)
October 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Over the last two years, while listening to comments — mainly from people in the academia and art world, and most recently at some GSA panels in Arlington — I began to wonder whether a new spectre is haunting Europe, this time bearing the name "antideutsch." (1/3)
Leaving this cute city of Madison.
Big thanks again to Chad Goldberg for inviting me to the seminar “Politics, Culture, and Society”.
I am also very grateful to the institutions that supported the event, and to everyone who attended and asked such thoughtful questions.
Big thanks again to Chad Goldberg for inviting me to the seminar “Politics, Culture, and Society”.
I am also very grateful to the institutions that supported the event, and to everyone who attended and asked such thoughtful questions.
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Leaving this cute city of Madison.
Big thanks again to Chad Goldberg for inviting me to the seminar “Politics, Culture, and Society”.
I am also very grateful to the institutions that supported the event, and to everyone who attended and asked such thoughtful questions.
Big thanks again to Chad Goldberg for inviting me to the seminar “Politics, Culture, and Society”.
I am also very grateful to the institutions that supported the event, and to everyone who attended and asked such thoughtful questions.
I wonder what it says about professors who, from their still safe havens in Europe and Canada, respond to their American colleagues only by calling for their institutions to be boycotted now. For me, solidarity looks different–not only because (1/2)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I wonder what it says about professors who, from their still safe havens in Europe and Canada, respond to their American colleagues only by calling for their institutions to be boycotted now. For me, solidarity looks different–not only because (1/2)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Reposted by Anne Rethmann
Whilst the BUF did not become a mass political party, their existence demonstrates the popularity of fascism across Europe at the time.
Our online exhibition explores the individuals and organisations that have fought back against antisemitism in France, Britain and Germany buff.ly/iBFECQJ
Our online exhibition explores the individuals and organisations that have fought back against antisemitism in France, Britain and Germany buff.ly/iBFECQJ
Exhibition - Fighting antisemitism from Dreyfus to today
The struggle against antisemitism since the late nineteenth century
exhibitions.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Whilst the BUF did not become a mass political party, their existence demonstrates the popularity of fascism across Europe at the time.
Our online exhibition explores the individuals and organisations that have fought back against antisemitism in France, Britain and Germany buff.ly/iBFECQJ
Our online exhibition explores the individuals and organisations that have fought back against antisemitism in France, Britain and Germany buff.ly/iBFECQJ
As the saying goes, all good things come in threes—my third comment on the boycott topic today, this time from Germany. This appears to be another attempt to explain calls to boycott Israeli colleagues. Good luck in their efforts to foster constructive dialogue with supporters of the BDS movement.
October 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
As the saying goes, all good things come in threes—my third comment on the boycott topic today, this time from Germany. This appears to be another attempt to explain calls to boycott Israeli colleagues. Good luck in their efforts to foster constructive dialogue with supporters of the BDS movement.
Just following up on my boycott comment from this morning — in this case, a boycott would have made total sense.
October 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just following up on my boycott comment from this morning — in this case, a boycott would have made total sense.
When boycott calls have made sense.
October 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
When boycott calls have made sense.
These are indeed very important voices from Gaza. I hope they will be heard and taken seriously.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
‘Enough Is Enough’: Many Palestinians Say Hamas Must Accept Cease-Fire Plan
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
These are indeed very important voices from Gaza. I hope they will be heard and taken seriously.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
October 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Sunflowers — a bit dry and tired — but still facing the Russian embassy in DC.
October 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Sunflowers — a bit dry and tired — but still facing the Russian embassy in DC.
Many thanks to Jonathan Skolnik for inviting me to his undergraduate seminar "Representing the Holocaust" at
@umasspress.bsky.social. My first time speaking to 70 students – on the Eichmann Trial, Arendt, and Sivan's tendentious documentary. Very grateful for the students' thoughtful questions.
@umasspress.bsky.social. My first time speaking to 70 students – on the Eichmann Trial, Arendt, and Sivan's tendentious documentary. Very grateful for the students' thoughtful questions.
October 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Many thanks to Jonathan Skolnik for inviting me to his undergraduate seminar "Representing the Holocaust" at
@umasspress.bsky.social. My first time speaking to 70 students – on the Eichmann Trial, Arendt, and Sivan's tendentious documentary. Very grateful for the students' thoughtful questions.
@umasspress.bsky.social. My first time speaking to 70 students – on the Eichmann Trial, Arendt, and Sivan's tendentious documentary. Very grateful for the students' thoughtful questions.
Today marks my last day at the @robinsoninst.bsky.social, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I am deeply grateful for almost three years in this academic home.
A few more words in the screenshot.
A few more words in the screenshot.
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Today marks my last day at the @robinsoninst.bsky.social, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I am deeply grateful for almost three years in this academic home.
A few more words in the screenshot.
A few more words in the screenshot.
Not exactly looking forward to the long flight… but I am really looking forward to seeing some of you again soon in DC/Arlington.
And I'm truly grateful to the Jacob Robinson Institute, Hebrew University for making my participation possible.
#thegsa2025
And I'm truly grateful to the Jacob Robinson Institute, Hebrew University for making my participation possible.
#thegsa2025
We’re proud to announce that @arethmann.bsky.social, our Visiting Postdoc, will present at #TheGSA2025. Her talk on Hannah Arendt and the Auschwitz Trials reconsiders the “banality of evil,” the controversies it sparked, and its continued relevance for questions of responsibility and jurisdiction.
September 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Not exactly looking forward to the long flight… but I am really looking forward to seeing some of you again soon in DC/Arlington.
And I'm truly grateful to the Jacob Robinson Institute, Hebrew University for making my participation possible.
#thegsa2025
And I'm truly grateful to the Jacob Robinson Institute, Hebrew University for making my participation possible.
#thegsa2025