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Michael Rothberg
@mrothberg.bsky.social
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Memory, politics, critical theory, literature & sushi. At home in Berlin & Los Angeles. Author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 1h
Tomorrow at UW-Madison!
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 12h
This sounds great. Have you published anything along these lines? I'm working on the comparison/exception relation--although in a quite different context (the Holocaust).
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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 7d
My primer on German cultural politics in the October issue of @thenation.com brings together stories first reported separately, but need to be understood in concert. It’s the companion piece to my text on the US art world. “Fascism repeats itself: first as antisemitism, then as anti-antisemitism.”
How Germany Silenced Its Artists to Support Israel
As Israel intensified its genocide in Gaza, Germany ramped up its long-simmering war on dissent, silencing Palestine solidarity while bolstering its own far right.
www.thenation.com
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6d
Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews.

Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 8d
This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.
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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 8d
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 8d
30% drop year over year!
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 15d
Impunity
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James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social · 15d
An Israeli man who allegedly swung a pipe at members of a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA will avoid jail time under a court ruling issued Monday. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Israeli man avoids jail time for swinging pipe at pro-Palestinian UCLA protesters
Edan On, who was caught on camera swinging a pipe at occupants of a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA last year, was granted diversion by an L.A. County judge on Monday.
www.latimes.com
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 19d
“All opposing forces seem as though vanished from the face of the earth. It is this utter collapse of powers only recently present, no, their complete disappearance … that I find so staggering.”
Victor Klemperer, 1933
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 19d
Or, as The Onion puts it:
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...
theonion.com
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 19d
Pleased to be part of this important collection with my essay "Lived Multidirectionality"--first in German and now back in its "native" English...
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 19d
🥂It is always a particular pleasure to send off the proofs for a book. Now the English translation of "Erinnerungskämpe" is ready! It was particular difficult because events sind the German edition (4 weeks before Oct 7th 2023) made a whole new preface necessary.
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 20d
Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf
drive.google.com
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Academics for Peace @academicsforpeace.bsky.social · 19d
Why do so many Jews resist naming Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide? Prof. Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay (Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia) breaks down the deep psychological and communal fears that make this truth so difficult to face.
youtube.com/shorts/clAkF...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 20d
We ask UC Berkeley to withstand political pressure & act in solidarity with other universities to defend their independence, to uphold the right of students & faculty to engage in legitimate protest & critical inquiry, & to protect them from intimidation, harassment & attacks.

tinyurl.com/ycxncf5y
ICCTP Statement on UC Berkeley’s Compliance with Antisemitism Investigation by Trump Administration - International Consortium of Critical Theory
As the Board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, we express our profound concern over and principled objection to the decision of UC Berkeley to hand over a list of 160 facult...
criticaltheoryconsortium.org
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International Association of Genocide Scholars @genocidescholars.bsky.social · 20d
Grateful for this show of solidarity by our academic colleagues at GHSCN.
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 20d
Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf
drive.google.com
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 20d
Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf
drive.google.com
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 22d
What in God's name does access to "all UCLA staff, employees, facilities, documents, and data related to the agreement" mean?
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 22d
These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.
3:164 • Make five years of payments — $200 million annually - and set up a $172 million fund for people with claims of civil rights violations. • Ensure foreign students who are "anti-Western" will not be admitted. • Pay for all costs of the settlement, including the fee for an outside monitor. • Annually release demographic data for hires as well as students who have applied or have been admitted, broken down by "race, color, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests." • Make a public statement declaring that transgender people's identities are no longer recognized. • End gender-affirming care for minors at medical facilities. • Give the government access to "all UCLA staff, employees, facilities, documents, and data related to the agreement" not protected by attorney-client privilege.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 22d
These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.
3:164 • Make five years of payments — $200 million annually - and set up a $172 million fund for people with claims of civil rights violations. • Ensure foreign students who are "anti-Western" will not be admitted. • Pay for all costs of the settlement, including the fee for an outside monitor. • Annually release demographic data for hires as well as students who have applied or have been admitted, broken down by "race, color, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests." • Make a public statement declaring that transgender people's identities are no longer recognized. • End gender-affirming care for minors at medical facilities. • Give the government access to "all UCLA staff, employees, facilities, documents, and data related to the agreement" not protected by attorney-client privilege.
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Sep 5
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Sep 5
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Sep 5
My terrific (former) student, Jennifer Noji, provides a concise explanation of why memory matters.

Now she's putting that into practice in her job at Densho: densho.org
‘What happens in the present influences how we remember the past’ - UCLA Humanities
In a UCLA College podcast, newly minted Ph.D. Jennifer Noji describes the impact of her memory studies research.
humanities.ucla.edu
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Sep 5
What Robin Kelley said: www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
www.bostonreview.net
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · Sep 4
The Palestine Book Forum in the new issue of Postmodern Culture, edited by Rashmi Varma, is now freely available, with short pieces on Ghassan Kanafani, Adania Shibli, Saree Makdisi, Haidar Eid and more.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Aug 25
A pretty marginal outfit in this case, though
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Aug 25
This is anti-Deutsch craziness. A surprisingly influential German tendency...
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Aug 23
This line: “the remembrance of colonialism is treated as a dangerous gateway, for it might—among other things—open the door to a critique of Israel, and must therefore be shut down before it is fully grasped.”
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Aug 23
The usual incisive clarity from @hahauenstein.bsky.social on German memory politics.
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · Aug 23
Germany enshrines Wiedergutmachung as proof of moral reckoning after the Holocaust, yet denies it for its colonial crimes. What this reveals about a politics of memory built on evasion. Read the full piece on my Substack.
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/the-limits...
Wiedergutmachung™: Germany's Politics of Amnesia
Germany enshrines Wiedergutmachung as proof of moral reckoning after the Holocaust, yet denies it for its colonial crimes. What this hypocrisy reveals about a politics of memory built on evasion.
hannohauenstein.substack.com
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