{"id":303251,"date":"2025-10-06T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=303251"},"modified":"2025-09-16T05:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:13:38","slug":"how-germanys-fight-against-anti-semitism-is-empowering-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/10\/how-germanys-fight-against-anti-semitism-is-empowering-the-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"How Germany\u2019s Fight against Anti-Semitism Is Empowering the Far Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11 Sep 2025 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><em>Featured Documentary<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Prominent Jewish Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, Germany, to investigate how the country\u2019s impulse never to repeat the horrendous antisemitism that led to the Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in Gaza. With critics of Israel being sacked, cancelled, silenced, arrested and banned from Germany, one Jewish philosopher has called this a \u201cMcCarthyism\u201d for the 21st century. We\u2019ll see how in today&#8217;s Germany, a nation that killed most of his family but granted him citizenship in 2011, Loewenstein is told, as a Jew, what is acceptable to say about Israel. To find out why the German authorities are so committed to stifling any criticism of Israeli actions and what it means for democracy and human rights in the country, he will meet those being arrested and suffering job losses for criticizing Israel, the people enforcing these laws and those on the far right claiming to support Israel. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Germany\u2019s fight against anti-Semitism is empowering the far right | Featured Documentary\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DfK10unkiGw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>Antony Loewenstein is a Jerusalem based independent Australian journalist, documentarian and blogger who has written for<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> The BBC, The Nation, Huffington Post <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>and<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> Haaretz, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>amongst many others. He is the author of three bestselling books,<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>and<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>co-writer of<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> For God&#8217;s Sake <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>and co-editor of<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> Left Turn <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>and<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>His latest book is<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>He&#8217;s working on a film about disaster capitalism.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>JOIN THE BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS CAMPAIGN TO PROTEST THE ISRAELI BARBARIC GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>DON&#8217;T BUY PRODUCTS WHOSE BARCODE STARTS WITH <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>729, WHICH INDICATES THAT THEY ARE PRODUCED IN ISRAEL. DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR HUMAN JUSTICE!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 Sep 2025 &#8211; Jewish Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, Germany, to investigate how the country\u2019s impulse never to repeat the antisemitism that led to the Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[1668,711,87,865,739,1988,88,2552,427],"class_list":["post-303251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-antisemitism","tag-documentary","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-germany","tag-holocaust","tag-israel","tag-jews","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303253,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303251\/revisions\/303253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}