In early June, my colleague Mahmud and I were invited by a professor from the German University of Heidelberg to speak to her class on the manufacturing of consent for genocide, in German media and its repression of the Palestinian perspective. However, after an organised smear campaign first by pro-Israel groups, subsequently picked up by the German media, the University cancelled the event.
On October 7 I made a video — which I later deleted after concerns it would be taken out of context — that attempted to contextualise the attack on Israel. It was an attempt to explain that such violence does not occur in a vacuum but as a result of decades of brutal Israeli violence, occupation and apartheid. The video, uncovered by Vice President of the Jewish Student Union, Noam Petri, was posted on Twitter in an attempt to scandalise the event. ….more
