Buchvorstellung "Israel: Hamas – Gaza – Palästina"

In the organizer's words:

Political scientist Wolfgang Kraushaar presents his new book "Israel: Hamas - Gaza - Palestine. Über einen scheinbar unlösbaren Konflikt" at the ZeitZentrum Zivilcourage in cooperation with the Deutsch-Isrealische Gesellschaft e.V. Hannover.

When Hamas murdered over 1,100 Israelis on October 7, 2023, it seemed as if the eliminatory anti-Semitism perpetrated by the Nazis had returned in one fell swoop. Israel's attempt to eliminate the aggressor and free the more than 250 hostages led to a propaganda war of images, including on social media, and subsequently to a worldwide flare-up of anti-Semitism. This has led to debates characterized by a considerable confusion of terms. The fact that the victims among the Palestinians are the result of Hamas hiding behind its own target population and not even taking women and children into consideration is being overlooked. Wolfgang Kraushaar classifies the different discourses, separates the anti-Semitic stereotypes from valid arguments and highlights the indispensable minimum civilizational demands, not without specifying how to deal with the problematic and borderline cases.

Wolfgang Kraushaar worked as a political scientist at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research until 2015 and has since been researching protest movements, the RAF and international terrorism at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture.