On Curating Carnage
By draping the tattered banner of feminism and anti-racism over state machinery, a Berlin publication parrots liberal talking points that demonize the Palestinian cause.
One day, it will have to be told how the Antideutsch movement — ostensibly born as an anti-fascist rejection of German nationalism in the late 1980s — became an engine of Islamophobia and genocide denial, and t...
This piece presents a sophisticated critique of the ideological scaffolding underpinning much of the contemporary discussion around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, deploying a classic ‘steelman’ argument to expose the underlying assumptions driving the publication’s framing. The core pattern here is ARC-0043 Motte-and-Bailey: the publication attempts to defend a specific position by first presenting the strongest, most plausible version of that position—the liberal defense of nuanced understan...