Earlier this week - after 25 years - I resigned from the WZB Berlin following absurd, unscholarly allegations of support for a ‘terrorist organisation’ and suggestions of my criminal liability. Here’s the original public ultimatum by the WZB’s Praesidentin Jutta Allmendinger, followed by my open letter reply on the subjects of guilt, terrorism, Israel and scholarship, and links to the Farsi translation and other materials…
Bravo. I wish more people had defended such intellectual integrity when it was previously threatened in 2022 by the 'cancel Russia' campaign in universities and other cultural institutions.
Thank you for writing so clearly about what it means to be a scholar and taking a stand.
Bravo. I wish more people had defended such intellectual integrity when it was previously threatened in 2022 by the 'cancel Russia' campaign in universities and other cultural institutions.