In the organizer's words:

Adam Kirsch describes the wondrous career of a term that has made its way from Settler Colonial Studies, an offspring of Postcolonial Studies, into political journalism. It was coined in Australia and North America: "settlers" there are also descendants of immigrants in the umpteenth generation. However, this radically progressive idea has little to do with progressive thinking, but all the more with German Romanticism and English Puritanism, as Kirsch shows. The intention to make amends for historical injustice leads to the intention to legitimize new injustice in the present. While the talk of "settler colonialism" is still plausible in America, it is absurd in relation to Palestine. Jews and Arabs alike can claim the already questionable claim to indigeneity. But there is a simple reason why the accusation is made all the louder against Israel: unlike the USA, there is a realistic prospect of wiping Israel off the map and undoing history.

Book launch with the translator Christoph Hesse and the author of the epilogue Tim Stosberg

Gallery k' (Alexanderstr. 9b) // 7 pm

An event organized by the Bündnis gegen Antisemitismus Bremen and the Gesellschaft für kritische Bildung e.V.