In Germany, universities are leading the charge against Palestine solidarity – Conservatism and historical guilt are shrinking the space for Palestine activism in Germany — and campuses are among the fiercest battlegrounds of all. | +972 Magazine
In 2017, Eleonora Roldán Mendívil, an academic teaching at the Free University of Berlin, suddenly found herself unemployed, after she commented on a blogpost that Israel was “a colonial project” and an “apartheid state.” Pro-Israel groups in Germany targeted Roldán Mendívil, labeling her an antisemite. The university launched an investigation into her comments, headed by Wolfgang Benz, a nationally-recognized researcher on antisemitism. Benz’s report exonerated her from all accusations of antisemitism, but the university refused to publish the findings, according to Roldán Mendívil (the university did not respond to a request for comment). Instead, they wanted her to accept a non-disclosure agreement to forbid her from talking about the report publicly. Roldán Mendívil refused.
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