Michael Rothberg


10 April 2025

Universal Values

On 1 April, the memorial site at the former Buchenwald concentration camp announced that the Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm would no longer be speaking at the eightieth anniversary commemoration of the camp’s liberation. Boehm was disinvited because of pressure from the Israeli embassy. How did the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor become the object of such a campaign by the Israeli government?

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