In a blow to freedom of thought, main German analysis establishment, the Max Planck Society, on Thursday introduced that they’ve “parted ways” with distinguished Lebanese Australian scientist Ghassan Hage for his ideas on the Palestine-Israel battle following a German media character assassination marketing campaign waged towards him.
Hage made pro-Palestinian feedback and made criticisms of the civilian carnage Israel is inflicting on Gaza, killing at the least 27,840 Palestinians, largely ladies and kids, thus far and inflicting the accidents of 67,317 others.
“Many of the views recently disseminated by Ghassan Hage via social media are incompatible with the fundamental values of the Max Planck Society. The Max Planck Society has therefore parted ways with him in agreement with the Institute,” the society stated in a press release.
The Lebanese Australian scientist, who’s well-known and revered within the specialist group, has been a vocal critic of Israel’s army assault on Gaza, and its remedy of Palestinians.
Ghassan Hage vehemently rejected the accusations of anti-Semitism, following numerous experiences revealed within the native media.
“Some have asked why I don’t engage with the journalists who wrote the article about me being an antisemite. it is an article full of half-truths, outright lies and slimy innuendo. I would never dignify such people with a response: they are not intellectuals. they are ideological assassins,” Hage wrote in a press release on X on Thursday.
He added: “They don’t write to seek truth. they write to engage in character assassination. they can go and have ‘conversations’ with people of their own type.”
According to Hage, he may have lived with the wording of incompatibility within the institute’s assertion, however the assertion additionally accuses him of racism, which he is not going to settle for.
‘Unacceptable’ views
In Germany, there have lately been increasingly more examples of a so-called cancel tradition.
In Frankfurt, three mayoral candidates need to stop Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters from performing within the Festhalle. The 80-year-old musician is a critic of Israeli politics and helps the BDS marketing campaign.
The German Heinrich Boll Foundation got here beneath fireplace final month for withdrawing from an award ceremony due to a prize winner’s important remarks on the Israeli assaults on Gaza.
The determination got here after a number of Israeli foyer teams criticized this yr’s prize winner, the distinguished writer Masha Gessen, for her assertion that Gaza had turn into “like a Jewish ghetto in an Eastern European country occupied by Nazi Germany.”
Bosnian novelist Lana Bastasic introduced three weeks in the past that she terminated her contract with a German writer in protest of its silence on the humanitarian disaster within the Gaza Strip.
“I feel that it is my moral and ethical duty to terminate my contract with S. Fischer. Not only has the publisher failed to be vocal about the ongoing genocide happening in Gaza but they have also kept quiet on the systematic censorship happening in Germany for the last two months,” Bastasic, 37, stated on Instagram.
She stated reducing ties as an all-out boycott of German cultural establishments over the federal government’s pro-Israel stance divides opinion.
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