Today, as in the Past, Germany Claims the Authority to Define who is a Jew

Israelis for Peace Berlin in front of the Foreign Ministry.

Reawakening ghosts from a dark past, Germany once again claims to have the authority to define who is a Jew. Those who say this are Jews living in Germany who find themselves the target of processes of delegitimization from the moment they criticize Israel. Between Israel and Jews, Germany chooses the Zionist state.

For the philosopher and journalist Martin Gak, “when the German state puts itself in a position to tell me...