Golah veNekhar
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Anyone who has any serious interest in the history of Jewish thought and Religion will automatically know who Peter Schafer is so this extremely major. If such an important figure, the author indeed of "Judaeophobia: Attitudes towards the Jews in the ancient world", "The Mirror of His Beauty", "The Origins of Jewish Mysticism" and "Jesus in the Talmud" no less, can be pressured out of a very well deserved position over such a trifle by Zionism it raises ominous questions. Until someone alerted me this I had no idea about his politics and still don't- he is a very reserved, serious minded and dignified human being so I presumed that he would not subscribe to the versions of Zionism we see on display on this forum and I still do not know much about his politics. He is seventy six and not aggressive at all as a personality so I cannot blame him for not fighting.
...."Last Friday, director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin Peter Schäfer, a highly-respected scholar of Jewish studies who took the position in 2014, announced his resignation after coming under severe pressure by Jewish community leaders in Germany and the Israeli government, who have accused the museum of engaging in what they deem to be anti-Israel and anti-Jewish activities.
Schäfer’s forced resignation came following a tweet by the museum on June 6 endorsing an article in the progressive German daily Die Tageszeitung, which reported on a letter signed by 240 Jewish and Israeli scholars of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust who reject the notion that BDS is equivalent to anti-Semitism. The letter was submitted to the government after the resolution, urging it not to formally implement it; the scholars argued that drawing that equivalence is not effective and even undermines the fight against anti-Semitism...."
In Germany, the anti-BDS zeitgeist has taken over | +972 Magazine
...."Last Friday, director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin Peter Schäfer, a highly-respected scholar of Jewish studies who took the position in 2014, announced his resignation after coming under severe pressure by Jewish community leaders in Germany and the Israeli government, who have accused the museum of engaging in what they deem to be anti-Israel and anti-Jewish activities.
Schäfer’s forced resignation came following a tweet by the museum on June 6 endorsing an article in the progressive German daily Die Tageszeitung, which reported on a letter signed by 240 Jewish and Israeli scholars of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust who reject the notion that BDS is equivalent to anti-Semitism. The letter was submitted to the government after the resolution, urging it not to formally implement it; the scholars argued that drawing that equivalence is not effective and even undermines the fight against anti-Semitism...."
In Germany, the anti-BDS zeitgeist has taken over | +972 Magazine