To understand the importance of Goldin’s talk, you have to know that free speech concerning Israel’s genocide in Gaza does not exist. If a someone with darker skin had held this, they would have been arrested, led from the podium, and charged.
Here the reactions of Germany’s fascist liberal authoritarian elite:
Museum director Klaus Biesenbach gave a speech after Goldin, defending Israel’s right to exist, arguing the conflict started with the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel, but he also called for sympathy toward the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza.
Biesenbach later released a statement, saying the gallery distanced itself from the protesters’ stance, adding that it “stands for freedom of expression and respectful dialogue and interaction with each other.”
German Culture Minister Claudia Roth of the Green party denounced Goldin for her “unbearably one-sided political views” and said she was “appalled” at the way people in the audience chanted slogans like “Free Palestine.”
But Roth rejected calls for a boycott of an upcoming symposium and said she hoped for an open and civilized debate.
The culture minister of Berlin state, Joe Chialo, also accused Goldin of “one-sidedness” and “obliviousness to history” with her remarks in Berlin, “the city in which the Holocaust was planned.”
Hermann Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, also sharply denounced Goldin’s talk.
“This does not correspond to our understanding of freedom of expression,” he said.
Fascism is alive and well in Berlin.
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