00:00:00 Introduction of the speakers
00:02:38 Introduction to today’s webinar
00:04:20 Germany, racism, colonialism
00:09:27 Extermination and extraction
00:12:04 German-Russian inter-imperiality
00:16:20 The “German-ness Contract”
00:19:00 Racialisation of Eastern European-ness
00:25:18 Different national contexts, racialisation and inter-imperiality
00:41:40 Perspectives on the phenomenon of racism
00:58:50 Exceptionalisation and externalisation of antisemitism
01:16:53 Blind spots of the left
01:26:15 A different anti-antisemitism; multidirectional solidarity
01:36:00 Against anti-Eastern European racism on the left
Further reading
The text on which the conversation was based:
“Antisemitism, Racism and Empire: Past and Present“, by Tereza Hendl, Yudit Namer, Anna Zielinska – 16 January 2025 / “Antisemitismus, Rassismus und Imperium: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart“, von Tereza Hendl, Yudit Namer, Anna Zielinska – 16. Januar 2025.
This was a response to:
“For Stronger Links Between Research on Racism and Research on Antisemitism“, by Sina Arnold and Juliane Karakayali – 24 June 2024 / “Für eine stärkere Verbindung von Rassismus- und Antisemitismusforschung“, von Sina Arnold und Juliane Karakayali – 24. Juni 2024
Some other key texts by the presenters:
Tereza Hendl and Selbi Durdiyeva (2025) “On Collateral Damage, Selective Anti-Imperialism and the Path to Liberation”, American Communist History, 24:1-4, 53-83, DOI:
10.1080/14743892.2025.2501407.
Tereza Hendl, Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan & Aizada Arystanbek (2024) “(En)Countering epistemic imperialism: A critique of ‘Westsplaining’ and coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”, Contemporary Security Policy, 45:2, 171-209, DOI:
10.1080/13523260.2023.2288468
Aydın Bayad, Elif Sandal-Önal and Yudit Namer (2024) “A Jew, a Kurd and an Anarchist Walk into a Bar: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Being Exiled from Turkey” In Exiled Intellectuals: Encounters, Conflicts, and Experiences in Transnational Context. Volume 2: Politicians and artists (pp. 13-37). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69614-5_2.
Anna Zielinska et al, “Hamas-Israel War: Feminism Cannot Be Used to Relativize the Violence Suffered by Jews” – 13 December 2023 / “Guerre Hamas-Israël : le féminisme ne peut servir à relativiser les violences subies par les juifs et juives” – 13 décembre 2023.
Anna’s website: https://annaczielinska.com/
Other texts mentioned by the presenters:
On the Turkishness contract: Barış Ünlü, The Turkishness Contract, Temple University Press [featured in a recent edition of the Ottoman History podcast].
On Eastern European labour exploitation in Western Europe: Saša Uhlová (2024) “Undercover as a farm worker in Germany: ‘My hands are numb. No one knows when the shift will end.’” The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/18/undercover-germany-farm-worker-shop-vegetables / documentary: The Limits of Work (Hranice práce, 2017) / book: Heroes of Capitalist labor in Europe (Hrdinové kapitalistické práce v Evropě, 2023)
On German hierarchies of belonging: Volkan Çıdam (2025) “Post-Ulusal Kimlik ve Geçmişle Yüzleşme Siyaseti: Almanya Örneği“, Liberal Düşünce Dergisi DOI: 10.36484/liberal.1584867.
On the outsourcing of German guilt to migrantised Germans: Esra Özyürek (2023) Subcontractors of guilt: Holocaust memory and Muslim belonging in postwar Germany, Stanford University Press.
On German philosemitism: Deborah Feldman (2023) “Germany is a good place to be Jewish. Unless, like me, you’re a Jew who criticises Israel“, The Guardian.
On binary whiteness: Joanna Karolina Malinowska (2026) “White by default: conceptual and methodological limits of binary white logic in global health equity research“, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, DOI: 10.1007/s11019-026-10330-w.
On racial triangulation: Anca Parvulescu (2015) “European Racial Triangulation,” Postcolonial Transitions in Europe. Ed. Sandra Ponzanesi and Gianmaria Colpani, DOI:10.5040/9798881812928.ch-001.
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