Germany, Israel, and staatsräson (part one) w/ Bue Rübner Hansen

Bue Rübner Hansen joins PTO to talk about his recent essay The New
German Chauvinism. In the first part of our conversation we
discussed the history of the German-Israeli alliance and how its
emergence was far more complicated than is commonly supposed. We
discussed the contrasting attitudes to Israel amongst the German
public and the political and media class and big business. And we
went on to discuss the distinct memory culture around the crimes of
Nazism and the Holocaust, that emerged in West Germany during the
Cold War and how elements of that culture fostered a political
climate in Germany that is, at best, deaf to the suffering of the
Palestinians. We also talked about the emergence of the Anti-German
current within the German left and how its suspicion of the German
working class stemmed from the obliteration of the history of
working class opposition to the Nazis. Read Bue's two part essay
here: https://lefteast.org/the-new-german-chauvinism-part-i/
https://lefteast.org/the-new-german-chauvinism-part-ii/