Benjamin Weinthal
In the wake of the Shoah, Germany is of course a special case. The motivation of its intellectuals in regarding hatred of Jews and of Muslims as indistinguishable is complex. Writing in the weekly Freitag, journalist Sabine Pamperrien recently described critics of the equating of Islamophobia with antisemitism as Winkeladvokaten - loosely translatable as “shyster lawyers”, a term that the Nazis used to degrade Jewish lawyers during the Third Reich.
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