I am concerned to see how attempts are once again being made to restrict and censor freedom of art and science. It goes without saying that our goal must be to intersectionally combat discrimination. This includes anti-semitism, but also racism, migratism, classism, ableism, sanism, ageism, queer hate, sexism and much more. After 8 years of studying and 10 years of working in Academia as a researcher, equal opportunities commisioner and feminist, I can say that Academia is also full of these isms. In most cases, they remain without consequences for the perpetrators of violence, without justice for those affected, and associated with disadvantages for those who address them.

How about we start fighting actual discrimination together instead of abolishing spaces of discourse under a performative guise? The performativity of a state that plays off anti-semitism against racism, does not want to differentiate between criticism of war crimes and anti-semitism and at the same time fails to prevent right-wing extremist networks.

We are once again living in times in which we should agree that the enemy is on the right. If we are no longer allowed to conduct social discourse in the arts and sciences, then where are we gonna conduct them?