Podcasts in English about Germany's pro-Israel fanaticism
This page collects podcast episodes in English that can help understand the strange German form of pro-Israel politics. I only include things I have listened to — there is a lot more content on this topic out there! Find or add further recommedations in the replies to my tweet: 🗨️🐦 or Bluesky post: 🦋💬
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The Dig: The German Question “Emily Dische-Becker on how Germany became attached to a wildly narcissistic anti-antisemitism and Israeli proxy nationalism that have made it one of the most anti-Palestinian governments on earth.” (Feb 2024) Podcast website Spotify link
Spaßbremse: Whitewashing and Statebuilding Daniel Marwecki on the geopolitical history of the relationship between (West) Germany and the state of Israel. (Dec 2023) Spotify & more
Dive deeper
Corner Späti: Insert Adorno Quote Here With Yonatan Miller, Talking about the “antideutsch”, the German left's hardcore pro-Israeli tendency. (Nov 2019) Podcast website Spotify link
On The Nose: The Trouble with Germany, Part I Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel talks with Emily Dische-Becker and Michael Sappir “about the bizarre and worrisome ways that Germany’s understandably zealous Holocaust memory culture is playing out among Jews, Palestinians, and other Germans in contemporary Germany.” (Jul 2022) Podcast website Spotify link
On The Nose: The Trouble with Germany, Part II “Joshua Leifer talks to journalist Hebh Jamal and lawyer Nadija Samour about Germany's intensifying crackdown on Palestinian identity” (Mar 2023) Podcast website Spotify link
Spaßbremse: 'Importing' Antisemitism, Subcontracting Guilt Esra Özyürek on Germany's post-WWII “emotional social contract” and how immigrants, in particular of Muslim background, are integrated into it. (Jan 2024) Spotify & more
Further recommendations
- 99 ZU EINS: The War on Anti-Semitism (Sep 2021) – “How the War on Anti-Semitism serves as a pretext justifying Germany’s internal and external security measures.” – YouTube
- Corner Späti: We're all Weird at Parties Now (Apr 2023) – On being Israeli in Germany. – Podcast website
- Corner Späti: Parallel World Palestine (Oct 2023) – On Germany after October 7. – Podcast website
- Bad Hasbara: Uber Allies (Jan 2024) – “Germany and Israel's special relationship and the state of German liberalism and the German left” – Podcast website
Curated by Michael Sappir