Michael Rothberg
Memory, politics, critical theory, literature & sushi. At home in Berlin & Los Angeles. Author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.
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- Reposted by Michael RothbergHighlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
- Reposted by Michael Rothbergliam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
- Must read from Fintan O'Toole in the NY Review of Books:
- Massive anti-ICE demonstration at UCLA today. I'd estimate more than 2,000 people--overwhelmingly students of color. It was beautiful!
- Reposted by Michael RothbergWhen will it be enough for you, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? When will you be moved? You should be standing in the streets of Minneapolis. You should be shouting from the rooftops. What a pathetic pair of cowards.
- Reposted by Michael RothbergYesterday, Minneapolis conducted a general strike against ICE. Today, ICE responds by murdering someone in cold blood in the street.
- There appears to have been another ICE murder in Minneapolis this morning. [CW: graphic video] www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
- Very illuminating discussion!
- Trump is clearly not the isolationist many believed he was. From the wreckage of bipartisan imperialist consensus, Trump's creating a new MAGA model empire. New Dig episode analyzing MAGA Empire and the history that made it with Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
- (We Don't This) Fascist Groove Thang
- Reposted by Michael RothbergBREAKING — ChongLy Scott Thao's family has released a statement disputing DHS's outrageous justification for his arrest. "He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
- Multidirectional resistance
- Germany has Stolpersteine, "stumbling blocks," small plaques memorialize the locations where Jews were abducted during the Holocaust. Inspired by that project, Minnesotans have been making signs to mark the locations where ICE has abducted community members. www.npr.org/2026/01/13/n...
- Superb contextualization of all the bad things by Nikhil Singh.
- It's a devastating diagnosis, but also not without hope.
- Reposted by Michael RothbergWe will win because history and the majority of historian are on our side. The Palestinian Historians Group respond to the @historians.org latest veto www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47115
- Reposted by Michael RothbergDeborah Lipstadt didn’t wait until the suspect in the MS synagogue fire was arrested. She wanted to use the moment to blame protesters against genocide in Gaza. At his court appearance today, the suspect said “Jesus Christ is Lord” when read his rights by judge. Lipstadt is a shameless propagandist.
- If you’re in LA or NYC, go see it.
- Pleased to support this open letter calling on the German state to commemorate and seriously engage with the history of colonialism.
- Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung: Offener Brief – Der Bund hat die Pflicht zur Kolonialismus Aufarbeitung und Erinnerung isdonline.de/gemeinsame-p... @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social
- Reposted by Michael Rothberg„The Targeting of the Palestinian Academy“ sollte eine wissenschaftliche Konferenz an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social heissen. Die Universität hat beschlossen, dieses Targeting selbst aktiv zu unterstützen. Ein Skandal. 1/
- Wait till you get to Volume II...
- The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine." Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- "Denial is a recurring and devastating dimension of genocide, shaping how violence is remembered, justified, and perpetuated.....
- ...This panel brings together scholars working on different histories and contexts—including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, genocide in Bosnia, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine—to reflect comparatively on the strategies, logics, and consequences of denial across time and place....
- ...Speakers will address how denial operates in political, cultural, and legal arenas; how it affects survivors, descendants, and broader publics; and what responsibilities scholars have in confronting denial today."
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- Such an important conversation between @mashagessen.bsky.social and Marianne Hirsch about Holocaust memory, genocide, and Palestine. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
- Reposted by Michael RothbergPlease understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!
- BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Reposted by Michael RothbergThe whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
- Reposted by Michael Rothbergi am pretty sure this isn’t how this works
- Reposted by Michael Rothbergthe truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king
- Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
- Informed and important--though depressing.
- Great piece by M Gessen and the start of what sounds like a crucial series on international law.
In which I talk with the woman who won't shut up (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...
- Reposted by Michael RothbergGood morning! My comrade @annakornbluh.bsky.social and I published today in Hyperallrgic ean op-ed about the gutting of our right to culture and the ways to defend and fight back. Link below!
- Reposted by Michael Rothberg"The right to culture is fundamental, and its revocation has grave consequences for the texture of daily life." You should definitely read this, by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @isanchezprado.bsky.social
- Tomorrow at UW-Madison!
- Reposted by Michael RothbergMy primer on German cultural politics in the October issue of @thenation.com brings together stories first reported separately, but need to be understood in concert. It’s the companion piece to my text on the US art world. “Fascism repeats itself: first as antisemitism, then as anti-antisemitism.”
- Reposted by Michael RothbergLast night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews. Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.
- Reposted by Michael RothbergThis is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.
- Impunity
- An Israeli man who allegedly swung a pipe at members of a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA will avoid jail time under a court ruling issued Monday. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Reposted by Michael Rothberg“All opposing forces seem as though vanished from the face of the earth. It is this utter collapse of powers only recently present, no, their complete disappearance … that I find so staggering.” Victor Klemperer, 1933
- Pleased to be part of this important collection with my essay "Lived Multidirectionality"--first in German and now back in its "native" English...
