At the end of his book “Talking about Israel”, which was published before the Hamas attack on Israel, Meron Mendel, director of the Frankfurt Anne Frank Educational Center, asks the following question: “Will it ever be possible to have an objective debate about Israel here in Germany respectively?” Anyone who reads the book or comes to the Literaturhaus on Tuesday, January 9th will find out how clever Mendel’s answer is.
The historian and educator, who was born in 1976 in a kibbutz in the Negev Desert and came to Germany in 2001, is a guest there with his wife Saba-Nur Cheema. The Frankfurt political scientist and journalist with Pakistani roots works on the topics of diversity, Muslim-Jewish dialogue and the relationship between racism and anti-Semitism. Together with her husband she writes the column “Muslim-Jewish Supper” in the FAZ. The two join in the discussion in the Munich Literaturhaus Time-Politics editor Mariam Lau on how to address the dangerous polarization in our society in a constructive and conciliatory manner.
Talking about Israel – An evening with Meron Mendel and Saba-Nur CheemaTue., Jan. 9, 7 p.m., Literaturhaus München, Salvatorplatz 1, remaining tickets at the box office