Omri Boehm was born in Haifa in 1979 and studied in Tel Aviv and Yale. He is a philosophy professor at the New School for Social Research in New York, and from February he will be a fellow at the Berlin Science College. His books “Israel – a Utopia” and most recently “Radical Universalism – Beyond Identity” (both Propyläen-Verlag) are utopian ventures – their ideas seem far-fetched at first glance in these days of terror, sadness and fanaticism. While Palestinian flags are flying in Berlin’s Sonnenallee and the Brandenburg Gate is illuminated in the colors of Israel, Boehm attempts the most difficult thing of all in the conversation: uncompromising humanism.
Omri Boehm on the situation in Israel: “Nobody has the right to terrorism” – Culture
