Dana Vowinckel, Michel Friedman and Lena Gorelik demonstrate in the Literaturhaus what is going wrong in the German debate about Judaism and anti-Semitism.
This question is asked again and again: “Are you sitting on packed suitcases?” In other words, Amelie Fried also asked her guests that evening in the Literaturhaus. Can Israel still be a refuge for Jews in Germany after October 7th? Dana Vowinckel, born in 1996, a writer from Berlin, can’t help but react irritably to this “you” that implies the other, the non-belonging. “I won’t go! I don’t feel like it,” she says, the question is “fanatical, totally outrageous”, not far from the unspeakable term “remigration”.