Derek Scally
Journalist at Irish Times
Irish Times Berlin correspondent and author of #1 Bestseller "The Best Catholics in the World". Order from Dubray Books here: https://t.co/Jmsrby0jmf
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5 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
Ferat Koçak is as popular as he is visible in Berlin’s Neukolln district. After making a name for himself in Berlin state politics, the straight-talking Koçak took 30 per cent of the vote for the Linke (Left Party) and secured a Bundestag seat in February’s federal election. A grandson of Kurdish immigrants, the 45-year-old describes his politics as “nonconformist, anti-racist and anti-fascist”.
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6 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
A Berlin court has sentenced a 24-year-old German man of Lebanese descent to three years in prison for what it ruled was an anti-Semitic attack on a German-Jewish university student. The ruling came ahead of a protest in Berlin on Friday, the third this week, against efforts to expel four pro-Palestinian activists from Germany, including two Irish citizens.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
This Easter weekend any bellyaches Dortmund man Jonathan Sieberg suffers will probably have more to do with German realpolitik than chocolate. Like nearly 360,000 other members of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), Sieberg has just received post from his party seeking permission to return as junior partners to the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
On a hot Sunday afternoon exactly 80 years ago on Tuesday, an amplified British voice echoed across the expanse of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Across the piles of emaciated bodies and the stench of death, the disembodied voice repeated: “Hello ... Hello ... You are free. We are British soldiers here to free you ...”For the countless prisoners delirious from typhus and near death, it might have been the voice of an angel.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
Israeli-born philosopher Omri Boehm posed a challenging question in a speech to commemorate the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp 80 years ago. The question originates with the Jewish-American historian Yosef Chaim Yerushalmi: “What if the opposite of forgetting is not remembering – but justice?”Boehm never got the chance to pose Yerushalmi’s question in Buchenwald, where the Nazis imprisoned 280,000 people and about 56,000 died, including 11,000 Jewish people.
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