Deborah Feldman: The international view of the Gaza war is different than in Germany. British director Glazer used the Oscars to criticize Israel.
In Germany, there is a somewhat different debate about anti-Semitism as well as about Israel. Feldman: Over 50 percent of Israeli Jews come from Arab states - they have nothing at all to do with white Europeans. It is absurd if Israel is classified as “white” and therefore classified as a colonial power, she says. The founding of Israel was precisely an anti-colonial act because it meant that the mandated power of Great Britain was thrown out.