At the end of last year the Israeli prime minister asked Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, to cut the museum’s funding. He claimed its exhibition “Welcome to Jerusalem” reflected “mainly the Muslim-Palestinian perspective” of the city. Mr Schäfer subsequently ruffled feathers when he met a cultural attaché from Iran at the museum.
The final straw was a tweet promoted as a “must read” in early June from the museum’s Twitter account sharing an article from, a left-wing daily. The tweet appeared to criticise a resolution of the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, which condemned the campaign for boycotts, divestments and sanctions against Israel as anti-Semitic.
Many of Mr Schäfer’s supporters believe that he should have weathered the storm. Fifty scholars of the Talmud signed a letter in his support. Another 322 international academics put their names to a statement demanding “a public apology to him from those who have spread lies about him”. . And 58 museum professionals from 14 countries penned a letter to express concerns about his treatment.
Nearly everyone agrees that it would help for the next director to be a Jew. Candidates can apply until September 1st, explains Martin Michaelis, who is managing the museum until the new director is appointed. The appointment should happen by the spring. Whoever gets it will need all the talent Mr Schäfer had, with a little more diplomatic skill—and a much thicker skin.
I thought it was Gort from 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'. I would love my own Gort.
Israel's continual abuse of the Arabs has certainly strained relations. After all, the Germans have loudly attacked Nazi ideology for decades.
The Jewish Museum Berlin will find peace if it is renamed the Khaser Museum. No need to continue to distort history. Lies lead to more Lies hence all this controversy. People know that present day occupants of Israel are Khasers and not the real Biblical Jews
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Bibi‘s a crook, a creep, and a war criminal. If he was whinging, the Jewish Museum was doing something right
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