Political scientist Bashir Bashir will give the third lecture in the Mosse Lecture series on the topic of »Zionismus. History, Projects, Objections«.

Introduction: Joseph Vogl
Response and discussion: Thomas Meyer

Abstract
This talk demonstrates the connections and entanglements between the memories and traumas of the Holocaust and the Nakba (though the events are different in magnitude and nature). Deliberating jointly on the Holocaust and the Nakba, this talk argues, gives rise to a new moral and political frame in Israel/Palestine, namely egalitarian bi-nationalism. The talk concludes that egalitarian bi-nationalism's insistence on envisioning affective relations of co-belonging based on an ethics of equality, parity and cohabitation offers rich resources for historical reconciliation in Israel/Palestine.

Bashir Bashir is associate professor in the department of sociology, political science and communication at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Currently, he is a fellow at the Wissenshcaftskolleg zu Berlin. His primary research interests are nationalism and citizenship studies, liberalism, democratic theory, decolonization, the politics of reconciliation, and alternatives to partition in Palestine/Israel. Among other numerous publications, he is the co-editor of The Holocaust and Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History (Columbia University Press, 2018); and The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2020). His writings have appeared in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Japanese.

Thomas Meyer is a philosopher and adjunct professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research focuses on the history of ideas and philosophy in ancient Greece and the 20th century with a focus on historical, cultural and political philosophy. He is the editor of Hannah Arendt's works at Piper Verlag and edited two previously unknown texts by and with Arendt on the subject of Palestine in 2024. His highly acclaimed biography of Hannah Arendt was published in 2023. Meyer has also published numerous books, essays, radio essays and newspaper articles on the history of ideas in the 20th century.