Postkolonialismus und Antisemitismus – Eine Debatte in Schieflage

For some years now (and increasingly since the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023), postcolonial theory has been the focus of criticism. The accusations are widely known: relativization of the Holocaust, anti-Zionism, Israel-related antisemitism. However, it sometimes seems as if there is a disparity between strong and strongly pejorative opinions about postcolonialism and the actual level of knowledge or understanding. In addition, the question arises as to whether the criticism of postcolonial critique reproduces Eurocentric ideas and epistemological asymmetries. This article will complicate the debate by suggesting its entanglement in the dynamics and mechanisms that have always been the focus of postcolonial theory.