Ilyas Saliba: Das Ende der Wissenschaftsfreiheit [The end of academic freedom], Spiegel, January 29, 2025.
The fact that the Bundestag even considers it necessary to pass a resolution specifically on anti-Semitism at universities and in education suggests that universities are a central breeding ground for antisemitism in Germany. However, the study conducted at the University of Konstanz on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research on antisemitism at universities shows exactly the opposite. Anti-Semitism is less prevalent at universities and among students than in society as a whole. The study, and with it the article, recommends a differentiated view, because even positions among students in support of Palestine are “hardly or only to a small extent” connected to antisemitism. This important finding is suppressed in the resolution. It obviously does not fit into the problematic image that the Bundestag has formed of the universities in a generalizing way.