Upcoming lectures

• 6 October 2026: Anti-Semitism and postcolonial theory. The ‘progressive’ attack on Israel, Judaism and Holocaust remembrance. One-day seminar for the Cultural Education Services of the Youth Art Schools in North Rhine-Westphalia. Venue: Witten
• 3 November 2026: Anti-Semitism and postcolonial theory. The ‘progressive’ attack on Israel, Judaism and Holocaust remembrance. One-day seminar for the cultural education services of the North Rhine-Westphalia Youth Art Schools. Venue: Cologne
• 10 November 2026: Anti-Semitism and postcolonial theory. The ‘progressive’ attack on Israel, Judaism and Holocaust remembrance. Venue: University of Dresden
• 16 November 2026: Anti-Semitism and postcolonial theory. The ‘progressive’ attack on Israel, Judaism and Holocaust remembrance. Venue: Symposium on Anti-Semitism. Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia. Düsseldorf
• 24 November 2026: Hillel Cohen: Shadow Army. Arab-Palestinian Co-operation with Zionism 1917–1948. Book launch with Mouhanad Khorchide. Venue: Cologne
• 14 December 2026: Postcolonial Theory as a ‘Cross-Front’ Discourse: Anti-Semitism and Epistemic Ethnorelativism. Venue: Potsdam
• 15 December 2026: The Postcolonial Regime of Knowledge and its Conservative Revolution. Book launch on the works of Monika Albrecht and Meera Nanda. Venue: Berlin
• 12 January 2027: Anti-Semitism and postcolonial theory. The ‘progressive’ attack on Israel, Judaism and Holocaust remembrance. Venue: Centre for Jewish Cultural History at the University of Salzburg
• 26 January 2027: Anti-Semitism and postcolonial theory. The ‘progressive’ attack on Israel, Judaism and Holocaust remembrance. Venue: VHS Herford
• 8 February 2027: Anti-Semitism and postcolonial theory. The ‘progressive’ attack on Israel, Judaism and Holocaust remembrance. Venue: series of lectures organised by the Evenarí Forum for German-Jewish Studies. University of Darmstadt
• 1 June 2027: Anti-Semitism and postcolonial theory. The ‘progressive’ attack on Israel, Judaism and Holocaust remembrance. Venue: Jewish Community of Munich

Recent publications

• ‘Postmodern Delusion in Historyland’. The Return of the Gods in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Postcolonial Theory. In: Enlightenment and Critique. 1/2026, pp. 192–206
• ‘Killing an Israeli Means Killing Two Birds with One Stone’. Remarks on the Potential for Violence and an Affinity for Authoritarianism in Postcolonial Discourse. In: H. Hansen/A. Pfahl-Traughber (eds.): Yearbook for Research on Extremism and Terrorism, Brühl 2026, pp. 59–94
• Slogans of postcolonial hostility towards Israel. A sketch. In: Andreas Jacobs/Richard Ottinger (eds.): Academic Anti-Semitism. Leipzig 2026. (forthcoming)
• Review of Dan Diner, Another War: Jewish Palestine and the Second World War 1935–1942. On haGalil. Jewish Life Online
• ‘Stop Genocide – Free Palestine’. Slogans of postcolonial hostility towards Israel. In: Archive for Critical Social Theory, December 2025, and on haGalil. Jewish Life Online
• “By Any Means Necessary” – Authoritarianism and the Potential for Violence in Anti-Zionist Postcolonial Discourse. In: Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 9–25
• “I consider postcolonial theory to be largely misguided”. Interview for WINA – The Jewish City Magazine Vienna. November 2025
• “How the Jerusalem Declaration Trivialises Anti-Semitism” (together with Sven Ellmers). In: Jüdische Allgemeine, 5 June 2025 (extended version in *Archive for Critical Sociology*, December 2025)
• Anti-Semitism and postcolonial theory – an outline. In: Central Council of Jews in Germany (ed.): The Power of Projection and 7 October. Anti-Israeli Obsessions as a Worldview. Leipzig 2025, pp. 304–324
• Postcolonialism, Anti-Semitism, and Israel: The ‘Progressive’ Attack on the Jewish State and Holocaust Memory. In: Ivo Ritzer (ed.): On the Critique of Identity. Stuttgart 2024, pp. 155–185
• Anti-Semitism and Postcolonial Theory. The ‘Progressive’ Attack on Israel, Judaism and Holocaust Memory. Edition Tiamat. Berlin 2024, 406 pp. (3rd edition, Berlin 2025)
• Review of Adam Kirsch, *On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice*. On: haGalil.com – Jewish Life Online
• Review of Hillel Cohen: *Army of Shadows. Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948*. On: haGalil.com – Jewish Life Online
• “That is a radical distortion of reality”. Interview with Peter Neumann on Zeit-Online, 21 May 2024

Latest videos/audio

• “Open to Discussion” series: Anti-Semitism and postcolonial theory with Dr Ingo Elbe. Lecture and panel discussion in Friedberg. YouTube channelof the German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation
• Anti-Semitism in postcolonial theory. WI-Talk with Nelly Eliasberg (August 2026)
• “Historians’ Dispute 2.0” – the Holocaust, colonialism and “multidirectional memory”. YouTube channel of the Society for Critical Education
• Postcolonialism, anti-Semitism and Israel: A conversation with Ingo Elbe. Mena-Watch Talk 11 October 2025
• Postcolonialism, anti-Semitism and Israel: A conversation with Ingo Elbe. Mena-Watch Talk 11 October 2025
• Activist scholarship and its consequences – taking postcolonial studies as an example. Lecture for the Society for Critical Education in Cologne (4 February 2025)
• Monika Albrecht/Ingo Elbe: Apologetics for postcolonialism after 7 October. A critical analysis. Online lecture and discussion for the Society for Critical Education (20 January 2025)
• Anti-Semitism and Postcolonialism: A Dangerous Proximity. Venue: Evangelical Academy, Frankfurt (28 October 2024)
• 1948 – The First Arab–Israeli War. Book launch for Benny Morris’s *1948* with Ingo Elbe, Peter Kathmann and Johannes Bruns. Venue: Conference: 7 October and the Presence of Anti-Semitism. Cologne (20 June 2024)
• Remembrance as the highest form of forgetting? (Re)interpretations of the Holocaust and the ‘Historians’ Dispute 2.0’. taz Talk – online (video) (25 January 2024)
• Anti-Semitism and the postcolonial Left: When Israel is always and only to blame for the conflict. Interview with SWR2 (11 December 2023)