20 February 2024

As Germany continues to arrest dozens of Jewish people (specifically for protesting genocide, as a concept and with reference to the Gaza genocide ), academics have documented a giant spreadsheet of all the canceled speakers and scholars in Germany of those who also oppose genocide. It’s called the “Archive of Silence“.

This list is provided for informational purposes only and is not exhaustive. It does not guarantee complete accuracy, as the dates mentioned are, in some cases, the exact date of cancellation, while in others, they represent the date of the first available information about cancellation/silencing. Please be aware that this list is a work in progress and will be continuously updated to reflect the most current and accurate information available. Users are encouraged to verify details independently and consider this list as a general reference rather than a definitive source. If you notice missing cases, you can contribute by submitting them to us via the email address archiveofsilence@protonmail.com, and we will add them to the list.
Nr. Date Institution Person / Organisation What Happened
1 08.10.23 ARTE/BR Malcolm Ohanwe German state television terminates contract with Malcolm Ohanwe after supporting Palestine on X
2 09.10.23 Late Night Berlin Nura Habib Omer Talk Show Late Night Berlin disinvites rapper Nura over her Instagram story with “Free Palestine” slogan
3 09.10.23 Documenta Reza Afisina and Iswanto Hartono (Ruangrupa) Documenta director Andreas Hoffmann distances himself from Reza Afisina und Iswanto Hartono for liking the video of a Palestine demo in Berlin. They remove their likes and say that it was a mistake.
4 11.10.23 Saskia Esken Bernie Sanders Esken cancels meeting with Bernie Sanders, alleging insufficient condemnation of Hamas
5 12.10.23 Haus für Poesie Berlin Ghayath Almadhoun Haus für Poesie cancels the release event for “Kontinentaldrift: Das Arabische Europa”, edited by Syrian-Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun
6 13.10.23 Frankfurt Book Fair Adania Shibli Cancellation of award ceremony for Palestinian author Adania Shibli at the Frankfurt Book Fair by Litprom e.V.
7 13.10.23 Maxim Gorki Theater Maryam Abu Khaled & Karim Daoud Maxim Gorki Theater indefinitely postpones “The Situation”, a multilingual play by Israeli-Austrian writer Yael Ronen
8 13.10.23 Schwuz Visitor & Performer “Anti-Apartheid” T-shirt of a guest & “Free Palestine” banner of a performer not allowed during Drag Open Stage Finale
9 14.10.23 Festsaal Kreuzberg Guest Guest asked to leave an event at Festsaal Kreuzberg because of her handbag with a keffiyeh tied around it
10 15.10.23 Münchner Kunstakademie Nicolás Jaar Münchner Kunstakademie cancels event with Nicolás Jaar following his criticism of Israeli occupation forces and the White House
11 16.10.23 Städtepartnerschaftsverein Köln-Bethlehem Halima Aziz A planned exhibition of Halima Aziz’s works as part of the Palestinian Film Festival was canceled after a defamatory report by Ruhrbarone. The Palestinian Film Festival has been postponed indefinitely.
12 17.10.23 Universität Münster Palästina Antikolonial The University of Münster cancels a lecture hall reservation for the event ‘Travelogue Palestine – Why a left-wing perspective is important’.
13 18.10.23 ARD Journalists working for ARD ARD allegedly sends internal document with new language regulation on the Middle East conflict to avoid criticism of Israel and questions about the history of the recent escalation. ARD has confirmed that there was a new language regulation, but has not confirmed the authenticity of the leaked document (»Glossar Berichterstattung Nahostkonflikt. Zur internen Nutzung. Stand 18.10.2023«)
14 19.10.23 Upday (Axel Springer) Employees at Upday Upday, a news app owned by the Axel Springer, gave instructions to prioritize the Israeli perspective and minimize Palestinian civilian deaths in coverage
15 20.10.2023 Axel Springer Verlag Kasem Raad Axel Springer Fires Lebanese Apprentice Kasem Raad for Questioning their Pro-Israel Policy
16 22.10.23 Charité Berlin Muslim Students of Charité Charité management found out about the cooperation between the Muslim Students group and the NGO Islamic Relief on October 22. On October 26, the group was dissolved by the Charité students’ superordinate association, and the working group’s website has been unavailable ever since.
17 24.10.23 Germany’s Federal Agency for Civic Education Candice Breitz & Michael Rothberg Germany’s Federal Agency for Civic Education postpones “We Still Need to Talk”: A symposium on German remembrance culture by Candice Breitz and Michael Rothberg
18 25.10.23. Bündnis90/Die Grünen Marjam Samadzade The Ministry of Social Affairs in Schleswig-Holstein prematurely terminates the position of the Secretary of State for Integration Marjam Samadzade over her comment on social media
19 25.10.23 Jüdisches Museum Berlin Udi Raz Jewish Museum Berlin ends collaboration with guide Udi Raz for referring to the human rights situation in the West Bank as “apartheid” during a museum tour
20 26.10.23 Asta der Universität Kassel Saitun Initiative Asta of Uni Kassel cancels the screening of the film Gaza Fights for Freedom, organized by the Initiative Saitun.
21 27.10.23 Munich club BLITZ DJ LCY Munich club BLITZ cancels DJ LCY’s performance over Instagram video supposedly questioning Israel’s right to exist
22 28.10.23 / 17.01.24 Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Daniela Ortiz Bundeskunsthalle Bonn installed signs next to Daniela Ortiz’s artwork The ABC of Racist Europe framing it as “antisemitic”. They further organized an event on January 17, 2024, discussing the alleged antisemitism without any communication with the artist.
23 01.11.23 Makroscope Mülheim an der Ruhr Tinne Zenner Makroscope cancels film screening program by Tinne Zenner for being a letter signatory of Palestine solidarity statements
24 01.11.23 HAU Mena Prison Forum, UMAM Documentation and Research, medico International Organisers postpone three day event “Understanding Prison
Carceral Culture and Human Rights in the MENA Region / 30.11.–2.12. / HAU2” due to “the situation in the Gaza Strip, the instability and threat of violence in Lebanon and the highly emotional public debate”
25 01.11.23 Die Zeit Udi Raz Interview didn’t get published because of Raz’s support for BDS
26 01.11.23 German Government Centre for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA) German government cuts funding to Egyptian women’s rights organization Centre for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA) after the chair calls for a ceasefire and support for BDS
27 01.11.23 Street Dream Festival Essen-Katernberg International street artist Bastardilla Organizers of the festival removed a mural painted by Bastardilla which depicted a key as symbol of Nakba.
28 02.11.23 University of Kassel Group of Students President of the University of Kassel abruptly ends memorial ceremony held on campus for a student killed in Gaza
29 03.11.23 1. FSV Mainz 05 Anwar El Ghazi Mainz 05 soccer club terminates Anwar El Ghazi’s contract over pro-Palestinian social media posts
30 03.11.23 HÖR Téa, Sam Clarke HÖR censored pro-Palestine clothing worn by two performers
31 04.11.23 silent green Mykki Blanco / visitors Visitors were asked to take off keffiyehs at Mykki Blanco concert, horrible defamatory media coverage about Mykki Blanco afterwards
32 6.11.23 Dieter Reiter (Münchener Oberbürgermeister), Volker Beck (DIGeV) Verein Münchner Forum für Islam Following Volker Beck’s criticism of the Muslim Council, a prayer for peace between Muslims, Jews and Christians was canceled by Munich’s Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter
33 07.11.23 Volksbühne Jeremy Corbyn Former Labour leader Corbyn disinvited from the conference “Europa den Räten” at Volksbühne due to Palestine stance
34 8.11.23 Unknown German Institution Ghassan Hage Anthropologist Ghassan Hage reported on X on Nov. 8 that he was nominated for a German scholarship/award, but the nominators were asked to comment on his “BDS sympathies” and the committee is not sure if he can be awarded.
35 09.11.23 Philipps-Universität Marburg Revolutionäre Linke & Jüdische Stimme für einen gerechten Frieden in Nahost University of Marburg denies acces to room for a lecture about anti-Semitism due to Palestine stance of organizers
36 10.11.23 Deutschlandfunk Kultur Iris Hefets Deutschlandfunk Kultur disinvites Iris Hefets from a radio discussion about the war in Gaza.
37 11.11.23 Institut für Zukunft Guest Guest asked to remove kuffiyeh in the club or leave the venue due to a complaint from another guest who claimed to feel “unsafe” in the presence of her scarf
38 11.11.23 Showroom of Pixel Grain Raphaël Malik Pixel Grain cancels photo exhibition about Muslim life in Berlin because of “the situation in the middle east”
39 13.11.2023 Folkwang Museum Essen Anaïs Duplan Museum Folkwang cancels part of an exhibition on Afrofuturism over curator Anaïs Duplan’s pro-Palestinian social media posts
40 13.11.23 Documenta 16 Selection committee (Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Ranjit Hoskoté, Simon Njami, Gong Yan, Kathrin Rhomberg and María Inés Rodríguez) Documenta 16 selection committee collectively resigns
41 13.11.23 Decolonize Berlin e.V. Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan Thamil V. Ananthavinayagan’s chapter for a book on decolonial jurisprudence and practice in Germany was rejected by Decolonize Berlin for its discussion of Germany’s culpability in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians
42 15.11.23 ACHT BRÜCKEN Festival Köln Sharif Sehnaoui, Karkhana Three concerts that were planned for 2024 were canceled because of the artist’s support for BDS. One of the concerts by Karkhana was canceled by ACHT BRÜCKEN Festival.
43 15.11.23 RBB Deborah Feldman Deborah Feldman got disinvited from an RBB Radioshow.
44 15.11.23 Schloss Elmau Deborah Feldman Deborah Feldman got disinvited from a reading at Schloss Elmau.
45 15.11.23 Die Zeit Deborah Feldman Die Zeit made the first big interview with Feldman but canceled the publishing.
46 15.11.23 Frankfurt Book Fair Deborah Feldman Got disinvited from an event at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
47 15.11.23 Heinrich Böll Foundation Speakers of Feminist Voices Connected The Böll Foundation cancels the “Feminist Voices Connected” conference, because of the situation in Gaza and the “polarized atmosphere in Germany”.
48 16.11.23 Documenta 16 Ranjit Hoskote Smear campaign against Ranjit Hoskote (Indian poet and critic), member of the Documenta curator commission, due to him having signed a BDS letter in 2019. Hoskote then resigned.
49 16.11.23 University of Regensburg Vincent Bevins University of Regensburg rescinded its invitation to Vincent Bevins to give the keynote address at an interdisciplinary conference and present his new book, due to pro-Palestine posts on social media
50 17.11.23 TD Berlin – Monologfestival Team of “Mein Bedrohliches Gedicht“ Monologfestival cancels performance of “My Threatening Poem”, a play about the Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour and her time in Israeli Prison
51 18.11.23 Club Eschschloraque Liad Hussein Kantorowicz A concert by Israeli performance artist Liad Kantorowicz planned for 25.11 was approved by Club Eschschloraque in Berlin on the condition that she is not allowed to speak, only sing. The concert happened, although with limitations in artistic freedom.
52 19.11.23 ARD Annemarie Jacir ARD removes Annemarie Jacir’s Palestinian film Wajib from their program
53 19.11.23 TransCentury Lankum TransCentury Festival cancels concert by Lankum due to the group’s support for Palestine
54 19.11.23 Bezirksvertretung Elberfeld-West in Wuppertal, Ulrich Endemann (FDP) Sebastian Schröder, DIE LINKE Wuppertal Motion “Peace and justice for Gaza” was excluded from discussion and vote by trickery
55 20.11.23 Berlin Senate for Culture Oyoun Berlin Senate cuts funding for cultural center Oyoun over alleged “Hidden Antisemitism”
56 20.11.23 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Brett Kashmere, Astria Suparak International Short Film Festival Oberhausen cancels theme program by curators Brett Kashmere and Astria Suparak
57 20.11.23 University of Potsdam Emily Jacir Talk canceled due to social media activity
58 21.11.2023 Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie Shahidul Alam Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2024 canceled after one of the curators, Shahidul Alam, made social media posts that organizers deemed antisemitic
59 22.11.23 WDR WDR Journalists WDR retracts a previously published text in their children’s magazine on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict following criticism and accusations of being ‘one-sided.’
60 24.11.23 Neue Welle (Club in Leipzig) DJ Zeynep Zeynep cancels performance and residency after Leipzig club investigates her Gaza-related social media posts
61 24.11.23 Saarland Museum Candice Breitz Saarland Museum cancels exhibition by Candice Breitz after “controversial statements” on Gaza war
62 25.11.23 München ist bunt!, Kultur im Trafo Ilan Pappé, Salam Shalom, Jewish-Palestinian dialogue group, Women in Black Kultur im Trafo and München ist bunt! attempt to cancel a talk by Jewish Israeli historian Ilan Pappé for alleged hatred against Jews
63 28.11.23 City Bochum, Jury of Peter Weiss Preis Sharon Dodua Otoo The city of Bochum withdraws the Peter Weiss Prize from writer Sharon Dodua Otoo for alleged support of BDS
64 29.11.23 Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung John Keane Resigned after diffamation and smear campaign.
65 01.12.23 KLAENG Jazzkollektiv Köln Calamita & Aya Metwalli KLAENG jazz collective cancels festival performance by Aya Metwalli and the band Calamita because of their support for Palestine
66 01.12.23 Heidelberger Kunstverein Jumana Manna Palestinian artist Jumana Manna’s exhibition at Heidelberger Kunstverein canceled as a result of a defamation campaign
67 01.12.23 Fridays for Future Germany Elisa Baş Fridays for Future Germany excludes climate justice activist Elisa Baş after Springer Media hate campaign
68 07.12.23 Sophiensæle Berlin Dusty Whistles Sophiensæle puts employee Dusty Whistles on leave following her intervention on December 7 in the context of the “Trust the Process” festival.
69 08.12.23 RWTH Aachen’s Rector Ulrich Rüdiger Phoebe Walton of Forensis / Forensic Architecture Rector of RWTH (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) Aachen cancels lecture on police killings by Phoebe Walton of Forensis / Forensic Architecture (planned lecture was Monday 11.12.2023)
70 13.12.23 Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Bremen Senat Masha Gessen Heinrich Böll Foundation and City of Bremen cancel award ceremony of Hannah Arendt Prize to Masha Gessen
71 13.12.23 Music festival in Leipzig (name not known yet) Mykki Blanco Mykki Blanco gets disinvited from festival over her support for Palestine
72 14.12.23 SPD Moheb Shafaqyar (LINKE) After a post critical of Israel on X, Moheb Shafaqyar, under pressure from the SPD faction, announced his resignation as deputy BVV chairman of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
73 18.12.23 BERTINI-Preis Marione Ingram Talks by holocaust survivor Marione Ingram were ‘postponed’ by BERTINI-Preis due to her protesting with a sign saying “Stop Genocide in Gaza”. She was supposed to address students receiving awards recognizing their commitment to social justice activism.
74 19.12.23 Freie Universität Berlin FU Students for a Free Palestine FU Berlin used armed police to forcibly evict a non-violent, pro-Palestinian occupation of a lecture hall by a group of students.
75 20.12.23 Berghain Arabian Panther Berghain cancels party because of Arabian Panther’s social media posts.
76 21.12.23 Meet Your Neighbours Ramy Al-Asheq Palestinian-Syrian poet, journalist and author Ramy Al-Asheq disinvited from Meet Your Neighbours reading and discussion evening due to pro-Palestinian social media posts
77 04.01.24 HTKW Leipzig Studierendenkollektiv Leipzig A professor of museology announces in an e-mail that he will exclude people who are critical of Israel from his courses.
78 09.01.24 Karlsruhe University of Arts Adam Broomberg Karlsruhe University of Arts bans visiting professor Adam Broomberg from teaching after immense pressure from German government and the right wing press in reaction to Broombergs anti-Zionist posts on social media.
79 12.01.24 University Köln Student of Uni Köln Student is banned from the University of Cologne for two days for sharing an Instagram story with the slogan “from the river to the sea”. Court Overturns Decision.
80 13.01.24 Städtepartnerschaftsverein Köln-Bethlehem Palästina Filmtage Köln On October 16, Städtepartnerschaftsverein Köln-Bethlehem postponed Palästina Filmtage Köln, rescheduling the festival to take place from January 13 to 16 with a revised program. Notably, the film ‘Tantura’ has been removed from the lineup and there have been complaints on social media about a perceived one-sided selection in favor of Israeli perspectives.
81 18.01.24 radioeins (rbb) Jürgen Zimmerer Historian Jürgen Zimmerer refuses an interview with radioeins “Die Profis” on the topic “Why the war in German South West Africa remains relevant for later history” because the moderator insisted not to talk about Namibia’s position on South Africa’s lawsuit agains Israel in the preliminary discussion, stating it was anti-Semitic.
82 22.01.24 University of Münster Cine Club The University of Münser postponed a screening of the documentary Roadmap to Apartheid (2012) after pressure from the Young Forum of the German-Israeli Society Council. They reschedueled the screening to take place on February 5 in the presence of state security of Germany. The students occupied a room in the university to screen the film independently on January 31. Ultimately, the rescheduled screening was also cancelled.
83 23.01.24 Region Hannover Emilia Roig Region Hannover postpones the regional women’s New Year’s reception and disinvites the Jewish speaker Emilia Roig due to her “anti-Israel stance”
84 26.01.24 Jazz Against The Machine Angelica Summer Jazz Against The Machine festival disinvites queer performance artist and singer-songwriter Angelica Summer from a panel on “Music and politics – our responsibility as musicians” because she insisted to not only speak about the AfD, but also about Israel-Palestine. After negotitations, they reinvited her, but she declined. Instead, she suggested inviting Palestinian musician Faed Shadid and the festival made it happen.
85 26.01.24 Folkwang University of the Arts Essen Laurie Anderson US performance artist Laurie Anderson resigned from the Pina Bausch Professorship at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen after it had become known that Anderson had publicly supported an appeal by Palestinian artists entitled “Letter Against Apartheid” in 2021 and the university questioned her political stance.
86 27.01.24 T-Keller Göttingen DJ Fár DJ Fár’s set at T-Keller was interrupted by a white German man for playing a song by Sorah titled “Palestine Will Be Free”
87 30.01.24 Museum in Germany Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck An unknown museum expresses their shock about a post by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck on her Instagram which shows a badge with the words “Free Palestine”. They critique the artist’s political statement in what they consider “a non-political” field, add that they can only sign “Free Palestine from Hamas” and state their scepticism about their collaboration. Tagada Hoffbeck thus decides to cancel her upcoming solo exhibtion at the museum.
88 31.01.24 Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt Combatants for Peace The Evangelical Academy in Frankfurt deleted the video of an event hosted by the Palestinian-Israeli group Combatants for Peace after facing criticism for their use of the term “apartheid” in reference to Israel.
89 31.01.24 Haus37, Stadt Freiburg DIE LINKE Freiburg Event “Über Palästina sprechen” was cancelled by two venues.
90 01.02.24 University of Freiberg Fachschaft Islamwissenschaft Uni Freiberg The University of Freiburg revoked the room for a screening of Not Just Your Picture – The Story of the Kilani Family that was organized by the Fachschaft Islamwissenschaft. The documentary tells the story of two German-Palestinian siblings whose father was killed by an Israeli airstrike during attacks on Gaza in 2014, and the screening was to be followed by a discussion with Ramsis Kilani, one of the two siblings.
91 02.02.24 Syndikat-Kollektiv Palestine Speaks/ healthcare workers’ meeting Syndikat-Kollektiv cancels the venue for a healthcare workers’ meeting scheduled in Berlin on February 3 upon learning that Palestine Speaks mobilized for the event.
92 07.02.24 Max Planck Institute Halle/Saale, Max Planck Society Ghassan Hage The Max Planck Society terminates its working contract with anthropologist Ghassan Hage, who had been a scholar at the Max Planck Institute Halle/Saale since April 2023. This decision follows a smear campaign against Hage in Germany due to his social media posts about Palestine-Israel. Prior to the institute’s statement, Hage had already expressed his decision to sever ties with the institute, which, in response to the smear campaign, opted to interrogate him rather than defend him.
93 17.02.24 Antenne Münster Palästina Antikolonial Antenne Münster censors radio show with Palästina Antikolonial