Europe’s contempt for refugees’ human rights
At the EU’s outer borders, the right of migrants to a fair asylum procedure continues to be systematically disregarded. Take Greece, for example: in the worst case scenario, those shipwrecked may even face a lengthy prison sentence.
Alexandra Senfft reports for Qantara.de from Syros
qantara.de, Deutsche Welle, 20 June 2022
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The struggle of returning to negotiations between Israel and Palestine
Weltzeit, Deutsche Welle, Juni 2022
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‘The sense of urgency is palpable. The old Nazis are dying’: How a British film-maker launched a decade-long project to interview the last Nazi eyewitnesses to the Holocaust, and why Germany refused to fund him
Haaretz Israel 22 May 2022
Thomas Harding tells the story of the Demerara rebellion, and explores the legacy of Britain’s role in slavery and questions of personal and national responsibility.
BBC, Radio 4, March 6, 2022
Thomas Harding interviewing Alexandra Senfft, starting 29:00 minutes
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Friends of Paros, 9 January 2022
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Le 24 décembre 2021, un bateau a fait naufrage au large de l’île de Paros, en Grèce. Sur les 79 réfugiés qui avaient embarqué pour rejoindre l’Italie, 16 ont perdu la vie le jour du réveillon. La journaliste allemande Alexandra Senfft, habitante de l’île, était là. Elle raconte.
Mediaparte, 3 January 2022
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Η Αλεξάνδρα Σενφτ, δημοσιογράφος και εγγονή ναζιστή εγκληματία πολέμου μιλάει για την Απελευθέρωση
Deutsche Welle Greece, 6 October 2021
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Deeply ignorant – Pascal Bruckner’s hateful verbal crusade
In his controversial book published in 2020, French author Pascal Bruckner describes anti-Muslim sentiment as a fiction, claiming that the term “Islamophobia” is being used to silence criticism of the religion. Alexandra Senfft responds by highlighting the contradictions in a popular view of Islam and Muslims that leaves little room for nuance
Qantara.de, 17 February 2021
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Opponents of Covid-19 restrictions embrace idea of fighting totalitarian German state
Derek Scally, The Irish Times, 23/11/2020
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The long and public reckoning that followed the Holocaust shows a path forward for a United States that desperately needs to confront its racist past.
“In her [Senfft’s] estimation, even now, the Nazis have been “othered,” as if the evil hadn’t taken root in Germans’ own families and neighborhoods. Those who did confront the crimes of their ancestors could not have been prepared for what that realization would feel like…
In American textbooks and schools and families, the same phenomenon that Senfft described of Nazism is true.”
By Mattie Khan, Vox.com
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