{"id":11440,"date":"2025-10-08T12:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/?p=11440"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:28:19","slug":"regula-staempfli-open-protest-against-the-terror-in-the-european-art-world-causa-milo-rau-his-letter-from-the-wiener-festwochen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/?p=11440","title":{"rendered":"Regula Staempfli: Open Protest against the Terror in the European Art World: Causa Milo Rau & his “Letter” from the Wiener Festwochen."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Milo Rau sent a letter worldwide: Read the pamphlet here: https:\/\/www.festwochen.at\/en\/letter-milo-rau<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 5, 2025 \u2013 the day Europe stood united against antisemitism \u2013 I marched with my family in Munich, alongside thousands across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. We rallied for democracy. We stood for Jewish life. We said: Never again is now<\/em>. And on that very same day, Milo Rau \u2013 artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen<\/em> \u2013 published a politically charged, anti-Israel screed titled \u201cLetter,\u201d under the official branding of one of Austria\u2019s most prestigious, publicly funded cultural institutions. The timing was no accident. The text was released near the second anniversary of the October 7 Hamas massacre, and it does what Rau has done before: blur lines between victim and perpetrator, justify terror as resistance, and frame silence about Hamas atrocities as somehow Nazi-esque<\/em>. According to Rau, if you don\u2019t join his ideological revolution, you\u2019re complicit \u2013 by bloodline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I denounce this letter for what it is:
\u27a1\ufe0f A dangerous distortion of history.
\u27a1\ufe0f A smear campaign against Israel.
\u27a1\ufe0f A manipulation of taxpayer-funded art to push a hardline, activist agenda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lets be clear: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t about freedom of expression.
It\u2019s about publicly funded institutions giving cover to a radical, one-sided worldview that excuses antisemitic violence \u2013 and brands dissenters as enemies.Hannah Arendt warned us of this exact mechanism: the erosion of political judgment through moral grandstanding. She called it the banality of evil<\/em>. Rau\u2019s letter fits the description. This isn\u2019t radical art. It\u2019s radical propaganda dressed in cultural robes. As a political philosopher, a European citizen, and a committed democrat, I am deeply alarmed at how mainstream antisemitic boycotts and cancel culture have become on our cultural stages since October 7. Rau\u2019s letter feeds that fire. It legitimizes the anti-Israel wing of the Eurovision movement. It pressures Jewish artists into silence. And it encourages others to fall in line \u2013 or risk being branded as fascists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not Art. This is Intimidation.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wiener Festwochen<\/em> must decide: Are they a platform for democratic dialogue \u2013 or for ideological warfare?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post Skriptum 10.10.2025 Austrian Nobel Prize Winner Elfride Jelinek signs Protest against Milo Rau. https:\/\/www.ots.at\/presseaussendung\/OTS_20251010_OTS0124\/absage-an-einen-aufruf-von-milo-rau<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Nachtkritik took up Regula Staempflis Protest as a commentary & publishes a long article on Milo Raus Letter : https:\/\/nachtkritik.de\/meldungen\/israel-gaza-offener-brief-gegen-milo-rau<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Milo Rau sent a letter worldwide: Read the pamphlet here: https:\/\/www.festwochen.at\/en\/letter-milo-rau On October 5, 2025 \u2013 the day Europe stood united against antisemitism \u2013 I marched with my family in Munich, alongside thousands across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. We rallied … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7051,8794,6579,9805,5685,8273,8274,8691,7040,8224,9614,8706,8692,8580,5683,8581,5686,5682,7011,9421,8275,5684,7369,10156],"tags":[10212,10211,9940,10207,10210],"class_list":["post-11440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artisapieceofcake","category-demokratie","category-diepodcastin","category-hannaharendtlectures-by-lastaempfli","category-ad-personam","category-basler-zeitung","category-blick-am-abend","category-chatgpt","category-clubhouse","category-codes","category-ensuite","category-hannaharendtlectures-lastaempfli","category-hsg-universitaet-st-gallen","category-ki-ai","category-kolumnen","category-kuenstliche-intelligenz-artificial-intelligence-ki-ai","category-lehre-vortraege","category-literaturblog","category-nebelspalter","category-nobelpreis","category-nzz","category-politik-philosophie-design-it","category-ta-swiss-future-podcast","category-ted-tedx","tag-islamofaschism-hamasterror-in-switzerland-germany-austria","tag-milorau","tag-milorau-wienerfestwochen-antisemitischekulturinstitutionen","tag-wien-wienerfestwochen-milorau-esc-antisemitismus-hamaskuschlerei-islamofaschismus-terrorismus-in-unseren-kulturinstitutionen","tag-regula-staempfli-open-protest-against-the-terror-in-the-european-art-world-causa-milo-rau-his-letter-from-the-wiener-festwochen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11440"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11450,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions\/11450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}