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HEIST

HEIST
Berlin, Germany
Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
Palestinian Diaspora In Germany
Alternative Für Deutschland (afd)
Afd
LGBT Rights In Germany
Germany
Berlin
Nazism
Immigration
Hudhaifa Al-Mashhadani
Palestine
Ibn Khaldun School
Yossi Bartal
Israel

Steal the media back. A podcast from Berlin's worker-owned magazine. HEIST brings you stories from Berlin you won’t get anywhere else. From the journalists and experts who cover the most relevant stories for Berlin, Europe, and the world.

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On whether Elon Musk really "went crazy," and the neoliberal roots of the far-right.

People always ask,”What happened to Elon? When did he go crazy?”

But maybe we have the wrong measure of madness. If Musk did go mad, he’s been rewarded massively fo... more

Historian Ben Miller on the use and abuse of queer politics by the German far-right and the disturbing rise of homonationalism.

When an AfD candidate was criticized for referencing a concentration camp badge on a campaign billboard, the party’s defen... more

Journalist Yossi Bartal on the Al-Mashhadani case

In November 2025, Hudhaifa Al-Mashhadani, the "Professor Doctor" director of a German-Arabic school in Neukölln, claimed he had been shoved toward a moving U-Bahn train by a keffiyeh-wearing attacker.... more

Journalist Hebh Jamal on surviving the German Staatsräson and "imported antisemitism"

Germany holds the largest Palestinian population anywhere in Europe, yet Palestinians are officially recorded by the state as "stateless" or "undetermined." In a c... more

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Recent Guests

Ben Miller
Historian and writer; author of Heist feature
Independent historian and writer
Episode: LGBTAfD
Yossi Bartal
Journalist reporting on Neukölln and the Mashhadani case
TATS, Diasporist (as referenced)
Episode: The U-Bahn assassination that never happened
Hebh Jamal
Journalist who wrote a feature on how it feels to be Palestinian in Berlin
HEIST Magazine / Journalist
Episode: How it feels to be Palestinian in Berlin

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LGBTAfD
Q: Do you think Pim Fortuyn sets the template for the modern right?
Fortuyn represents an early liberal yet anti-immigrant right that leveraged a flamboyant personal image and controversial statements to broaden appeal, and his model influenced later European far-right strategies including how sexuality and liberalism are invoked in politics.
LGBTAfD
Q: What is the relationship in the AfD to their sort of queer politics?
The AfD is structurally homophobic and transphobic, using queer politics to signal toughness while policing boundaries of legitimacy, and they deploy this to mobilize conservative voters and deflect criticism, often pairing it with anti-immigrant rhetoric.

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