After liking anti-Semitic posts
TU President can decide whether to stay
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She had already apologized, then Geraldine Rauch applied for disciplinary proceedings against herself: Last week, the university president “liked” anti-Semitic posts on X. Now she speaks of “deep remorse.” She can now decide for herself whether she wants to keep her position.
According to the Academic Senate of the Technical University of Berlin, the controversial President of the Technical University, Geraldine Rauch, should decide for herself by early Thursday evening whether she wants to stay at the university or not. The committee did not vote on Rauch's whereabouts on Wednesday, said the head of the committee, Annette Hiller, after the four and a half hour meeting. Instead, an opinion was collected among the 25 members as to whether Rauch should stay at the university or not. This opinion was communicated to the president and the decision as to whether she wanted to stay at the university or not was placed in her hands.
Rauch now has 24 hours to comment. On Thursday it should also be made public how the committee expressed itself in the opinion survey, said a spokeswoman. The Academic Senate is made up of university teachers, academic staff, students and employees for technology, service and administration.
According to media reports, Rauch is said to have “liked” X posts on the platform in which, among other things, the war in Gaza was described as genocide or Israel as a war criminal. Her X account has now been deleted, so her likes there cannot be easily traced. She herself also wrote that she had liked a tweet because of its text and had not taken a closer look at the picture posted underneath it at the time. “This was a mistake for which I sincerely apologize, as this image uses symbols and equations that I do not own and strongly reject.” She was referring to a post with photos of demonstrators holding up a picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a painted swastika.
Rauch apologized for liking it and explained that they liked the post because of its text and did not take a closer look at the picture posted underneath. The author of the tweet states that the images show Turkish demonstrators calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
