Anya Topolski is an associate professor in ethics and political philosophy at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her current research is in the field of critical philosophy of race and focuses on the race-religion constellation in Europe. Recent articles include “The Race-Religion Constellation: A European Contribution to the Critical Philosophy of Race” (Critical Philosophy of Race, 2018) and “Good Jew, Bad Jew: ‘Managing’ Europe’s Others” (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2017). Her areas of expertise are: racism, political philosophy, ethics, European identity and exclusion, gender, antisemitism and Islamophobia, political theology, Jewish thought, Arendt, Levinas, Zionism, and Judeo-Christianity.
Liberal denialism is key in deflecting any responsibility or accountability, and it is this position of “not taking a position” that enables the impunity of perpetrators, enabling even more violence.