The Left: Hengameh Yaghoobifarah has joined the Left Party

Should you go when things are at their best – and come when things are at their worst? Hengameh Yaghoobifarah probably thought the latter and therefore joined the Left Party. The journalist and author, who describes himself as non-binary, announced this on Tuesday on the social media platform Bluesky, with the slogan “just do it”. Perhaps Yaghoobifarah, born in Kiel in 1991 to Iranian parents and raised there, could actually bring a breath of fresh air to the left’s sails – after all, he*she is a person with a wide media reach and unafraid of controversy.

Yaghoobifarah’s journalistic statements have repeatedly triggered ongoing debates in the feature sections and beyond – for example, in 2016, when he*she accused dreadlocked white visitors to the left-alternative Fusion Festival of cultural appropriation, or in 2018, when he*she, until then the mouthpiece of the anti-racist movement , post-colonial part of the left, declared itself to be “anti-German again” because “anti-anti-Semitism” should not be left to the “potatoes”.

For Yaghoobifarah, “potatoes” are non-migrant Germans who all too often lack intercultural sensitivity. In 2020, Yaghoobifahrah was even threatened with a report from then Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) because he*she had equated police officers with garbage in her*his »Taz« column in the context of the debates about police violence.

Regardless of whether you agree with Yaghoobifahrah or not, whether you roll your eyes or clap: it won’t be boring with this person, who is very popular in the cultural world and who published her debut novel “Ministry of Dreams” in 2021.

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