Neue Zürcher Zeitung publishes clarification
Following a settlement agreement, the newspaper published a clarification regarding an article that accused the D-ARCH of having become a hotspot for scientifically disguised anti-Semitism with alumna and former Visiting Professor Samia Henni at its centre.
In June 2024, the gta Institute issued a statement defending the academic excellence of its then Visiting Professor Samia Henni and protesting that an NZZ article containing false allegations about her scholarship remained online uncorrected.
Thanks to external page a crowdfunding, Samia Henni was able to take legal action in order to protect her personality rights and to defend academic integrity. Following a settlement agreement between the NZZ and Samia Henni, which ended the civil and criminal procedures, the newspaper published the clarification below in print (6 June 2025) and at the end of the online article, where it will stay permanently.
"In unseren Artikeln vom 19. März 2024 mit dem Titel "Israelhass an der ETH" (Printausgabe) bzw. "Israelhass in der Architekturszene - ETH-Mitarbeiter feiern den 7. Oktober und unterzeichnen offene Briefe von Hamas-Freunden" (Online) von Stephan Trüby wurde unter anderem Samia Henni erwähnt. Sollte der Eindruck entstanden sein, Samia Henni vertrete antisemitische Positionen oder stelle das Existenzrecht Israels infrage, vor allem in ihrer wissenschaftlichen Publikation "Architecture of Counterrevolution - The French Army in Northern Algeria", so stellen wir klar, dass dies nicht unsere Absicht war."
Clarification in the NZZ from 6 June 2025