Germany’s education minister, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, will appear before parliament’s Education Committee next week, where she is expected to be grilled by the opposition over apparent efforts at her ministry to punish academics for public criticism. Education Ministry leaders have been under fire over its response to an open letter signed by academics in Berlin criticizing the use of police force to remove pro-Palestinian protesters from the Free University of Berlin. Stark-Watzinger denounced those who signed the letter in harsh and controversial terms. But leaked emails from within her min…