Israeli-Palestinian film on West Bank occupation branded 'antisemitic' by Berlin city portal (Middle East Eye, 2024-11-13)
“#Berlin's official online portal has faced backlash for claiming the Israeli-Palestinian film No Other Land about Israel's takeover in the occupied West Bank contained ‘antisemitic tendencies’.”
“In a post on X (formerly Twitter), [one of the directors Yuval] Abraham said he felt ‘unsafe and unwelcome in Berlin’ because of the designation.”
“The Berlin portal's commentary was criticised in a number of quarters, including by German ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert.” 👀
“The text on the site was later changed, along with an admission that the original description had been ‘incorrect and inadmissible’.”
🤔 They could have just erased the first expression and remained silent. A glimpse of conscience?
https://www.berlin.de/kino//_bin/filmdetail.php/299743 (screenshot -in German- below)
\#NoOtherLand #FakeAntisemitism @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
Weaponizing Jewish fear, from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam: Rhetoric about ‘pogroms’ and ‘Jew hunts’ aims to obscure reality by generating mass hysteria — which can then be used to advance a far-right agenda. (+972 Magazine, 2024-11-15)
https://www.972mag.com/amsterdam-maccabi-tel-aviv-antisemitism/ ———
“In the wake of October 7, scholars of antisemitism, genocide, and Jewish history have warned of the ways that particularly traumatic episodes in Jewish history have been evoked to justify Israel’s onslaught on Gaza and crack down on those who criticize it. As antisemitism scholar Brendan McGeever articulated clearly, despite being brutal and disturbing, the incident in Amsterdam was no pogrom ... The proliferation of this term and others like it in the aftermath of the violence only served to obfuscate the reality of those events through creating mass hysteria…“
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel \#MaccabiTelAviv #FakeAntisemitism #972Magazine
Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks | Reuters (2024-11-16)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/ ——— 🙊 No comment (is also a comment)
“Several Muslim and Arab supporters of Trump said they hoped Richard Grenell, Trump's former acting director of national intelligence, would play a key role after he led months of outreach to Muslim and Arab American communities, and was even introduced as a potential next secretary of state at events.
“Another key Trump ally, Massad Boulos, the Lebanese father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany, met repeatedly with Arab American and Muslim leaders.
“Both promised Arab American and Muslim voters that Trump was a candidate for peace who would act swiftly to end the wars in the Middle East and beyond…”
☕️ Palestine Café 🫖 Sunday 17.11.2024 | 03:00 pm | Interbüro Genter Straße 60 13353 #Berlin
via https://todon.eu/@Demo/_Ticker/_Berlin/113489417236443797
“The Palestine Café in Wedding is a meeting place for people who want to exchange ideas against the genocide in Palestine and the racist incitement by the media and politics. This is week we will be looking into the Berlin Security Conference that is taking place on the 19th and 20th of November.”
"Israel will disappear"… an impressive thread.
https://social.coop/@raph/113478526116527333 ff. 🧵
“… Israel as we know it (a militaristic, apartheid state that offers democracy and liberalism to Jews only) is disappearing. It is slowly but surely becoming theocratic and authoritarian, even to Jews…”
Fr. Albanese’s answer to a question “Do you believe that Israel has a right to exist?”
https://social.coop/@raph/113477119266226969
🙏 I couldn’t but transcribe. Corrections welcome.
“Israel does exist. Israel is a recognised member of the United Nations. Beside this, there is not such a thing in International Law like a right of a state to exist. Does Italia have a right to exist? Italia exists! Now, if tomorrow Italia and France want to merge, and become “Itafrance”, fine! This is not up to us. What is enshrined in International Law is the right of a people to exist. So the state is there, the state of Israel is there, is protected as a member of the United Nations. Does this justify the erasure of another people? - a “No”. Not 75 years ago, not 57 years ago, surely not today. Where is the protection of the Palestinian people, from erasure, from annexation, from illegal occupation, and apartheid? This is what we need to discuss, hmm?”
\#FrancescaAlbanese @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @raph
'Absurdist': Jewish Artists Warn Against Germany's New Antisemitism Resolution (Haaretz, 2024-11-12)
https://lmy.de/OttKk ——— ＊Gift link＊ from Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum https://wisskomm.social/@mmzpotsdam/113474618449238509
“Jewish artists and academics in Germany have come out strongly against a new government resolution aimed at combating antisemitism, with some warning that it may lead to a surreal situation where Jewish and Israeli human rights groups are deemed antisemitic by the German state.”
“Historian Prof. Miriam Rürup, who heads the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies, says she saw a ‘shocking’ subtext in the resolution. ‘It speaks of Jews as a “gift” and of “our” gratitude that Jewish life exists in contemporary Germany.’ To her, this resonates as a division into ‘them’ and ‘us,’ effectively othering Jews.
“As a Jew in Germany, she declares, ‘I don't want to be seen as a gift.’"
\#NieWiederIstJetzt #FakeAntisemitism #Othering @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
After suspension, MK Cassif defends criticism of IDF as ‘well-founded statements’ (Times of Israel, 2024-11-11)
“MK Ofer Cassif defends comments he made about the IDF and Israel’s war in Gaza over which the Knesset Ethics Committee voted today to suspend him for six months.
“‘My political statements against the occupation, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and genocide committed by the Israeli government in Gaza – witnessed by the entire world – are well-founded statements protected under the freedom of political expression,’ Cassif says in a statement.”
“‘My punishment is a continuation of the political persecution of opponents of the war and critics of [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s bloody rule,’ Cassif asserts, adding that he is ‘proud to be a partner of the good people who are persecuted by this evil government.’”
My pleasure.
FYI, in “Politbarometer”, a popular poll broadcasted monthly in ZDF (the 2nd public tv in #Germany ) , it’s been already obvious that majority (e.g. 69 % in March) find Israeli military activities in Gaza unjustified. cf.,
https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/112141595763240561
No military support to Israel, says German “people”…
From The Berlin Pulse Survey 2024/2025: A representative survey on German attitudes to foreign policy commissioned by Körber-Stiftung, p. 26 https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/the-berlin-pulse/2024-25/
See how far apart the government and people stand in #Germany. (No singularity in this world btw)
(Alt txt) How should Germany react to the war between Israel and Hamas? Germany should ...
Provide humanitarian aid for the people in Gaza: 87% Act as a mediator between Israel and Hamas: 64% Stay out of the war: 56% Support Israel militarily in the war against Hamas: 19%
don't know 1%, no answer 1%
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel \#StopGenocide #StopArmingIsrael
No Other Land | Akademie der Künste, #Berlin
https://www.adk.de/en/programme/index.htm?we%5C_objectID=67228 ———
“The Akademie der Künste is showing No Other Land on 12 November. The screening will be followed by a talk with the filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra. [Moderator: Hanno Hauenstein]
“No Other Land will be released in German cinemas on 14 November 2024. The film had its world premiere at the Berlinale in February 2024 in the Panorama section and was awarded the Berlinale Documentary Award and the Panorama Audience Award.”
BTW the event is sold out.
\#NoOtherLand @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
Jewish Organizations Around the Globe Condemn German Parliamentary Resolution on Antisemitism
[List of organisations 1/2]
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
• A Different Jewish Voice (Netherlands)
• Agrupación mexicana de judíxs interdependientes
• Alternative Jewish Voices of Aotearoa/New Zealand
• Antizionist Jewish Alliance in Belgium – AJAB (Belgium)
• Articulação Judaica de Esquerda (Brazil)
• Boycott from Within (Palestine/Israel)
• Dayenu – New Zealand Jews Against Occupation
• Een Andere Joodse Stem (Belgium)
• Erev Rav (Netherlands)
• European Jews for Palestine
• Global Jews for Palestine
• International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (Canada)
• International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (UK)
• Israelis Against Apartheid (Israel/Palestine)
• Jewish Call for Peace (Luxembourg)
• Jewish Network for Palestine (UK)
• Jewish Voice for Labour (UK)
• Jewish Voice for Peace (USA)
• Jews for Palestine – Ireland
• Jews Say No! (USA)
… Our solidarity with Palestinians is already exposing us to police violence, and the antisemitism of those who would force us to be Zionists blends perfectly with the antisemitism of those who would put us in concentration camps.
Instead of uniting society in the fight against all discrimination, any such resolution will divide minorities by focusing only on one. But the present resolution goes much further, demanding that the whole of German society accept the state’s support for Israel and its countless documented crimes, and that those who resist this doctrine of genocide should be punished by all available means, ...
The call of “never again” was meant as a warning against the very crimes being perpetrated by Israel in Palestine, yet this resolution desecrates it by using it for a racist agenda that promotes rather than prevents antisemitism, and harms Jews along with other minorities. It must be opposed in every possible way.
7/8
Despite claiming that freedom of speech, art and science must be protected, the resolution paves the way for an even greater stifling of those freedoms than has already been widespread, especially since October 2023. All major parties are now officially in favour of preventing funding for any project challenging the pro-Israel consensus and of silencing, uninviting, dismissing or even deporting anyone associated with such activities. The centrality of such funding gives the state immense powers of censorship, which inevitably lead to increasing self-censorship by those who wish to avoid repression. Given the rightward shift of German society and politics, it will not take long for such tools to fall into the hands of fascists. We already see the far right cynically using philosemitism (itself a racist phenomenon) as a cover for racism, and we know all too well that the people itching to expel Muslims will not hesitate to do the same with Jews…
6/8
… The writings by scholars criticizing the definition are too many to mention, and even one of its main authors, Kenneth Stern, has expressed his dismay at the use of the definition to stifle opposition to Israeli policies. Similarly, experts from the legal, cultural and academic fields, have warned against this resolution. And, like the Bundestag’s infamous anti-BDS resolution of 2019, the new one exploits its status as a non-binding statement to make demands that would be blatantly unconstitutional in actual legislation. As the 2019 resolution demonstrated, the repressive obedience found in German institutions is sufficient to turn even a text with no legal force into a de facto law, relying on the chilling effect that accompanies any potential accusation of antisemitism. And while that resolution called for combatting the boycott movement, the present one seeks to outlaw it.
5/8
While those most vulnerable to the policies affirmed and demanded in this resolution are migrants of colour and refugees, its cynical weaponization of antisemitism also makes hostages of all Jews, whose safety is used as a pretext for the persecution of other minorities. We reject the conflation of our identity with the settler colonial ideology of Zionism and the genocidal actions of Israel, which we condemn as strongly as do the Palestinians whom it oppresses and destroys, with whom we stand in lasting solidarity. This conflation is antisemitic in itself.
As in past resolutions and declarations, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism is taken as the gold standard in determining how antisemitism should be understood. …
4/8
The resolution reaffirms the approach […] , focusing on opposition to Israel’s crimes as the most important site of antisemitism. This is used to place migrants and refugees, especially Arabs and Muslims, under particular suspicion of antisemitism, along with the sparse elements of the political left that support their rights. It is consistent with this that the parties of the supposed political centre were supported enthusiastically by the fascist AfD (…), a party that has formulated a concrete plan to “remigrate” 2 million migrants from Germany to North Africa and has a higher approval rating than any of the governing parties; it expressed its joy… […] In joining forces with the fascists to support a resolution that calls for stricter immigration and citizenship guidelines based on attitudes towards Israel, all major parliamentary parties have clearly signalled their commitment to mass deportation and increasingly normalized racism.
3/8
While paying lip service to “all the facets” of Jewish life, the resolution narrows that life down to one element: the state of Israel. A reminder of Germany’s responsibility after the crimes of the Holocaust is directly followed in the text by a reference to the attack of October 7th 2023 from the Gaza Strip, which resulted from decades of Israel’s dispossession, oppression and murder of Palestinians and triggered a genocidal onslaught that has now lasted for over a year. Germany has been an accomplice in this genocide from the start through unceasing military and political assistance, becoming the second-biggest arms supplier and even promising its support for Israel in the genocide lawsuit initiated by South Africa at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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Jüdische Organisationen weltweit verurteilen die Bundestagsresolution zu Antisemitismus
\#NieWiderIstJetzt #FakeAntisemitism List of the organisations in the end of this 🧵 [quote]
Jewish Organizations Around the Globe Condemn German Parliamentary Resolution on Antisemitism
11 November 2024
As Jewish organizations in 19 countries on 6 continents, representing a multitude of members from diverse Jewish backgrounds and traditions, we declare our outrage and condemnation towards the resolution passed in the German Bundestag on November 7th under the title “Never Again Is Now: Protecting, Preserving and Strengthening Jewish Life”. The content of the resolution makes a mockery of its own title.
1/8
Thanks for sharing.
As Youtube link in the official site doesn’t work well, this is a helpful alternative I guess.
The film #Israelism now on YouTube Al Jazeera channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6J7Q6L0yw
cf. https://hcommons.social/@adachika192/112948017391219998
Official Site: https://www.israelismfilm.com/
What to Know About the Attacks on Israeli Soccer Fans in Amsterdam (New York Times, 2024-11-08)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/world/europe/amsterdam-israel-soccer-fans-attacks.html?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.ZE4.xu73.WY4VRFbygmPZ ＊Gift article link＊ ———
With a certain amount of the Israeli #Maccabi (hooli)fans’ violence described, and yet this headline…
“What happened before the game?
“Street disturbances began Wednesday night, a full day before the match, after Maccabi fans began arriving in Amsterdam.
“The authorities in Amsterdam said supporters of Maccabi had taken down a Palestinian flag from a building. A video posted to social media and verified by The New York Times shows men climbing a building to tear down a Palestinian flag while others nearby shout anti-Arab chants…“
“Peter Holla, Amsterdam’s police chief, said that on Wednesday night Maccabi fans had burned a Palestinian flag in Dam Square,… and had attacked a taxi; 10 people were detained, mostly on charges of disrupting public order…”
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel \#FakeAntisemitism
Japanese Military Industrial Complex supporting IDF, concealed
Israeli air strikes damage Lebanese University buildings in Beirut (Middle East Monitor, 2024-11-09)
“Israeli air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburb Friday night caused severe damage to some buildings at the Lebanese University, state media reported, Anadolu Agency reports.”
“The Rafik Hariri campus is one of the largest complexes of the Lebanese University, housing many of its faculties, including science, engineering, medicine, pharmacy, and others.”
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel \#Lebanon #University
Hanno Hauenstein on X summarised about a coming German parliamentary resolution titled «Never again is now: Protecting, preserving and strengthening Jewish life in Germany»
https://x.com/hahauenstein/status/1852632568593629376
“Germany is pushing a parliamentary resolution linking residency guarantees, asylum and public funding for arts and science to a loyalty oath to a state currently facing genocide charges at the International Court of Justice. This deserves international attention.”
I totally agree.
\#GermanyLost #Antisemitism #FakeAntisemitism #NieWiederIstJetzt @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
Verhandlungen im Bundestag: Ampel und Union einigen sich auf Resolution gegen Antisemitismus (Spiegel, 2024-11-01)
“… nun ist die Einigung da. »Nie wieder ist jetzt: Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland schützen, bewahren und stärken«, lautet der Titel des vierseitigen Entwurfs, der dem SPIEGEL vorliegt…”
“… Israel habe das völkerrechtlich verbriefte Recht, sich gegen völkerrechtswidrige Angriffe zu verteidigen und damit die anerkannte Pflicht, seine Bürger unter Wahrung seiner völkerrechtlichen Verpflichtungen vor Terror zu schützen, heißt es in dem Text.
“Die Bundesregierung wird aufgefordert, weiterhin aktiv für die Existenz und die legitimen Sicherheitsinteressen des Staates Israel als ein zentrales Prinzip der deutschen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik einzutreten…”
Fast eine Kriegserklärung gegen Vernunft und Menschlichkeit.
\#GermanyLost #Antisemitism #FakeAntisemitism #NieWiederIstJetzt @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage (Independent, 2024-11-01)
(Link to the “Letter for Gaza” https://substack.com/inbox/post/151024243?utm%5C_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true )
“More than 100 BBC employees are accusing the corporation of providing favourable coverage toward Israel and are calling on the broadcaster to ‘recommit to fairness, accuracy, and impartiality’ over its reporting on Gaza.
“In a letter sent to Tim Davie, signed by more than 230 members of the media industry, including 101 anonymous BBC staff, the corporation is criticised for failing its own editorial standards by lacking ‘consistently fair and accurate evidence-based journalism in its coverage of Gaza’”.
\#BBC #OpenLetter #FairJournalism @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
Doctors Without Borders’ surgeon detained in #Gaza
https://x.com/MSF/_canada/status/1852004307022835909
X post from Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières, 12:06 AM · Nov 1, 2024
“Doctors Without Borders received confirmation that Dr Obeid #MSF orthopedic surgeon has been detained by Israeli forces w/ several medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital during a military operation at the hospital. We are extremely alarmed by the detention of our colleague”
\#KamalAdwan #StopGenocide @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
Opinion | Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon May Doom Kamala Harris’s White House Chances: Michigan’s Lebanese community is being asked to overcome its grief. That’s a tall order. (Abby Ellis | The Intercept, 2024-10-26)
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/26/kamala-harris-michigan-voters-lebanon-israel/
\#USPol #Michigan @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
[Israeli NGOs warn international community… continued]
“Human rights NGOs based in Israel today called on the international community to take action now to prevent Israel from forcibly transferring hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have remained in the Northern Gaza Strip outside of the area, including by denying entry of essential humanitarian aid and fuel. The Israeli ceasefire coalition, the groups Gisha, B’Tselem, PHR-I and Yesh Din, said that there are alarming signs that the Israeli military is beginning to quietly implement the Generals’ Plan, also referred to as the Eiland Plan, which calls for complete forcible transfer of the civilians of the northern Gaza Strip through tightening the siege on the area and starving the population.”
Renowned Syrian journalist Safaa Ahmad killed in Israeli airstrike on Damascus
Renowned Syrian journalist Safaa Ahmad killed in Israeli airstrike on Damascus https://www.arabnews.com/node/2573471
Adachi Kaori @hcommons.social An independent historian focusing on Medieval #Iberia; al-Andalus; #Mozarabe...
At the moment researching on Roman/Latin/Christian past reflected in al-Andalus.
\#Orosius #IsidorusHispalensis #alAndalus
中世イベリア半島史・アンダルス・モサラベ。博士（学術）。所属なし。