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Politik [14.05.2021]
Amos Gvirtz: "A Mob"

Now that the unilateral war – using army, settler-colonists and police – which the State of Israel has been waging against the palestinians has turned bilateral.

On Wednesday night, May 12, 2021, I watched horrified as Israel Tv’s Channel 11 showed the mob marching in a Bat Yam main street, destroying Arabs’ businesses and trying to lynch an Arab that passed by in his car. No police was present to stop the mob from going wild. It claimed that policemen were on the alert on the border of Jaffa to prevent confrontations of the mob with Jaffa Arabs. The media was filled with reports about mobs on both sides trying to do the same thing in other places throughout the country – lynchings and property destruction.

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Politik [14.05.2021]
This time it’s different

by Ahmed Abu Artema

As I write, the building I live in here in Gaza is shaking continuously. Above us, Israeli F-16 warplanes pummel us with a seemingly endless barrage of bombs. I am writing amid a rapid flow of developing events, so it is certain that by the time this is published, many things may have changed, but I am trying to highlight the general features of this current round of escalation in Palestine.

The escalation began in Jerusalem during the month of Ramadan, in a series of provocations carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities. …

The full article can be found here.


Politik [04.05.2021]
The world wants to fight apartheid. Abbas is preserving it.

by Amjad Iraqi

It came as no surprise, yet remained profoundly disappointing, when President Mahmoud Abbas indefinitely “postponed” the Palestinian legislative elections scheduled to begin this month in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The official reason, delivered by the president last Thursday in a room full of elderly male officials, was Israel’s refusal to allow Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem to participate in the vote, showing its continued rejection of any Palestinian political activity in the city.

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Ergänzende Links:
INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM FROM ISRAEL-PALESTINE


Politik [03.05.2021]
Die IHRA-Antisemitismus-Definition ist ein Betrug (III)

Nachdem wir am 3. April 2021 detailliert erklärt haben, warum wir die IHRA-Antisemitismus-Definition für einen politischen Betrug halten, erreichte uns nun eine Studie aus England, die den Schluss zulässt, dass der Betrug noch viel tiefer geht.

How the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism Is Being Misrepresented

by Jamie Stern-Weiner, PhD candidate, Wolfson College (Oxford)

Executive Summary

It has been claimed that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism, ‘including its 11 examples’, reflects an international consensus of antisemitism experts. This report, based on my doctoral research at the University of Oxford, exposes that claim as untrue:

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Ergänzende Links:
How the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism Is Being Misrepresented
Reasons why no one should adopt the so-called “EUMC” or IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism (eccp)
Expert opinion on the “Working Definition of Antisemitism” of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (rlux)


Politik [27.04.2021]
hrw: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution

About 6.8 million Jewish Israelis and 6.8 million Palestinians live today between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River, an area encompassing Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the latter made up of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.

Throughout most of this area, Israel is the sole governing power; in the remainder, it exercises primary authority alongside limited Palestinian self-rule.

Across these areas and in most aspects of life, Israeli authorities methodically privilege Jewish Israelis and discriminate against Palestinians. Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli officials make plain that the objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power, and land has long guided government policy.

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Ergänzende Links:
A Threshold Crossed - Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution (hrw)
Born Without Civil Rights - Israel's Use of Draconian Military Orders to Repress Palestinians in the West Bank (hrw)


Politik [05.04.2021]
Palästinakomitee-Stuttgart - Infobl@tt März, 2021

Ja, die Partei „Jewish Power“ ist faschistisch, aber ihr Aufstieg war dennoch unvermeidlich von Jonathan Ofir // Israels Wahlen offenbaren dessen rassistische Natur von Yoav Haifawi // Israel verheimlicht die Wahrheit über die Tötung von Ahmad Erekat von Jonathan Cook // Jerusalemer Erklärung zum Antisemitismus und die palästinensische Zivilgesellschaft von Unterz. Jerusalemer Erklärung/BDS Movement // Anwälte fordern von derLabour-Partei eine Erklärung zur Einstellung eines israelischen Spions von Asa Winstanley // „Mein Vater liebte deutsche Literatur, aber misstraute den Deutschen“ von Abraham Melzer im Gespräch mit Gisa Funck // Über britischen Kolonialismus, Antisemitismus und die Rechte der Palästinenser von Avi Shlaim

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Politik [03.04.2021]
Die IHRA-Antisemitismus-Definition ist ein Betrug (II)

Nachdem wir bereits am 13. Nov 2020 erklärt haben, dass wir die IHRA-Antisemitismus-Definition für einen Betrug halten, hier die etwas ausführlichere Begründung.

Die Antisemitismus-Definition der International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) ist ein Betrug: Sie ist nicht nur als Definition wertlos und überflüssig. Da sie zum Missbrauch zum Schutz israelischer Staatsinteressen einlädt, ist sie auch noch rassistisch und antisemitisch.

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Ergänzende Links:
Stellungnahme der jüdischen Stimme zum EU-Handbuch zur Anwendung der IHRA-Arbeitsdefinition des Antisemitismus (js)


Gesellschaft [25.03.2021]
The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism: "Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish)".

The 'Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism' is a tool to identify, confront and raise awareness about antisemitism as it manifests in countries around the world today. It includes a preamble, definition, and a set of 15 guidelines that provide detailed guidance for those seeking to recognize antisemitism in order to craft responses. It was developed by a group of scholars in the fields of Holocaust history, Jewish studies, and Middle East studies to meet what has become a growing challenge: providing clear guidance to identify and fight antisemitism while protecting free expression. It has over 200 signatories.

You'll find the JDA-Website here.


Politik [22.03.2021]
Internationaler Antisemitismusgipfel: Frankfurter Bürgermeister erntet Absagen und Kritik

Am 16. März fand in Frankfurt der Mayors Summit Against Anti-Semitism statt. Zu den Gastgebern des Online-Events gehörte auch der Frankfurter Bürgermeister Uwe Becker, der zugleich DIG-Vorsitzender und hessischer Antisemitismus-Beauftragter ist.
Becker, ein erklärter Zionist, ist schon mehrfach wegen seiner Verachtung der Palästinenser und des internationalen Rechts negativ aufgefallen, insbesondere für die Verachtung der aus dem internationalen Recht entspringenden Rechte der Palästinenser.

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Ergänzende Links:
The Mayors of Bologna and Palermo Withdraw From a Summit Aimed at Shielding Israel From Accountability (BDS-Italia)
Open Letter to Mayors Concerning Upcoming Summit Against Antisemitism (UV)




Politik [09.03.2021]
'On British colonialism, antisemitism, and Palestinian rights' by Avi Shlaim

From the 'original sin' of 1917 to the government's more recent adoption of the controversial IHRA antisemitism definition, Britain has always been firmly in Israel's camp

The “original sin” was the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which promised to support the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people”, provided that nothing was done to “prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine”. In 1917, Arabs constituted 90 percent of the population of Palestine; Jews made up less than 10 percent.

The declaration was thus a classic colonial document: it granted the right to national self-determination to a small minority, while denying it to the majority. To add insult to injury, the declaration referred to 90 percent of the country’s inhabitants as “non-Jewish communities in Palestine”, relegating them to an inferior status. Although grotesquely imbalanced in favour of Jews, the declaration at least included a promise to protect the civil and religious rights of Palestinians - but even this promise was never kept.

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Politik [09.03.2021]
Palästinakomitee-Stuttgart - Infobl@tt Februar, 2021

Israel wird alle Hebel in Bewegung setzen, um eine Anklage wegen Kriegsverbrechen zu vermeiden von Jonathan Cook // Ungarn und Deutschland sprechen sich gegen das Urteil des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs aus... von The New Arab – Redaktion // Diese Datenbank deckt jahrzehntelange, zwielichtige Waffengeschäfte Israels auf von Sahar Vardi // Die israelische Rechte will, dass die arabische Bevölkerung wählt — unter einer Bedingung von Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury // Stellungnahme zum EU-Handbuch zur Anwendung der IHRA-Arbeitsdefinition des Antisemitismus von juedische-stimme.de

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Politik [09.03.2021]
"Jewish Crime" by Amos Gvirtz

I suppose any Jew would sense antisemitism in the headline above. We Jews have a historic cargo that justifies such a sense. And still I used this provocative headline. In recent days the Hebrew media are filled with reports on the criminality of Negev Bedouins, totally ignoring the State’s crimes against the Negev Bedouins. Right-wing media call it Bedouin crime. Right-wing politicians promise that if they win the coming elections, they will intensify law enforcement against Bedouin crime in the Negev.

This time I shall refrain from writing about the West Bank settler-colonist criminals and their emissaries in the illegal outposts who are sent to expel Palestinians from their own lands. I shall not write about the ongoing war crime that the Israeli army has been carrying in Humsa Al Baqi’a in the Palestinian Jordan Valley.

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Ergänzende Links:
Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality

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