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German architecture award rescinded over British artist’s Israel boycott vow (Guardian, 2024-11-18)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/18/german-architecture-award-rescinded-british-artist-israel-boycott-vow-james-bridle
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"[the Schelling Architecture Foundation] has rescinded one of its … awards from a British artist [James Bridle] over the signing of an open letter promising a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions, citing the German parliament’s controversial antisemitism resolution as a factor behind the decision.”

“… on Sunday, days before this Wednesday’s awards ceremony …, Bridle was informed in an email that the foundation’s committee had decided unanimously not to award them the prize because Bridle was among the several thousand authors who signed an open letter calling for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.”

“In its email … the foundation further linked its decision to a cross-party resolution passed by the German parliament earlier this month.”

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#NieWiederIstJetzt #FakeAntisemitism

Live Updates: I.C.C. Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant: The International Criminal Court rejected Israel’s challenges to its jurisdiction, and also issued a warrant for a top Hamas official. Its chief prosecutor had sought the arrests for war crimes in Gaza.
(New York Times, 2024-11-21)

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/21/world/israel-netanyahu-hamas-gaza?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.bk4.jwQE.BCnDXqhSny-E
＊Gift article link＊

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Israeli-Palestinian film on West Bank occupation branded 'antisemitic' by Berlin city portal (Middle East Eye, 2024-11-13)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-film-west-bank-occupation-branded-antisemitic-berlin-city-portal
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“#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
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Israeli-Palestinian film on West Bank occupation branded 'antisemitic' by Berlin city portal (Middle East Eye, 2024-11-13)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-film-west-bank-occupation-branded-antisemitic-berlin-city-portal
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“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
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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/
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“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…“

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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/
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🙊 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…”

#USPol
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☕️ 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.”

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"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…”

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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?”

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'Absurdist': Jewish Artists Warn Against Germany's New Antisemitism Resolution (Haaretz, 2024-11-12)

https://lmy.de/OttKk
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＊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
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After suspension, MK Cassif defends criticism of IDF as ‘well-founded statements’ (Times of Israel, 2024-11-11)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog/_entry/after-suspension-mk-cassif-defends-criticism-of-idf-as-well-founded-statements/
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“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.’”

h/t https://mastodon.world/@mkpetkova/113474920266562062

#OferCassif #WarCrime

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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%

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