It is April 2024, and we already have a serious candidate for the year's photograph title: On 12 April, the intervention of the German police interrupted the Palestinian Congress, which was to take place in Berlin. Among the arrested were Udi Raz, A zealous hebrew in a Red Jarmulka. The photograph taken during the arrest clearly shows the aggressively smiling police officers entering the Jew. Is anyone else acquainted with what happened regularly in Germany in the 1930s?
W Among the people affected by the current fight against anti-Semitism, about 30% of Germany are Jews. The Palestinian legislature itself was born as a joint initiative of the Berlin organization Jüdische Stimme für Gerechten Frieden in Nahost (Jewish Voice for Righteous Peace in the mediate East) and Diem25, whose leading figure is Janis Warufakis.
It is not surprising, therefore, that after the intervention of the police, the German Ministry of the Interior imposed not only a ban on entering Germany, but a complete ban on political activity and distant participation in any political event in the country. Warufakis has all right to claim that by imposing specified a ban, the German authorities have exceeded the limits of authoritarianism.
All parties, including the Greens and Die Linke, supported the ministry's decision, showing in full the strength of the fresh anti-Semitic nullification culture. Similar situations besides happen in the United States (a well-known polytholist Jodi Dean, for example, was forced to take leave by Hobart and William Smith College, fresh York for being published by her essay analysing the emancipative possible of the Hamas attack of 7 October), however, Germany continues to be an utmost example of appropriation Cancel culture by establishment.
To dispel any suspicion of the anti-Semitic possible of Warufakis, Just read them. It explicitly condemns all forms of anti-Semitism and demands only to measurement the same measurement of both sides of the conflict, or to halt applying apparent double standards.
On April 13, CNN tv reported that “hundreds of Israeli settlers surrounded Palestinian villages and attacked residents on the occupied West Bank after body found a missing boy from the estate.” Let us call these attacks by name: lynching by the crowd alternatively of a average police investigation, where Israel's defence Forces are only watching settlers do all the dirty work for them. Can anyone even imagine the reaction of the enlightened West if hundreds of Palestinians attacked Israeli settlements after any small Palestinian went missing?
Another example: On 18 January this year, Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected the Palestinian State's project, declaring that Israel would take over the full region now occupied by it: "I would so like to stress that, in any future arrangement, the State of Israel will control the full area, from river to sea."
The phrase “from river to sea” utilized by him for 3 months has been a subject of peculiar controversy. erstwhile Palestinians or anyone from the left uses this phrase, demanding free Palestine, as in the popular cry, “Free Palestine from river to sea”, the right unscrupulously convinces that it truly is simply a call to slaughter all the Jews in Israel. Now, the password that you've had before Considered a call for genocideNetanjah himself preaches.
In January I wrote that the phrase “from river to sea” is now seized by Israel. I recalled this phrase by accusing Israel of what it was actually doing and planning, and what it refused to admit publicly. And now, in the mouth of the Prime Minister of Israel himself, this wording should be considered a clear example of the public deficiency of any decency in our political discourse. And so on.
On April 2, 2024, Netanjah stated that The death of 7 humanitarian workers in Gaza is “a tragic case erstwhile our forces They attacked inadvertently. innocent people.” So erstwhile thousands of Palestinian children are killed in Gaza, is it not a tragic case in which “our forces inadvertently attacked innocent people”?
But now the hook slow begins to come out of the bag. Until recently, Israel had pretended to follow 2 principles. The first says that criticism of Israeli state policy is acceptable, but anti-Semitism is unacceptable. The second is that bombs dropped on Gaza are aimed at Hamas, which terrorizes average Palestinians, but are not aimed at the people of Gaza. However, this discrimination begins to fade. Netanjahu openly admitted in respective interviews that now that open anti-Semitism is banned, he is replaced by criticism of Israel.
Moreover, high-ranking Israeli officials are increasingly and increasingly saying that the full of Gaza is influenced by the Hamas ideology. Uncompromising Minister Smotricz insists that over 70% of Israelis support the concept of “encouraging voluntary immigration” due to the fact that “two million people wake up all morning [in Gaza] who want to destruct the State of Israel” — that is why each of them should be treated as a possible enemy. (Isn't this the origin of the Israeli army's massive bombing of Gaza?)
There is no uncertainty that the West Bank is next on the list. That is why the frequently repeated argument that “Israel will never truly win in vanquishing Hamas” is simply stupid and unsuccessful: the appropriate intent of the war from the point of view of Israel is to integrate Gaza and the West Bank full into the large Israel, extending from river to sea. The greater the threat Hamas remains, the more justified Israeli military interventions are.
If, after the demolition of most of the buildings and infrastructure in Gaza, Israel joins the ceasefire, this will undoubtedly be considered a manifestation of self-discipline and restraint by the Netanjah government. Similarly, if Israel does not respond more than always to Iranian drone attack. He will be considered a average force to prevent large-scale war in the mediate East. So come on, please, let him finish what he started in Gaza!
(By the way, we should avoid any solidarity with Iran at all costs. Especially now we must remember what It happened in Iran. over a year ago: immense riots that broke out after the Revolutionary defender killed Kurdijk in custody, and women's protests spread to full Iranian society, shaking the government in jobs).
Many commentators see an expanding gap between what the state media and the public in many developed Western countries, as well as in any arabian countries specified as Egypt, Jordan and Morocco, are reporting on the war in Gaza. The authorities mostly support Israel, while a large part of public opinion sympathizes with the Palestinians suffering in Gaza.
I see any risks here. If there is discontent among average people, It will take the form of anti-Semitism. Therefore, steps specified as the expulsion of Warufakis from Germany should besides be called by name: here is simply a new, perfidious chapter in anti-Semitism history.
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Copyright: task Syndicate, 2024. www.project-syncicate.org. From English she translated Dorota Blabolil-Obrębska.
