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.

cf. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ampelfraktionen-und-union-einigen-sich-auf-resolution-gegen-antisemitismus-a-7ab67476-a762-410a-a8cb-67e2c2601168 (in German)

\#GermanyLost #Antisemitism #NieWiederIstJetzt @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel

Verhandlungen im Bundestag: Ampel und Union einigen sich auf Resolution gegen Antisemitismus (Spiegel, 2024-11-01)

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ampelfraktionen-und-union-einigen-sich-auf-resolution-gegen-antisemitismus-a-7ab67476-a762-410a-a8cb-67e2c2601168 ———

“… 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 #NieWiederIstJetzt @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel

More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage (Independent, 2024-11-01)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bbc-israel-gaza-letter-tim-davie-bias-palestine-b2636737.html ———

(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 @[email protected] @[email protected] @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 @[email protected] @[email protected] @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 @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel

For Gaza’s schoolchildren, another year of destruction, loss, and uncertainty: Makeshift schools in tent camps have served thousands of Palestinian children. But can they survive the approaching winter and Israel’s intensifying assaults? (+972 Magazine, 2024-10-24)

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-tent-schools-scholasticide/ ———

\#scholasticide #StopGenocide @[email protected] @[email protected]

Open Letter | Israeli citizens calling for true international pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire. (Israeli Citizens For International Pressure)

https://israelicitizensforin.live-website.com/english/ ———

In eleven languages: Hebrew, Arabic, French, Russian, Italian, German, Chinese, Spanish, Greek, Turkish.

“We, Israeli citizens residing in Israel and abroad, call on the international community – the UN and its institutions, the United States, the European Union, the League of Arab States, and all states around the world – to intervene immediately and implement every possible sanction towards achieving an immediate ceasefire between Israel and its neighbors, for the future of both peoples in Israel/Palestine and the peoples of the region...”

“Many of us are veteran activists against the occupation, for peace and mutual existence in this land…”

“Please, … save us from ourselves, and use real pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire.”

@[email protected] @[email protected] @israel \#CeasefireNow

Iranian-German Photographer Asked to Apologize for Saying “Free Palestine”: The German Photographic Society called Shirin Abedi’s award acceptance speech “dogmatic fanaticism” and “anti-Israeli agitation.” (Hyperallergic, 2024-19-23)

https://hyperallergic.com/960502/iranian-german-shirin-abedi-photographer-asked-to-apologize-for-saying-free-palestine/ ——— ＊With a short video of her giving speech in kufiya＊

“At its October 12 gala, the organization presented the laureates of this year’s awards, including Iranian-German photographer Shirin Abedi, ... Upon receiving her award, Abedi made a minute-long statement that ended with a call to ‘free Palestine.’”

“A few days after the ceremony, German photojournalist Thomas Gerwers, the chairman of DGPh’s Art, Market, and Law Section, sent Abedi a letter asking the artist to issue an apology and accusing her of ‘political propaganda.‘”

“‘… we have a special responsibility for the right of the State of Israel to exist. Without ifs and buts,’ he continued. ‘We have been abused by you …’”

\#GermanyLost @[email protected] @[email protected]

‘Copy-paste the West Bank to Gaza’: Hundreds join Gaza resettlement event (+972 Magazine, 2024-10-22)

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-israeli-resettlement-event-sukkot/ ———

“‘We came here with one clear purpose: to settle the entire Gaza Strip.’ That was the declaration of Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss at a gathering of hundreds of right-wing Israelis near Gaza on Monday, where they celebrated the Jewish festival of #Sukkot by calling to erect settlements inside the besieged enclave.”

“…this well-organized, calm, and joyous gathering — which was approved and held against all logic in a closed military zone near the border, and was attended by several senior figures in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party — marked a new step in the effort to mainstream the idea of resettling Gaza with Jewish Israelis.”

@[email protected] @[email protected] @israel \#StopGenocide

Schlecht gespielte Wut: Vorwürfe an Özoğuz (junge Welt, 2024-10-23)

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/486256.schlecht-gespielte-wut.html ———

“Bundestagsvizepräsidentin Aydan Özoğuz (SPD) … soll sich nach Ansicht der üblichen Ankläger des Antisemitismus und des Israel-Hasses schuldig gemacht haben, auf die als Mindeststrafe der Rücktritt stehen sollte. Der ihr angelastete Fauxpas: Sie hatte am vorigen Mittwoch einen Post der US-amerikanischen Gruppe »Jewish Voice for Peace« auf Instagram geteilt, also billigend weiterverbreitet. Zu sehen war eine Flammenwand mit dem Text »This is Zionism«. Entstanden war die Aufnahme am Montag voriger Woche bei einem israelischen Luftangriff auf ein Zeltlager von Flüchtlingen im Gazastreifen, durch den vier Menschen lebend verbrannten und Dutzende andere Verletzungen, zum Teil Verbrennungen von 60 bis 80 Prozent, erlitten…”

\#GermanyLost #antisemitism @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel

‘The state killed Shirel [Golan]’: Nova festival survivor found dead at home on her 22 birthday (Jerusalem Post, 2024-10-21)

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-825400#825400 ———

“Shirel Golan, a survivor of the massacre at the Nova Music Festival, was found dead in her apartment on her 22nd birthday.”

“According to her family, Golan suffered from post-trauma due to the horrific events she experienced at the festival on October 7, ...”

“Her family said they did not receive adequate assistance from state authorities to get her the necessary treatment … to deal with her experiences.”

@[email protected] @[email protected] @israel \#NovaFestivalSurvivor

She Exposed a Prestigious Medical Journal’s Silence on the Holocaust. Now She’s Asking about Gaza: A historian who exposed the New England Journal of Medicine's silence on Nazi atrocities confronted the journal’s treatment of Gaza during a Harvard symposium. (The Intercept, 2024-10-17)

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/17/new-england-journal-medicine-israel-gaza-hospitals/ ———

“Earlier this year, two Harvard medical historians published an article … found that the New England Journal of Medicine, … either chose not to cover the Nazi regime’s racist and antisemitic health policies, mass killings, and medical experimentation, or, in one case, praised the Nazi health care system for its approach to public health.

“The New England Journal of Medicine convened a symposium on Wednesday where the authors, Joelle M. Abi-Rached and Allan M. Brandt, could present their findings — and Abi-Rached took the opportunity to call the journal out for repeating its mistakes today.”

@[email protected] @[email protected] @israel \#SilenceIsComplicity

Pro-Palestine protesters shut down London's Tower Bridge (Jerusalem Post, 2024-10-20)

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-825262#825262 ———

“Pro-Palestine protesters shut down Tower Bridge in #London on Saturday, shortly after thousands attended a mass protest in Trafalgar Square and Whitehall.”

“… the Met Police stated that the groups had been dispersed and several arrests had been made.”

“A group named Youth Demand claimed to have been part of a coalition that organized the event and shut down the bridge. “Youth Demand said it demanded that the UK government stop arming Israel…”

“The other groups involved were the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Prayers4Gaza, Palestine Pulse, Thanet 4 Palestine, and Ealing Friends of Palestine.”

@[email protected] @[email protected] @israel \#YouthDemand #StopArmingIsrael

Oxfam condemns killing of water engineers in Gaza (2024-10-19)

https://www.oxfam.org/node/24899 ———

“Oxfam condemns in the strongest terms the killing in Gaza today of four water engineers and workers from the Khuzaa municipality who were working with our strategic partner the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU).

“The four men were killed on their way to conduct repairs to water infrastructure in Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis. Despite prior coordination with Israeli authorities their clearly-marked vehicle was bombed...”

“Attacks on civilian infrastructure and those who maintain it are clear violations of international humanitarian law. Those responsible must be held to account. Such attacks are part of the crime of using starvation as a weapon of war.

“Oxfam demands an independent investigation into this and other attacks on essential workers…”

How many more violations should we need? #StopGenocide

@[email protected] @[email protected] @israel \#WarCrime

Anti-Zionist views are 'worthy of respect', UK judge says (Middle East Eye, 2024-10-15)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/anti-zionist-views-worthy-respect-uk-judge-finds ———

“An employment tribunal in the UK has concluded that holding the belief that Israel's actions against Palestinians amount to apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are ‘worthy of respect in a democratic society’.

“In February, a UK judge ruled in a landmark decision that David Miller, a professor of political sociology, who was fired from the University of Bristol in 2021 for anti-Zionist views, was unfairly dismissed and subjected to discrimination.

“This week, the tribunal published its 120-page judgement\* which sets out why Miller's views were protected under anti-discrimination laws. “

\*) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6707c243366f494ab2e7b67d/Miller-judgment-1400780.2022-JDT...pdf

@[email protected] @[email protected] @israel

Opinion | Yahya Sinwar’s Death Can End This War (New York Times, 2024-10-17)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/opinion/yahya-sinwar-dead-hamas-gaza.html ———

“The death of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who was believed to be the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, provides a new opening for the United States to meaningfully push for a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza and for the de-escalation of violence across the Middle East.” 🤦

I wouldn’t care about this article if its author were no “Matthew Duss”, who “was a foreign policy adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders.”

@[email protected] @[email protected] @israel \#USPol #BernieSanders

【Livestream】 Rally for a just peace in Palestine and Israel

Time: Friday 18. 10. 5-7pm (CEST) Place: In front of the main train station, Washingtonplatz, #Berlin 10557

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZXPbyW21ZJc?si=GtjC1zIWcu4Tkavm or https://gerechter-frieden.org/live-stream/

——— https://gerechter-frieden.org/info/ “A kind request: In order to express our independence, we kindly ask you to leave party and national flags at home. We are aware that Palestinian national symbols and flags are constantly being stigmatized in #Germany. We comdemn the blanket criminalization of such flags and symbols. That’s why we express our wish as a kind request and not as a ban. We stand up for the right of all people and groups to express their identity – whether religious, ethnic or political. But at this rally we want to place the focus on the universality of the human rights of all those affected by the war and the violence.”

@[email protected] @[email protected]

A Curricular Clash at MIT: How a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rattled a department. (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2024-10-15)

https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-curricular-clash-at-mit ——— Beyond paywall but yet suggestive.

“… Michel DeGraff submitted a request to teach a course about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“In the 10 months since then, the professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been locked in a near-constant feud with his department head and colleagues...”

“DeGraff’s colleagues argue that the course — which would analyze the language used in conversations surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — doesn’t align with the department’s curriculum and that DeGraff lacks the necessary expertise to teach it. DeGraff believes the rejection is actually rooted in his pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus and social media…”

@[email protected] @[email protected] \#MIT

“Join us November 16th at the German embassy in Dublin!”

from X post (sorry) of Jews for Palestine Ireland https://x.com/JewishPeace/status/1846607619345264684

“We’re teaming up with Irish Bloc Berlin to protest the German repression of Palestinian voices in the midst of their unwavering support for the ongoing genocide.”

\#GermanComplicityInGenocide #StopGenocide #IrishBlocBerlin @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel

Israeli Court Orders Government to Explain System for Medical Evacuations From Gaza: Three Israeli human rights groups filed a petition after the closure of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, slowing the evacuation of patients. (New York Times, 2024-10-15)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/15/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-medical-evacuations.html?ogrp=dpl&unlocked\_article\_code=1.Sk4.ru4q.CcQypXTKb5m3&smid=url-share \\Gift Link\\ ———

“The order stems from a petition filed by three Israeli human rights groups in early June, following the closure of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt after the Israeli military began assaulting the area in May.”

@[email protected] @[email protected] @israel \#PhysiciansForHumanRightsIsrael #phr #nyt