Israel & Palästina (Sammelthread)

    Der "Islamische Staat" hat sich zu dem Anschlag in Kerman bekannt, Tasnim behaupten hier allerdings eine Reihe von Abweichungen bei diesem Bekenntnis im Vergleich zu anderen in der Vergangenheit:


    https://twitter.com/Tasnimnews_Fa/status/1742984469861285935



    Via Google Translate:


    Zitat von Wemir

    Wenn einem auch nichts mehr einfällt: "completely without any basis in fact whatsoever".

    Also laut dem Guardian haben die Südafrikaner eine 80-Seitige Klageschrift mit ziemlich vielen facts beim Internationalen Strafgerichtshof eingereicht. Anders als zum Beispiel die Russische Führung, die die Klage gegen ihre Kriegsverbrechen in der Ukraine gar nicht erst anerkannte und jede Zusammenarbeit mit dem Gericht verweigerte, hat die rechtsradikale Israelische Regierung allerdings bereits angekündigt, dass sie sich in der wohl schon für nächste Woche angesetzten Vorverhandlung zu verteidigen gedenke. Der ICJ könnte schon relativ bald eine Art einstweilige Verfügung erlassen, um Israel daran zu hindern den möglichen Völkermord weiter zu betreiben, auch bevor in der eigentlichen Sache darüber entschieden werde, ob es sich überhaupt um einen solchen handelt.

    Stakes high as South Africa brings claim of genocidal intent against Israel

    Israel’s decision to defend itself at the international court of justice will make it harder for it to brush aside any adverse finding


    Zitat von The Guardian - 04.01.24

    [...] It is a substantive, tightly argued 80-page claim, replete with detailed references to senior UN officials and reports, which only rarely strays from its chief necessary purpose of seeking to prove Israel’s genocidal intent. The lawyers South Africa is sending to The Hague are its best. Much of South Africa’s argument is derived from the ICJ judgment on provisional measures it issued in the Gambia v Myanmar case in 2020.

    According to the application, “acts and omissions by Israel … are genocidal in character, as they are committed with the requisite specific intent … to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a part of the broader Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group” and that “the conduct of Israel – through its state organs, state agents, and other persons and entities acting on its instructions or under its direction, control or influence – in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, is in violation of its obligations under the genocide convention”.

    By seeking provisional relief under article 74 of the court, as opposed to a definitive ruling, South Africa can lower the threshold of what it is required to prove before the court provides interim relief, and possibly minimise some of the prime facie jurisdictional issues facing the court.

    Indeed, South Africa argues “the court is not required to ascertain whether any violation of Israel’s obligations under the genocide convention has occurred. [...]

    Vielleicht käme das den Amerikanern ja gar nicht mal so ungelegen, denn so richtg begeistert ist die Biden-Gang offenbar nicht bei der Sache, bzw. gehen Opa Sepp und seiner Partei allmählich die kostenlose Arbeitskräfte UnterstützerInnen seiner #Werte im eigenen Wahlkampfapparat von der Fahne und veröffentlichen ihren Unmut ziemlich unverblümt:

    Dear President Biden,

    We write to you as the current staff of your re-election campaign. As we work to mobilize voters to cast their ballots for you in 2024, we must take a moment to acknowledge our tremendous grief, and the grief shared by countless other Americans, toward the violence occurring in Gaza.

    We joined this campaign because the values that you — and we — share are ones worth fighting for. Justice, empathy, and our belief in the dignity of human life is the backbone of not only the Democratic Party, but of the country. However, your administration’s response to Israel’s indiscriminate bombing in Gaza has been fundamentally antithetical to those values — and we believe it could cost you the 2024 election. Therefore, we join your 2020 campaign alumni in imploring you to:

    1. Publicly call for — and use financial and diplomatic leverage to bring about — an immediate, permanent ceasefire;
    2. Advocate for de-escalation in the region, including demanding that Hamas release all hostages and that Israel release the over 2,000 Palestinians in administrative detention being held without charge;
    3. End unconditional military aid to Israel;
    4. Investigate whether Israel’s actions in Gaza violate the Leahy Law, prohibiting U.S. military aid from funding foreign military units implicated in the commission of gross violations of human rights;
    5. Take concrete steps to end the conditions of apartheid, occupation, and ethnic cleansing that are the root causes of this conflict.

    Like so many others, we continue to be devastated by Hamas’s attack against Israeli civilians on October 7th — it was a vile assault, one that touched the consciousness of the country. The subsequent killing of 20,000 Palestinian civilians, however, has struck the same societal nerve. We cannot repeat the mistakes of the past by allowing the actions of Hamas to justify such further violence against civilians.

    Israel’s attacks in Gaza have had one of the highest civilian death tolls of any conflict in decades. Children have been caught in the center of it, many of them killed by bombs made in St. Charles, MO. In the past 88 days, over 1% of the population of Gaza — including countless women, children, and premature babies — have been killed, while almost 1.9 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes. There is no safe place for innocent civilians to go, no shelter, and no humanitarian assistance. What we are witnessing in Gaza, as highlighted by countless experts from around the world, is a genocide.

    You have said numerous times that silence in the face of human rights violations is complicity. We agree, which is why we are speaking out now. Every minute that passes without a ceasefire is another life that is lost — a life that could have been saved with political action from you. As your staff, we believe it is both a moral and electoral imperative for you to publicly call for a cessation of violence.

    The majority of Democrats support an end to Israel’s military campaign. Americans, especially young Americans, feel extraordinarily passionate about this issue. In fact, 72% of voters under 30 — a key Democratic voting bloc — disapprove of your handling of the conflict in Gaza.

    Biden for President staff have seen volunteers quit in droves, and people who have voted blue for decades feel uncertain about doing so for the first time ever, because of this conflict. It is not enough to merely be the alternative to Donald Trump. The campaign has to shift the feeling in the pits of voters’ stomachs, the same feeling that weighs on us every day as we fight for your reelection. The only way to do that is to call for a ceasefire.

    This Administration’s profound sense of empathy is one of the reasons we felt inspired to join your reelection campaign. Now, we have faith that you will listen to the two-thirds of the country and three-quarters of our fellow Democrats who support a ceasefire. Complicity in the death of over 20,000 Palestinians, 8,200 of whom are children, simply cannot be justified. Only with an end to violence can we achieve a real and lasting peace that upholds the right to self-determination, safety, and freedom for Palestinians and Israelis alike.


    Sincerely,


    17 Biden for President Staffers

    Some German Jews say their country goes too far defending Israel

    And they find themselves attacked for antisemitism


    Zitat von The Economist - 04.01.24

    [...] German ultra-squeamishness about antisemitism did not begin on October 7th, the day Hamas gunmen from Gaza launched a murderous rampage that left 1,200 Israelis dead. There is a context, beginning obviously with the Nazi regime’s murder of 6m European Jews. One answer to that horror by subsequent generations of Germans has been to embrace the creation of Israel as a “happy ending” to their own national nightmare. Over time, says Eyal Weizmann, the British-Israeli leader of Forensic Architecture, a research group that has probed antisemitic attacks in Germany as well as Israeli human-rights violations, Germans have come to see any challenge to this redemption myth as something akin to committing a sin.

    This evolution started decades ago, with Germany’s decision to offer war reparations not just to Holocaust survivors but also to the new Jewish state. In the late 1960s the darker chapters in German history began to be explored with sharper objectivity. This long process of coping with the past grew to underpin a new, self-effacing German national identity. Angela Merkel, the chancellor from 2005 to 2021, cemented the sense of a special responsibility to Israel by stressing that its security is a part of Germany’s own “reason of state”. In 2019, ironically at the instigation of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party widely shunned as fascistic, German legislators adopted a motion that equated calls to boycott Israel with antisemitism.

    This official conflation, identifying opposition to Israeli policy with hostility to Jews in general, spread more widely with the appointment of government “antisemitism commissioners”. Organisations that rely on state funding, which in Germany means a very large proportion, have found themselves increasingly scrutinised over suspicions that they might cross this bureaucracy’s vaguely defined lines. The fear of budget cuts or public ostracism—the underlying cause of the rash of cancellations cited above—is not misplaced, as Oyoun, a cultural centre in Berlin, discovered in November. The city abruptly severed funding for the venue after it hosted a pro-peace Jewish NGO that one culture commissioner thought might encourage “hidden forms” of antisemitism.

    [...]

    The horror of Gaza, where Israeli forces have now killed more than 18 times as many people as Hamas’s terrorists killed on October 7th, has exposed the awkwardness of Germany’s one-sided embrace of Israel, but also placed Germany’s Jews in a quandary. Some fear that official over-protectiveness could itself provoke an anti-Jewish backlash. By contrast Wieland Hoban, a Frankfurt-based composer and Jewish activist, suggests that being told by the German establishment “how to be Jews” could itself be called antisemitic.

    But perhaps the advice delivered at a Berlin seminar in December by Alon-Lee Green, an Israeli activist, is easier for Germans to understand. If you really want to act as a good friend to Israel, he said, criticism is fine. When a friend is drunk you don’t give them another drink. You take them home and put them to bed.

    Eine rote Flagge wurde wieder über der Dschamkaran-Moschee gehisst:


    https://twitter.com/PressTV/status/1743164377165963673


    mit Zeitmarke bei 16:00


    "My Heart Is Still in Gaza": Palestinian Scientist Flees Israeli Bombs, Begs World to Stop Genocide


    Während nun also der Ex-Arpartheidsstaat Südafrika Israel wegen Genozid vor den internationalen Strafgerichtshof zitiert, gerät Gaza hierzulande etwas aus dem Fokus, was für Zionisten und ihre Unterstützer derzeit wohl das Beste ist, was passieren kann.


    Andere machen sich währenddessen schon mal Gedanken über die Zeit danach.

    https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1743865925055783082?s=20

    https://thedigradio.com/podcas…onism-ep-1-w-shaul-magid/

    Zitat

    Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 1 w/ Shaul Magid

    07 Dec 2023

    Featuring Shaul Magid on the long history of Jewish Zionism and its antagonist, Jewish anti-Zionism. Defenders of Israel defame anti-Zionists as antisemites. In fact, today’s growing ranks of anti-Zionist Jews draw on a powerful and diverse tradition.


    https://thedigradio.com/podcas…onism-ep-2-w-shaul-magid/

    Zitat

    Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 2 w/ Shaul Magid

    15 Dec 2023

    Featuring Shaul Magid on post-1948 Jewish Zionism and Jewish anti-Zionism—including today’s new generation of young, militant, left-wing, anti-Zionist American Jews and the Jewish establishment’s quixotic efforts to deny and disavow them. PART TWO of a two-part interview.





    https://thedigradio.com/podcas…istence-w-ussama-makdisi/

    Zitat

    Age of Coexistence w/ Ussama Makdisi

    23 Dec 2023

    Featuring Ussama Makdisi on the late Ottoman Empire’s Arab culture of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistence—an ecumenical frame that was interrupted by European colonialism and Zionism, which exacerbated and exploited sectarianism. This is the first of a two-part interview.


    https://thedigradio.com/podcas…rianism-w-ussama-makdisi/

    Zitat

    Colonialism, Zionism, Sectarianism w/ Ussama Makdisi

    06 Jan 2024

    Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is the SECOND of a two-part interview.

    Falls jemand dieses Harvard-Drama verfolgt, bei den Ackmans gibt es vielleicht auch eine persönliche Komponente:


    https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1743803231283667235



    In der Beitragsfolge darunter wird nochmal allgemeiner auf die Beziehung zwischen zumindestens einigen "culture war"-Auseinandersetzungen in der US-Akademia der letzten Jahre und Pro-Israel-Lobbygruppen eingegangen:


    https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1743804867620028528



    Und könnte was dran sein, jemand wie Bari Weiss - habe ich immer nur peripher wahrgenommen - erklärt sich mit diesen biographischen Details tatsächlich recht gut:


    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss


    Zitat

    Ausbildung

    Nach der High School ging Weiss im Rahmen eines Gap Year nach Israel, half beim Bau einer Klinik für Beduinen in der Negev-Wüste und studierte an einer feministischen Jeschiwa und der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem. Sie besuchte die Columbia University in New York City und machte 2007 ihren Abschluss. Während ihres Studiums war sie von 2005 bis 2007 die Gründungsredakteurin von The Current, einem Magazin der Columbia University für Politik, Kultur und jüdische Angelegenheiten. An der Columbia University war sie auch Mitbegründerin der Organisation Columbians for Academic Freedom (CAF) und 2005 an einer Kontroverse um den Professor Joseph Massad beteiligt. Sie warf dabei Teilen der Universität Antisemitismus und anti-israelische Einstellungen vor, was zu einer offiziellen Untersuchung führte. Das Untersuchungskomitee kritisierte Massad, betonte aber auch den Mangel an Höflichkeit auf dem Campus, einschließlich der Pro-Israel-Studenten, die einige ihrer Professoren angriffen. Weiss kritisierte das Komitee für seine Konzentration auf individuelle Beschwerden und behauptete, dass Studenten wegen ihrer Ansichten eingeschüchtert worden seien.


    Ich kannte den Teil, dass sie gegen Professoren vorgegangen war, aber mir war nicht klar, dass sie - nehme ich an - jüdisch ist und vielleicht persönliche positive Erfahrungen in Israel ein Motiv dafür waren, zumal die wie ein Programm, um junge Westler für sich zu gewinnen, klingen.

    https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1743113234196881427



    :S

    Die Wahl zwischen das Rote Meer sicher passieren und Israel beliefern sollte natürlich rein geschäftlich eine leichte sein.


    https://www.reuters.com/busine…israeli-media-2024-01-07/


    Zitat

    JERUSALEM, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Chinese shipping firm COSCO has suspended shipping to Israel, Israeli financial news website Globes reported on Sunday.


    [...]


    COSCO offices in Israel declined comment. Israeli port officials said they were checking the report.


    Aber nicht sicher wieviel da dran ist.

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