Attached: 1 image Did Zionists collaborate with Nazis? Yes, they did. In one example, the Haavara Agreement between Nazi Germany and German Zionists (1933), made possible the migration of 60,000 German Jews to Palestine between 1933 and 1939 and to bring with them a portion of their assets. Widespread persecution of the Jews had already begun in Germany by 1933. The mass migration was considered part of the ethnic cleansing the Nazis initiated against the Jews, but it also benefited the Yishuv (Jewish community under the British Mandatory Palestine) by bringing in needed immigrant labor and economic support, and increasing the numbers of Jews living there. It also saved the lives of thousands of Jews who would have likely been slaughtered in the concentration camps. Then there was Rudolph Vrba, who escaped from Auschwitz in 1944, along with Alfred Wetzler, and tried to warn the Hungarian Jewry of the Nazis’ plans to exterminate the last major surviving Jewish community in Europe. The Vrba-Wetzler Report (the VWR) that they wrote immediately after their escape revealed for the first time to the general public that Auschwitz was not, as was widely believed, simply a concentration and labor camp, but a death camp. The VWR was also so accurately detailed that it could be used to help liberate the camp. However, Vrba and Wetlzer were betrayed by European leaders of the Zionist movement, who silenced them and suppressed the report, putting at risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews in exchange for the hope of getting Nazi support for the continued transfer of Zionists to Palestine. In 1961, The Daily Herald published the following from Vrba’s memoir: “I am a Jew. In spite of that, indeed because of that, I accuse certain Jewish leaders of one of the most ghastly deeds of the war. This small group of quislings knew what was happening to their brethren in Hitler’s gas chambers and bought their own lives with the price of silence … I was able to give Hungarian Zionist leaders three weeks’ notice that Eichmann planned to send a million of their Jews to his gas chambers … Kasztner [leader of Hungary’s Zionist movement] went to Eichmann and told him, ‘I know of your plans; spare some Jews of my choice and I shall keep quiet.’” #nazis #antisemitism #holocaust #zionism #palestine #israel #genocide #concentrationcamps #ruldophvrba #eichmann #hungary #auschwitz #hitler

Mackelmore’s newest single “Hind’s Hall” is inspired by the pro-Palestinian activism seen at campuses around the world.

Growing up I was fed one sided propaganda. If we want to live out our values we have to seek the truth.

Ein Essay von Avner Ofrath.

Israeli settler colonialism cannot be justified or tolerated, regardless of whatever historical claims are made. Boiling the history of Palestine down into a refutation of modern ethno-nationalist claims does a disservice to our real and multifaceted history.

Ist das Massaker der Hamas ein Zivilisationsbruch? Während darüber gestritten wurde, wird Israel unproblematisch Genozid vorgeworfen. Der Schwierigkeit, die richtigen Begriffe zu finden, wird das kaum gerecht.

Das jüdisch-palästinensische Duo Shai Hoffmann und Jouanna Hassoun will an Schulen über die Gewalt in Nahost sprechen. Wie kann das gelingen?

Die Narrative über Israel oder die Palästinenser sind oft absolut. Es gibt keinen Kontext. Es muss aber möglich sein, darüber hinaus anzuerkennen, was war und was ist.

We reject antisemitism in all its forms, including when it masquerades as criticism of Zionism or Israel’s policies. We also recognize that, as journalist Peter Beinart wrote in 2019, “Anti-Zionism is not inherently antisemitic—and claiming it is uses Jewish suffering to erase Palestinian experience.”

Über 100 in Deutschland beheimatete jüdische Künstler:innen, Schrift­stel­le­r:in­nen und Wis­sen­schaft­le­r:in­nen unterzeichnen diesen offenen Brief. Sie appellieren für Frieden und Meinungsfreiheit.

What frightens us is the prevailing atmosphere of racism and xenophobia in Germany, hand in hand with a constraining and paternalistic philo-Semitism. We reject in particular the conflation of anti-Semitism and any criticism of the state of Israel.

Looking deeper at the Israel-Hamas war and what we're all actually fighting for.

Der Israeli Shabat und der Palästinenser Ibrahim sprechen an Schulen über Nahostkonflikt und Holocaust. Ein Gespräch über Vorurteile – nicht nur bei Schülern.

Der Documenta wird Antisemitismus vorgeworfen. Angeblich sei Khalil Sakakini, der Namengeber des Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, aus dem die eingeladene palästinischen Künstlergruppe hervorgegangen ist, Nazi-Anhänger gewesen. Aber stimmt das denn auch – und wie kommt ein solches Gerücht zustande?

Seit Amnesty Israel einen "Apartheidsstaat" genannt hat, spitzt sich die Nahostdebatte weiter zu. Das schadet friedlichen Kräften auf allen Seiten – und Amnesty selbst.

Teilweise herrscht ein falsches Verständnis von Antisemitismus vor. Plädoyer für mehr Differenzierung und mehr Empathie. Ein Gastbeitrag, Meron Mendel

Teilweise herrscht ein falsches Verständnis von Antisemitismus vor. Plädoyer für mehr Differenzierung und mehr Empathie. Ein Gastbeitrag.

Despite its reputation for progressive politics, the Berlin music scene has traditionally been home to strong pro-Israel sentiment

RT @msappir: Ein paar Gedanken apropos mancher Reaktionen, die man als radikal kritischer Israel in Deutschland so bekommt.

Jetzt reden wieder alle von Israels Sicherheit: Was von gut gemeinter Staatsräson bleibt – und was gerade in dieser Situation an ihre Stelle treten müsste. Ein Gastbeitrag.

Meinen, ohne zu wissen, ist grundsätzlich nicht sinnvoll – in der Nahostkrise erst recht nicht. Unschuldige sind die Leidtragenden, ihnen sollte Solidarität gelten.