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29.04.2024 - 22:12 [ Jewish Council Australia ]

Jewish Council: University encampments are no threat to Jews

Last week students in Australia established encampments at their universities in solidarity with Palestinians. These join the dozens of solidarity camps established across the US and elsewhere in recent weeks. Like their peers, Australian students are calling on their institutions to end relationships with weapons companies that are enabling Israeli war crimes, and urging our government to sanction Israel and cut military ties.

The Jewish Council of Australia strongly rejects the claims that these protests are a threat to Jewish students and staff.

Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 200 days. In the past week, new evidence of mass unmarked civilian graves was uncovered. Palestinians in the West Bank are also suffering at the hands of the Israeli military and violent settlers. Students are right to peacefully protest these mounting crimes and should not be silenced by their institutions or by other organisations that erroneously claim these protests are antisemitic.

07.03.2024 - 20:13 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Hadash-Ta’al MKs Meet Jordan’s King, Calls for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza

(05.03.2024)

Three Hadash-Ta’al lawmakers met Monday, March 4, with Jordan’s King Abdullah amid concerns that the Muslim holy month of Ramadan could amplify tensions in occupied East Jerusalem stemming from the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip. MK Ayman Odeh, the head of the parliamentary Hadash-Ta’al alliance, MKs Ahmad Tibi and Youssef Atawneh traveled to Amman and asked the Jordanian monarch to pressure Israel to ensure freedom of worship at the Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan and for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

09.12.2023 - 11:20 [ New York Times ]

The War in Gaza Is Splintering the Democratic Party

(November 17, 2023)

Already, there are signs that the party is fracturing over Israel. According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, about three-quarters of Democrats want a cease-fire, but few in the Democratic establishment share their views. Last week, in a rare gesture of defiance, more than 100 congressional staffers walked out to demand that their bosses back a cease-fire. More than 500 alumni of Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign and Democratic Party staff members have signed a letter imploring Biden to call for a cease-fire, saying, “If you fail to act swiftly, your legacy will be complicity in the face of genocide.”

30.10.2023 - 15:56 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Zur Verfassung von Palästina

(14.Januar 2015)

Stets wurden die Palästinenser von den Großmächten für geopolitische Zwecken missbraucht. Ihre eigene Oberschicht hat diesen oft zugearbeitet. Dieser Artikel soll nun keinen Versuch einer Intervention darstellen oder einer solchen direkt oder indirekt zuarbeiten, sondern in ehrlichem Interesse an der prosperierenden Koexistenz zweier Staaten im für drei Weltreligionen heiligen Land ein paar Ideen vorbringen.

Die Republik

Die Staatsform Palästinas wird letztlich auch dessen Gesellschaftsordnung prägen, vielleicht sogar entscheiden. Die Republik ist die höchste Form der Demokratie, da sie diese schriftlich durch eine Verfassung sichert und bei entsprechender Umsetzung und Teilung der Gewalten garantiert, statt sie der Willkür und dem Missbrauch ehrenwerter Monarchen, Medienmogulen, imperialer Präsidentschaften und manipulativer Mechanismen ausliefert.

Anzunehmen ist, dass es auf eine Republik Palästina hinauslaufen wird.

Sicherlich ist ebenfalls anzunehmen, dass es gesellschaftliche Gruppen in Palästina gibt, die eine Islamische Republik nach dem Vorbild des Iran bevorzugen würden. Die P.L.O. sollte diesen Standpunkt akzeptieren und gegen diesen einen eigenen Verfassungsentwurf vorlegen, ohne zu versuchen andere Entwürfe zu unterdrücken oder den sinnlosen Weg eines Konsens zu versuchen. Gruppen, letztlich lediglich Milizen, wie der “Islamische Dschihad in Palästina” oder die “Volksfront zur Befreiung Palästinas”, sind bei jedem auf Wahlen basierenden politischen Prozess irrelevant. Bei der Hamas sieht das schon anders aus. Gegen sie verlor die P.L.O. die Wahlen von 2006. Das sollte der P.L.O. zu denken geben.

Entscheidend wird sein, wie die Palästinenser, die als Staatsvolk genauso divergent und vielfältig sind wie jedes andere, einerseits ihre Differenzen austragen und andererseits ihre verschiedenen Strömungen insoweit interagieren, dass sie sich auf einen tragfähigen Gesellschaftsvertrag einigen, eine Verfassung.

Jedweder Verfassungsentwurf, der von provisorischen, indirekt gewählten, oder sogar gar nicht gewählten Gremien entwickelt werden sollte, etwa durch die Autonomiebehörde oder den Legislativrat, ist zum Scheitern verurteilt. Selbst wenn dieser Entwurf, in westlicher Manier von “magischen” Rechtszerbrechern zu London entworfen und auf die Etablierung einer weiteren Finanzkolonie in Vorderasien zugunsten des weltweiten Bankenkartells ausgerichtet, alternativlos dem Palästinensischen Volk vorgelegt werden sollte, würde dieser bereits den Keim des Verfalls und der Destruktion in sich tragen. Von Neid zerfressene Imperialisten und Usurpatoren, allen voran die Menschenschinder der saudischen Monarchie und ihre Brüder und Schwestern in der Nomenklatura Israels, würden alle Hebel in Bewegung setzen um die Republik Palästina und deren Aufblühen über ihren leider immer noch vorhandenen Einfluss auf die winzige palästinensische Funktionärs-Kaste bereits im Keim zu ersticken.

Nur ein Gremium, dessen Mitglieder ausschließlich die Aufgabe der Entwicklung eines tragfähigen Verfassungsentwurfs haben, die mit dieser Aufgabe keine weiteren Profit- und Karriereinteressen verbinden können und die direkt aus dem Volke Palästinas gewählt sind, wird dieser Aufgabe gerecht werden.

Womit wir zur Verfassungsgebenden Versammlung kommen.

Die Verfassungsgebende Versammlung

Was die Meisten nicht wissen: nach der Revolution in den nordamerikanischen Kolonien des Britischen Imperiums im Jahre 1776 dauerte es zwölf Jahre und einen Krieg, bis vom ersten Kontinentalkongress (1774-1775), vom zweiten Kontinentalkongress (1775 – 1781) und dem Kongress der Konföderation (1781-1789), bis sich die dreizehn, bis dahin lose über die “Konföderationsartikel” verbundenen ehemaligen Kolonien schließlich 1787 in einer über vier Monate andauernden Versammlung in Philadelphia auf eine Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und ein Regelwerk zu deren Inkraftsetzung einigten.

Mal abgesehen vom Schicksal der dortigen Ureinwohner: das kann kein Maßstab für das 21. Jahrhundert sein. Aber einerseits ein Hinweis darauf, wie schwierig die Entwicklung einer Verfassung tatsächlich ist, sowie andererseits für die Größe der Chance die mit einem Gelingen verbunden sind.

17.10.2023 - 12:55 [ Gisha.org ]

About Gisha

Gisha is an Israeli not-for-profit organization, founded in 2005, whose goal is to protect the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents. Gisha promotes rights guaranteed by international and Israeli law.

Since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel’s military has developed a complex system of rules and sanctions to control the movement of the 4.5 million Palestinians who live there. The restrictions violate the fundamental right of Palestinians to freedom of movement. As a result, additional basic rights are violated, including the right to life, the right to access medical care, the right to education, the right to livelihood, the right to family unity and the right to freedom of religion.

16.10.2023 - 13:34 [ David Sheen / Twitter ]

When a mob of dozens organized by an activist from @Netanyahu‘s ruling @Likud_Party attacked left-wing ultra-Orthodox journalist @freyisrael1 at his flat with his young children, @israelpolice spat at Frey, who then spent all night fleeing the lynch mob

09.09.2023 - 18:46 [ Yale.edu ]

Declaration of Israel‘s Independence 1948

(14th May,1948)

THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

23.07.2023 - 21:36 [ Yale.edu ]

Declaration of Israel‘s Independence 1948

(14th May,1948)

THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

15.06.2023 - 12:56 [ Kennedy24.com ]

Civil Liberties: Restore our Rights

Our administration will make it a top priority to protect and restore the fundamental civil liberties, enshrined in the Bill of Rights, that hold the essence of what America can be. These liberties have endured constant assault for over twenty years, starting with the Bush/Cheney War on Terror, and accelerating in the era of Covid lockdowns.

Freedom of speech is the capstone of all other rights and freedoms. Once a government has the power to silence its opponents, no other right is safe. We will therefore dismantle the censorship-industrial complex, in which Big Tech censors, deplatforms, shadowbans, and algorithmically suppresses any person or opinion the government asks them to. We will respect the right to privacy and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, by ending mass surveillance of American citizens and the abuse of civil asset forfeiture. We will make sure that the Covid-era suspension of the right to assembly, trial by jury, and freedom of worship will never happen again. The same for the right to property. During Covid, 3.4 million business were forced to close. Many of them, including 60% of Black-owned businesses, will never reopen.

A Kennedy administration will respect American citizens and stop treating them like suspects and schoolchildren. We will stop manipulating the public with propaganda and targeted leaks. We will never weaponize the law against political opponents, nor hold our own officials above the law. We will return the intelligence agencies to their proper role as protectors not violators of liberty.

16.05.2023 - 16:30 [ Yale.edu ]

Declaration of Israel‘s Independence 1948

(14th May,1948)

THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

16.05.2023 - 16:25 [ Government of Israel - Gov.il ]

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

(14th May,1948)

THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

02.03.2023 - 10:31 [ U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs / Nitter ]

التقى الممثل الخاص عمرو مع الشيخ عزام، مدير الأوقاف الإسلامية، لمناقشة الاستعدادات لشهر رمضان، يكون مفعما بالسلام، ويعكس روح الشهر المبارك، وكذلك تأكيد التزام الولايات المتحدة بالوضع التاريخي القائم.

(28.02.2023)

03.02.2023 - 20:12 [ CSPAN / Nitter ]

@RepAOC @AOC defends Rep. @Ilhan Omar: „Don‘t tell me this is about consistency. Don‘t tell me that this is about a condemnation of anti-Semitic remarks…This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America.“

03.02.2023 - 20:06 [ CNN / Youtube ]

See Omar‘s fiery speech as GOP votes to remove her from committee

The Republican-led House of Representatives voted to pass a resolution to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

19.12.2022 - 19:22 [ Haaretz ]

American Jews Wonder: Is It Time to Declare Independence From Israel?

The painful truth for American Jews is that while they have tended to worship Israeli Jews, their “cousins” have, historically, returned this feeling with a combination of amusement and contempt.

24.10.2022 - 05:55 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

Destined for Downing Street? Rishi Sunak could be named PM TODAY after Boris Johnson pulls out of Tory leadership contest and Penny Mordaunt well short of the 100 supporters she needs ahead of 2pm deadline

– Rishi Sunak, who launched his bid yesterday morning, has received public backing of more than 150 Tory MPs
– As of last night, 155 MPs said they are backing Mr Sunak, while 25 had spoken out in support of Ms Mordaunt
– A further 54 who were hoping Mr Johnson would return are yet to publicly reveal to whom they will now back
– Mr Johnson earlier said he had in fact reached the ‚very high hurdle of 102 nominations‘ as he bowed out
– Ms Mordaunt‘s team, though, believe his decision to pull himself from the race will ‚propel her over the line‘

04.05.2022 - 14:57 [ Noga Tarnopolsky / Twitter ]

1. No Russian Jewish org has condemned Lavrov‘s remarks about Jews or Israel‘s support for neo-Nazis.“ They‘re scared. Not a joke. @KseniaSvetlova has heard Jewish Muscovites that they‘re being pressured to support the „special military operation“ & choose: Israel or Russia.

17.04.2022 - 22:52 [ Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Islamic Republic of Pakistan / Twitter ]

Wishing all our Christian citizens a happy Easter.

03.03.2022 - 23:09 [ Hanna Liubakova / Twitter ]

#Belarus Police in Minsk detained mothers of Belarusian soldiers praying for peace. The police were in civilian clothes in the church. Human rights defenders reported at least 3 women that were detained.

27.01.2022 - 15:52 [ Haaretz ]

In Landmark Bundestag Speech, Israel‘s Knesset Speaker Warns of Breakdown of Democracy

Germany’s descent into Nazism provides an object lesson on the fragility of democracy and the need to preserve it, Knesset speaker Mickey Levy told German lawmakers on Thursday. Levy is the first Knesset speaker to address the German parliament.

24.06.2021 - 19:46 [ US Außenministerium - State.gov ]

U.S.-Germany Dialogue on Holocaust Issues

– Our shared commitment to a regular dialogue underscores our desire to contribute to a world in which knowledge of the Holocaust is abundant, fact-based, and serves as a foundation for tackling today’s challenges, including those that lead to the normalization of hatred that can result in demonization or persecution of those perceived as “the other.”

– Jointly with Germany, we will produce strategies and tools that governments can deploy to improve education and training on the Holocaust, counter Holocaust denial and distortion, combat anti-Semitism, and ensure policymakers have a strong understanding of these issues and of their responsibility to act.

– We will support innovation in education and commemoration, joint initiatives to ensure understanding of the Holocaust remains grounded in historical fact, and training activities for stakeholders in democratic societies on Holocaust issues.
By launching this bilateral consultation, and by raising public awareness about anti-Semitism and the hatred of “the other” that paved the way for the horrific crimes of the Holocaust, we can stand together as Transatlantic partners to ensure such atrocities never again occur.

24.06.2021 - 19:34 [ AFP Deutschland / Youtube ]

Maas und Blinken besuchen Holocaust-Mahnmal in Berlin | AFP

Bundesaußenminister Heiko Maas und sein US-Kollege Antony Blinken haben das Holocaust-Mahnmal in Berlin besucht.

04.04.2021 - 12:00 [ CatholicNewsAgency.com ]

Polish Catholic parish in London: Police ‘grossly exceeded powers’ in halting Good Friday service

An April 3 statement on the parish’s website said: “On Good Friday, April 2, during the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, at the moment of the Adoration of the Cross, at about 6 p.m., the police came to the door of our church. We were not allowed to finish the celebration.”

“The police officers, stating that our liturgical assembly was unlawful, ordered everyone to leave our church immediately under the threat of a fine for each of the parishioners present of £200 [around $277] or even arrest. The faithful obeyed this order without objection.”

04.04.2021 - 11:55 [ Spiked ]

Now the police are breaking up Good Friday services

It looks like something out of a tinpot tyranny. The church service was being livestreamed online. Halfway through, two cops appear and arrogantly walk to the sanctuary itself, the area around the altar. They then take over the lectern from the priest and issue a dire warning to the people who had gathered to commemorate the darkest day in the Christian faith – the trial and execution of Christ. ‘You need to go home’, an officer says. ‘Failure to comply with this direction to leave… could lead you to be fined £200 or, if you fail to give your details, to you being arrested.’

01.01.2021 - 08:55 [ Radio Utopie ]

Wie die Briten mit der neuen Totalen Weltordnung brechen und die Aufhebung des Ausnahmezustands feiern könnten

Ich sage nicht, dass das passieren wird. Ich sage – sie könnten.

Stellt es Euch vor…

17.12.2020 - 10:10 [ ORF.at ]

Gemischte Reaktionen zu Anti-Terror-Paket

Nehammer sah bereits am Vormittag in dem Paket „ein starkes und klares Zeichen dieser Bundesregierung gegen jede Form von Terror, unabhängig davon, von welcher Seite er ausgeübt wird“.

25.11.2020 - 17:21 [ jam-news.net ]

Armenian PM interview: return of refugees, future status of Karabakh, internal political tension

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Russia’s TASS that security guarantees must be given to Armenian refugees to return to Karabakh villages which have come under the control of Azerbaijan.

24.11.2020 - 21:10 [ Tagesspiegel.de ]

Amadeu-Antonio-Stiftung: Streit um die Stasi-Vergangenheit von Anetta Kahane

(13.12.2016)

Weiter schreibt Hubertus Knabe, Kahane habe später erklärt, vom Ministerium für Staatssicherheit unter Druck gesetzt worden zu sein – „was laut Akten nicht stimmt“. Es sei daher unverständlich, warum das Bundesjustizministerium ausgerechnet Anetta Kahanes Stiftung für eine „sensible Aufgabe wie die Kontrolle des Internets“ herangezogen habe.

24.11.2020 - 21:07 [ phoenix / Twitter ]

Die #Coronaproteste zeigen einen Trend, denn der #Antisemitismus habe sich in Deutschland auf eine neue Weise verdichtet, warnt Annette Kahane von der @AmadeuAntonio Stiftung. Sie betont: „#Verschwörungsideologien haben immer ein antisemitisches Betriebssystem“ | @anetta2552

12.11.2020 - 12:00 [ ORF.at ]

Anti-Terror-Pläne: Opposition skeptisch bis zurückhalten

Vorgesehen ist unter anderem, dass potenzielle terroristische Gefährder in den Maßnahmenvollzug kommen und damit bis zur Deradikalisierung eingesperrt werden können. (..)

Zudem soll ein „explizites strafrechtliches Verbot des politischen Islam in Österreich“ kommen, so Integrationsministerin Susanne Raab (ÖVP). Wie genau dieses ausgestaltet werden soll, ließ sie offen.

03.11.2020 - 14:10 [ Bundeskanzleramt Österreich - Bundeskanzleramt.gv.at ]

Bundeskanzler Kurz: Terrorismus mit allen Mitteln entgegentreten – Grundwerte und Demokratie gemeinsam verteidigen

„Unser Feind sind niemals Angehörige einer Religionsgemeinschaft oder alle Menschen eines bestimmten Landes, sondern unser Feind sind Extremisten und Terroristen. In unserer freien Gesellschaft darf es keine Toleranz für Intoleranz geben.“ Es gehe hier um keine Auseinandersetzung zwischen Christen und Muslimen oder zwischen Österreichern und Migranten, sondern es sei ein Kampf „zwischen Zivilisation und Barbarei“, zwischen den vielen Menschen, die an den Frieden glauben und jenen wenigen, die sich den Krieg wünschen. „Diesen Kampf werden wir mit aller Entschlossenheit führen“, versicherte der Bundeskanzler.

03.11.2020 - 14:05 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Anschlag in Wien: „Werden Hintermänner aufspüren“

Kurz warnte vor einer Spaltung der Gesellschaft. „Es muss uns stets bewusst sein, dass dies keine Auseinandersetzung zwischen Christen und Muslimen oder zwischen Österreichern und Migranten ist“, sagte er. Es sei vielmehr ein Kampf zwischen den vielen Menschen, die an den Frieden glaubten, und jenen wenigen, die sich den Krieg wünschten. Religion und Herkunft dürften nie Hass begründen. „Wir werden uns von den Terroristen nicht einschüchtern lassen“, sagte Kurz.

24.10.2020 - 11:40 [ amny.com ]

De Blasio calls Trump’s NYC ‘ghost town’ description ‘unfair,’ Manhattan offices could fill up more by early 2021

As of Sept. 18, only 10% of Manhattan office workers had returned to their buildings, the Wall Street Journal reported late last month.

De Blasio confirmed that City Hall had indeed been considering bringing back more of its workforce, but new developments were put on hold due to the recent COVID clusters in Brooklyn and Queens.

17.10.2020 - 23:07 [ NBC New York ]

Judge Refuses to Block Cuomo‘s COVID Restrictions After Brooklyn Catholic Diocese Files Lawsuit

Ruling in a lawsuit brought by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis said in an order Friday that even though the rules harm religious groups, it is not in the public interest to block them if they are helping prevent a wave of new infections.

17.10.2020 - 23:02 [ Jerry Dunleavy / Twitter ]

With help from the Becket Fund, New York’s Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam school for Jewish girls just filed a lawsuit against the recent coronavirus lockdown orders imposed by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.