On November 9, 2015 – the 77th anniversary of the anti-Jewish November Pogroms in 1938 – unknown people painted “J.” and a Star of David on the windows of an initiative in Berlin who does support work for refugees. When a friend told me about this I started crying. It clearly shows that antisemitism is still the core element of Nazi ideology because neo-Nazis believe “the Jews” are bringing refugees to Germany to destroy “the German people”.
For November 15, 2015 leftists call for a rally in Berlin to support “freedom for Kurdistan and Palestine”. (You can read the call in German here.) The call criticizes attacks on people who are or “look” Kurdish by Turkish nationalists. At the same time they justifiy the recent knife attacks on Jewish people in Israel because “we support the right of every colonized people for armed resistance!” Their reason to combine the topics Kurdistan and Palestine is explained like this: “The world’s oppressed nations share a common enemy: imperialism and it’s allies in this case Turkey and Israel.” Around a dozen leftitst groups signed the call for the rally. It makes me sick because as a leftist who supports Israel’s existence and the fight against antisemitism I’m embarassed to share the term “leftist” which people who think it’s okay to stab Jewish people.
What I Want
I want it back. I want back our homes and our lands. Our properties and our money. Our bones and our dead. Our names and our traditions.
I want back what you stole from us. What you took from us I want back.
I want back our living and our dead. I want back language and our stories. Our hopes and our dreams. I want back our children that you stole. Our people that you killed.
I want back our folk tales and our superstitions. Our dignity and our pride. I want back our history. I want back our words and our proverbs. Our books, our inventions, our creations. I want back our contributions and success. I want back our failures and our misery.
I want back our safe places, our communities and our places of worship. I want back that which you have burnt, destroyed, and razed down.
I want back all we could have had and all we have lost.
I want back everything you have taken and stolen from every Jew. I want back what you continue to take and steal from us.
The dignity you deny us. The fleeting moments of safety you rip away from us.
I want it back. You have taken so much and yet you will never be satisfied until there is nothing left.
Try as might to make us forget or to silence us you never will because what you have done flows in our blood and is seared into our bones.
The very blood and bones you have built your homes overs. They very blood and bones you have used to build your world with.
Up until the moment you identify the group as Jews, I thought it could be against any minority group in history, including the Palestinians that I have read heartbreaking stories from. While this doesn’t invalidate the Jewish people, I think everyone needs reminded that this can and does happen to far too many groups.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Here are your tags: jews palestinians palestine israeljerusalem
what a fucking asshole antisemitic piece of garbage are you trying to be.
I am wrote this as a Jew out the extreme pain and frustration of watching no one NO ONE give a shit about Jews, out our never ending history of people trying till kill us since Abraham and Sarah the first Jews ever.
With the pain of of having the thousands of years old communities in Syria and Yemen destroyed. With the pain of every single Jew from all four corners of the Earth in our never ending Diaspora. Of Jews far flung all over working so very hard to reconnect. Of Jews who have come into our family and have taken on our burdens and share in our pain and joy with us.
With all that pain and all memories of the dead both known and unknown. Of the bodies we will never find all over the world, of the children stolen from their people over the course of thousands of years. With this I wrote what I wrote.
Not for notes or anything like that, but because the pain that was inside me needed a way out and this felt like the safest way to let it out.
They say when you write you put a piece of your soul into it well this was a fucking chunk of my soul and this is what you did with my soul.
I wrote that piece because I can’t cry and it hurts to want to cry and physically not be able. Every letter, ever pause, every word, every little thing is a tear. Those are my tears.
Shame on you, Shame on you.
You are cruel and you are heartless.
Germany: Political rally in support of killing Jews
In Israel, children are being murdered. In Berlin, this passes for ‘armed resistance’.
Via reader:
On 15 November 2015 leftists groups and other organizations called for a rally in Berlin-Neukölln (Germany) demanding »Freedom for Palestine and Kurdistan!«. The call for the rally belittled and justified the current knife attacks on Jewish Israelis. The organizers wrote: »we clearly support the right of every colonized population to armed resistance! Once again the Intifada is flaring up. It is a consequence of the ongoing oppression, expulsion and ethnic cleansing of the Israeli Apartheid state.« (Source: http://ift.tt/1Orodb6)
While the rally was about to start marching one person displayed an Israeli flag to protest against the antisemitic facets of the rally. Immediately several participants of the rally aggressively approached the protestor to attack them physically. The police prevented the attackers from harming the protestor. Nevertheless the police forces prohibited the display of the Israeli flag because »it is a provocation« as one officer said. When the protestor tried to raise the flag again the police arrested them on suspicion of »Landfriedensbruch« (english: »breach of the peace«). This accusation was not kept up and the protester was released from provisional arrest after one hour.
The attackers were not arrested
The New Antisemite: http://ift.tt/1PYgWRN