When German Racists Condemn BDS they are Expiating Their Holocaust Guilt at the Expense of the Palestinians
Please write to Mayor Philipp to tell him what you think! Keep it polite as racists can be very touchy!
Dear Marcel Philipp,
I understand that you are
the Mayor of Aachen a magnificent city which was Charlemagne's capital. I
also understand that you have withdrawn an
artistic prize from a Lebanese-American artist, Raad, because of his
support for BDS. (Boycott Divestment & Sanctions) against Israel. In other
words you are penalising him because he is, unlike you, an anti-racist.
You are also
I understand a member
of the CDU, a deeply racist party which after the war was infested with Nazis
such as Hans Josef Globke.
Globke was Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s closest advisor, Secretary of State and
Chief of Staff of the West German Chancellory. Globke wasn’t just any old Nazi. He had been instrumental
in drawing
up the 1935 Nuremburg Race Laws which paved the way for the Final Solution.
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| Charlemagne's Capital |
Gerald
Reitlinger in his book The Final Solution described
the Nuremburg Laws as ‘“the most
murderous legislative instrument known to European history” yet your party had
no problem employing Globke and his friends in senior and influential positions
in the German state. Some 77%
of legal staff in the German Ministry of Justice post-war were ex-Nazis.
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| Aachen's racist Mayor Phillip |
The quid-pro-quo
for not saying anything about this from Israel was the delivery of submarines
and the payment of reparations. In case you are unaware of the history of your
own party and its relations with Israel I am quite happy to enlighten you.
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| David Ben-Gurion visited by Adenaeur, who rehabiliated Germany's Nazis |
Israeli historian Yechiam Weitz in his review of “The
Furnace and the Reactor: Behind the Scenes at the Eichmann Trial,” by Ora
Herman wrote:
“Ben-Gurion was determined,” wrote the
author, “that Israel would establish a
system to defend itself against another Holocaust – the [nuclear] reactor in
Dimona.”
‘Therefore he
[Ben Gurion] insisted on developing unconventional weaponry and was prepared to
accept essential aid for its development from any country, including West
Germany....
West Germany
under Konrad Adenauer... was
very helpful in the development of this weaponry – a fact that can be seen as
an irony of history. ...
‘Hans Globke, the chancellor’s right-hand man ...
also had “a glorious past” in the days of the Third Reich: He was the man
responsible for the “legal formulation of the Nuremberg Laws that authorized
the deportation of the Jews and subsequently their slaughter.” As legal adviser
to the Interior Ministry, Globke had helped Eichmann find a “legal” way to
steal the property of German Jews. The West German government in Bonn did all
it could to forestall the possibility of his name and his deeds coming up in
the [Eichmann] trial. Even before the proceedings began, Adenauer sent a
personal emissary to Jerusalem to clarify with Ben-Gurion whether Globke’s name
would be mentioned. The prime minister, who was perfectly familiar with the
man’s Nazi past, reassured the emissary and told him things that are hard to
view as justifiable: “There is no need to
talk about Globke since Adenauer investigated his past much better than Israel
could, before taking him on as his adviser.”
Globke
had another achievement to his name. He was responsible for the August 1938 Law
on the Alteration of Personal and Family Names. All Jewish men had to have
the addition of ‘Israel’ to their identity cards and women had the name ‘Sara’
added. This was extremely helpful when rounding up Germany’s Jews prior to
their deportation and deaths.
As
you can see Globke was very well qualified to run the German Chancellory on
behalf of the party of which you are a member.
I won’t
comment on Israel and Ben Gurion’s turning a blind eye to this. Zionism has always tolerated anti-Semitism and
it had a friendly relationship with the Nazis up to 1939. Racists have a habit
of getting on fine with each other as you are more than aware.
I understand
that despite your vindictive McCarthyite withdrawal of the art prize, the Ludwig Forum of
International Art has decided to
ignore you and award it anyway. That is extremely gratifying.
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| Germany's Bundestag voted to condemn BDS as 'anti-semitic' - the neo-Nazi AfD wanted to go further and make it illegal |
The
German Bundestag recently passed a motion declaring
that BDS was anti-Semitic. You might therefore assume that Alternative for Germany,
a neo-Nazi party that has 13% of the seats in the Bundestag would lead the
opposition to the motion. After all if BDS is anti-Semitic and AfD are racists then
that would seem logical.
However
the AfD far from opposing the motion wanted it to go further and legally ban BDS. According to the Guardian:
The far-right
Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) brought forward a separate motion calling for
a complete ban of the BDS movement. Jürgen Braun, an AfD MP, claimed his party
was the true friend of Israel in the German parliament, adding that
“antisemitism comes from the left and Islam”. The AfD abstained on the
government’s motion.
How
is it that the AfD opposes BDS, despite containing large numbers of Nazis?
According to The
Times of Israel 88% of AfD respondents will celebrate Israel’s 70th
anniversary. The answer is not hard to find.
Israel
is everything that the far-Right and racists like you admire today. It is an
ethno-nationalist state where your rights and privileges depend on your (Jewish)
ethnicity. When Donald Trump told 4 Black Congresswomen to ‘go back home’ he also
added that they hate Israel and therefore Jews. This from someone who is himself deeply anti-Semitic
and who believes Israel is the ‘real
home’ of American Jews.
Trump
is not alone. Nearly every far-Right
party in Europe supports Zionism and Israel from Matteo
Salvini to Viktor
Orban. Richard Spencer, the neo-Nazi
founder of the US’s alt-Right defines himself as a White
Zionist. He loves
the Jewish Nation State Law which defines Israel, not as a state of its own
citizens, but of Jews.
Israel is a
state which refuses to accept non-Jewish and in particular non-White refugees
and asylum seekers because that would threaten
its ‘Jewish racial identity’.
Israel is a
state which confines its 20% Arab population to 2% of the land. It is a state
that demolishes Arab homes and villages such as Umm al Hiran to make way
for Jewish towns such as Hiran.
All this and
more was perpetrated against Germany’s Jews from 1933-1939. They too were
confined to certain parts of town, banished from parks and barred from many German
towns altogether. It is no surprise that people like you should find in Israel such
a congenial friend. After all Israel is Hitler’s posthumous victory.
You have the
gall to call BDS anti-Semitic. It is clear you do not understand what anti-Semitism
is. It is hatred of Jews not hatred of racism or Israel. Israel is not a Jew and
it is not a Jewish State except in a narrow racial sense.
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| The original Captain Boycott |
The Boycott of
racially oppressive regimes is, without exception, the weapon of the
oppressed. It was first employed in the
sugar islands of the West Indies against slave grown sugar. It was
used in Ireland
against British colonialism, from which the word Boycott comes. In 1933 Jews throughout
the world (with the exception of the Zionists and bourgeois Jews) launched a Boycott of Nazi Germany.
No doubt in your twisted mind this too was racist against Germans.
In more
recent times there was a Boycott
of South Africa, a state which was Israel’s
closest partner and today, for exactly the same reason there is a Boycott of
Israel.
It is
perfectly understandable that racists and white supremacists the world over
should oppose the Boycott of Israel.
Racists have always opposed the use of BDS. It is therefore no surprise that as a member
of a racist German party should oppose Boycott.
My only
message to you Mr Philipp is not to expiate your guilt over the Holocaust at
the expense of the Palestinians. It was people like you who were responsible for
Auschwitz and Treblinka, not the Arabs of Palestine.
The
annihilation of the Jews in the Holocaust is no justification for the racial
oppression and genocidal murder of the Palestinians today. Your party was once
full of Nazis. It would seem that old habits
die hard.
Tony
Greenstein
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