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German politicians part of ‘Anti-Israel International,’ says expert
Henryk Broder, Germany’s leading authority on contemporary antisemitismin the federal republic, wrote on Monday that scores of left-wing German politicians are anti-Israel because they signed a letter slamming Israel’s plan to exercise sovereignty over parts of the disputed West Bank territory.Broder, who has testified in the Bundestag about new forms of Jew-hatred since the Holocaust, titled his article “The anti-Israel International” on the popular journalist website “The Axis of Good.”
The German Jewish author and journalist writes commentary for the Die Welt –a large broadsheet paper. Broder has a significant readership in the German-speaking world.He mocked German politicians from the Left, Social Democratic and Green parties who signed the protest letter for not directing their letter to Turkey’s occupation of North Cyprus, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and China’s occupation of Tibet.Critics have cited the European political preoccupation with the Jewish state as a form of double standard. Israel’s democracy is singled out while non-democratic nations who commit massive human rights crimes are not targeted.The German politicians from the European parliament and the Bundestag, along with other politicians, wrote in their June 23 letter: “We, parliamentarians from across Europe committed to a rules-based global order, share serious concerns about President Trump’s plan for the Israeli Palestinian conflict and the imminent prospect of Israeli annexation of West Bank territory. We are deeply worried about the precedent this would set for international relations at large.”A number of the German politicians who signed the letter promote the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign against Israel or have failed to take action against BDS-animated antisemitism within their party.
Social Democratic Party MP Aydan Özoguz is on the advisory board of the pro-BDS German-Palestinian Society (DPG). The DPG just called for ending the EU-Israel “Association Agreement” because of the sovereignty dispute. Özoguz, whose election district is based in the city-state of Hamburg, declined to answer Jerusalem Post queries.Daniel Killy, who is a spokesman for the Hamburg Jewish community, told the Post that in his role as a member of the executive board of the German-Israel Friendship Society, “membership in the German-Palestinian Society and a simultaneous commitment to Israel are mutually exclusive. The three members of the Bundestag, Özuguz, Nouripour and Buchholz, have to decide where they stand. And anyone who follows the German state doctrine and thus accepts the security of Israel as not subject to discussion cannot and must not be a member of an organization that glorifies terror.”He added that, “therefore, resignations of the three deputies from the DPG would only be self-evident. However, should membership hide more than ignorance and should it be an expression of a clear anti-Israel stance, these three parliamentarians are no longer acceptable to represent the German people.”
GREEN PARTY MP Clauda Roth also signed the letter. In 2019, Germany’s largest paper Bild said Roth “made antisemitism socially respectable” in Germany because she embraced Iranian regime Holocaust denier Ali Larijani. Cem Özdemir, a Green Party MP, also signed the letter. Özdemir has declined to comment about Roth’s alleged mainstreaming of Larijani, who urges the destruction of Israel.Özdemir has also remained indifferent to alleged antisemitic BDS activity from Green Party foreign policy spokesman Omid Nouripour, who is on the advisory board of the DPG. Nouripour has refused to answer Post queries about his role in the DPG, calling for sanctions against the Jewish state.Green MP Jürgen Trittin also signed the letter. Trittin praised the late antisemitic left-wing terrorist Dieter Kunzelmann in 2018, who reportedly sought to blow up the Jewish community center in Berlin in 1969. Kunzelmann trained with Palestinian terrorists.Another Green Party MP who signed the letter is Katrin Göring-Eckardt, who defended her party’s initiative to label Jewish products from the disputed territories in 2013, which is considered a BDS activity. A year before the Green party, Germany’s neo-Nazi party NPD formulated similar legislation in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.Left Party MP Sahra Wagenknecht also signed the letter. Wagenknecht and fellow Left Party MP Christine Buchholz refused to participate in a 2010 standing ovation for former president Shimon Peres on Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Bundestag.Buchholz, a Left Party Bundestag deputy, is also on the advisory board of the pro-BDS DPG, and has defended the “resistance” of the terrorist entities Hamas and Hezbollah against the Jewish state.Wagenknecht’s refusal to participate in the standing ovation for Peres was praised by Germany’s NPD neo-Nazi party.Left Party politician Heike Hänsel also signed the letter. In 2014, the Simon Wiesenthal Center human rights organization included Hänsel on its top ten list of worst outbreaks of antisemitism and anti-Israeli activity. Hänsel invited BDS speakers to deliver a talk in the Bundestag.
Germany: Once again a refugee stabbed a woman to death
In a refugee shelter in the Hamburg district of Langenhorn, a 27-year-old man is said to have stabbed a 25-year-old woman on Monday evening. The refugee shelter is located in a wooded area near the street Jugendparkweg. In a ground floor apartment, the man is said to have stabbed first his former spouse and then himself. After the attack, the accused had apparently run out of the house wounded and then returned. The blood stains along the footpath to the woods are evidence of this.The ambulance services were called around 10 pm. Paramedics had to resuscitate the man and woman in the ambulance. Both were taken to a hospital. In the hospital the 25-year-old woman died of her severe injuries.The police had sent 23 patrol cars to the housing estate. At dusk the officers set up a mobile searchlight pole. In the floodlight, forensic experts climbed through the open window of the apartment. There the officers discovered a knife, the suspected murder weapon. Some residents watched the operation, standing at the windows or on the football field in front of the accommodation. The homicide squad took over the investigation.
Yet another German legal scandal: Muslims receive ridiculously lenient suspended sentences after they inflicted life-threatening injuries to a parish worker with a knife
A lenient sentence for the Syrian Mohamad K. (54 years old), his son Alaa K. (17 years old) and the Lebanese Ayman Z. (22 years old)!They had struck a Syrian couple in the church office on Christmas Eve when receiving gifts. When the volunteer Mike Weller (51 years old) intervened, the 17 year old rammed a knife into his lungs – the victim had to undergo emergency surgery.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the verdict: The knife-stabber was sentenced to one year on probation for assault, his father six months in prison – already compensated by the detention. The Lebanese was acquitted.
The court’s statement reads: “As a result of the hearing of evidence, the chamber was unable to establish intent to kill in the case of the juvenile defendant. It could not be established that the father of the juvenile defendant knew that his son had carried a knife.
Father and son have apologized to Mike Weller. He has accepted this apology. It is a tradition in the parish of St. Nicolai: On Christmas Eve, people in need are invited, there is a meal, a present. Mike Weller remembers: “Clothes were distributed. Knitted items for children, items from the clothing store – actually, nothing to jump the queue for.”
A Syrian man, 53 years old, did it anyway. After a scuffle, the 53-year-old is thrown out. But he comes back with six cronies – including his 17-year-old son, who again instigates a row.
After the men had forced their way in, they are said to have beaten and entered two asylum seekers. When Mike Weller wants to intervene, the 17-year-old stabbed the parish worker, according to the public prosecutor’s office.
Weller remembers: “Suddenly I noticed that my T-shirt was all wet. I touched it: My hand was covered in blood.” An acquaintance found a first-aid kit, closed the wound with a gauze bandage. “I could hardly breathe,” says Weller. “But if he hadn’t done that, I wouldn’t be here today.”
The ambulance takes him to the hospital. Diagnosis: Lung and spleen are injured – danger to life! Shortly after midnight the emergency operation begins. The doctors can save his life.
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Syrian asylum seeker stabs German homeless man to death
In the course of an argument, a 33-year-old homeless German man in a shelter for asylum seekers in the community of Meckenbeuren was so severely injured by several knife wounds yesterday early Wednesday morning around 00:30 a.m. that he died at the spot, despite the resuscitation measures initiated by the paramedics. A 26-year-old Syrian suspect initially fled. The police then initiated extensive search measures, which were supported by a police helicopter.The helicopter crew finally identified the suspected perpetrator together with an accompanying person in a bush on the bank of the river Schussen at around 3 a.m. Both were then temporarily detained by police forces. In order to clarify the exact course of the crime, the background of the previous dispute between the German and the Syrian and the possible involvement of others in the dispute, the Friedrichshafen criminal police directorate has set up an investigation team.
presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/138081/4639764 – https://www.welt.de/regionales/baden-wuerttemberg/article210775935/Mann-nach-toedlichem-Messerangriff-festgenommen.html
We have no alternative but to fight the intolerance of idiots
by Giulio Meotti
“Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people”.We only lacked the United Nations to join the crowd and take a stand against J.K. Rowling, the “Harry Potter” author accused of “transphobia” for a series of tweets and then an essay in which she claimed that sexual difference is real.
Four writers represented by Rowling’s literary agency, the Blair Partnership, have resigned after accusing the agency of refusing to issue “a public statement of support for transgender rights”. It comes after the attacks on Rowling by the actors made famous by “Harry Potter” – from Daniel Radcliffe to Emma Watson up to Rupert Grint – and the people at Warner and Universal, who came out against the writer.
A host of Hachette employees, the publishing house that will take care of publishing “The Ickabog”, the latest work by Rowling, put up a protest against the writer’s statements, claiming to be willing to abandon the project if they find it necessary.
Hachette employees are not new to this type of protest. A few months ago they clashed with the board of directors of the publishing house for the publication of Woody Allen’s memoirs and the project was eventually abandoned. The price for sacrificing Rowland was certainly too high, it is something like £ 795 million.
But what becomes of a much less famous but excellent writer who speaks out against gender theory? In the Wall Street Journal, Abigail Shrier told readers what is happening to her book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters”, an essay against gender theory. Its publisher, Regnery, received a response from Amazon that it would not be authorized to post a paid ad for the book. Amazon’s stated reason for blocking the ad – a simple cover image – was this: “It contains elements that challenge sexual orientation.”
A few days before that, a chorus of economists and former Fed chiefs and the usual digital herd on Twitter were all trying to destroy the director of one of America’s leading academic publications, Harald Uhlig of the University of Chicago, the best-known German economist in the United States, after he dared to criticize Black Lives Matter. The posts sparked a quick backlash, including criticism from several colleagues in Chicago and a petition calling on him to step down as editor of the Journal of Political Economy, one of the five industry magazines in America, which has now put him on leave. Then, as often happens in these lynchings, other journalists, like gravediggers, started doing digital archeology in the old Uhlig posts.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Janet L. Yellen also campaigned against Uhlig. Speaking to Die Welt, Uhlig said: “The professors of economics should take a position from their ivory tower on specific topics [only].” The New York Times reported that she said in an email on Wednesday that “the tweets and blog posts by Harald Uhlig are extremely troubling” and that “it would be appropriate for the University of Chicago, which is the publisher of the Journal of Political Economy, to review Uhlig’s performance and suitability to continue as editor.”
Uhlig said he received many emails from colleagues who expressed solidarity with him, but who don’t dare to do so publicly. Some even wrote to him under a pseudonym. It is easy to understand why nowadays.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said it had broken off relations with Uhlig. Paul Krugman of the New York Times also took position against Uhlig: “Another privileged white man who evidently can’t control his urge to belittle the concerns of those less fortunate”.
These are the type of idiotic and empty statements that media love.
Journalist Andrew Sullivan, who has just had a column in the New York Magazine on vandalismcensored following the killing of George Floyd, tweeted in defense of Uhlig.
Another economist, John Cochrane, formerly his colleague in Chicago and today at Stanford, has also joined Uhlig: “Why do I write? Sure, I’m just as afraid of the Red Guards of our twitter mob as the rest of you, and reluctant to offer contrary opinions. The Krugmans, Wolfers, and other assorted Jacobins are waiting for me to write or tweet one sentence that can be taken out of context and demand my head. I doubt the upper levels of administration at Stanford have any more spine in defense of conservative and libertarian speech than do those of Chicago. But we must speak for free speech before it’s too late”.
Judging by the amount of heads that are rolling in the “diversity” guillotine basket, perhaps it is already too late. Today it is the gender craze, tomorrow will be imaginary racism, everyday these failed censors find someone to burn at the stake to consolidate their power, careers and ideology. These idiots have taken over media, universities and publishing houses. We have no alternative but to fight them.
Are Honda, VW, and Unilever Pressuring Facebook to Censor Trump, Foreign Election Interference?
An interesting question raised by Izabella Kaminska in an interesting Financial Times piece.
The last time chief executive Mark Zuckerberg put profits ahead of principles he was accused of facilitating Russian intervention in US elections. Bowing to boycotters — many of which are multinationals or, as in the case of Unilever, domiciled abroad — could qualify as a form of political intervention or silencing.
Unilever is a British-Dutch company. Its headquarters is in the UK.
Its participation in the Facebook boycott, which is leveraged at censoring conservatives and, in particular, President Trump, is indeed a fairly blatant case of election interference, conspiring to prevent a political candidate and his supporters, from having a forum.
And not just any forum, but the largest forum around.
What is particularly damning is that Unilever’s boycott statement specifically mentioned the election.
Through this framework, we are actively engaging with all digital platforms to make meaningful change and impact trust and transparency. We have made substantial progress, and we acknowledge the efforts of our partners, but there is much more to be done, especially in the areas of divisiveness and hate speech during this polarized election period in the U.S
This is all Newspeak for censoring conservatives. And it specifically mentions the election period.
Other foreign companies, including Adidas, Puma, Honda, and Volkswagen, the Nazi era German company, have also joined the attack on our political system.
Companies like Adidas, Puma, Coca Cola, Levi’s and many more have responded in the call out to Facebook to better police hateful, misleading and/or discriminatory comments.
Honda too is one of these companies. “For the month of July, American Honda is withholding its advertising on Facebook and Instagram. We choose to stand with people united against hate and racism. This is in alignment with our company’s values, which are grounded in human respect,” the Japanese car maker has said.
This is foreign election interference and much more serious than Democrat/media fantasies about Russia.
Foreign companies are working to suppress an American political candidate and party by boycotting a dominant social media platform.
President Trump has the ability to respond to this and should do so by imposing sanctions on the foreign companies interfering in our political system and on their products.
Those could also include sanctions against foreign CEOs such as Honda’s Takahiro Hochigo and Unilever’s Alan Jope for interfering in American elections.
frontpagemag.com/point/2020/07/are-honda-vw-and-unilever-pressuring-facebook-daniel-greenfield/
Labour in CHAOS As Marxists Clash With Starmer
Antifa Extremists Allegedly Cut Power to Street Lights in Berlin Before Rioting
Electricity in an area of Berlin was cut off on Tuesday after far-left Antifa militants allegedly vandalised street lights by tearing out cables before members of the group set fires and vandalised property.
The rioters tore out cables from street lights in the Riga Strasse area of Berlin, a neighbourhood known for links to far-left Antifa extremism due to the street being the location of the notorious Riga 94 squat. The sabotage is said to have led to power outages from Liebigstrasse to Zellestrasse.After cutting power, the alleged Antifa extremists lit a fire in the area and built barricades. They were spotted shortly after midnight covering the facade of a local building with paint. Around 20 or so masked extremists, wearing black bloc-like apparel, were seen but ran when police arrived on the scene, Bild reports.
Around 1:10 am on Tuesday, witnesses said rioters started more fires and more residential buildings were covered in paint. Firefighters, accompanied by police, were able to put out the fires and restore order to the area by around 3:30 am.
According to Berlin police, four vehicles were “badly damaged”, and there were multiple cases of vandalism to local buildings. They added that the rioting had a political motive.
Bild reports that more far-left rioting is expected this coming weekend to coincide with the anniversary of the Liebigstrasse 34 squat. A Berlin court ruled that the occupants must leave the building, described by squatters as the “anarcho-queer-feminist house project Liebig 34”, earlier this month.
The riot is just the latest in the area which has been an Antifa stronghold in the city for decades. The German security agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), recently warned that far-left violence was increasing and had the potential to become deadly.
A recent BfV report stated: “Even the step of deliberately killing a political opponent no longer seems completely unthinkable.”
WATCH: BLM has had an impact – African man beats up white woman in German subway and mocks her, and none of the other passengers dare to help her
In an unbearably brazen manner, a man on the Berlin suburban train attacks a woman. Pushes her out of the train. The man from Gambia reacts to hints that she will call the police and makes it clear that he has nothing to fear from the police, as can be seen on a video that is circulating on the net – and according to users is sometimes also quickly censored there. Only one man in the rather empty suburban train tries to interfere verbally and help the attacked woman. One scene shows another man hurriedly getting off – as if he did not hear the woman’s cries for help at all.
The video starts with a scene in which the man has built up aggressively in front of the woman kneeling on the floor next to a dog. The aggressor screams and yells, but the words are not audible. Among other things he yells several times in a scornful tone of voice: “Call the police”. The woman tries to avoid him. Once she holds her arm in front of her face to protect herself. She also asks the other inmates for help, more and more desperate. Not to be seen on the video: The 22-year-old is said to have kicked the woman, who may have come to the aid of another mentally retarded victim whom the man also attacked, in the stomach. Here is the video:
In fact, there is also a man who unsuccessfully and only verbally tries to calm the aggressive foul-mouth – but this does not stop the attacker from continuing to yell. At the next stop, the man pushes his victim onto the platform, goes after her and starts a scuffle. As he leaves her, he stands on the platform, still scolding, while the woman continues to ask for help: “Can you please help me, please. I’m being beaten up, please.” The attacker walks unhindered up the stairs and away.
Interesting is the way of coverage. The incident is reported in the major media, but one decisive aspect is largely either completely ignored or at best mentioned in passing: the obvious origin of the attacker, who only speaks broken German. Sometimes even the arms of the man are pixelated – which can only have one logical reason – one should not see the skin colour. (Screenshot below)
As much as on the one hand origin and skin colour should generally not matter – in this case they do and are of public interest. For in view of the current “Black Lives matter” movement, the incident almost inevitably raises the question of whether the fact that the attacker was a colored person played a role in the fact that only one passer-by intervened in an appeasing manner and the others ignored the cries for help.
Likewise, the question would have to be asked why the man apparently considered himself untouchable by the police and whether this has a connection with the fact that today, officials must have massive fear of accusations of racism and discrimination and, according to insiders, are often downright afraid to take action against people with a migration background and, above all, with a different skin colour. After the new Berlin anti-discrimination laws, they are even under general suspicion.
Imagine for a moment what the media echo would have looked like in a reversed constellation: if a white man had attacked a colored woman so brutally and no one had come to her aid. Would this also have been presented as an individual case in which the origin of the victim and the perpetrator as well as fundamental conflicts in our society mattered in no way? Or as evidence of racism and xenophobia, which would then have been the subject of much discussion?
The police have now identified the suspect. He is from Gambia. He was released immediately.
Allah's Willing Executioners 