mardi 11 mars 2025

Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme



Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme

Alarmados por el lenguaje orwelliano que se ha instalado en el discurso político europeo según el cual la guerra es el camino hacia la paz mientras que la paz sólo lleva a más guerra, hacemos un llamamiento a la cordura.
Los ciudadanos europeos nos hemos convertido en pasajeros involuntarios de un tren conducido por unos gobernantes que, con el declarado pretexto de “hacer sangrar a Rusia”, pretenden ignorar las consecuencias desastrosas de un conflicto del que todos seremos perdedores. En vísperas de anteriores conflictos europeos, por ejemplo la Primera Guerra Mundial, valientes intelectuales de las naciones enfrentadas, entre ellos Jean Jaurès, Romain Rolland, Bertha von Suttner o Bertrand Russell, se pronunciaron públicamente a favor de la paz, aunque por desgracia sus voces no fueran atendidas.
Hoy es atronador en todos los países el silencio de los intelectuales, que, al igual que el resto de los ciudadanos europeos, parecen preocupantemente anestesiados. Y cuando alguno decide hacer oír su voz a favor de las soluciones diplomáticas es inmediatamente difamado como “marioneta de Putin”.
Condenamos inequívocamente, por contraria al derecho internacional, la invasión rusa de Ucrania, pero somos conscientes de que esa tragedia es consecuencia también de la persistencia de una organización militar, la OTAN, calificada de “defensiva” y que, lejos de disolverse al no tener ya enfrente al bloque comunista, siguió ampliándose y llevó su expansión hasta las fronteras mismas de Rusia frente a las promesas que se le hicieron entonces al más alto nivel.
La guerra de Ucrania dura ya tres años; las víctimas a ambos lados superan con mucho el millón, aunque ninguno de los países enfrentados dé cifras oficiales, entre muertos, heridos y mutilados.
A lo que hay que añadir los millones de ucranianos que huyeron del país, unos a Europa Occidental, otros a Rusia, todos ellos intentando escapar de la violencia. Un auténtico desastre humano.
Los Estados Unidos de Donald Trump, más preocupados por lo que perciben como el creciente poderío de China o la situación de Oriente Medio, parecen decididos a expoliar a Ucrania, y de paso también, a endeudar a Europa, debilitando aún más nuestro Estado social, en beneficio de la industria militar estadounidense.
Y nuestros gobiernos, negándose a aceptar que, dada la desigual relación de fuerzas, la guerra está perdida, arropan al presidente ucraniano prometiendo el envío de más armas y dinero para que el ejército ucraniano siga luchando hasta el último hombre o la última mujer. Todo ello mientras proponen militarizar de modo acelerado nuestras naciones con el espantajo de un enfrentamiento con Rusia.
¿Han pensado nuestros gobernantes que, al no existir ya aquellos acuerdos de limitación de armamentos firmados durante la Guerra Fría y que tanto contribuyeron al mantenimiento de la paz, el enfrentamiento militar con una potencia nuclear como Rusia podría desembocar en una tercera, y esta vez definitiva, guerra mundial?
Hacemos un llamamiento a los políticos para que no olviden las dos grandes guerras que ensangrentaron el pasado siglo el continente y, abandonando la neolengua de George Orwell, trabajen activamente a favor de las soluciones diplomáticas.
Es la única manera de evitar futuras masacres que arrasen naciones para el mero lucro de la poderosa industria armamentística.




FIRMANTES por orden alfabético:

Fernando Aguiar González (investigador)
Javier Aguirre Santos (profesor)
Luis Alegre Zahonero (profesor de universidad)
Tariq Ali (escritor, director de cine e historiador paquistaní-británico)
Luis Alonso (artesano comerciante)
Txetxu Ausín Díez (investigador)
Daniela de Barros Barreto (arquitecta y artista plástica)
Olga Belmonte García (profesora)
Constantino Bértolo (crítico cultural)
Marie-Hélène Caillol (politóloga y profesora francesa)
Jorge Cano Cuenca (profesor de Filosofía antigua)
Marta Castellanos Garcés (profesora de educación secundaria)
Alberto Conde (profesor y traductor jubilado)
Juan Luis Conde (escritor y profesor de universidad)
Federico Corriente Basús (traductor y autor de informes críticos)
Inés Delgado-Echagüe (maestra de educación infantil)
Graciela Fainstein Lamuedra (investigadora)
Thomas Fazi (periodista y escritor angloitaliano)
Carlos Fernández Liria (profesor de universidad)
Amelia Gamoneda (catedrática de universidad)
Marysol García Martínez (pintora)
Susana Gómez López (directora de escena)
Belén Gopegui (escritora)
Ulrike Guérot (politóloga alemana)
Gabriele Gysi (actriz y directora de teatro alemana)
Pollux Hernúñez (traductor jubilado)
Maite Imbernón (profesora)
Corinna Kirchhoff (actriz alemana)
Bernard Legros (periodista belga)
Félix Manzarbeitia Arambarri (patólogo)
Bernd Marizzi (profesor de universidad)
Elisa Martínez Garrido (profesora de universidad)
Ricardo Martínez Llorca (escritor)
Pilar Muñoz (periodista)
Emilio Muñoz Ruiz (profesor emérito)
Viviana Paletta (poeta y editora)
Pepe Peña (profesor de Filosofía, editor, documentalista)
Kees van der Pijl (politólogo neerlandés)
Rafael Poch-de-Feliu (experiodista jubilado)
Manuel Quejido Villarejo (pintor en acción)
Joaquín Rábago (periodista)
Hauke Ritz (escritor alemán)
Andy Robinson (periodista y escritor)
Jorge Rubio Redondo (maestro)
Matilde Sáenz (profesora)
Javier Sáez de Ibarra (escritor)
José Luis Santalla (fotógrafo)
Fernando Sanz Santa-Cruz (médico)
Berta Sarralde (profesora)
Michael von der Schulenburg (europarlamentario alemán)
Federico Soto Díaz-Casariego (profesor jubilado)
Peter van Stigt (periodista neerlandés)
Olegario Torralba (periodista)
Luis Torrego Egido (profesor de universidad)
Jorge Valdano Sáenz (guionista)


Una vez lanzado, han mostrado su apoyo a este llamamiento Mateusz PiskorskiAnne MorelliJayati GhoshHerman MichielAlain Bihr et Yannis Thanassekos, Juan Carlos Mestre, la Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation (Tony Simpson), Paul Murphy (People Before Profit), el Movimiento por la Paz (MPDL), Ramesh Jaura, Klaus Dräger, Iniciativa Republicana Española...


ENLACE para apoyar este llamamiento en OpenPetition.
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Información relacionada posterior


Un “llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme” une a personas de la academia, las artes y el conocimiento
Decenas de intelectuales europeos denuncian en un manifiesto la escalada en la retórica bélica que se vive en el continente europeo.
El Salto, 11.03.2025 - 11:00


Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme
Pedimos a los políticos que no olviden las dos grandes guerras que ensangrentaron el pasado siglo el continente y trabajen activamente a favor de las soluciones diplomáticas
Ctxt, 11.03.2025.
Divulgado también por el blog La casa de mi tía, así como por la Asamblea Social de la Izquierda de Cataluña / Assemblea Scial de l'Esquerra de Catalunya y el Observatori de Bioètica i Dret de l'Universitat de Barcelona.


Hier ein von Spanien ausgehender, inzwischen aber europaweiter Aufruf für Frieden & Abrüstung, gegen die Politik der #EU
Ulrike Guérot, X, 11.03.2025.


Llamamiento...
Pressenza. International Press Agency, 11.03.2025.


Iniciativa colectiva: Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme
Rafael Poch de Feliu, Blog personal, 11.03.2025.
Divulgado también por Ojeando el estado del país, 12.03.2025, y por Conversación con la Historia, 15.03.2025.



«Ukraine-Russie: en marche vers un conflit général ?», sur QG TV.
Aude Lancelin con Jacques Baud.
Donald Trump prometió poner fin a la guerra en Ucrania tan pronto como llegara al poder. Ahora que Estados Unidos ha retirado su apoyo militar a Kiev, la UE está alzando la voz. Francia, en primera línea, llama la atención por el chocante discurso marcial de Emmanuel Macron del 5 de marzo.
Si bien el conflicto parecía estar apaciguándose, resurge un preocupante riesgo de escalada. Para aclarar la situación, este martes 11 de marzo, en directo en París, Aude Lancelin recibe en QG (Quartier Général TV) a uno de los mejores conocedores del conflicto ruso-ucraniano: Jacques Baud, ex miembro de la inteligencia estratégica suiza y ex jefe de doctrina para operaciones de mantenimiento de la paz en la ONU. Autor de numerosos bestsellers publicados por la editorial Max Milo, entre ellos « Gouverner par les fake news » ("Gobernar con noticias falsas") y « Opération Z », es uno de los poquísimos observadores que ha atinado desde la invasión de Ucrania en 2022. Su visión de experto es especialmente bienvenida en un momento en que las opiniones públicas están entrando en pánico y la propaganda hace estragos.


Europa asume el liderazgo del “free world”
Dos películas de Peter Sellers ayudan a entender la trayectoria de Europa y la OTAN en tiempos de guerra
Andy Robinson, Substack, 12.03.2025. Y La Vanguardia, 12.03.2025.


Appeal for Peace and Disarmament
Andy Robinson, Substack, 12.03.2025.


Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme
Rebelión, 13.03.2025. Divulgado después por Redes Cristianas.


Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme
LQSomos, 14.03.2025


Against Militarization: Scientists Unite in Opposition to EU Rearmament, 14.03.2025
Científicos de todo el mundo se están uniendo para manifestar su rechazo a la reciente propuesta de rearmar la Unión Europea. Han publicado "Científicos contra el rearme: un manifiesto" y hacen un llamamiento a científicos, ingenieros, profesionales médicos, matemáticos, académicos y a la comunidad científica en general para que apoyen su postura. Aquí está el enlace al manifiesto para adherirse.


Europa in Gefahr | Ulrike Guérot & Jonas Tögel, Westend Verlag, 16.03.2025.
In diesem Gespräch diskutiert Katrin Seibold mit Jonas Tögel, Autor von “Kriegsspiele”, und der Politikwissenschaftlerin Ulrike Guérot über heute öffentliche Simulationen zur Zukunft Europas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
[En esta conversación con Jonas Tögel, autor de “Juegos de guerra”, y la politóloga Ulrike Guérot, Katrin Seibold analiza las simulaciones públicas actuales sobre el futuro de Europa después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.]



Brave EMP Speaks Truth on EU Madness: US-Russia Push Ukraine Surrender.
Michael von der Schulenburg, Neutrality Studies, 17.03.2025.
[Cf. On Building Peace. Rescuing the Nation-State and Saving the United Nations]



Amenaza rusa
Joaquín Rábago, Opinión | 360 grados, La Opinión A Coruña, 18.03.2025, 6:01.


Oproep voor vrede en ontwapening
Herman Michiel, Ander Europa, 18 maart 2025.
Verleden week lanceerden enkele Spaanse burgers een oproep voor vrede en ontwapening aan de Europese regeringen. Hierin wordt de Russische invasie in Oekraïne ondubbelzinnig veroordeeld. Maar ook de poging van de Europese leiders om burgers schrik aan te jagen voor een Russische inval alhier, en zo een massale bewapening van de EU te legitimeren wordt aan de kaak gesteld. Een zeer interessant pleidooi dat we hier in Nederlandse vertaling weergeven (ook beschikbaar in het Spaans, Engels, Duits en Frans). (...)


Open brief - Juan Luis Conde Calvo, e.a., DeWereldMorgen Vertaaldesk
Stop de EU-bewapeningswaanzin en de drang naar nucleaire oorlog
Terwijl Europese leiders steeds luider pleiten voor herbewapening en confrontatie met Rusland, waarschuwen critici dat dit de welvaartsstaat ondermijnt en de kans op een nucleair conflict vergroot. Een petitie roept op tot diplomatie en ontwapening als enige weg naar duurzame vrede.
Dinsdag 18 maart 2025, 15:42



Ivan Katchanovski: The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine - The Mass Killing that Changed the World .
Glenn Diesen con Ivan Katchanovski (Kachanovski), 18.03.2025.
A propósito de Who Perpetrated the Maidan Massacre? Who Overthrew the Ukrainian Government in 2014?
Professor Ivan Katchanovski, Econ Journal Watch 22(1), marzo 2025, pp. 18-68.

Véanse también Gordon Hahn (2018. Ukraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West and the “New Cold War”, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Books) y Serhiy Kudelia (julio 2018. When Numbers Are Not Enough: The Strategic Use of Violence in Ukraine’s 2014 Revolution, Comparative Politics vol. 50, nº 4, pp. 501-521)


An important initiative against the drive to further militarise Europe. Please sign and share.
Paul Murphy, diputado irlandés 🏳️‍⚧️ @paulmurphy_TD, 12:05 p. m. · 21 mar. 2025.

Aaron Mate on how NATO provoked Russia in Ukraine and undermined peace by The Grayzone

Read on Substack

THE GRAYZONE, 21 de marzo de 2025
Aaron Mate , de The Grayzone, argumenta que Estados Unidos y la OTAN provocaron a Rusia en Ucrania al expandir la OTAN, desmantelar los tratados de control y limitación de armamentos, instalar recursos militares que amenazan a Rusia, interferir en Ucrania y bloquear múltiples oportunidades de paz.
De un debate organizado por Young Voices en Nueva York, el 19 de marzo de 2025.
Enlace al video completo del debate, aquí.


EUROPEAN PEACE PROJECT y su MANIFIESTO – 09/05/2025@17:00
Facebook.
Cuenta en X.
El 9 de mayo a las 17:00 horas, ¡Unámonos para manifestarnos por un futuro en PAZ para Europa!
Si la UE y sus gobiernos nacionales quieren llevarnos a una guerra contra Rusia, ¡están traicionando todos los principios fundamentales de Europa de paz, democracia, libertad y entendimiento entre los pueblos!
¡Por tanto, nosotros, los ciudadanos de Europa, tomamos el futuro de este maravilloso continente en nuestras propias manos!
Por la presente ponemos en marcha el Proyecto Europeo por la Paz.
¡El 9 de mayo de 2025, a las 17 horas, proclamemos todos simultáneamente la PAZ en todos los países del continente europeo y en todas las lenguas europeas con un acto verbal performativo desde nuestras ventanas, en nuestros balcones y en nuestras plazas! ¡Participemos en esa fiesta!
Podéis encontrar el texto de la proclamación aquí en numerosos idiomas.
Si falta vuestro idioma nacional o local (catalán, gaélico, alsaciano…): ¡no dudéis en enviarnos la traducción!
Os invitamos a cambiar el texto de la proclamación individualmente (omitir o agregar algo) añadiendo vuestra firma como responsable legal del contenido publicado.




Manifiesto'No nos resignamos al rearme y a la guerra en Europa', 26.03.2025, 12:00.
(…) No nos resignamos a la guerra, porque no queremos la paz de los cementerios, porque la historia nos demuestra que el único camino realista para conseguir la paz no es militar, sino político. Pónganse manos a la obra y trabajen por la paz, se lo exigimos.
Léelo en Euskera, Galego, Asturianu y Català en este enlace.

Primeras personas firmantes de la cultura, la academia y el activismo:
Aitor Merino, Alberto San Juan, Almudena Carracedo, Amparo Sánchez (Amparanoia), Ana Rosetti, Ana Turpin, Àurea Márquez Alonso, Carlos Bardem, Carlos Olalla, Carolina Yuste, Edurne Portela, Enrique Gracia, Fele Martínez, Fernando Berlín, Gabriela Wiener, Gerardo Tecé, Gervasio Sánchez, Gorka Otxoa, Guillermo Toledo, Isaac Rosa, Javier Bardem, Javier Corcuera, Javier Gallego, Joan Roura, Jonathan Martínez, Jose Ovejero, Juan Diego Botto, Lola Bañón, Luis Pastor, Luis Tosar, Luz Olier, Manuel Rivas, María Botto, Marta Belenguer, Marta Sanz, Marwan, Montserrat Cano, Montxo Armendáriz, Muerdo, Nathalie Poza, Nüll Garcia, Nur Levi, Olga Rodríguez, Pedro Pastor, Puy Oria, Raúl Tejón, Roberto Montoya, Rosa Maria Artal, Rosana Pastor, Rozalen, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Teresa Aranguren, Victor Claudin, Albert Caramés, Alejandro Pozo, Amaia Pérez Orozko, Ana Barrero, Carlos Taibo, Carmen Magallón, Cecile Barbeito, David Bondia, Elena Grau, Enric Tello, Enrique Quintanilla, Eva Aladro, Fernando Luengo, Fernando Valladares, Ferrán Izquierdo, Gabriela Serra, Helena Maleno, Irene Comins, Itziar Ruíz Gimenez, Jaime Pastor, Javier Raboso, Jokin Alberdi, Jordi Calvo, Jordi Mir, Jordi Muñoz, Jorge Riechmann, José Angel Ruiz, Josep M. Royo, Juan Hernández, Koldobi Velasco, Luca Gervasioni, Luis Rico, Manuela Mesa, Marco Aparicio, Maria Oianguren, Mario López, Martí Olivella, Maria Villellas, Marina Caireta, Miquel Carrillo, Montserrat Cervera, Pedro Ramiro, Pepe Beunza, Pere Brunet, Pere Ortega, Salvador López Arnal, Sani Ladan, Sonia París, Tica Font, Tom Kucharz, Vicenç Fisas, Víctor Alonso Rocafort, Yayo Herrero.


Kit de supervivencia
Joaquín Rábago, Opinión | 360 grados, La Opinión A Coruña, 27.03.2025, 6:01.


Trump, Putin und der Westen: Zerbricht die alte Weltordnung?.
Interview mit Dr. Hauke Ritz, Neutrality Studies, 28.03.2025.

Steht Europa vor einer neuen Provinzialisierung? Verfolgt Russland wirklich imperiale Ziele – oder wird es nur so dargestellt? Und warum fürchten die USA das intellektuelle Potenzial Russlands mehr als seine militärische Stärke?
Im Gespräch mit Hauke Ritz diskutieren wir über historische Narrative, geopolitische Strategien und die Frage, ob der Westen dabei ist, den „Code der europäischen Kultur“ umzuschreiben. Ein Interview über Macht, Deutungshoheit und die Zukunft der Weltordnung
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¿Se enfrenta Europa a una nueva provincialización? ¿De verdad está persiguiendo Rusia objetivos imperiales o simplemente se nos están presentando como tales? ¿Y por qué Estados Unidos teme más el potencial intelectual de Rusia que su fuerza militar?
En una conversación con Hauke Ritz, discutimos narrativas históricas, estrategias geopolíticas y la cuestión de si Occidente está en el proceso de reescribir el “código de la cultura europea”. Una entrevista sobre el poder, la soberanía de interpretación y el futuro del orden mundial
.


Global Campaign On Military Spending
The Global Campaign On Military Spending (Campaña Global sobre Gasto Militar) está en marcha gracias a la acción conjunta de [hasta la fecha, 31.03.2025] más de 100 organizaciones de 35 países, que trabajan cada una en su ámbito y contexto específicos para concienciar y cambiar las políticas y prácticas gubernamentales en materia de gasto militar. Los hechos.
GCOMS está dirigida por un grupo directivo de activistas por la paz de todo el mundo, coordinado desde Barcelona por el Centro Delàs de Estudios para la Paz, que funciona como una oficina descentralizada del International Peace Bureau.
Y el Centre Delàs nos informa de lo siguiente:
Esta campaña pretende sensibilizar a la ciudadanía mundial sobre el gasto militar. Contamos con un Steering Team formado por personas de organizaciones de todo el mundo que, especialmente durante el mes de abril, organizan acciones, actos, ruedas de prensa, emiten comunicados, etc., para hablar sobre el tema del gasto militar. Este año, con el contexto social que tenemos, en Europa y más allá, hay aún más razones para llevar a cabo esta campaña. De momento el GDAMS 2025 incluye:
- 10-11 Abril: Common Security Council.
- 15 Abril: Tax Day in the USA.
- 22 Abril: Earth Day.
- 28 Abril: SIPRI's release of new data on military spending (figures for 2024).
- 9 Mayo: Europe's Day of Peace.


Más de 50 sindicalistas impulsan un manifiesto contra "el auge del militarismo" y "la escalada armamentística"
Público, 1.04.2025. La gran mayoría de los firmantes pertenecen a CGT.


Tony Greenstein: "I admire anyone campaigning for peace now, but I am too busy in Palestine solidarity work now to be able to do anything else, I'm afraid, but I wish you and your brother well.", 4.04.2025, 17:10.
Thank you very much, Tony. Your fight is our fight too / Gracias, Tony: tu lucha también es la nuestra.


La maquinaria bélica y la austeridad europea. La Unión Europea socava la diplomacia en Ucrania para transformar el estado del bienestar en un estado belicista.
Fabian Scheidler, Ctxt, 5.04.2025.
Para un desarrollo más amplio, ver la entrevista de Pablo Elorduy con Fabian Scheidler: “Si intentamos dominar a la naturaleza, acabaremos destruyéndola”. El autor de ‘El fin de la megamáquina. Historia de una civilización en vías de colapso’ ha desarrollado la metáfora del capitalismo como una máquina destructora y reivindica que hay oportunidades para el cambio, El Salto, 6.04.2025.


Propuesta de movilización europea por la paz – 9 de mayo de 2025 (en italiano).
Carlo Volpi, Pressenza, Redazione Italia, 16.04.25. El amigo Carlo Volpi nos ha mandado esta propuesta que está enviando a todas las organizaciones pacifistas y no violentas, tratando de llegar a toda Europa. Pressenza la publica y la apoya de buen grado.
Este artículo está también disponible en Inglés / English.


Intermedio ucraniano. Entre el acuerdo ruso-americano y la transformación de la guerra en Europa.
Rafael Poch, Blog personal, 27.04.2025 y Ctxt, 28.04.2025.


El conflicto de Ucrania y las incertidumbres de Trump.
Rafael Poch, revista Papeles, 28.04.2025 (aunque el texto fue escrito en marzo de 2025).


La gauche belge contre le réarmement. Secrétaire général du Parti du travail de Belgique (PTB), qui a réalisé une percée lors des élections fédérales de 2024, M. Peter Mertens présente ici l’analyse de sa formation politique face à la perspective d’un grand réarmement européen pour affronter la « menace russe ». Contrairement aux discours dominants, rappelle-t-il, préparer la paix n’implique pas nécessairement de faire la guerre.
Peter Mertens, Le Monde diplomatique, mai 2025, page 23.
[Excelente artículo, documentado y sintético. Su entradilla dice en castellano: "Secretario General del Partido Laborista Belga (PTB), que logró un gran éxito en las elecciones federales de 2024, Peter Mertens, presenta aquí el análisis de su partido político frente a la perspectiva de un gran rearme europeo para contrarrestar la "amenaza rusa" [muy entre comillas]. Contrariamente a los discursos dominantes, recuerda, prepararse para la paz no implica necesariamente hacer la guerra."]
Tradução para português: A esquerda belga contra o rearmamento.


Carta abierta al canciller Friedrich Merz: La seguridad es indivisible y la historia importa.
Jeffrey Sachs, SCHEERPOST, 18.12.2025 (edición en castellano publicada por La Casa de mi Tía). Precisiones al respecto en conversación con Glenn Diesen desde el aeropuerto de Belgrado, horas después de la publicación de su carta abierta (vídeo de 25:57).







lundi 24 février 2025

Joaquín Rábago reflexiona sobre Alemania, con Francesca Albanese y Pankaj Mishra

Publico aquí, en su original castellano, una muy pertinente reflexión del periodista Joaquín Rábago sobre la situación política en Alemania en relación con el genocidio palestino perpetrado por la entidad colonial sionista en el Mediterráneo más levantino.
Rábago menciona y cita a dos personas que tienen mucho y significativo que decir sobre el genocidio en marcha, la complicidad alemana y su represión de toda voz discordante. Los enlaces hipertexto son míos.

Alemania ha sacado las lecciones equivocadas del Holocausto
Por Joaquín Rábago, 23.02.2025

Alemania demuestra todos los días con un comportamiento que sólo cabe calificar de comprensivo, cuando no cómplice del genocidio israelí,  que ha sacado las lecciones equivocadas del Holocausto.
¿Cómo interpretar de otro modo la persecución tanto policial como judicial que hace de quienes denuncian en ese país a Israel por sus gravísimas violaciones del derecho internacional y se solidarizan con sus víctimas?
La propia relatora especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Territorios Palestinos, la abogada italiana Francesca Albanese, sufrió el otro día la humillación de que fuerzas especiales de la policía berlinesa entrasen armadas hasta los dientes en la sede del diario donde iba a hablar del genocidio por el supuesto “peligro” que aquel acto representaba.
El diario Junge Welt, sometido a observación por la Oficina de la Protección de la Constitución alemana por su inspiración marxista, algo insólito en democracia, decidió acoger a Albanese después de que la Universidad Libre de Berlín y la Ludwig-Maximilian, de Munich, sometidas a fuertes presiones, le retiraran su invitación.
Incluso habían aparecido pintadas en el multiétnico barrio berlinés de Kreuzberg en las que se denunciaba a la alta funcionaria de la ONU como “antisemita” y se tachaba de “terrorista” a la UNRWA (Agencia de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados).
Tras la aparatosa intervención de la policía en la sede del periódico, Albanese dijo que jamás olvidaría lo ocurrido y habló de la responsabilidad de Alemania, país que ha protagonizado no uno sino dos genocidios: el Holocausto de los nazis y el cometido antes por su Ejército imperial contra las etnias herero y nama de Namibia.
Otro que tampoco perdona a Alemania su apoyo total al Estado judío es el conocido ensayista y novelista indio Pankaj Mishra, cuyo último libro está dedicado precisamente a Gaza.
En declaraciones al semanario alemán Der Spiegel, Mishra denuncia a los alemanes por su defensa a ultranza del sionismo israelí y afirma que, con independencia de su pasado, “deben tener la libertad moral” de denunciar como “equivocadas” las actuales prácticas genocidas.
Según escribe Mishra en su libro “The World after Gaza” (El Mundo después de Gaza), con “su incondicional solidaridad” con el Gobierno israelí, Alemania se ha convertido en “cómplice de un criminal etnonacionalismo”.
“No comparto la obsesión con Hamás que siempre se espera por parte de los defensores de Israel”, afirma el indio, según el cual “en la historia del anticolonialismo, muchos movimientos fueron calificados en su día por EE UU y los europeos de “terroristas”, entre ellos el Congreso Nacional Africano de Nelson Mandela.
“El apoyo unilateral al Gobierno israelí ha destruido el prestigio de que gozaba Alemania” en muchos países del Sur global, afirma Mishra.
El ensayista indio dice no entender cómo ha desaparecido totalmente la simpatía que su día parecían sentir los cancilleres socialdemócratas Willy Brandt y Helmut Schmidt por el pueblo palestino.
Según explica Mishra, cuando visitó a finales de los noventa por primera vez Alemania, el país se caracterizaba por una visión del mundo “más abierta y cosmopolita”.
Y uno mismo, que fue varios años corresponsal en Bonn y ahora ha vuelto a vivir parte del año en Alemania, no puede sino darle la razón.

Recomiendo también la lectura de un artículo reciente de planteamiento similar y contenido complementario que debemos a David Cronin. Su título es una pregunta retórica: Is Germany incapable of learning from its past? y apareció publicado en la sección "Lobby Watch" (vigilancia del cabildeo) de The Electronic Intifada el 23.01.2025. De momento, en las elecciones legislativas de ayer domingo 23 los mejores resultados los obtuvieron dos extremas derechas: una extrema derecha económica, belicista y sionista, la CDU de Friedrich Merz, que es un agente de BlackRock, y una extrema derecha "tout court", la AfD.

En la Alemania actual se han disparado los antecedentes escandalosos, graves, alarmantes de prohibicionismo y represión contrarios a los derechos humanos, la libertad de expresión o circulación o irrespetuosos con el derecho internacional. Alemania ha hecho de la promoción de la guerra, el sionismo y sus masacres permanentes una razón de Estado. En el ámbito de las coerciones e impedimentos cutres, recuerdo la denegación de entrada en el país a Yannis Varufakis, o las diversas represalias o cancelaciones sufridas por personas tan diversas como Nancy Fraser (el año pasado, censurada por la Universidad de Colonia), Salman Abu Sitta, Irene Montero y otros, Hebh Jamal (el 18.02.2025, en el marco del DiEM25, no pudo emitir un primer corte de su película debido a la censura de la policía de Berlín)... Ya en mayo de 2023, más de 160 organizaciones, partidos y sindicatos se unieron a la campaña internacional contra la represión anti-palestina en Alemania. Lo que no impide que las manifestaciones anti-genocidas sigan teniéndolo muy crudo. Fue muy elocuente también la renuncia deLaurie Anderson, que decidió dejar de dar clases en la Folkwang Universität der Künste, de Essen (cf. su "Carta contra el apartheid"). Así lo explicaba The Guardian el 1.02.2024:
The artist, musician and film director Laurie Anderson has withdrawn from a guest professorship at a university in Germany after officials took issue with her support for a 2021 statement by Palestinian artists titled Letter Against Apartheid. The decision, announced days before Anderson is due to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Grammys, adds to the wave of cultural events that have been scrapped in Germany after artists expressed views deemed by officials to be anti-Israel.
Late last week the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen said it had “engaged in talks” with Anderson – whose works include the 1981 single O Superman and the 2015 film Heart of a Dog, dedicated to her late husband, Lou Reed – after her name surfaced among the thousands of artists who had backed the open letter, which called for “an immediate and unconditional cessation of Israeli violence against Palestinians”.
The university said it believed that art, culture and science are places “where contentious issues are kept in check”.
Its statement continued: “It has now become apparent that, in 2021, Laurie Anderson publicly supported the Palestinian artists’ ‘Letter Against Apartheid’ appeal, which, among other things, takes up calls for boycotts by the anti-Israel BDS movement,” it said. “In light of the now public question regarding her political stance, Laurie Anderson has decided to withdraw from the professorship. (...)”
Casos que se unen a muchos otros de represión en Centroeuropa (por ejemplo, los muy recientes de Richard Medhurst en Austria o de Ali Abunimah en Suiza) o, no digamos, en el Reino Unido, paraíso del sionismo, la apología del genocidio y la demonización de los palestinos y sus defensores. Desgraciadamente, en Europa, en esta materia crucial, dirigentes como Michelle O'Neill, Mary Lou McDonald o Ione Belarra son rara avis.

Esta represión afecta también desde hace tiempo, y cada vez más, a muchos judíos antisionistas. Hemos citado aquí testimonios del difunto Hajo Meyer, de Avi Shlaim, Stavit Sinai y Ronnie BarkanKatie Halper... Hace poco Rebecca Collard divulgaba el alucinante caso de un judío alemán con kippa reprimido en un parque público por la policía alemana debido a que llevaba una kufiya, el pañuelo palestino, al cuello. La declaración indescriptible de ayer del energúmeno racista y supremachista Steve B*nnon señalando a los judíos estadounidenses que no apoyen a Israel ni el delirio MAGA como "el enemigo nº 1 de los israelíes", sitúa la alianza pro-Israel de antisemitas y sionistas en su justo punto histórico y actual.
Steve B*nnon: Israel is a partner of the United States, but people in Israel got to understand something: the number one enemy to the people in Israel are American Jews that do not support Israel and do not support Maga, okay? Maga and the Evangelical Christians and the traditional Catholics in this country have Israel's back, they have the Jews’ back. The biggest single enemy to the Jewish people are not the Islamic supremacists; the biggest enemy you have is inside the wire, Progressive Jewish billionaires that are funding all this stuff. They are the number one enemy and the people in Israel need to get that right, because Maga has your back. Traditional Catholics have your back and Evangelical Christians have your back. We will always have the back of Israel, but, I got to tell you, you have an enemy inside the wire.
Mi solidaridad absoluta con todos los judíos justos, heroicos, que arriesgan reputación, carreras, sosiego e, incluso, la vida por defender la decencia y apoyar a las víctimas de una ideología sencillamente nazi. Estamos muy mal y, si no lo remediamos, vamos a peor.

Inserto a continuación la intervención de Francesca Albanese del 20 de febrero de 2025 en Berlín. Tuvo serias dificultades para tomar la palabra en el marco del DiEM25, como Hebh Jamal, pero la Relatora Especial sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en el territorio palestino ocupado desde 1967 lo consiguió, en una salita pequeña, aunque con difusión mundial vía internet, en vivo, aprovechable aquí en diferido, gracias a los buenos oficios del admirable diario berlinés Junge Welt y del resto de organizadores. Muchas gracias a todos por su fructífera tenacidad:
A pesar de la intimidación policial y los cambios de última hora respecto al lugar de celebración, Francesca Albanese pronunció un discurso histórico en Berlín, en un acto organizado por DiEM25, Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, Eye4Palestine y el Comité de Gaza de Berlín.
Después de que el lugar original del acto fuera presionado para cancelarlo, el diario Junge Welt intervino en el último minuto para lograr que pudiera llevarse a cabo este debate crucial. Lo importante es que quienes intentaron silenciarlo fracasaron. Más de 2.700 personas asistieron en línea, en directo, durante las 8 horas que duraron los actos, mientras Albanese, por su parte, expuso la brutal realidad: el genocidio en Gaza es innegable, Alemania es cómplice y la libertad de expresión y el derecho internacional están sometidos a un ataque feroz.
Este acto interesa sobremanera a quien crea en la justicia y se niegue a ser silenciado.
Fue moderado por Wieland Hoban de Jewish Voice for Peace in the Middle East.”

(Vídeo de 1:10:40)



TRANSCRIPCIÓN:

J’adore Francesca Albanese, je la trouve honnête, courageuse et pleine de bon sens, mais, comme d’habitude, les opinions exprimées par la personne que je cite ou que je transcris, elle ou autre, appartiennent à l’autrice/locutrice ou l’auteur/locuteur en question et ne reflètent pas nécessairement ou exactement ma position personnelle.

[Francesca] Just to make sure we are safe; can you confirm that police is here to protect all of us? [Crowd cheers] Good! [Crowd cheers]

[Wieland] So I have the great pleasure of welcoming Francesca Albanese [Crowd cheers]. United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian territories.
Before I hand over to Francesca for some preliminary remarks, I would just like to inform everyone that at the last update that I received, we had 1 ,700 people viewing the live stream. [Crowd cheers]
So, this may be a small room, but the virtual space we are occupying is a large one. So, without further ado, Francesca please speak to us. [Crowd cheers]

[Francesca] You're not police, right? [Crowd laughs] Camouflaging, okay.
So, I have to admit that about 75 hours in this country have made me pretty nervous. I can't wait to go back to peaceful Tunisia... [Crowd cheers] …because the situation is bad for freedom of expression, pretty much everywhere, and still I've never felt this sense of lacking oxygen as I do here. So, please, please, I know, they're very happy to see me. Makes sense.
Yes, but I'm someone who speaks of genocide, and there is a genocide ongoing and doesn't matter how much genocide denialism there is.
We need to be really aware, aware of what we need to do, all together, because I really want to be heard loud and clear before we start talking about what I came to know the most, genocide, this year.
I want to say a few things on which I absolutely don't want to be taken wrong and misquoted. But, of course, I will be misquoted!!!

So, it is a great pleasure for me to be with you today, and I wish to thank DiEM, A Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, Eye for Palestine and Gaza Committee for their immense work [Crowd cheers]… Stop it! [Crowd laughs] …for their immense work in bringing this meeting together and for inviting me to be here, in Berlin. I'm sure you have the gratitude of so many for creating this platform for many to come together to speak on one of the most urgent issues of our time. Without your courage and dedication, we would not be here today, although, although!!... for the venue, we must thank Junge Welt, who has given the event last-minute asylum and, of course, [Crowd cheers]… You are unruly!
And of course, we have to also acknowledge the Israeli ambassador, pro-Israel groups and professional smearers in Germany, a number of German politicians, including the city mayor, Berlin police, without whose relentless work and pressure and intimidation, we would be in another, much bigger venue.

I know how you feel. I feel it, too, somewhat, even though the intimidation has gotten on my nerves, but not yet under my skin, and with German authorities' permission, I plan to return, as I said, to the safety of my home in Tunisia before this changes.

We should not fear words. We shall fear crimes. Those that commit them, and those who deny them. And as we proceed, I must acknowledge that some of the words I will speak today might be heavy.
I recognise that many of you carry significant pain, and it is with this awareness that I ask for your patience and understanding as we explore these difficult subjects. Please, know that my intention is not to add to that pain, but to bring light, healing, and perhaps a sense of solidarity, as we move forward together. As you are all aware, my presence in Germany these few days has been controversial for many. Universities, the beacon of free speech!! the cradle of free debate, where people can also disagree, right? have cancelled events where I was supposed to give talks or lectures without any warning, let alone an apology. That's rude. The organisers in many cases have had to switch venues at the last minute, facing threats, condemnation and harassment on the street and online —hopefully not on site— as if I were someone advocating for hate or someone wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Instead, I'm just a legal expert appointed by the United Nations to document and report on the violations committed by Israel —this is what the resolution creating my mandate says, even if I also document the violations committed by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
I'm the eighth special rapporteur to do this after illustrious jurists such as John Dugard, Richard Folk, and Michael Link, and the first woman to serve in this position after 33 years.
It is in this capacity... This is where you applaud. [Audience laughs and applauds.] …I really want to chill a little bit, because it's heavy.
It is in this capacity that I came to Berlin. I arrived here —this is something I'm saying just to remind everyone that I came as a special rapporteur, still representing the United Nations, if there is an inch of respect for this institution that is left in this country—. I arrived here after traveling across Northern Europe and being generally welcomed, even where pro-Israel groups succeeded to have some cave in to their pressure and mafia-style techniques.
And I'm shocked to see how absurd the world that we live in has become, where impartiality to the facts and the requirements of international law generate more controversy than the killing, maiming, torturing, raping, starving, burning alive, and entire people as such, for 16 months and counting, and yet, this is the world we live in.
But so, before getting into the debate, what is impartiality and what does it mean? What is it not? Because this is something that I would like you to carry with you after this wonderful afternoon together.
Impartiality for human rights defenders, investigators and monitors, like myself, entails an obligation to investigate and establish the facts objectively, studying everything that is brought to our knowledge against applicable international law.
Once the assessment is done, my job is not to be equidistant from the parties, whatever it is, but to insist on measures to restore legality, to undo injustice and prevent further abuses.
In the case of Palestine, it is overwhelmingly documented that Israel commits intentionally, and as a matter of state policy, the gravest human rights offenses, as part of its long-standing plan to maintain control over what Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem has called, quote: 'A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.' [Crowd laughs] Full stop, end of quote.

Impartiality cannot be used as a pompous name for indifference and an elegant name for ignorance.
Impartiality is not about maintaining the pretence of both sides in the face of international atrocities, of maintaining, as I was saying, an equidistant position between conflicting parties, even when their positions are structurally and historically unequal. When one side occupies, depredates, and oppresses, and the other is being occupied, depredated, and dispossessed, this is a recipe for disaster and violence.
Impartiality is not neutrality, neutrality meaning maintaining an equidistant position between conflicting parties, even when their positions might not be equal and usually to deliver life-saving aid.
It's not my mandate, and not even that of universities and not even that of your politicians. Our job is not to stay neutral; our job is to stay truthful to international law. This is what all of us have in common.
And I stand firmly on universal human rights of respect for life and human dignity. And whenever it is the case that a state is being allowed with impunity to violate these rights, I must speak up, firmly, on the side of the oppressed.
If those who found my presence tonight controversial could understand this basic principle, the difference between ‘impartiality’ and ‘neutrality’, perhaps there would be far less controversy in the first place, and of course, there should be understanding and condemnation for what has happened to Israeli civilians during the brutal attack that Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups carried out on October 7, 2023, as there should be understanding and condemnation for the massacres, violence, and oppression that the Palestinians have experienced since the Nakba, and before the Nakba, resistance and opposition to which has certainly not spared the Israelis.
But here we are in an era where speaking out on human rights has become a hateful act or even a crime, where truth is a lie and lies the truth that is used to justify this... I mean, I don't see anyone, but I was prepared to see more police.

Orwell's famous proclamation that: 'War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength' and that quote has never been more true than in the discourse surrounding Israel and Palestine.
This brings me to the elephant in the room, the genocide that Israel has been allowed to commit after 56 years of unlawful occupation of Palestine and 77 years since the mass ethnic cleansing of the Nakba began.
An event that was in ways irrefamiliar in the present day, carried out amid massacres and destructions that have been recounted by its victims, Nakba survivors, but also recorded in the testimonies of its perpetrators in some instances, or documented in Israeli archives, and brought to light by diligent and honest Israeli historians —an architect— who were able to access those archives for a brief period of time some 30 years ago.
For even the most sophisticated and experienced practitioners of doublespeak, this truth is no longer possible to deny.
I just want to point to one thing and then, we move into the discussion regarding, I mean, the topic of today, genocide.
In July 2024, the International Court of Justice has recognised, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the occupation that Israel maintained in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem is unlawful and must be relinquished totally and unconditionally.
The troops, the military barracks, the military presence, but also the civilian presence, all the settlements must be dismantled. Which doesn't mean that there will be an uprooting of all Jewish people living in the occupied Palestinian territory, but the land is to be returned to their owners. and perhaps the Jewish Israelis who are there may want to rent, instead of stealing, and living as Palestinians if there is a Palestinian state. [Crowd cheers]
And this is not even new. This is not even new. Everyone knew that the occupation was unlawful and not just for violations of international law here and there, because Israel kidnapped children and adults, including in the middle of the night, and put them in jail for days, weeks, months, and years until they confessed crimes that they had not committed. And not just because of torturing, demolishing homes, killing people arbitrarily, no, not because of that. The occupation is unlawful because, by its very presence, it prevents the Palestinians from enjoying the right of self-determination, the right to exist as a people, free to determine themselves as a people, which is still being contested, and it shouldn't be confused with a two-state solution.
Because this is the political consensus that has formed, so that the Palestinians have the right, exclusive rights to a state, independent state in the land that remains. But nonetheless, nonetheless, any other rights lose meanings and becomes an exercise of intellectual rhetoric without the right of self-determination.
So, in the face of this groundbreaking advisory opinion which has confirmed what everyone knew, it is the obligation not only of the German government, but every German person, including those having businesses, living in the settlements, working as soldiers in the Israeli Occupation Forces [IOF], not to do that anymore. Otherwise, they might face consequences.
And this is where we are today. Instead of working on this and seeing how to abide by this incredibly important advisory opinion, the government of this country continues to repress the critical voices that ask for accountability. [Applause]

[Wieland] Thank you very much for those preliminary remarks. No doubt we'll get back to some of those points again later. But what I wanted to ask you about, and… —well, this is the title of this part of the program: International Law in the Face of the Gaza Genocide—. And something that's often been spoken about over the last 16 months by yourself, and by many actors of all sorts, legal experts, civil society figures, activists, is that the very concept of international law has been under attack, because the genocide has been allowed to take place and measures that have been set in motion to stop it, have also not achieved that result. The world has let it happen, and many feel that international law has become impotent and… even though, in the decades since the United Nations were founded, and we had the establishment of the Geneva Convention, and the various pillars of international law were built up, of course, this is not the first time that a power allied with the so-called West has chosen not to abide by international law, and recent decades have seen many other cases, the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. So, how is the situation different now? What additional or greater damage has been done to international law and how does one continue to work with the standard of international law from now on?

[Francesca] First of all, let me clarify a couple of things and then, we will have the opportunity to talk about what constitutes genocide, because there seems to be much confusion in this country. So, should I say that now or can we get back to this later?

[Wieland] I think we can get back to it later.

[Francesca] Perfect, as long as you say that. And so, international law is a set of norms that member states have agreed upon, either through treaties or that they have developed as customs, as practice, believed to be compliant with general principles of law and humanity.
So, what constitutes international law is a normative framework intended to prevent violations and to correct violations. So, it's a normative and remedial, it has a normative and remedial function.
Aside of it, but complementary, is the system, that is there, to regulate the conduct of states and so, it's the multilateral order which is to be regulated by international norms.
So, while international law has been selectively applied, more or less systemically violated, today we see the depth of it, and we see the system behind it, I believe. In the sense that it's clear that the system has never, I mean, the multilateral order, the General Assembly, which is now more democratic than it was 77 years ago, for example.
When the United Nations system was created, it was made of about 50, 53 states, and now it's made of 193 states.
So clearly, it has changed. but the centre of power, it has not changed.
The system that was birthed as dominated by the colonial world, like Europe and European offsprings, like Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada, and of course, the first colonies, the first settler colonial realities, where so many genocides had been committed, Latin America, Central and Latin America, sorry, Latin America. I mean, these were also part of the system, but the centre of power was with the West, what we would call today improperly: West, and remains there.
So, I think that the phase we live in has exposed how… unequal the system is, how it cannot serve as is the interest of everyone in the face of a fundamentally now a unipolar order, where the United States dictates pretty much what is to be done and what's not, regardless, or even blatantly against, international law.
So, we are at a critical point, and the system is breaking.
When we international human rights experts have said for years, especially this mandate, it's 20 years that whomever has held this mandate has said over and over, the system is breaking. The Occupied Palestinian Territory is a powder keg, and it will explode and will take all the system with it, because it's a settler colonial frontier, more violent than any other. It's not the only form of colonial domination, but it's an active settler colony where people are really struggling for what settler colonialism is in its more brutal form. One people taking control of land, of resources, pushing other people out!
Again, and it's the only one actively, actively militarily, politically, financially supported and enabled by Western countries.
So, this is the breaking point, because there are many people who identify themselves with injustice that the Palestinians have suffered. There are many people who, for the first time, realise, and there is a global awareness about this, and dissatisfaction.
We see in the fragility and how lonely the Palestinians are, in the face of all these powers, our own fragility, and this is why so many stand in solidarity with the Palestinians. On top of the fact that it's a simple empathy, the fact that what happens to other human beings touches us and doesn't… I mean, the fact of seeing bodies of children hanging from the wall or turned into smithereens whatever they are, incinerated in refugee camps or in tents, plastic tents, if not buried under the rubble. I mean, this is something that doesn't make many people sleep at night, and it's normal, it's a good sign, it's healthy, and we shouldn't become idle in the face of this pain. Yeah, so we need to decide.
Now it's the time, we are at the turning point and we need to decide.
The system, of course, will become uglier and more resistant and more fierceful, but because the system is being challenged. The system of which Israel's abuses are a symptom, and not… yeah, are a symptom.
So, this should be a wakeup call for all of us, people of conscience. I often say, a bit rhetorically, but I somewhat believe it, I mean, in the sense it's not the case that the UN Charter is not just about states' obligations, but it says: 'We the people'. Because ultimately, it's we the people who are the guardians of these values, these norms.
Human rights… I mean, I know that people complain a lot about international law: 'It serves no purpose.' Yeah, because you are not the ones who had to struggle to abolish slavery. You're not the ones who had to struggle to have women's rights recognised, even if I admit we still have a lot of work to do. But so, there have been so many struggles that have led to the development of human rights the way they are. So, while we tend to see human rights as a tool of emancipation, and that it's failing, I want to also remind you, if you take a step back and look at the arc of history that these human rights are first and foremost the result of someone else's struggle for emancipation.
And we have grown just too lazy in this part of the world, because you see the Palestinians, like many other people, they don't even have the time to think: shall I fight or not? “Fight” peacefully. I mean, because many people have no choice. If you have the choice, it means that you have privilege, that you have chosen not to use. And it's your choice, but trust me, everything is in line right now. It's coming… the way repression works in this country is scary, should —really!—… should scare the hell out of people. And the fact that you don't...

Thank you. [Inaudible] [Audience claps]

No, and the fact that people don't register how serious it is, the fact that media continue to be as pathetic as they are… Again, it's something that, I don't know, I'll try to help by continuing to tell what I've seen here. But again, I've been in many countries, including countries that are lectured by Germany about freedom of - freedom of oppression - [Audience laughs] ... Sorry!

[Wieland]  Appropriate choice of word.

[Francesca] No, freedom of expression and [Audience laughs]… freedom of... It was not even the worst that came out, the worst lapses that came out of my mouth today. However, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, I mean, countries that have been lectured by Germany about how important these rights are, and who are really struggling to guarantee these rights. I mean, don't want to guarantee these rights to citizens, don't even make a mystery out of it. And still, I've experienced much less intimidation and fear than here.
So, I, again, I'm with you and yeah, let's brace for what happens next. [Applause]

(...)





vendredi 21 février 2025

Katie Halper dévoile le sombre secret d'Israël

Née et élevée dans les rues mal famées de l'Upper West Side de New York, Katie Halper est écrivaine, animatrice de podcast et correspondante vidéo. Elle anime The Katie Halper Show Livestream, un podcast et une émission de radio WBAI et co-anime le podcast et l'émission YouTube Useful Idiots, qu'elle a cofondé avec Matt Taibbi et qu'elle coanime actuellement avec Aaron Maté pendant que Matt est en congé de livre.

Voilà, c'est comme cela que démarre sa bio sur le site de son émission en ligne, The Katie Halper Show.
Elle va donner encore quelques détails sur sa personne dans la vidéo ci-dessous, témoignage-analyse qu'elle vient d'enregistrer pour l'excellente plateforme britannique indépendante Double Down News. Mais surtout, elle, qui est juive, va prouver que tout ce qu'on vous a dit sur Israël est un mensonge.

Veuillez trouver sous la vidéo insérée, dont la durée est d'environ 9' 30'', une transcription de ses propos en anglais comme aide à la compréhension.
Les liens et les gloses entre crochets sont de mon cru.



TRANSCRIPTION [et remarques] :

There's literally nothing that Israel won't do in the name of vengeance and in the name of continuing Zionism. For some people, the takeaway is, as long as they're not literally putting people in ovens, as long as they're not doing exactly what the Nazis did, that somehow that's okay. It's actually not okay: Never again! doesn't mean Never again! in the exact same way that the Nazis did it. If that's your takeaway from the Holocaust, you really need to look at yourself and do some soul searching.
I'm Jewish, I lost members of my family during the Holocaust, and the truth is Israel does not represent me. Israel does not make me safer. In fact, it puts me, and all Jews, in greater danger because as Israel commits these crimes against humanity, and live-streams them and, in some cases, gleefully live-streams them —we've seen soldiers doing this—, Israel doing that and saying it's in the name of Jews, that will create anti-Semitism.
The idea that Israel represents all Jews is in itself an antisemitic idea. The dual loyalty trope says that all Jews are monolith and we're all loyal to Israel, and we can't be trusted to be loyal to other governments, regardless of where we live. That is really what Israel is leaning into, and you have antisemites and then, the government of Israel, AIPAC and the ADL, all making the same argument, which I think really shows you the dangers and the inherent anti-Semitism of Zionism.

People like to claim that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic; well, it's actually not, given that you literally have more Christian Zionist in the world than you have Jewish Zionists. This particular Christian form of Zionism wants Jews to go back to Israel so we can provoke the end times, Armageddon.
All Jews, except a very lucky 400, who accept Christ as their lord and savior, burn for all of eternity. So, these are the allies.
All these cancel culture warriors, who talk about right-wingers being cancelled are very silent, interestingly enough, when it comes to critics of Israel, who are probably the most canceled people of all. If you're a Palestinian critic of Israel, you're very very very canceled. If you're Jewish critic of Israel, you're less canceled, but you're still canceled: you're just canceled as a self-loathing Jew, as opposed to an antisemite, which is a significant difference. I mean, I was fired by a network for saying [in The Hill TV’s “Rising” ] that Israel is an apartheid state. So, my being Jewish didn't really protect me and, of course, there's a huge bias in the way that corporate media reports on Israel-Palestine. They're very clear when Russia does something: ‘Russia bombs, Russia strikes, Russia kills’. When it's Israel, it's often ‘Palestinians killed in attack, Palestinians dead after bombing’… We even know that networks and outlets instruct their writers and reporters not to use certain words, like ‘genocide’, not even to use the word ‘Palestine’.
In fact, the reporting by the New York Times on the alleged mass rape used by Hamas was so bad that they had to cancel a podcast that they were going to do about it, because there was so little to back it up.

[Katie Halper évoque l'indigne canular du New York Times intitulé 'Screams Without Words': How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7. Cf. à cet égard :

— Max Blumenthal et Aaron Maté, Screams without proof: questions for NYT about shoddy ‘Hamas mass rape’ report, 10.01.2024.

— James North, Extraordinary charges of bias emerge against NYTimes reporter Anat Schwartz. New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed racist and violent rhetoric toward Palestinians, Mondoweiss, 25.02.2024.

— Ali Abunimah Media Watch, NY Times found no 7 October rape victims, reporter admits, The Electronic Intifada, 1.03.2024. Nora Borrows-Friedman et Ali Abunimah sur Youtube : Scandal Grows Around Fraudulent New York Times "Mass Rapes" Investigation.

— Lee Mordechai (historien israélien), Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War, 5.12.2024 (version 6.5.5, dernière actualisation à ce jour-ci).

Bien entendu, il y eut beaucoup d'autres média occidentaux qui rabâchèrent à l'infini, sans preuves, la même rengaine des bébés décapités, des viols en masse, etc, en fait, la totalité des média mainstream d'Occident. Au point qu'il y a encore aujourd'hui beaucoup de gens de bonne foi qui y croient.]

Now, on the other hand you have countless stories and allegations of Israelis raping Palestinians: that got totally ignored. [Une longue histoire...]
It's really fascinating that we hear time and time again about the 40 beheaded Israeli babies, even though there was no evidence of that, and we do have evidence of actually beheaded babies [y compris historiquement], children with their heads blown off… I mean, we saw a child literally shredded. Various representatives of the Israeli government are never asked about that, they're never asked to condemn Israel's violence, they're never asked to condemn Israel's terrorism. There was a doctor who was tortured to death. [Cf. Aseel Mousa, Israeli officers tortured this doctor to death, then hid the news for months. Family and friends of Iyad al-Rantisi were shocked to hear he died in Israeli captivity. Now they seek an explanation, Middle East Eye, 27.06.2024]

If you don't already feel disturbed by the images of Palestinians, or the stories of Palestinians, the story of Hind Rajab, who was left in a car to die, when she was begging for help, and Israeli soldiers shot up the car and shot up the ambulance trying to rescue this girl, if that doesn't haunt you, I would really urge you to imagine this happening to a Jewish child during the Holocaust. I think that Jews should understand this, if anything more than other people, because of our history of being targeted, of being otherized, of being compared to vermin, of attempted extermination, of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and of the world looking the other way. That is something that we have to remember, that happened to us, we can't let that happen to other people, that's not Justice, that's not how we honor those killed in the Holocaust.

Everything that Israel tells you about its founding, about its history and about its role today is a lie. Some people think oh Israel was founded for Holocaust survivors and then, it got greedy, and took over too much land, and ruined its founding mission, which was to be a safe haven for Jews. The truth is it was founded on ethnic cleansing; it was not a Utopia. I think it's really eye opening to look at the actual language of early Zionists, because they were calling their banks Colonial Trust, they were talking about how “natives” always resist “colonists”; in other words, it's not just critics of Zionism who describe Zionism as colonial, it was the Zionists themselves.

Israeli Society really had a lot of disdain for Holocaust survivors. So, they did something very disgusting: they both weaponized the Holocaust, to justify their extermination of Palestinians, and they mistreated Holocaust survivors. In fact, they even refer to them as ‘sapon’, which means 'soap' in Hebrew, and that was because there was a myth that Nazis turned Jewish bodies into soap; it's not true, but that was a myth, and the important thing is that people thought that was true and they thought it would be appropriate to call survivors by that name.

Israel wanted to create a new Jew that was armed, that was working the land… they were ashamed of the Jews who were killed, they thought that they went to their slaughter like sheep, they were ashamed of Jews who were religious, Jews who were scholars, Jews who were also cosmopolitan. They really did ironically internalize a lot of anti-Semitism. [MEE, Zionist role in 1950s attacks on Iraqi Jews ‘confirmed’ by operative and police report. British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim cites 'incontrovertible evidence' from former Jewish agent showing Zionists bombed sites to encourage migration to Israel.]
There were Zionist bombings in the Middle East that were used to scare people into immigrating out of Iraq [cf. Naeim Giladi], out of Morocco, and into Israel.
That's how little they cared about Jewish people: they bombed synagogues in order to get people to leave the Middle East and go to Israel —where they would be mistreated, which is what happened to Mizrahi Jews. Some were basically put into camps.
They rejected Yiddish which was spoken by Eastern European and diasporic Jews and they also rejected Arabic which was spoken by Mizrahi Jews of the Middle East. Yiddish is an amazing language and it's dying out, and the reason it's dying out is because Israel chose to create modern Hebrew, which no one spoke, and they had a lot of disdain for a lot of Jewish culture.
So, Israel has always been a racist project, in many ways against Palestinians, but even against Jews themselves, and it's been an antisemitic project as well.

Not only is Judaism, obviously, much older than Zionism, but there was Christian Zionism from the very beginning, and that was fueled by anti-Semitism and the desire to get Jews out of Europe.
Lord Balfour, of the Balfour Declaration, was a major antisemite. Zionism actually requires anti-Semitism to justify its existence. So, for Zionists, they don't want to defeat anti-Semitism: they want to use it, to strengthen the state of Israel.
It's also true to remember that this is not a conflict about religion or culture. Jews and Christians and Muslims lived in peace, in harmony, in many areas of the Middle East for centuries. This is about power; this is about land. This goes back to resources, this goes back to the West wanting to have a foothold in the Middle East, this is not about religion.

Jewish anti-Zionism has existed since Zionism. A lot of Jews opposed Zionism because they I would say rightly predicted it would create anti-Semitism.
There is a very rich radical history of Jewish internationalism, during the Spanish Civil War, which many people see as the dry run for World War II, among all the international Brigades, so, all the volunteers who left their countries to fight in a war against fascism, and the most common language spoken was Yiddish, which speaks to this tradition.
If we look at so many struggles, like the civil rights movement in the United States, there were lots of Jews involved in that. Jewish people were overrepresented in that movement.
If you look at South Africa, some of the most active anti-apartheid activists were Jewish.
That's the tradition that I'm proud to be part of, not a tradition which weaponizes trauma, tragedy, and the Holocaust to kill more people.

Israel is unsustainable, there's no coming back from this. Something new needs to be created. Jews can live, side by side, with Muslims and Christians in Palestine, just as they have for centuries. If coexistence is so impossible and if anti-Semitism is so impossible to fight against, how is it that Jews live in Germany today? Germany was where anti-Semitism turned into the Holocaust, and yet somehow, Jews are able to live in Germany in safety. But we're supposed to believe that they can't live in Palestine in safety? Palestine is not the country that created Adolf Hitler. Palestine is not the country that created the Holocaust.

The biggest threat to Jewish safety is not a free Palestine: it's Zionism.

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