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 Barkan, Katie 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.”

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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]

(...)

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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Elhanan Beck, Ilan Pappé, Daniel Levy, Avigail Abarbanel... Juifs israéliens antisionistes pour la Justice

TRT World vient de mettre en ligne un documentaire exclusif qui s'intitule « Breaking from Zionism: Jewish Voices for Justice ». Ce sont des voix d'Israéliens qui ont quitté leur pays pour dénoncer le Sionisme et soutenir les Palestiniens.

À travers des images éloquentes et les témoignages de quatre Juifs israéliens, Elhanan Beck [rabbin et membre du mouvement antisioniste Neturei Karta (1)], Ilan Pappé (historien), Daniel Levy (ancien négociateur israélien) et Avigail Abarbanel (psychothérapeute et ex activiste pour les Droits Humains), le film révèle comment l’idéologie sioniste a réussi à façonner et pénétrer la société israélienne grâce à un endoctrinement systématique. qui règne dans toutes ses instances de socialisation, et à l'instrumentalisation du chantage émotionnel et de la peur pour maintenir le contrôle des cerveaux et des corps.

Ces derniers temps nous assistons a des témoignages juifs ou israéliens de ce type à sensibilité variable —mis à part beaucoup d'autres cas, parfois déjà cités sur ce blog, genre Stavit Sinai et Ronnie Barkan, Max Blumenthal et Judith Butler, Avi Shlaïm, Miko Peled, Gilad Atzmon ou le défunt Hajo Meyer. Je pense à Jacob Boas (2), Anna Lippman (3), Avi Steinberg (4) —qui, tout comme Avigail Abarbanel, a renoncé à sa citoyenneté israélienne—, à Peter Beinart, rédacteur en chef de Jewish Currents, qui vient de publier Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, mais qui tient toujours à honorer l'étoile de David, etc.

Voici, après les notes, le documentaire précité :

(1) NETUREI KARTA (hébreu : נטורי קרתא) signifie Gardiens de la Ville dans le dialecte araméen des Juifs de Babylone et vient d'une Guemara du Talmud. C'est un groupe religieux de Juifs Haredi dont la plupart descendent de Juifs hongrois qui se sont installés dans la vieille ville de Jérusalem au début du XIXe siècle, alors en Palestine mandataire, et qui se sont séparés en 1938 d'Agudat Yisrael. Ils s’opposent au sionisme et appellent à un démantèlement pacifique de l’État d’Israël.
(2) Jacob Boas, My Two Genocides (Mes deux génocides. Dans ma vie, j’ai été impliqué dans deux génocides. Le premier, c’est lorsque j’ai survécu à l’Holocauste pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le deuxième est le génocide de Gaza, qui est perpétré en mon nom et qui exploite mon histoire pour justifier le massacre.), Mondoweiss, 19.01.2025.
(3) Anna Lippman, I stopped wearing the Star of David because it has become a symbol of supremacy and fascism, Mondoweiss, 9.11.2024. J'ai arrêté de porter l'étoile de David parce qu'elle est devenue un symbole de suprématie et de fascisme. En octobre 2023, j’ai porté fièrement mon collier étoile de David lors d’un rassemblement d’urgence pour Gaza, mais un an plus tard, je ne pouvais plus le porter. Israël a rendu impossible la séparation de ce symbole avec la dévastation insondable effectuée sous sa bannière.
(4) Avi Steinberg, Israeli Citizenship Has Always Been a Tool of Genocide — So I’m Renouncing Mine. My decision is an acknowledgement that this status never held any legitimacy to begin with (La citoyenneté israélienne a toujours été un outil de génocide – je renonce donc à la mienne. Ma décision est une reconnaissance du fait que ce statut n’a jamais eu de légitimité au départ), Truthout, 26.12.2024.

TRT World, Breaking from Zionism: Jewish Voices for Justice, 24.01.2025

TRANSCRIPTION :

Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): They occupy our name, our identity…

Ilan Pappé (Historian): I was still very much loyal to the Zionist ideology…

Daniel Levy (Former Israeli Negotiator): Those symbols mean something to me. That star of David, that is on the menorah, that is in our religion of thousands of years…

Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): You say God promised land, you say the Torah? You don't believe in the Torah.

Ilan Pappé: I already warned that Israel would become far more extreme, far more closer to an apartheid State…

Avigail Abarbanel (Former Israeli Human Rights Activist): I came home and I told my husband: we have to get out of here. Israel is complete mania. 

Ilan Pappé: We call it in political science “failed state”. This is really a collapse of a State.

Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): I’m a rabbi in Stamford Hill. I was born in Jerusalem and we gone out from there in 1970. My grandmother has died in Auschwitz, my father was a big leader of the Neturei Karta , in Jerusalem. He himself was Holocaust survivor. I live in the Haredi Orthodox Jewish community. People looks like me, have a bear. This type of Haredi Jews, Hasidic Jews, all the Ultra Orthodox Jews, many names people give for these Jews. They have businesses, their prayers, the education for children, and that's all.

Ilan Pappé: I was born in 1954, that is a few years after the establishment of the state of Israel. My parents came from Germany, in the early 1930s, and lost most members of their family in the Holocaust. I grew up in the city that I was born in, Haifa, and probably had a conventional Israeli Jewish upbringing and experience, more or less until I finished my military service in 1974.
I participated in the 1973 war, on the Golan Heights. I was still very much loyal to the Zionist ideology and didn't question any fundamental way.

Avigail Abarbanel: My family were very Zionist, but when you grow up in that, you don't actually know that they're Zionists. They were very loyal to the state of Israel, it took me a very, very long time to begin to wake up to what Zionism is and shape my opinion about it.

Daniel Levy (Former Israeli Negotiator): I come from a quite religious home, most of my grandparents or my mother's side family perished in the Holocaust. When I was young, I go to a Jewish day school, to go to Zionist youth movements, and for Israel to be a central piece of one's identity, to go to Israel camps. There is an Israel that exists in the mind of Jews who live on the outside that is increasingly distant from the Israel that exists in reality. When you go and live there, you're confronted with that reality, and so, the act of living there is the act of saying okay, what is going on?

Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): My father used to leave there (Jerusalem); he was demonstrating very much against the State. He didn't serve in the army, and he was beaten very much buy the Zionist police, he went in prison. Maybe he was more in prison than at home, I cannot say much more, but what they're doing for the Jewish people is terrible.

Ilan Pappé: The truisms of Zionism before I reached the university and started my postgraduate studies in the late 1970s. Conventional education that I was receiving had a very clear narrative, historical narrative, of what happened in Palestine. We were taught that as Palestine was an empty land, a land without people, waiting for the people, the Jewish people, who were without land, we were persuaded that the Jews were actually returning to an ancient Homeland that were taken from them during the Roman times. And a second feature which is very important is that the Arab world around us is hostile because of its religion, because of its political culture and because it is anti-Semitic, and therefore, we are doomed to defend ourselves and fight for the survival of the State, because they hate us, they are against us because we are Jews. When you graduate from the Israeli education system, you really believe that you live in a democracy that is loyal to universal values of morality and humanity.

Avigail Abarbanel (Former Israeli Human Rights Activist): You're effectively traumatised by the state, by the education system, and when you're brought up there, from very young age you're exposed to images of the Holocaust. If you were living there, this would be you. So, just remember the state of Israel is what keeps you safe.
In Israel you have to live in fear: the entire population is kept in a state of fear all the time.

Ilan Pappé: Zionism is a state ideology which means it encompasses every walk of life. When you go to the kindergarten, you already are exposed to the Zionist narrative and ideology as a toddler, and then, you will be exposed to it in elementary school, high school, in the army. According to that nationality law between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean, that is all over historical Palestine, only one nation can exist: the Jewish Nation, no other nation. And not only that; this law says that, in order to assert the Jewish identity of the land of Israel, Eretz Israel, you need to continue to colonize to settle and to reject anyone who is not a Jew, who does not accept that all of historical Palestine is a Jewish state. That is the essence of Zionism.

Avigail Abarbanel (Former Israeli Human Rights Activist): When I was growing up, and now, the Palestinians are compared to Nazis, they're not seen as human beings, at all, the vast majority of Israeli Jews are supporting the Zionist project. Israel is complete mania.

An Ultra-Orthodox cries: Zionist were only invented 200 years ago!

Avigail Abarbanel (Former Israeli Human Rights Activist): It's not a simple thing to do. When you find out that your group is doing really bad things, and you realize that it's really actually very, very unwell, immoral, it's killing people… it's basically genocidal. I… at some point realized that I had to choose between loyalty to my group and my own values. I came home and I told my husband ‘We have to get out of here’. I didn't want to live in fear. I renounced my Israeli citizenship in 2001. In fact, I feel liberated having left, not just leaving the state itself and renouncing citizenship of Israel but mentally leaving the mindset of Zionism has been incredibly liberating. It was considered a big, big betrayal to want to leave. They were horrified when they heard that I was leaving and they said ‘you can't leave, you will never have any friends!’, you know, ‘they'll come after you’. These are the kind of messages that I got and I'm not kidding.

Daniel Levy (Former Israeli Negotiator): Israel was never ready to accept the Palestinians as they are. Israel never acknowledged the crimes of the Nakba, of the expulsion of Palestinians, and there is a willingness within Zionism to meaningfully challenge that extremism. There is an attempt especially on the outside to portray Zionism as something that should be beyond questioning, even something so obvious and benevolent: ‘the Jewish people have a right to self-determination, how could one in any way challenge this?’
The question of why are you conducting war crimes against the Palestinian civilian population? within a broader context of what is, legally, a regime of apartheid, as designated by not only human rights groups inside Israel, not only international human rights groups, but also, now, the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Would you rather have that conversation? Or… ‘Why are you singling me out?’ ‘Because I’m a Jewish State, you must be antisemitic, you're just like the Nazis’.

Ilan Pappé: I already warned in 1999 that Israel would become far more extreme, far more closer to an apartheid State, that it would be far more ruthless towards the Palestinian in its methods and would constitute a danger to the stability of the region as a whole, but I did not predict it to be so cruel. If you live in Israel and you declare yourself, openly, to be an anti-Zionist, if you are a professor in history in a university and you teach your students that Zionism is colonialism or what Israel did in 1948 is ethnic cleansing, you clash directly with the narrative, the historical narrative, and the ideology that your government wants you to teach, they see you as a traitor, don't accept your criticism and you get death threats, and you are being ostracised, boycotted and so on. Like so many of my anti-Zionist Jewish friends, I was labelled too as a self-hating Jew.

Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): They occupy our name, our identit,y in the speaking in our name, in all this murder act. What they're doing, they're doing in my name, in our name. Everybody knows the history, knows that Jews have a golden life in all Muslim countries for centuries. How can people be so blind? Just open the eyes.
I go many times to demonstrations and the police stops me before I come: ‘Where are you going?’ ‘I go in there to demonstration’. ‘What? They're going to kill you’. ‘I don't worry, just look, I show you a miracle. I go in, between hundreds of thousands of Muslims, nobody will touch me, you don't have to protect me. Just look, I come every time among Muslims, I never see any antisemitism at all. Just look! From the Jewish point of view, where is the most danger place for Jews to live today? You go the whole world, you come to one point, State of Israel.

Daniel Levy (Former Israeli Negotiator): The question of what will happen in this land and whether, not a theory of Zionism that I was brought up with, but the practice of the State of Israel and the state ideology is called Zionism. And the reality there is a reality that is not enabling of an existence which is going to work, of course not for Palestinians, but also for Jews. And I feel now that this is coming apart. And, therefore, you see that some of the most vociferous, determined, angry voices in this period have been the voices of Jewish people saying: ‘not in my name’.
Those symbols mean something to me. That star of David… that is on the menorah, that is in our religion of thousands of years.

Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): The founder of Zionist, his name was Theodor Herzl, from Vienna, Austria, he don't (sic) believe in God, he don't believe in nothing. The Judaism is completely a religious movement, have nothing to do with any nationality, with any materialistic things. The Zionist often weaving the flag of the promised land, the promised land. You say: ‘God promised land’, you say: ‘the Torah’!! You don't believe in the Torah, you don't believe in God, you don't eat kosher, how can he be such a strong hypocrite to take out of the Torah something what is for his benefit, and ignoring all the other parts? It's written at Ten Commandments: ‘don't kill, don't steal!’ The Zionist is ignoring everything about the Jewish belief. In the Jewish belief, the state of Israel will come to an end, 100%.

Ilan Pappé: Israel survive, as it is, in the long run, in a situation where it has to fight all the time, in a situation where its own Society is going through a kind of a civil war, between the secular Jews and the religious Jews, even with the huge American financial aid, when Israel’s international image has been eroded like never before and when the Jews of the world are not going to support it anymore. We call it, in political science, “failed States” or “disintegrating States”, and this is really a collapse of a state.

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Mise à jour du 28.01.2025 :

Les voix juives pour la Justice en Palestine, dénonçant à cor et à cri le génocide sioniste en Palestine, continuent de résonner partout, y compris pendant la Journée de Commémoration de l'Holocauste [dans ce cas, à Londres]. Elles n'en démordent pas et répètent toujours que l'anti-Sionisme n'a rien à voir avec la judéophobie, loin de là, et qu'il faut s'opposer aux Sionismes israélien et international, car il faut s'opposer à toutes les forces génocidaires.
Honneur à Stephen Kapos (survivant de l'Holocauste), Sonja Linden et Mark Etkind (fille et fils de survivants de l'Holocauste)... et à tous leurs pairs.

Double Down News, Holocaust Survivor EXPOSES Israel on Holocaust Memorial Day, 28.01.2025. 

Il faut préciser que Stephen Kapos, survivant de l'Holocauste, avait quitté le parti travailliste britannique en janvier 2023. Ce parti capitaliste, atlantiste et sioniste, dirigé par le sioniste et collaborateur dans le génocide palestinien en cours Keir Starmer, lui avait annoncé qu'il serait expulsé s'il prenait la parole lors d'un événement organisé par un groupe de gauche à l'occasion de la Journée de commémoration de l'Holocauste.

TRANSCRIPTION :

Stephen Kapos: As a Hungarian Jew aged 7, in 1944, I myself had to wear the yellow star and 15 members of my extended family died in Auschwitz. On Holocaust Memorial Day, I want to keep their memories alive.
At the same time, it is also a commemoration and expression of solidarity with the one ongoing genocide, which is really a repeat of the Holocaust, in Gaza, and we want to make clear that those who had experienced the Holocaust will not want to repeat it against anybody.

Sonja Linden (Daughter of Holocaust Survivor): I'm the daughter of Lisa Lottojudas, who was born in Germany and had to flee at the age of 18, in 1939. It's incredibly important to me to make connection on Holocaust Day, which is the day when we remember the Jewish Holocaust, that we also remember, as Jews, in particular, that there is an ongoing Holocaust at this very moment, as we speak, in Palestine, something which absolutely fills us with horror, the Jewish people who came here today, and so many Jews whose voices we feel are not being heard. Our opposition to what is being done, supposedly in our name, is not really being recognized by the Press, by the media, and so we have felt it very important to come here today particularly to The Cenotaph. ‘Cenotaph’ means ‘empty tomb’, and I think it's particularly appropriate that we remember those in the Holocaust who did not get a burial, who remained unburied, just as we remembered those Palestinians under the rubble, thousands of them, who remain unburied today.

Mark Etkind (Son of Holocaust Survivor): My father was Jewish in Poland, when the war started, and he was pushed into the Łódź ghetto, within months of the Nazis invading along with his family, and tens of thousands of other Jews in Łódź, where they were deprived of health care, of clean water, of enough food and, within a year or so, my grandmother had died of disease, my uncle had died of disease, and tens of thousands of others had died of disease. This is how the Holocaust in Poland started. It didn't start with a simple extermination of Jews through gas chambers and such, it had started as a process, and what we're seeing in Gaza at the moment is the beginning of that kind of process: the extermination of the people of Palestine. As far as we can tell, they've murdered something like a 100,000 people, how many more will die? We don't know, but until our British government stops arming Israel and supporting this genocide, who knows? It really is beyond anything, and I think it's so important on a Holocaust Memorial day that we commemorate the suffering of all genocides and don't create a hierarchy where only some genocides matter and others don't, which, unfortunately, is what our governments are doing.

Stephen Kapos: This is an alternative commemoration of the memory of the Holocaust. The official one, they decided to exclude any reference to the one Holocaust… of the one genocide that is going on in front of our eyes, the Gaza genocide.

Mark Etkind: There was a laying of a wreath to the victims of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews and also, a re for those in Gaza who've died over the past year. In other words, we were commemorating two genocides, also there was a 3-minutes silence for all the victims of genocide, which I think is the only appropriate way we should commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.

Sonja Linden: We feel particularly strongly that the Holocaust is being exploited, and anti-Semitism is being exploited hugely! as a way of, I would say, closing down many people who would like to support the Palestinians in their struggle and in their suffering for fear of being labelled anti-semitic, and I would make a very strong distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.

Mark Etkind: Well, there's no greater insult to the victims —the Jewish victims and other victims— of Nazi crimes than to use that suffering to justify further crimes.
Well, you're showing me destruction in Gaza, I think, from on high, and you're showing me, I presume, tanks have made marks in the earth in Gaza showing the Star of David…

Stephen Kapos: This is completely shocking! and it shows that not only are they perpetrating a genocide, they’re actually celebrating it, and it is… sadistic.

Sonja Linden: I mean, Gaza now looks like Nagasaki after the war, there's nothing, there's no hospitals, there's no schools, there's no homes, it is just rubble and to actually inscribe that in a sort of… as a victory almost, by putting the Jewish symbol there, I find completely shocking.

Mark Etkind: ‘Never again!’ can only mean one thing: it is never again for anyone, not a selective ‘Never again!’, where you say that the crimes of the West don't count as genocide whereas the crimes of our official enemies do count as genocide. This, unfortunately, is the argument coming from the American and British governments. [footage of Keir Starmer talking for the Holocaust Educational Trust]. We really shouldn't let Keir Starmer get away with commemorating the Holocaust and claiming he's against genocide. He himself is directly responsible for thousands of people who've died in Gaza! I really don't think we should commemorate genocides with people who are committing genocides: it's a pretty obvious moral point but it's one that, unfortunately, we've got ourselves into.

Stephen Kapos: I noticed that Benjamin Netanyahu made a statement at Yad Vashem saying: ‘The Never Again! is now’. And that was a clear reference to the Holocaust of World War II as a justification of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. And I thought that was sacrilegious and a provocation, and the term ‘Never again!’ in our use has a completely different meaning. It means that we learned a lesson of the first World War II Holocaust and never again a repeat of it against any people.

Mark Etkind: Anyone who has watched the official media in Britain over the past year will know they have one clear line on the Jewish community and that is that it is a community that is very upset about any criticisms of Israel and this is simply unequivocally untrue and that is why I think Double Down News and other alternative media are so important. If you can afford to, please join Double Down News on Patreon.

Sur le chiffre des génocidés à Gaza

Sous le titre 400.000 morts à Gaza : le chiffre vérité dont personne ne veut parler, l'équipe de Télé Palestine (chaîne proposée par Investig'Action) vient de nous présenter une nouvelle vidéo.

La journaliste belge, Candice Vanhecke, explique pourquoi, si l'on tente d'évaluer le nombre de victimes à Gaza, le chiffre le plus probable tournerait au minimum autour des 400.000 morts. La présentatrice précise que les calculs de son équipe découlent de deux études importantes en la matière que nous devons à la revue scientifique The Lancet, concrètement :

• The Lancet, "Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip from Oct 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture–recapture analysis", 9.01.2025.
• The Lancet, "Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential", 5 juillet 2024, correction du 10.07.2024. [Elles sont téléchargeables gratuitement en pdf].

Et, malheureusement, ce n’est pas tout, car je vous rappelle que la mort survit toujours aux guerres et dans ce cas, en raison d'une prévisible et redoutable hystérésis très létale, on peut s'attendre à des chiffres encore plus exagérés —sans compter les souffrances de tout poil et les traumatismes physiques et psychiques, les orphelin.es, les mutilé.es... : il s’est agi, jusqu'à présent, d’une agression de destruction, d’intoxication et de blocage tous azimuts de tout ce qui permet les êtres humains de vivre, de boire, de se nourrir, de se soigner, de dormir, de se laver, de se soulager, d’oublier l’horreur ou de se protéger des intempéries.
Et tout ceci, c'est l'effort enragé de la technologie capitaliste-coloniale de pointe, ses tromperies, ses turpitudes, ses média, ses incitations au génocide, sa culture de la psychopathie et ses civilités, contre une population désarmée et composée dans un pourcentage très élevé d'enfants. Son but est l'extermination.
Gaza est maintenant un assemblage de décombres —et sous les gravats, des corps en miettes— au bord de la mer où tentent de survivre plus de 2 millions de personnes bloquées, assiégées, sans abris, sans hôpitaux, sans agriculture, sans eau potable... sans rien du tout. On verra, car l'entité sioniste a tenu sadiquement et méthodiquement à liquider toute possibilité de présent et d'avenir à toute une population, foncièrement déshumanisée, dont elle haït la constance et la résistance incomparables. Et cette entité carnassière en perdition totale y tient toujours, sans relâche, sans la moindre vergogne, là où il faut nettoyer du Palestinien (ou d'autres Arabes), là où il faut torturer et tuer l'humanité.

Voici la vidéo, présentée par Candice Vanhecke, suivie de sa transcription comme aide à la compréhension ou pour la consultation rapide des données fournies :

TRANSCRIPTION :

Candice Vanhecke : 400 000, c'est le chiffre très probable, et sans doute sous-évalué, du nombre de victimes du génocide à Gaza. On vous explique dans un instant comment on arrive à ce résultat, mais avant cela, je vous rappelle que Télé Palestine n'existe que grâce à vos dons, qu'on a besoin de vous, donc, pour continuer notre travail de réinformation. Donc, si vous voulez nous aider, c'est dans le lien en description de cette vidéo ou dans la bio.

Les sources sur lesquelles nous nous basons pour arriver au chiffre de 400 000 victimes à Gaza, eh bien, elles émanent du Lancet, qui est une revue médicale, scientifique de renommée internationale, pour tout vous dire, c'est un peu la Bible ou le Coran de tout scientifique qui se respecte.
Or, The Lancet a publié deux études majeures sur ce qui se passe à Gaza. La première a été publiée en juillet 2024 et la seconde, il y a seulement quelques jours, le 9 janvier 2025.
On va d'abord se pencher sur l'étude qui vient de sortir et dont l'objectif est de déterminer le nombre exact de personnes décédées de mort violente à Gaza. C'est donc une étude très importante puisque, comme vous le savez, dans nos médias, on ne cesse de dire qu'il faut faire très attention avec les chiffres qui concernent le nombre de victimes palestiniennes à Gaza, puisque ces chiffres émanent toutes du Hamas. L'étude du Lancet porte sur la période du 7 octobre 2023 au 30 juin 2024 et, pour cette période, le ministère palestinien de la Santé avait transmis le chiffre de morts directs, causés donc par l'armée israélienne : ce chiffre était de 37 877 victimes.
De leur côté, les chercheurs de l'étude du Lancet se sont basés sur trois sources de données différentes. La première, eh bien, ce sont les listes de décès transmis par les hôpitaux. La seconde, ce sont les décès qui sont signalés par les Palestiniens eux-mêmes via un formulaire en ligne ; et la troisième, eh bien, ce sont les annonces de décès qui ont été formulées sur les réseaux sociaux.
Les chercheurs ont analysé ces différents éléments, ils ont retiré les doublons, les autres erreurs statistiques possibles, et sont arrivés à un résultat avec une fiabilité de 95 %.
Bien, ce résultat, qui concerne donc les personnes décédées de mort violente, il s'élève à 64 260.
64 260 personnes décédés de mort violente, c'est un chiffre beaucoup plus élevé que ce qu'avait transmis le ministère palestinien de la Santé pour cette même période, un chiffre plus élevé pour être exact de 41%.
Rappelons aussi que l'étude du Lancet ne porte que sur la période du 7 octobre 2023 au 30 juin 2024 et que, évidemment, l'armée israélienne a continué à massacrer des Palestiniens et des Palestiniennes depuis lors.
Au moment de réaliser cet enregistrement, le ministère de la Santé palestinien évaluait le nombre de personnes tuées à Gaza à 46 700. Sachant que les chiffres officiels sont inférieurs de 41% aux chiffres les plus proches de la réalité, eh bien, on peut estimer que le nombre réel de personnes tuées à Gaza tournerait plutôt autour des 79 000.
Voilà donc, dans le détail, l'étude du Lancet, qui est sortie il y a quelques jours et qui nous permet d'avoir une idée plus précise du nombre de personnes tuées à Gaza. Précisons, cependant, que ce chiffre ne concerne évidemment que les personnes qui ont été tuées directement, c'est-à-dire, soit qui sont décédées dans un bombardement, soit qui ont été abattues par un drone ou un soldat israélien. À côté de cela, il y a un nombre beaucoup plus élevé de personnes qui décèdent à cause du contexte génocidaire et dont les décès ne sont pas repris dans les chiffres qu'on vient de voir. Parmi ces décès indirects, on peut citer les personnes qui sont mortes de froid, de la famine, de l'absence d'eau potable, des maladies, qu'elles soient contagieuses ou non, aussi des maladies chroniques qui ne peuvent pas être soignées, ou des personnes qui décèdent après un certain temps de leurs blessures, vu qu'évidemment, à Gaza, il n'y a plus ni médicament ni endroit un tout petit peu décent pour effectuer sa convalescence.
Pour avoir une idée du nombre de ces décès indirects, on va cette fois se référer à l'étude du Lancet, qui est paru en juillet 2024 et qui, elle aussi, étudie la période allant d'octobre 2023 à juin 2024. Vous en avez peut-être entendu parler parce que cette étude a fait beaucoup de bruit l'an dernier, vu qu’elle estimait le nombre probable de personnes tuées à Gaza à 186 000.
Ce chiffre est hallucinant et, pourtant, on va le voir, il est très probablement sous-évalué. Pour arriver à ce chiffre les chercheurs de l'étude du Lancet sont partis des chiffres qui ont été transmis par le ministère de la Santé palestinien. Ces chiffres concernaient les morts directes et ils s'élevaient à 37 396.
À ce chiffre, les chercheurs ont ajouté une estimation du nombre de décès indirects. Alors, comment ils ont évalué le nombre de décès indirects ? Bah, pour cela, ils se sont référés à un rapport de l'ONU datant de 2008, qui étudie les conflits les plus récents et qui avait alors estimé qu’on comptait généralement entre 3 et 15 victimes indirectes pour une victime directe.
Pour rester prudent, le rapport de l'ONU conseillait, de manière générale, de partir du rapport de quatre victimes indirectes pour une victime direct et c'est ce qu'ont fait les chercheurs de l'étude du Lancet : ils ont pris le nombre de morts directes transmis par le ministère palestinien et ont ajouté le résultat de ce chiffre multiplié par 4. L'estimation de 186 000 personnes décédées à Gaza comprenait donc le nombre de morts directes et le nombre de morts indirectes.

Avant d'aller plus loin, notons trois remarques importantes par rapport à l'étude du Lancet du 5 juillet 2024.
D'abord, il faut se rappeler que cette étude ne couvrait que la période allant d'octobre 2023 à juin 2024. Ensuite, les chercheurs ont fondé leur calcul sur le nombre de morts directes transmis par le ministère de la Santé palestinien et, comme on l'a vu, les chiffres de ce ministère sont inférieurs de 41% à la réalité. Enfin, insistons aussi sur le fait que les chercheurs de l'étude de Lancet sont d'une prudence extrême, puisqu’ils se basent sur la recommandation du rapport de l'ONU, qui conseille de garder un rapport de quatre victimes indirectes pour une victime directe qu'on retrouve dans les conflits classiques.
Pourtant, comme on l'a vu, ce même rapport de l'ONU dit aussi que pour certains conflits récents, on peut aller jusqu'à compter 15 fois plus de victimes indirectes que de victimes directes et, franchement, on ne voit pas dans quel conflit récent un état agresseur aura été jusqu'à stopper l'acheminement de l'aide humanitaire, détruire systématiquement tous les hôpitaux et couper l'approvisionnement en eau potable, comme Israël a pu le faire à Gaza.
Ceci dit, pour ne pas prêter le flanc à la critique, nous allons partir du principe un peu fou que le génocide à Gaza n’aura fait que quatre victimes indirectes pour une victime directe et, à partir de là, nous allons tenter d'actualiser les chiffres avec les données en notre possession.
Comme nous l'avons vu, dans la première partie de cet exposé, nous savons maintenant que le nombre de morts directes, au moment de publier cette vidéo, s'élevait à 79 000. Nous allons lui ajouter son multiple de 4, qui est l'estimation basse du nombre de victimes indirectes et qui est de 316 000.
Totalisons maintenant le nombre de personnes tuées directement et le nombre de personnes tuées indirectement, et nous arrivons au chiffre de 395 000 victimes du génocide à Gaza.
On nous pardonnera d'arrondir ce chiffre à 400 000 pour qu'on se rende compte de l'horreur de la situation —puis, de toute façon, comme on l'a vu, nos calculs ne tiennent compte que d'une estimation très basse du nombre de victimes indirectes à Gaza.
Ce chiffre de 400 000 morts nous montre qu'on est déjà au-delà de ce qui s'était passé en 1994 au moment du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda. Avant le génocide, le Rwanda comptait 7 million et demi d'habitants. 1 million ont été génocidés. On est donc dans un rapport de presque une personne tuée sur 7. À Gaza, avant le génocide, l'enclave palestinienne comptait 2 400 000 habitants. Avec 400 000 personnes tuées, l'armée israélienne aura assassiné un habitant sur six. On est donc au-delà de ce qui s'est passé lors du génocide au Rwanda.
C'est une réalité sur laquelle on ne peut plus fermer les yeux. Alors partagez un maximum cette vidéo. Même avec un cessez-le-feu temporaire, les Palestiniens et les Palestiniennes de Gaza ne sont pas à l'abri de nouveaux massacres, donc, on doit vraiment rester mobilisé.es jusqu'à ce qu'elle devienne une paix durable.