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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This analysis is inaccurate !<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In fact many right-wing Zionists have been trying over the last several years to make a claim that there is a “ growing anti-semitism amongst the Left “ in Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am not saying that there is no pro-Israel people on the left, like the former East German politician from the German “ Die Linke “ ( the Left ) party.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>However from what I have seen and heard, the vast majority of THE REAL LEFT as opposed to the phony Social Democrats, are anti-Zionist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>They are also however very anti- religious fundamentalist rather it be fundamentalist Christian, Jew, Muslim, or Hindu. They see religious fundamentalism as right-wing. And I agree.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Green via Peace-discuss<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 07, 2014 6:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [Peace-discuss] Germany's bizarre political context re Israel/Palestine<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417999035404_2326"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'><a href="https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-german-lefts-palestine-problem/">https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-german-lefts-palestine-problem/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417999035404_2384"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417999035404_2385"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>...Newspapers like <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417999035404_2369"><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Jungle World </span></em>that celebrate autonomy in Chiapas, queer politics, and radical ecology are stridently pro-Israel in their outlook. It’s not that all autonomists in Germany support Israel in every instance or are indifferent to the existence of Islamophobia. But openly questioning Israeli oppression of Palestinians is deemed out of bounds, since this could open the gates to existing latent antisemitism.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417999035404_2386"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>When Israeli bombs fall on the Gaza Strip killing and maiming thousands, many from the alternative scene abstain from protesting in solidarity with the victims, arguing that since Hamas doesn’t present an “emancipatory alternative,” there isn’t really anyone the Left can embrace.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417999035404_2387"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>In this, there is an uncomfortable and often unwilling convergence of autonomist discourses with the rampant Islamophobia currently plaguing Germany, with regular attacks on mosques coupled with calls on Muslims to “integrate” and “disassociate” themselves from ISIS. When <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/11/germany-faces-wave-racist-rhetoric-20141111132923544152.html" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417999035404_2407"><span style='color:#0066CC'>a mob</span></a> of five thousand hooligans, many of them active neo-Nazis, gathered in front of Cologne’s main train station on October 26 to protest “Salafism,” the far smaller counter-demonstration assembled under the abstract slogan “against racism and religious fundamentalism,” apparently eager to disassociate itself from the Salafism.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417999035404_2388"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>This had the rather unsettling effect of equating young discriminated Muslims with the direct political heirs of Himmler and Goebbels.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417999035404_2395"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>At a subsequent meeting convened to discuss the aftermath of the demonstration, I witnessed how left-oriented German students could genuinely not fathom why the counter-protest’s slogan was outright wrong. This drew the desperate ire of a comrade of Iranian background, a symptom perhaps of a deepening rift between significant parts of the Left and Muslims living in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>