Kartoffelbrei-Henni hat geschrieben: ↑Mo 1. Apr 2024, 22:15
Ich finde es immer wieder beruhigend, die vielen differenzierten, reflektierten Stimmen hier im Forum zu lesen - auch zu solch schwierigen Themen. Dahingehend bin ich dann schon verwundert, dass dem KuKo nichts Überzeugenderes gelungen ist. Denn der ganze Text hat doch eine ziemliche Schlagseite.
Es kann doch nicht sein, dass an unentschuldbaren Parolen und Haltungen zu diesem Konflikt ("From the river...") herumgedeutelt wird. Natürlich geht es hier zweifelsfrei um die Auslöschung Israels. Punkt.
Es kann auch nicht sein, dass die ekelerregenden Gräuel der Hamas, die der Ausgangspunkt dieses Krieges sind, allenfalls marginal bzw. in zwei Sätzen benannt werden. Dass nicht ein Satz zur Misogynie fällt (ein Begriff, der in diesem Kontext fast harmlos klingt), wurde hier im Forum mehrfach völlig zurecht kritisiert. Wie kann ein feministisches Festival diesen Aspekt so hart ausblenden... Voll daneben.
Und nein: Meine Solidarität gilt nicht per se dem palästinensischen Volk, welches es nicht vermag, sich gegen ein radikal-islamistisches Regime zu erheben, sondern den Feind offenbar immer und immer wieder nur in Israel oder "den Juden" sieht. Mit dieser Erzählung mache ich mich nicht gemein, genauso wie ich mich als Linker nicht einreden lasse, dass ein bisschen Faschismus (für nichts anderes steht Hamas und Konsorten) schon okay wäre, wenn er der vermeintlich richtigen Sache diene.
Es wird mich anekeln, auf der FUSION schambefreite Menschen mit Palitüchern zu sehen, zumal der Festival-Kontext (Stichwort: Massaker von Reʿim) einen völlig unangemessen Rahmen bildet. Derart zweifelhafte Symbole zu verbannen wäre mindestens genauso ein vernünftiges Gebot der sonst so hochgehaltenden Awareness, als dass wir hier ja sonst nackte Männeroberkörper problematieren.
Mein Eindruck: Die Mehrzahl der Fusionists dürfte hier ähnlich progressiv eingestellt sein wie ich und offenbar viel weiter denken, als es der KuKo mit diesem doch sehr schwachen Newsletter zur Sprache gebracht hat.
I have read the newsletter yesterday and I wasn't going to do anything but boycott fusion for their statement of exclusion of Palestinians and other voices that believe in a Free Palestine and an end to the colonial project on its land
but then I saw your comment and I had to.
Its a typical mindset of an ill informed ignorant racist white liberal thinking they know it all, have the moral high ground looking down on everyone else.
The the slogan "From the river to the sea" is call for Freedom for the Palestinian people on their ancestral land and if the existence if Israel on its current shape and form is on the way of that freedom than that is not a Palestinian problem.
Israel wasn't formed on an empty land that didn't belong to anyone but it was established on Palestinian land, the disgusting balfour declaration says
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
it is clear by that that it is a nation of Palestinians that were given for the colonial project in condition to not do anything for the native non jews but even that wasn't kept by the new colony
JEWISH COLONIAL TRUST , the first Zionist bank. The Jewish Colonial Trust (Juedische Colonial Bank) Ltd. was incorporated in London on March 20, 1899 and from its name the target was as they said it
"To promote, develop, work and carry on industries, undertakings and colonization schemes… migration from or immigration into any country or countries… and in particular of persons of the Jewish race into Palestine, Syria and other countries in the East… To carry on the business of banking so far as… considered expedient incidentally to any other business of the company… To acquire from any state or other authority in any part of the world any concessions, grants, decrees, rights and privileges whatsoever… to seek and obtain openings for the employment of capital in Palestine, Syria and in any part of the world, and, with a view thereto, to prospect, examine, explore, test and develop any mining, landed, agricultural and other properties, and to dispatch and employ expeditions, agents and others."
It is very clear that it was and it still is a colonial project on the land of Palestine, so Israel's existed over stolen Palestinian land, thousands of dead Palestinians and millions of refugees, to deny a Palestinian living in a refugee camp a slogan that calls for his freedom just because the colonizer is hurt is so evil and one sided.
Countries don't have the right to exist, states rise and fall, nothing stays the same but people have the right to exist and the existence of Israel in this shape and form calls for the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians, and every time someone says Israel has the right to exist they should be questioned how ? how can it exist like this ? what about the land it exists on ? it belongs to the Palestinians ? what about the Palestinians from Yafa Haifa and every other small or large town in so called Israel, can they return to their homes? more than 70% of the population of Gaza is from cities and towns in so called Israel right now, can they go back?
The calling for freedom isn't antisemitic, the Palestinian symbols aren't antisemitic, antisemitism is an evil thing and its existence doessn't justify the denial of Freedom and rights for the Palestinians.
It is Israelis who think that the Palestinian call of liberation and Freedom must be a call for genocide for the Israelis because they have done it to the Palestinians in the 40s at the establishment of Israel they are doing it now, they think that the Palestinians would do to them the exact same things that were done to them, but that is not the case.
There is a colonial occupation of the Palestinian land that must come to an end, there is an apartheid system of dominance subjugating an entire population that must come to an end, there is an ongoing genocide broadcasted live to the entire wild world that must come to an end.
The decision to hold the victims accountable for an imaginary interpretation of a call for freedom is disgusting, tone deaf and racist.
You and the people who made this decision think that you are liberal, care for human rights, the animals and the environment like many other white liberals living in their liberal bubble thinking they are leftists that know it all but you are not.
You are white racist liberals that turn to being fascists as soon as anyone else that doesn't look like you disagrees with you, you turn to censorship to block views that make you feel uncomfortable, views that exposes the hypocrisy of your ethics and standards, then you turn to the police state to do your dirty work.
I have been to fusion for two wonderful times with friends and family, I loved that I was completely myself in a safe loving environment but its not anymore, its an environment that deletes the Palestinian existence, its an environment that accepts the subjugation of the Palestinian people and I don't feel safe in it anymore.
I will not be attending as planned and I will make sure to tell the world about the fake leftist double standards hypocrisy of fusion and the racism I have read and got to know from people who think they are the prime example of liberal who go there.
Germany, Do better ... your guilt doesn't give you the right to do the same mistake again, never again for all people and not just one no matter what they do to others.