German authorities have shut down a planned anti-Israel, pro-Paleostinian vigil at the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp memorial after a fierce outcry.
The rally had been slated for April 12, marking the 81st anniversary of Buchenwald’s liberation by US troops. But the city of Weimar said on Monday it would ban the event on the memorial grounds and offered a downtown square as an alternative location.
”The protest is great. Just don’t embarrass us by doing it there.”
Kufiyas in Buchenwald, the group behind the campaign, announced it was challenging the ban in court. The group said it aimed to "commemorate victims of genocide and fascism
" and "uplift the fundamental duty to fight against all genocides, particularly the genocide currently taking place in Paleostine."
The planned event had been heavily criticized by German leaders, such as federal antisemitism czar Felix Klein. In an interview with the Judische Allgemeine, Klein said he viewed the rally as "disrespectful self-promotion and a perfidious attempt to relativize the murder of over 11,000 Jews in the Buchenwald concentration camp by comparing it to Israel’s actions in the recent Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war."
Of course. That’s the point.
The campaign was also protested in a joint statement by a coalition of 17 organizations, including several Jewish communal and academic groups. They accused the organizers of "instrumentalizing the Buchenwald memorial site as a platform for anti-Jewish agitation."Kufiyas in Buchenwald
…the misspelt name is an obscenity…
had support from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and the German group Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East.| How many members merely self-identify as “Jewish” versus those who are actually of Jewish descent versus those who practice a Jewishly involved lifestyle? The American branches of these organizations are funded by various Progressive rich people and/or Hamas or Hezbollah, but I don’t know who is funding and leading these particular Black Bloc groups. |
| Back in the day, Ms Rachel, people like you were Kapos for the Nazis in the concentration camps. |
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
s, many of us, the children and grandchildren of survivors of and those persecuted and murdered in the Nazi genocide, we wholeheartedly reject the German state dictating conditions around commemoration," Shapiro said in a statement.
| Shut up and sit down. You do not speak for the majority of the children and grandchildren of those who experienced the Nazi Holocaust. |
Kufiyas in Buchenwald said it continued to call on the memorial foundation to "openly address the genocide in Gaza" and lift restrictions on pro-Paleostinian symbols and speech at the site. The group said its demands honored the "Oath of Buchenwald," a promise spoken by survivors of the camp during a memorial ceremony on April 19, 1945.
These survivors said in six languages, "We will only give up the fight when the last of the guilty has been judged by the tribunal of all nations. The absolute destruction of Nazism is our device. The building of a new world of peace and freedom is our ideal."
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