The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

Schlagwort: Trump

Ließ sich Hitler im Alter von 6 Jahren in Paris zu „Mein Kampf“ inspirieren? Warum die Gruppe „Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost“ ein Friedenshindernis ist

Von Dr. Clemens Heni, 5. März 2019

Die Stadt Göttingen, die Universität Göttingen und die Sparkasse Göttingen haben sich entschieden und werden der Verleihung des sog. Göttinger Friedenspreises 2019 am Samstag, den 9. März 2019 an die Gruppe „Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost“ fernbleiben. Das ist gut so, auch wenn es eine Redakteurin des Tagesspiegel, Andrea Dernbach, anders sieht und eher ein Problem mit der Kritik am Antisemitismus zu haben scheint, denn mit der neuen Form des Antisemitismus via „Rückkehrrecht der Palästinenser“, denn das ist ein Kernpunkt der BDS-Bewegung, der die Preisträger nahe stehen.

Frieden ist ein großes Wort und wäre in Nahost gleichwohl ein Traum. Als Politikwissenschaftler und Aktivist habe ich z.B. 2007 die Nichtregierungsorganisation „Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)“ in Berlin mitgegründet. 2017 hat mich der Vorstand mit einstimmigem Beschluss ausgeschlossen, weil ich es gewagt hatte, die Unterstützung von SPME in USA für den Sexisten, Rassisten, Nationalisten und Antisemiten Donald J. Trump, den 45. Präsidenten der USA, zu kritisieren.

Die Boykottbewegung BDS gegen Israel möchte Israel nicht nur isolieren und einseitig verantwortlich machen, sondern vor allem auch das angebliche Rückkehrrecht der 1948 vertriebenen Palästinenser durchsetzen. Dabei handelt es sich um mittlerweile über 5 Millionen Menschen, die in völlig grotesker Weise als „Flüchtlinge“ rubriziert werden und gar eine eigene exklusive UN-Einrichtung für sich haben, die UNRWA.

Die deutsche Sektion der Juden für gerechten Frieden in Nahost ist Mitglied der „European Jews for a Just Peace“. Dort ist auch die französische Gruppe Mitglied („Union Juive Francaise pour la Paix“), die am 25. Februar 2019 nochmal deutlich machte, dass all die harmlosen Worte dieser ach-so-friedlichen-Juden, die angeblich Israel anerkennen und nur einen Staat Palästina Seite an Seite mit dem Israel von 1967 haben wollen, Makulatur sind oder schlicht Propaganda für die Dernbachs oder Brumliks dieser Welt: Denn die Mitglieder der französischen Sektion sagen klipp und klar, dass sie „Antizionisten“ sind und somit den Anspruch der Juden auf einen jüdischen Staat ablehnen. In der Erklärung wird einzig und allein Israel für den Nahostkonflikt verantwortlich gemacht. So wichtig es ist, die Besatzung des Westjordanlandes zu kritisieren, so falsch und verräterisch ist es, dabei den Judenhass der Araber, Islamisten und Palästinenser nicht einmal en passant zu erwähnen.

Ein Unterstützen der BDS-Bewegung sowie aktives Kooperieren durch die Gruppe „Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost“ (wie es hier oder hier von ihnen selbst erklärt wird) ist antisemitisch, weil es nicht nur einseitig Schuld sucht und sie bei den Zionisten findet, aber nie bei den Jihadisten oder säkularen palästinensischen Judenfeinden, sondern auch, wie die Amsterdamer Erklärung von 2002 verdeutlich, mit dem Rückkehrrecht der Vertriebenen von 1948 kokettiert, ja es einfordert („the recognition by Israel of its part in the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. Israel should recognise in principle the Palestinian right to return as a human right.”).

Floskeln, diese „Rückkehr“, die ja für fast alle gar keine Rückkehr wäre, da nur noch wenige Zehntausend tatsächlich 1948 vertriebenen (oder aus eigenen Stücken gegangen) Palästinenser*innen leben, dürfe „Israels Existenz“ nicht bedrohen, sind so wertvoll wie eine Debatte mit der AfD über Vielfalt, Demokratie und die Erinnerung an den Nationalsozialismus.

Viele Menschen, die sich einen Friedensvertrag aller arabischen Staaten mit Israel, ein Ende des islamistischen Terror- und Willkürregimes von Erdogan und der AKP in der Türkei sowie das Ende des Islamischen Republik Iran wünschen, hoffen zudem, dass Benjamin Netanyahu die kommende Wahl in Israel verliert und endlich ein wenigstens nicht rechtsextremes, ja liberales bis linksliberales (wenn auch ganz sicher nicht linkes) Koalitionsbündnis die Nachfolge antritt.

Nationalismus wie die Kooperation mit europäischen Rechtsextremisten und Holocaustrevisionisten durch die aktuelle israelische Regierung (mit der Ukraine, Litauen, Polen, Ungarn) werden in Israel, aber auch von vielen Juden in USA und Europa scharf kritisiert. Allerdings gibt es in Deutschland eine völlig realitätsferne und selbst ernannte Pro-Israel-Szene, die de facto Juden und Israel schadet, da sie extrem rechts agiert und nur nachplappert, was Netanyahu von sich gibt und linkszionistische Stimmen seit Jahren gezielt negiert und totschweigt. Das gilt auch für Einpunktbewegungen wie „Stop the Bomb“, die sich von Trump viel verspricht und in ihm nicht die größte innere Gefahr für die westliche Welt sieht, die er darstellt. Dass der Sexismus und anti-hispanische Rassismus von Trump sie nicht anwidert, verwundert nicht. Wer sich gegen den Verschleierungszwang im Iran wendet, aber Trump nicht wegen dessen „grab her by the pussy“-Sexismus attackiert, hat gar nichts kapiert und heuchelt auf unerträgliche Weise.

Wer jedoch auf der anderen, der vorgeblich guten Seite steht wie Micha Brumlik und nun in der taz die Kritiker*innen des Antisemitismus und der „Jüdischen Stimme für gerechten Frieden“ diffamiert und dann auch noch zusammen mit einer Person wie Jacqueline Rose (und dutzenden weiteren problematischen, den Antisemitismus diminuierenden oder fördernden Personen) Erklärungen zur Unterstützung der Juden für einen gerechten Frieden in Nahost unterschreibt, hat jegliche Seriosität, jede Wissenschaftlichkeit, jede politische Reputation verloren und kann nicht mehr ernstgenommen werden.

Denn was schreibt Rose in ihrem Buch „The Question of Zion“? Zitat:

„It was only when Wagner was not playing at the Paris opera that he [Herzl, CH] had any doubts as to the truth of his ideas. (According to one story it was the same Paris performance of Wagner, when – without knowledge or foreknowledge of each other – they were both present on the same evening, that inspired Herzl to write Der Judenstaat, and Hitler Mein Kampf)“.

Das ist nicht irgendwie eine Meinung von Rose, das ist Fanatismus und Unwissenschaftlichkeit in Potenz. Hitler habe sich also im Alter von 6 Jahren zu „Mein Kampf“ inspirieren lassen. Dass so etwas gelesen, lektoriert und gedruckt wurde, hätte das Ende des Verlags Princeton University Press bedeuten müssen – dass es das nicht tat, zeigt wie desolat „Forschung“ heute funktioniert. Dass eine Person wie Jacqueline Rose, die diesen wirklichen Schwachsinn, der nichts als antisemitisch motiviert ist – nämlich Herzl und den Zionismus mit dem größten Verbrecher der Geschichte der Menschheit in direkte Verbindung zu bringen – so formuliert hat, von einem Mann wie Brumlik (oder anderen Unterzeichnern wie Moshe Zuckermann und Moshe Zimmermann) goutiert wird, ist bezeichnend. Es ist ja keine offene Liste von Zehntausenden Namen, wo man nie weiß, was für ein Schwachkopf sich darunter mischt.

Nein, es ist eine ausgewählte Liste eines Offenen Briefes von über 90 Leuten, die alle wissen, wer Jacqueline Rose ist. („In einem offenen Brief verurteilen mehr als 90 namhafte jüdische Wissenschaftler und Intellektuelle, darunter Noam Chomsky, Eva Illouz, Alfred Grosser, Moshe Zimmermann, Judith Butler und Micha Brumlik, die Anfeindungen gegen unseren Verein und rufen die deutsche Zivilgesellschaft auf, die freie Meinungsäußerung jener zu gewährleisten, die sich gegen die Unterdrückung der palästinensischen Bevölkerung wenden.)“

Der arabische und islamistische Antisemitismus sind eine enorme Gefahr für Juden und Israel. Die nationalistische Politik von Netanyahu hingegen ist auch problematisch und für die politische Kultur in Israel eine sehr große Belastung. Seine Kooperation mit der rassistischen Partei Otzma Yehudit, die in der Tradition der rassistischen Terrorpartei Meir Kahanes steht (die in Israel verboten wurde), ist skandalös, worauf jüngst u.a. der bekannte zionistische Publizist Yossi Klein Halevi hinwies und in scharfen Tönen Netanyahu beschuldigt, den Namen Israels durch sein Kollaborieren mit Otzma Yehudit beschmutzt zu haben.

Das Beispiel der „Jüdischen Stimme für einen gerechten Frieden in Nahost“ zeigt, dass ein wachsamer Blick und Kritik an israelischen Politikern oder Parteien berechtigt ist. Doch an solcher Kritik ist die ‚Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost‘ gar nicht interessiert. Sie streitet mit ihrer Unterstützung der BDS-Bewegung an der Seite einer Organisation, die sich den Beifall der Hamas („We salute and support the influential BDS Movement“) bestimmt nicht durch ihren Einsatz für eine Zwei-Staaten-Lösung verdient hat.

Auch die palästinensische Terroristin und Ikone Leyla Khaled findet in ihrem noch weitergehenderen Kampf gegen den jüdischen und demokratischen Staat Israel BDS sehr hilfreich. Brumlik wird sagen, das seien alles Zufälle und nichts habe mit nichts zu tun, wer solche inhaltlichen Überschneidungen anspreche, sei ein Faschist oder McCarthy-Antikommunist.

Linke oder linksradikale Kritik an diesen „Jüdischen Stimmen“ entwirklicht nicht nur er. Honni soit qui mal y pense.

©ClemensHeni

Prof. Alexander Yakobson on Trump, the Jewish state of Israel and the threat of a „binational“ Jerusalem

Dear listeners to BICSA radio:

Today, December 10, 2017, we made a fascinating interview with historian and professor Alexander Yakobson from Hebrew University, about Trump  and Jerusalem.

If we do not distinguish between West-Jerusalem (Hebrew, Jewish and Israeli) and East-Jerusalem (Arab, Muslim and Palestinian), Jerusalem might become a „binational“ city and threaten the very idea of a Jewish capital (and finally the Jewish state) living peaceful side by side with a Palestinian state.

How „reliable“ (Michael Oren, who embraces Trump in an interview with the German boulevard BILD-Zeitung) is an American President who said that among a neo-Nazi rally who screamed „Jews will not replace us“ are „very fine people“?

What about the German pro-Israel camp? Can we embrace all kind of pro-Israel people, just because they are against the left and Islamist antisemitism?

How does a Zionist response to Trump’s decision sound like?

Prof. Alexander Yakobson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Listen to the interview here:

Interview with J.J. Goldberg: From the Radical Zionist Alliance to Criticism of Trump and the American Jewish Establishment (audio file)

An Interview with J.J. Goldberg from New York City, editor-at-large of the Forward, by Clemens Heni, Director of The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA) – January 5, 2017 (audio file)

Listen to the Interview

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List of contents:

0:51  Radical Zionist Alliance

2:20  Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes

4:00  Refugees are also human beings

6:30  Trump might start a war because he is thoughtless

9:15  ADL, SWC & Jewish Establishment

9:45  Alvin Rosenfeld

11:10 ADL and Donors in the American-Jewish Community

11:55 Is protesting Trump useless?

13:00 Demonstrations in a divided country only anger the general public…

14:00 The more principled, the less influence?

16:10 UNSC Resolution 2334 against settlements, but pro-Israel

17:05 For the political Right there is no difference between Israel + the settlements

20:00 Theodore Sasson: The New American Zionism (2014)

22:00 Left-wing pro-Israel groups have not much influence in the US

25:00 American Jewish Community + the influence of the Right (Miami)

30:40 Antisemitism Research: just right-wingers?

31:30 One-state solution as anti-Zionism (Islamism, Butler, settlers)

32:00 Liberals are studying issues between the Jews (like treatment of minorities)

33:15 Conservative Newspapers look what Foreign Countries do to America

33:30 YIISA shut down by Yale – too much pro-Israel

34:30 Is opposing Israel antisemitic?

36:03 Antisemitism is hating Jews for no reason

38:00 Today’s antisemitism is closely related to hostility to the Jewish state

38:30 Gershom Scholem from cultural Zionism to political Zionism (1923–1936/48)

39:50 20% Arabs in Israel

41:10 Own villages for Muslims in Germany?

42:20 Danger of ethno or ethnic pluralism, right-wing ideology of Henning Eichberg

43:00 No Western democracy can exist with segregation on the long run

45:58 Haifa as an example of Jewish-Arab inclusion, not separation

52:57 One-state solution: End of Jewish Sovereignty

53:22 Arab and Muslim antisemitism will not disappear soon

57:00 Sincereness of Arab Peace Plan

1:03:00 Trump remains an earthquake / Divide in American Jewry

 

 

 

Trump, Anti-Western Ideology, Sexism, Fascism and the End of Pro-Israel Tents in Germany and Austria

Times of Israel, November 18, 2016

Dr. Clemens Heni is director of The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA)

November 8, 2016 was probably the most shocking day in the history of elections in the United States of America. It was a huge victory for the anti-Western camp all over Europe, North America and elsewhere. If you can behave and speak like Trump, every single leading neo-Nazi, right-wing extremist, New Right, Alt Right, right-wing populist or fascist politician at least in Europe can become President or Prime Minister, take Norbert Hofer in Austria as next example.

Trump lives in the post-fact world. He lied and lied and lied – and nothing happened. Like Boris Johnson lied, the people voted for Brexit and the next day he had to admit that he just – lied and agitated with purpose.

A person who behaved like a misogynist, racist fascist was elected by the majority of Americans, according to the not-so-democratic American electoral system (Clinton won the popular vote with some one million more votes, and even several million more votes for her in California, New England or New York wouldn’t have changed anything, think about that. So why should more people go voting in these areas, states or cities, if it doesn’t change anything?).

The core problem we are facing is racism, white supremacism, authoritarian personalities all over America and Europe, nationalism and hatred of “the other,” be it Muslims, immigrants, women, LGBT people, physically disabled, left-wingers, liberals. Those who share Trump’s personality and agenda are for example Islamists.

Shadi Hamid, Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, writes about similarities between Trump and the Islamists:

As a minority and a Muslim, the result of this election is distressing—and perhaps the most frightening event I’ve experienced in my own country. (…) It’s almost unfair to compare Trump to the democratically elected Islamists that I normally study, since Trump’s open disrespect not just for liberal norms, but democratic ones as well, has been so unabashed. In his infamous statement during the final presidential debate, Trump refused to commit himself to democratic outcomes if his opponent won. Mainstream Islamist groups that participate in elections—whatever we think their true intentions are—have rarely gone this far. The differences between ethno-nationalist parties, such as Trump’s new Republicans, and religious parties are of course numerous, which makes the similarities all the more glaring. There is the same sense of victimization, real and imagined, at the hands of an entrenched elite, coupled with an acute sense of loss. In both cases, the leader of the movement is seen as the embodiment of the national will, representing “the people.”

However, the German pro-Israel camp is rather happy about a sexist and racist in the White House.

A leading organization, I Like Israel, run by Sacha Stawski, and organizer, for example, of the German Israel Congress and an active part of the German pro-Israel camp with their group Honestly Concerned, are not concerned at all. They are rather happy about the outcome of the American election.

ILI’s newsletter from Nov 13, 2016, links to a pro-Trump article by far right publicist Henryk M. Broder. Broder was a left-wing antifascist in the 1970s and published books about German neo-Nazi in the FRG. Later he also dealt with left wing and mainstream antisemitism in the 1980s. After 9/11, he documented German anti-Americanism and their rejection to fight jihad.

In recent years, though, he has become a mouthpiece of right-wing extremists and those who hate Islam – which must not be confused with fighting jihad and Islamism, like the author of this article who is the author of the 2011, 2013, and 2017 editions of the entry about Germany in the World Almanac of Islamism by the American Foreign Policy Council, based in Washington, D.C.

Broder was supportive of a crowd of far right and neo-Nazi people in Dresden, October, 3, 2016, the German day of “reunification.” They shouted in vulgar language against the elites of state and society, someone even hold a poster with a quote by the Nazi Party NSDAP and Goebbels. On TV, Broder supported the crowd of the “Patriots against the Islamization of the Occident” (Pegida).

Even a former ally of Broder, publicist Michael Miersch, in January 2015 left Broder’s page on the internet, Axis of the Good (Achgut or Achse des Guten), due to the nasty right-wing extremist climate on that page. Ever since, it became even worse. Broder’s page is even part of a campaign against pro-Israel, anti-antisemitism and anti-racist Amadeu Antonio Foundation, run by Anetta Kahane.

Now, two independent (former?) Marxists join the ranks of the pro-Trumpists in Germany, Alex Feuerherdt, a blogger, and Gerhard Scheit, a Vienna based scholar in literature, author of the publishing house ça ira and the journal sans phrase. Scheit wrote an article on Feuerherdt’s blog LizasWelt, where he insinuates that German philosopher Hegel might have had a play in the outcome of the election. Hegel’s “ruse of reason” was behind the election, Scheit and Feuerherdt believe.

They derealize every single sexist or racist rant, including those against Latinos as well as physically disabled. They believe, even against the intention of Trump reason did win! Reason! Never was the left so dumb or ignorant and unreasonable as in this article by Viennese Marxist Gerhard Scheit. He and his publisher Feuerherdt takes side with both fascism and antisemitism in the White House, take Bannon and breitbart.com as worst examples, but they are not the only ones. Ha’aretz left wing Zionist columnist Bradley Burston concludes:

We should have been more active in countering the preposterous but widely spread lies about Hillary Clinton being anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. Trump’s kid-gloves coddling of anti-Semites and their vicious works have served him in good stead. Now the haters will be only too happy to return the favor by stepping up their attacks. On Wednesday, the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s murderous Kristallnacht pogroms which pre-figured the Holocaust, Trump’s victory gave anti-Semites across America an additional reason to raise a glass in celebration. Within minutes of the announcement of Trump’s victory, former Klan leader David Duke – whom the ADL has called “perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite” – tweeted, “This is one of the most exciting nights of my life – make no mistake about it, our people have played a HUGE role in electing Trump!”

It is shocking and a disgrace to scholarship and Shoah remembrance to see someone like Gerhard Scheit supporting a fascist like Donald Trump who is about to employ the Alt Right in the White House. Formerly, Scheit edited books by Holocaust survivor Jean Améry.

While the ADL’ Jonathan Greenblatt at its Nov. 17 conference “Never is Now” is shocked by Trump, Jewish historians in the US urge America to stand clear from Trump, antisemitism, racism and hatred of Muslims, the German pro-Israel camp takes side with the Far Right.

The group of Jewish historians declares:

We condemn unequivocally those agitators who have ridden Trump’s coattails to propagate their toxic ideas about Jews. More broadly, we call on all fair-minded Americans to condemn unequivocally the hateful and discriminatory language and threats that have been directed by him and his supporters against Muslims, women, Latinos, African-Americans, disabled people, LGBT people and others. Hatred of one minority leads to hatred of all. Passivity and demoralization are luxuries we cannot afford. We stand ready to wage a struggle to defend the constitutional rights and liberties of all Americans. It is not too soon to begin mobilizing in solidarity. (…) However, it is not only in defense of others that we feel called to speak out.  We witnessed repeated anti-Semitic expressions and insinuations during the Trump campaign.  Much of this anti-Semitism was directed against journalists, either Jewish or with Jewish-sounding names.  The candidate himself refused to denounce—and even retweeted–language and images that struck us as manifestly anti-Semitic.  By not doing so, his campaign gave license to haters of Jews, who truck in conspiracy theories about world Jewish domination.“

One of these anti-Semitic tropes was Trump’s and his camp’s agitation against George Soros. They insinuate, as does Hungarian President Victor Orbán, that Soros is funding NGOs in order to bring refugees into Europe and to destabilize European nation-states. Soros is Jewish and that kind of conspiracy myths are a classic in modern anti-Semitism.

Anti-Semitism is an essential component of Trump and his camp around the world. Other outrageous quotes by Trump can be found here, including this one: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”

Again: Not even the most notorious argument by Trump, the influx of immigrants in Europe and the end of European nation-states, has a point. As if 1, 2 or even 5 million immigrants or refugees could topple a continent or the European Union (EU, which is just the Western part of Europe, not including Western Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) with over 450 million inhabitants, not including the UK.

Take the 20% Muslims Israel has, by the way, but the German pro-Israel camp is not really interested in what Israel really is. They are also obsessed in fighting the circumcision or “archaic rituals.” The (post?)Marxists of the journal “Bahamas” went so far and urged their few followers not to join the first ever pro-circumcision rally in Germany in August 2012. “Bahamas” pretends to be pro-Israel, but their agenda is mainly anti-Islam (and not just anti-Islamist). In addition, they have an anti-feminist, sexist agenda, like their prayer leader Justus Wertmüller, a feminist student group in Frankfurt argues against him.

The leading left wing monthly, though, Konkret and its publisher Hermann L. Gremliza, is to some degree different (not the journal as such, but at least the publisher, I assume). While Gremliza in 1976 took sides with the anti-Zionist and antisemitic hijacking of Entebbe, and had some kind of Schadenfreude on 9/11 and even published conspiracy myths after 9/11 in his paper, he changed sides and is now a leading pro-Israel voice in the small left-wing camp in the FRG. For example, Gremliza published a book by American sociologist and political scientist Professor Andrei S. Markovits from the University of Michigan (who in 2006 was the second reader of my doctoral dissertation at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, about the threat deriving from mainstreaming the “New Right” in the FRG from 1970-2005) against anti-Americanism and antisemitism in Germany. I very well recall an event with Gremliza and Markovits, promoting Markovits’ book, Nov. 19, 2004, in Café Sybille in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

Gremliza is also an outspoken antifascist, anti-racist and against the New Right like the Alternative for Germany (AfD). In 1964, he started as a student at the University city of Tübingen in the south-west of the FRG and decovered the Nazi past of “anthopologists” (Volkskunde in German) such as Gustav Bebermeyer.

Taken Feuerherdt and Scheit as examples, this stance by Gremliza against the Far Right has to be emphasized. Gremliza also rejects Germans to give Jews advice in regard to the circumcision. “After Auschwitz,” he says, “Germans should stay away from that kind of advice – at least for the next 1000 years,” he says in a book he published with Suhrkamp publishing house in 2016.

Suhrkamp was the place where Gershom Scholem and Critical Theory were published.

We need a pro-Zionist approach in Germany and Europe that is antiracist, antisexist, anti-Alt Right, anti-New Right, anti-nationalist, antifascist, anti-antisemitic and anti-Islamist, of course.

For many in Europe, it is too difficult a task to be both Zionist and anti-European nationalism. That is the history of both the 19th and 20th centuries. To promote European nationalism will lead to more antisemitism and more Trumps all over Europe. Trump supports Assad, and therefore the Iranian regime, and his admiration for Turkish Islamofascist leader Erdogan as well as Russian authoritarian regime under Putin are shocking, too. The worst case is of course the red button and nukes in the hand of a narcissist lunatic in the White House.

To embrace someone who fought the most vulgar and ugly election campaign ever in a western democracy in recent decades as substantial parts of the German pro-Israel camp does is not just suicidal for Zionism and the Jewish state. It is in itself sexist and racist. Every single sexist and racist rant during the campaign was a reminder to victims of sexism and racism. This retraumatization lies at the bottom of this campaign by the Alt Right’s superhero Donald J. Trump.

Many in Germany saw the end of public life when hundreds of criminal male Arabs or Muslims mainly from the Maghreb abused women on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Hamburg and other cities. A man who “grabbed women by the pussy” and elsewhere, who just “kisses them” if he likes to was elected President of the United States – and this is now portrayed as a savior of the West. Read: if Muslims abuse women it is a scandal and crime, if a white American man does so, he is elected President.

Broder was the keynote speaker of the German Israel Congress 2016, Feuerherdt is a close ally of him and an author at Broder’s Blog. They represent substantial parts of the German pro-Israel tent, which no longer is a tent, as a collaboration with people who endorse Donald Trump is impossible for any antifascist, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-antisemitic, Zionist position.

Israel needs serious allies. The German and Austrian pro-Israel camps are done as long as they are represented by people like those criticized above.

It is a perfidious tactics to abuse Israel and the Jews and embrace Trump, as he is supposedly pro-Israel. Someone who abuses women, who promotes antisemitic conspiracy myths, who mocks Jewish journalists, who defames Muslims and Latinos, who likes Erdogan, Putin and Assad (=Iran) – a friend of Israel?

He is a vulgar sexist, racist, a fascist and an enemy of the Western world. “Make America great again” translates into “destroy the Western world.” To weaken the West and to embolden the jihadists or secular enemies of the free world like Russia. That is Donald J. Trump.

German mainstream journalists of the center-right daily Welt, Richard Herzinger and Hannes Stein, are clear about the threat deriving of Trump and the Alt Right in the White House. Trump is a hero for the anti-liberal, anti-Western international camp. Herzinger writes: “to underestimate Trump is suicidal.”

Finally, look at Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, an Irish Labor Party Senator. He spoke in the Irish Senate and said the following:

How [are we] supposed to deal with this monster who has just been elected President of America? (…) America has just elected a fascist (…) I am embarrassed by the reaction of the Irish government to what’s happened in America. Can the government not understand what is happening? We are at an ugly international crossroads. What is happening in Britain is appalling. What is happening across Europe is appalling. It has echoes from the 1930s, and America, the most powerful country in the world, has just elected a fascist. And the best you can come out with from a government spokesperson is: ‘Well, we have to talk about foreign direct investment. We have to be conscious of American investment in Ireland.’ There are 50,000 Irish people illegal in America who I am quite sure are fearful of their futures. When are we going to have the moral courage to speak in terms other than economy all the time and to realize what is happening? I am frightened. I am absolutely frightened for what’s happening to this world and what’s happening to our inability to stand up for it.”

Jamie Kirchick, fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative, correspondent for the Daily Beast, and columnist for Tablet Magazine, puts it like this:

To put it in terms our insult-strewing president-elect can relate to: Don’t put lipstick on this pig.”

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