critic of Israeli government policies have been taken over by the Government of Ariel Sharon in February 2001, but ever since the right-wing nationalist government under Binyamin Netanyahu and his right-wing foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, a tough time more. Critics the brutal colonization and oppression not only get into the U.S. but also in the countries of Western Europe - particularly in Germany where there is a long tradition of denunciation of dissidents - in the crosshairs of extremist right-wing Zionist lobby groups and individual philo-Semitic partisans of Israel who action against such persons by means of defamation, denunciations, lies, distortion and victimization, and also before the destruction of the professional critics, they do not shy away.
also for institutions and the media do not stop these extremists. They are under massive pressure, do not occur so-called Israel critic . Let The media are attacked because they allegedly one-sided report on the crimes of the Israeli occupying power, so their coverage is always uniform and on the scandalous events such as the racist statements by rabbis in Israel, Safed, and elsewhere have called upon to, no apartments to rent Israeli Palestinians or Palestinian students to read in the German media or hear anything. Even before the Office of the President quenched these extremist lobbyists back. When the then Federal President Horst Kohler had the temerity without prior agreement with the "Israel Lobby" (Mearsheimer / Walt) Mrs. Felicia Langer in July 2009, the Federal Cross of Merit 1st to present class, broke an unprecedented smear campaign is upon him. This smear campaign culminated in the open blackmail of the President, Mrs. Langer to withdraw the award, or else would some German-Jewish officials to return their Order of Merit. The President stood his ground, following which two unimportant Altfunktionäre their order have returned. The other officials have preferred to carry him to continue on his lapel.
How did such a world, "legitimacy" of critics of Israeli government policy? This campaign is closely linked to the 9/11-Anschlägen and together with the consequence with the colossal international law and human rights crimes committed by the U.S. and its "willing accomplices" in Iraq and Afghanistan and of the Sharon government in Palestine. This is flanked delegitimization of a defamation campaign against Islam and everything that looks Muslim. Sharon left the military against Arafat's Palestinian Authority-act with brutal force. An unimaginable scale vandalism could let off steam in the Israeli-occupied territories. All ministries have been devastated by Israeli soldiers completely, Arafat's headquarters was turned into a ruin. The PLO leader lived until he was flown to Paris terminally ill is like a tramp in a room. The Sharon government could deal with the worldwide criticism of its policy less and less rational, and they invented the bugbear of the "legitimization" of Israel. "Israel critic" was transformed into a dirty word. The Israel lobby and the Israeli government accused the critics, their criticism was aimed at the destruction of the Jewish state, which is of course nonsense. There is no legitimate critics of Israel, Government policy, Israel's political existence - at least as a state of all its inhabitants - is in question. They are all respectable individuals who criticize the excesses of a brutal occupation policies, they do, that the Israeli Government to the generally accepted international legal norms and values are continuing. And these are not just rhetoric conjures. Surprising is that the media can be set before this propaganda nonsense and write the other hand, not massive, but they too are under pressure, and the journalists are intimidated.
The world condemned the Israeli commando raid on the six-vessel flotilla of the organization "Free Gaza" in the early morning of 31 May 2010 was not the first of its kind on 8 June 1967 were killed by the Israeli military in the U.S. signals intelligence ship Liberty 34 U.S. Marines and 171 wounded. The U.S. turned the incident under the rug, and still is no one who was on board allowed to talk about it publicly. An Israel-impaired U.S. Congress has no interest in education. Also, the application of ships in international waters has tradition in Israel. Thus, the Israeli navy took on 29 June 1984, the Cypriot passenger ship "Alisur" on the high seas off Lebanon and took an undisclosed number of passengers with Israel in order to interrogate them. Despite the now, 43 years later, executed nine peace activists from Turkey and 45 injured has to expect the Israeli government has no legal or political consequences of the international community.
Who now are the real delegitimize Israel? None other than the Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery has dated in an article for the newspaper "Junge Welt" 10 August 2010, the real delegitimize Israel called by their names, and it, this includes the foreign, defense and interior ministers, which operated a policy that not only contrary to all rules of international law, but also all the so-called Western values. In particular the massacres of the civilian population of the Gaza Strip at the turn of 2008/2009 and the execution of nine Turkish citizens in the hijacking of a Turkish aid ship in international waters for the trapped population of the Gaza Strip by Israel was an unimaginable propaganda counteroffensive accompanied. It does not shrink back against the discredit regarded South African judge Richard Goldstone as "Jewish self-hater", who on behalf of the UN Human Rights Council prepared a report on the massacre and accused it also of Hamas, "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity "committed to have. That the "Goldstone report has dealt with nine-tenths of the war crimes of the Israeli army, was in the nature of things. The "Israel lobby", especially in the United States participated in this massive smear campaign "We're leaving now to delegitimize those who trying to delegitimize us, "said the Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, as the UN Human Rights Council decided, the Goldstone report to send to the UN Security Council.
Thus instructed Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's Ambassador to recruit in their respective host country so-called "Allies" for propaganda purposes to which are to write against the "Israeli critics." This public propaganda campaign of the Israeli Foreign Ministry Barak Ravid comments in the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz of 28 November 2010: "The campaign, Which will make extensive use of professional advocacy and public relations experts by Israeli embassies in Europe, aims to also use as many as a thousand people in each country, who will be willing to volunteer to spread Israel's message (…) Each ambassador was instructed to prepare, by January 16, a list of at least 1,000 "allies" who will be routinely briefed by the embassy for advocacy and public relations. These "allies" will have to be willing to take action on behalf of Israel, through support demonstrations and rallies, in publishing articles in the press, etc.” Eine Frage drängt sich zwangsläufig auf: Machen diese “Israel-Allies” ihre propagandistische Arbeit aus philosemitischer Überzeugung oder gegen Bezahlung? Die israelische Hasbara und ihrer treuen Parteigänger bekämpfen only the false "Israel critic" because the real delegitimize Israel by Uri Avnery in Israel are sitting, and while in government.
Strategic preparation of this organized by the state of democratic legitimization of legitimate criticism were already at the "International Conference of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism" 16 and 17 December 2009 in Jerusalem made. At this conference, the fight against the "legitimacy" and "demonization" of Israel as the "crucial issues of our time" was called. Consequently, a panel examined under the direction of Professor Gerald Steinberg, with the theme "Trends in the Delegitimization of Israel in the International Arena and one of the five working groups with the "Deligitimization of Israel: 'Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions'. As co-chair this working group was Dr. Mitchell Bard, executive director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, and Professor Gil Troy of McGill University. You write: ". We need to point out how BDS crosses the line from legitimate criticism to historically-laden, anti-Semitic messaging" In its report such an approach with the BDS campaign appears to be "war." Their military phraseology latches as follows: "Enemy," "command center", "Combat," "Battle" or "battlefield". As a result, a strategy paper of the same name was published. This Action Plan is designed to five years out. A central role in this plan comes to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which should help "to centralize the fight against BDS and delegitimization, coordinate responses to what is a coordinated attack, share information, take a moral stand against the human rights hypocrites, engage diplomats in a fight for Israel's basic rights, and train Israeli diplomats about the BDS movement ". This paper uses an offensive and aggressive language, which gives an idea of what will happen to the critics of Israeli government policy.
How important has this challenge to Israel, shows a further policy paper by the Reut Institute (Re'ut = friendship) at the annual conference in Herzlyia 2010, on which all the big names in the Israeli security establishment, to an annual rendezvous come together to discuss the security of the state. The 92-page document entitled: "Building a Firewall Against Israel's Political Delegitimization" There is a comprehensive summary of 31 points. According to the Reut Institute presented the critics of Israel is a serious threat to the existence of Israel dar. Consequently, they must be fought on a global scale. The authors this anti-democratic policies do not hesitate to recommend the government to attack human rights activists. This institute recommends that all but the first of the Israeli government, through its intelligence agencies to suppress human rights activists in London, Toronto, Madrid and San Francisco. The, report correctly but a distinction between those who "criticize" Israel and others who "legitimize" allegedly. On the nature of Machiavelli, one should engage in the former, whereas one should suppress the latter. To the "crimes" allegedly committed the latter to show the lack of seriousness of this "research institute" nothing else in mind seems to have, as to justify the criminal policy of occupation of the Israeli government. According to that report, all belong to the so-called de-legitimize the "(1) single out the Israeli government for its failure to abide by international law and seek to hold its political and military leaders accountable under universal jurisdiction, (2) label recent Israeli military attacks on Palestinians and Neighboring countries war crimes, crimes against humanity, or aggression, (3) describe Israeli settlements in the occupied territories as "illegal and immoral", (4) demand from end to discrimination against Palestinians within Israel's boundaries in 1967; ( 5) criticize the Israelis of Gaza blockade as illegal collective punishment, (6) label the Israeli government as a "pariah, apartheid state", (7) refuse to accept Israel's "right to exist" (4) or the right of the Jewish people to self -determination, or (8) call for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That supporters of the campaign for "boycott, De-investment and sanctions (BDS) to the" enemies of Israel "are, of course after this oblique view of the world from itself, the assessment of Uri Avnery, that this sort of" scientists "" amateurs " were is still flattered. The fact that the Re'ut staff are not too good to recommend to the Israeli government to "attack" human rights and civil rights activists and "sabotage" to be as "serious" institution is disqualified for all.
Since not refute the arguments, the Israel lobby with massive international and human rights abuses, they resort to defamation. The most popular instrument of struggle is the accusation of "anti-Semitism," this was made mainly to non-Jewish critics of Israel, the Jewish critics of Israel is assumed to predominantly "Jewish self-hatred," which differ from the anti-Semites as "useful Idiots were abusing. " can impress the fact that Western societies are still free of these grotesque allegations, speaks for their lack of courage to reject this nonsense. As the ideology of Zionism is seen as a key obstacle to a settlement with the Palestinians who claim Israel lobbyists, that anti-Zionism or criticism of Zionism was the same anti-Semitism, virtually a new form, a so-called "secondary antisemitism". This assertion lacks any basis and shall not constitute more than an instrument of struggle, an attempt to silence legitimate criticism. Zionism is a form of Jewish nationalism and nationalism as any of the devil and therefore open to criticism because it all those who do not belong to the "tribe", treated as citizens of lower status. Another complaint is the alleged "demonization" of Israel, when only single out this country and strongly criticize. You would create different standards to Israel than to the other countries where there is also human rights violations. Neither is Israel demonized other standards will be applied to the land, but the critics only require that at last the usual standards as international law and other Western values should apply to Israel, where the leadership of the country's often said the "only to democracy in the Middle East to be ". Who runs the singularity of Israel, the Israeli governments that act contrary to all international law and human rights law and contrary to all permanent so-called Western values. Israel claims a special status in international relations, or does such a claim for themselves, as it can be assumed that the U.S. cover any wrongdoing, apologize, or relative in the UN Security Council impose a veto. The fight Israel lobbyists, especially those that refer to Israel as "apartheid state". The fact that Israel is not South Africa, has the British journalist Ben White in his book "Israeli Apartheid" clearly worked out. It has nothing to do with the South African "petty apartheid" in common. Israel, however, has adopted a structure of about 30 laws and regulations that stipulate what the unequal treatment of Jews and non-Jews. In the occupied territories once again it looks different. There is Israeli law and Israeli jurisdiction only for the settlers, for the occupied and dispossessed military regulations apply, and military courts, known as Kangaroo Courts are responsible for them.
The "Israel Lobby" in the U.S. and Germany are the main representatives in this smear campaign against critics of Israeli government policy. That in the U.S., a strong "Israel lobby" is, is well known. At least since the book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt with the same title. This is nothing special, because the U.S. has a long history of interest groups have. The lobbying is it in all policy areas. As to the "Israel Lobby" apart is its high degree of organization that affect their competence and their effectiveness, all sectors of society of the USA in their favor. In Germany, the "Israel lobby" that status had not yet reached Thanks to God, but their influence also behaves now disproportionate to their size.
Wen can be seen in Germany belong to this "Israel Lobby"?
the chief editor of "The Semite," Abraham Melzer has, in his article "The Israel Lobby threatens democracy" in eponymous magazine, No. 6, December / January 2009/10, p. 25-27, a number of organizations and people together, you can count on in Germany for the "Israel Lobby".
a special role in the Federal Republic of Germany plays the Israeli Embassy. Edit your representative not only the members of the German Bundestag and the staff of many ministries permanent, but the embassy staff mix is also massively in the German domestic politics. Such interference does not fall within the mandate of has a message to primary care for their citizens and to maintain contacts with their governments. Thus, for example, the Israeli charge d'affaires in Berlin, Emmanuel Nahshon, heavily mixed in during the campaign against the speech of Alfred Grosser Frankfurt's St. Paul Church of Kristallnacht in November 2010. He commented that "Mr. Grosser's criticism of Israel illegitimate and immoral" and that states that in "marked his extreme views of self-hatred." Clearly out of line may be you do not, and no member of the German political class had the courage, the interference of an Israeli diplomat in the German domestic politics must be rejected. Such kind of criticism of a diplomat is totally unacceptable. Since when is criticism of Israeli government policy "immoral"? A survivors and victims of Nazi terror accuse of "self hatred" can only be considered tasteless.
A curiosity, for the extremist "Israel Lobby" can be expected to be mentioned yet. There is a group that most publicly the U.S. policy of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and that Israel's endorsement, they call the "anti-German." Their main task is to decompose the existing rudimentary political left in the Federal Republic and to discredit them. How could from the former left, which was the world revolution at heart, be apostates who approve not only the oppression of the Palestinian people, but the wars of conquest of the West in Iraq and Afghanistan and an attack on Iran clamor and fight their critics by any means?
your inner social enemy, the critic of Israeli government policy towards the Palestinians. These include Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappe, Alfred Grosser, Felicia Langer, Norman Paech, Abraham Melzer, Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Rupert Neudeck, or I do. The methods are always the same: bullying through public actions, any critics of Israel as long as hunting, until he gives up or buckle the organization or the politicians. Without the inglorious role of many "well-meaning" fellow traveler had this "Israel Lobby" is not this striking success.
The following quote by former U.S. Ambassador Chas Freeman, who was provided as an intelligence coordinator of the Obama Administration, will show going by what insidious means the "Israel lobby" against critics of a policy that disregards any international law and human rights and all Western values as trampling. He was supported by the Israel lobby as long as slander and defamation with covered, so he took up his post does not arise. He wrote this lobby Following into the record book: "The tactics of the Israel lobby represent highlights of the shame and indecency, they include character assassination just as we selectively misquotes, deliberate falsification of the facts, fabrication of lies and total disregard for the truth." Has the smear campaigns of lobbyists by all Democrats and civil society groups at all levels of society objected be resisted.
First appeared in: The
Semite. independent Jewish magazine, published in another version in: International
. Journal of International Politics .
The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is not unique. Lorenco Veracini argues that the conflict is best understood in terms of colonialism. Like South Africa, the United States, Australia, Israel is also a settler society. The author who is a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, challenges two important myths: firstly, that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict defies comparative approaches; and secondly that the struggle for liberation is mainly based in nationality and religion and therefore different to typical colonial conflicts. On the contrary, Israel and Settler Society approaches this conflict by utilizing a colonial framework of interpretation and a number of comprehensive test cases.” The book documents and analyses the colonial endeavour of the Zionist enterprise which were already described in 1983 by Baruch Kimmerling in Zionism and Territory and by Gershon Shafir´s Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palesinian Conflict, which regarded Zionism as a form of “European overseas expansion in a frontier region”. Immediately, one question arises: If Israel is a colonial settler society, where is then the colonial motherland? 
