‘Absurdist’: Jewish Artists Warn Against Germany’s New Antisemitism Resolution (Haaretz, 2024-11-12)

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“Jewish artists and academics in Germany have come out strongly against a new government resolution aimed at combating antisemitism, with some warning that it may lead to a surreal situation where Jewish and Israeli human rights groups are deemed antisemitic by the German state.”

“Historian Prof. Miriam Rürup, who heads the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies, says she saw a ‘shocking’ subtext in the resolution. ‘It speaks of Jews as a “gift” and of “our” gratitude that Jewish life exists in contemporary Germany.’ To her, this resonates as a division into ‘them’ and ‘us,’ effectively othering Jews.

“As a Jew in Germany, she declares, ‘I don’t want to be seen as a gift.’"

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  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    The article has a quote that I really like from Candice Breitz is a Jewish artist living in Berlin, who had an exhibition cancelled last November:

    “The Bundestag now delegitimizes Jewish points of view that do not align with the ideology of Israel’s far-right government, thus further exacerbating tensions between Zionist and non-Zionist Jews, while underplaying the real and ominous threats that Jewish people face.”

    - Candice Breitz

    That bit about exacerbating tensions between Zionist and non-Zionist Jews especially sticks out to me, as someone who has Jewish friends who have been active in pro-Palestine organising. Many of them have described a concerning uptick in antisemitism, but under this resolution, they, as anti-Zionist protesters, would be considered to be antisemitic. Equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism makes Jewish people across the world less safe.