Berlinâs official city portal just wrote our film No Other Land has âantisemitic tendenciesâ. A film that won the Berlinale and was recently invited to a special screening in the German embassy in Israel. It pains me to see how, after murdering most of my family in the holocaust, you empty the word antisemitism of meaning to silence critics of Israelâs occupation in the West Bank (the topic of our film) and legitimize violence against Palestinians. I feel unsafe and unwelcome in Berlin of 2024 as a left-wing Israeli and will take legal action.
In 1 hour we have a screening of the film in front of 500 people at Berlinâs Academy of Arts - which is funded by the state. How can me and @basel_adra share our work in a city which incites violence against us? What is going on?
Just on this, Irish policy is to only recognise or refer genocide when there has been a finding of commission of genocide by a court or international tribunal or something like that. Itâs in recognition, I think, of genocide being âthe crime of crimesâ and of the power of the word. Anyway it may be the same reason that RTĂ and other media donât use the word in regular reporting and thatâd be fair enough. Many commentators describe the situation as ongoing genocide and I think theyâre right. Ethnic cleansing isnât a legal term but itâs clear thatâs going too. Completely agree with you that itâs been mass atrocity and war crime after war crime and should be reported on as such. RTĂ definitely have a history of both sidesing the situation. Israel has prevented reporting on whatâs going on by denying access or just killing reporters, so itâs hard for RTĂ I suppose but I think they could do better. My major issue with RTĂ is they regularly report things Israelâs spokespeople say - propaganda, lies - as if theyâre legitimate things to say, without interrogating or providing context. Their reporting on Israel outlawing UNRWA is a good example of this.
The BBCâs best interviewer and one of the few objective voices it has about Israel leaves the organisation.
Buried at the bottom is this: Barnett is a pro-Israel shill.
The news of Husainâs departure comes five months after Martha Kearney left the Today programme. She was replaced by (Emma) Barnett, who joined from Womanâs Hour.
Irelandâs chief rabbi, Yoni Wieder, said it was âextremely disappointingâ to see the breakdown of dialogue and diplomatic ties between Ireland and Israel.
âBut this decision hasnât come out of nowhere, it follows many months of Irish political leaders refusing to acknowledge the realities of a war fought against jihadist terrorist organisations intent on Israelâs destruction,â he said.
Maurice Cohen, chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, said the Irish Governmentâs intervention at the ICJ alongside South Africa had risked âoversimplifyingâ a complex and tragic conflict, âunfairly isolating Israel, and undermining the integrity of the term âgenocideâ.â
Orli Degani, a Jewish woman with Israeli citizenship who was deselected as a local election candidate for the Social Democrats in DĂșn Laoghaire, Co Dublin, earlier this year, said she was shocked by the announcement.
âIt is such a sad day to see something like this happen,â she said. âWe were working towards rebuilding relationships. It is disappointing that they felt that they had to close the embassy because of the one-sided anti-Israeli attitude of the Government.
âWe have a smallish community. We need the embassy and we were hoping that after the election the new government would take a more balanced approach and do more to restore and improve relations for the benefit of the people of Ireland, Israel and Palestine â because a stronger relationship will help in working towards peace and reconciliation.â
Yes. Concerns. Like âhow much more weapons do we haveâŠâ and âwhere will we get the building materials for the new settlements in the golan heightsâ
In fairness to @Tim_Riggins, he has been consistent in his line that opposition to gross atrocity should not be allowed to upset the gross atrocity supporters.
