Marina Forti wrote about the remarkable general strike for Gaza in Italy and the struggle of dockworkers against arms exports.
In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/in-genoa @palestine

#Genoa #dockworkers #strike #antiZionism #politics #collaboration #HamasLoving #genocideSupport #proZionism #weapons #exports #Italy #armsTrade #complicity #Meloni #generalStrike

"From docks to cities, Italians challenge Meloni's complicity in Gaza genocide"

by Lorenzo Forlani: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/docks-cities-italians-challenge-meloni-complicity-gaza-genocide

#Genoa #dockworkers #strike #antiZionism #politics #collaboration #HamasLoving #genocideSupport #proZionism #weapons #exports #Italy #armsTrade #complicity #Meloni

There is a protest at 1pm in Dublin to request Ireland to "publicly denounce Germany’s role in the criminalisation of pro-Palestinian voices, and Germany’s active participation in genocide in Palestine. Ireland must lead by example in Europe, immediately enacting the Occupied Territories Bill".

https://braveneweurope.com/open-letter-to-the-government-of-ireland-condemning-the-failure-of-the-irish-government-and-eu-to-publicly-denounce-germanys-repeated-contraventions-of-international-law-and-active-role-in-ge 🧵

#NeverAgain #NeverAgainForAnyone #Germany #genocide #ethnicCleansing #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #HamasLoving #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #genocideSupport #allies #proZionism #MiddleEast #logistics #warOnGaza #warOnLebanon #IsraelWars #weapons #armsTrade #exports #LebanonWar #EU #Europe #Dublin #Ireland

Protest tomorrow in Dublin + Call for Ireland and the EU to denounce Germany’s repeated contraventions of international law and active role in genocide

https://braveneweurope.com/open-letter-to-the-government-of-ireland-condemning-the-failure-of-the-irish-government-and-eu-to-publicly-denounce-germanys-repeated-contraventions-of-international-law-and-active-role-in-ge @eu @israel 🧵

#NeverAgain #NeverAgainForAnyone #Germany #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #HamasLoving #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #genocideSupport #allies #proZionism #MiddleEast #logistics #warOnGaza #warOnLebanon #IsraelWars #weapons #armsTrade #exports #LebanonWar #EU #Europe #Dublin #Ireland

#NGOs #funding vs. #NeverAgain in #Germany

"Fifteen Israeli NGOs said it ‘would be instrumentalised to attack and constrain German funding for our human rights work’."

"The resolution calls for immigration, asylum and criminal law to be tightened to combat antisemitism, and for universities, where antiwar activists have occupied buildings and set up encampments, to be granted wider powers to discipline and expel students. All levels of government are asked to prevent the financial support of projects and organisations – Documenta is mentioned as an example – that ‘spread antisemitism, question Israel’s right to exist, call for a boycott of Israel or actively support the BDS movement’. The IHRA definition is to be considered ‘authoritative’. The new resolution cites the 2019 BDS text as its model, ignoring a parliamentary assessment from a year later, which found that if that resolution had been formulated as legislation, it ‘would not be compatible with the fundamental right to freedom of expression and would therefore be unconstitutional’."

"With a non-binding resolution, recipients of state funding will be drafted, willing or unwilling, as enforcers. Curators, convenors of academic conferences and charity administrators will be expected to screen and blacklist any partners or collaborators who could be seen to violate the IHRA guidelines. An old social media post or a signature on a petition could result in funds being withdrawn."

Ruairí Casey: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/november/questions-of-funding

#collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #HamasLoving #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #RuairíCasey #culture #cultureWars #LRB #IHRA

"More often than not, the ultimate “victim” of the offenses denounced in the German press is no actual Jewish person, but only the German state."

"The story [of guilt and fragility] is not about Germany, but a certain segment of society, about the reactionary radicalization within a bubble of political and cultural elites: disproportionately white, disproportionately identified with existing institutions, and disproportionately—let’s face it—neither Jewish nor Palestinian. It is among such people that we can see a defiant reprovincialization of the German spirit: a pride in not understanding or participating in analogous debates that rage elsewhere, a perverse pride in imposing one’s own categories, as though historical guilt confers true expertise."

by Adrian Daub: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/psychozionism/ @germany

#longRead #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #Germany #crackdown #freeSpeech #press #antiWoke #nation #moralPanic #HamasLoving #StandWithIsrael #censorship #racism #immigration #conflation #AdrianDaub #NeverAgain