Applicants for German citizenship will be required to explicitly affirm Israel's right to exist under a new citizenship law which came into effect on Tuesday....
The majority of European antisémites have zero problem with the existence of Israel "out there". They are more than happy to see the Jews leave Europe for the middle east. American antisémites are fantasizing that Israel will be the site of the Second Coming of Christ who will then turn all the Jews into Christians.
This observation alone should tell you everything about why it is stupid and wrong to use attitudes towards Israel as proxy measures for attitudes towards Jews. When the antisémites pass your metric with flying colours whereas Jewish anti-Zionists fail it, your metric is just shit, simple as that.
What's actually fucked is that this kind of move only brings above board practices that have already been happening in the down low for large sectors of the economy.
The "Greek recovery" is being built on cheap labour, without any kind of productivity gains, technology development, or real diversification of the economy.
Finland said that a Russian military aircraft violated its airspace on Monday in the first such move since the Nordic country joined the NATO alliance last year....
On 24 November 2015, a Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M attack aircraft near the Syria–Turkey border.[1][2] According to Turkey, the aircraft was fired upon while in Turkish airspace because it violated the border up to a depth of 2.19 kilometres (1.36 miles) for about 17 seconds after being warned to change its heading ten times over a period of five minutes before entering the airspace.
The Dutch parliament adopts by a wafer-thin majority a motion that says that chanting “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free” is a criminal act of incitement to violence....
Unequivocally, and as a Palestine liberation supporter: any call to broadly expel the Jews from the lands of historic Palestine is Anti-semitism.
At the same time, I haven't actually heard this slogan at any marches or encampments in my city.
Regardless, the key is to understand that a Jewish safe homeland in the lands of historic Palestine does not necessarily mean a Jewish ethnostate.
The utopian Zionist dream (not the Kahanist dystopia of "really existing" Zionism) is realizable in a free, democratic and equal binational state, with both Aliyah and the Right to Return for Palestinians, following a Truth and Reconciliation process and the payment of Reparations.
Hello fellow Montrealer. I did not know that vile slogan was chanted here, it is even more stupid in a settler society like Canada. I knew about the shooting of the empty schools, and it's frankly revolting.
Apart from actual antisemite scum, there are reasonable people that just don't understand (yet) the key role of Jewish safety for Palestinian liberation.
I want a vibrant, safe and flourishing Jewish community here in Montreal. I want Jewish people here to weigh doing aliyah vs staying in Montreal and choosing the second as a no-brainer obvious option. Literally the opposite of the kind of antisemitic zionism of the right wingers: I don't want Jews to be carted off away from me, I want them to stay right here, keep being my neighbours, free and safe. And together we can work on decolonizing Turtle Island, but that's a whole other story.
The EU’s climate agenda is in trouble. The Green Deal, which aims to slash the bloc’s carbon emissions by 55% by 2030, had started off promisingly after several major pieces of legislation were adopted, including its ban on the sale of new combustion-powered vehicles from 2035 and new carbon border tax....
I find the economic decoupling of great powers very troubling for the future stability of the world. To avoid a world war, and to actually have a chance to address climate change and other world-scale problems, we need more economic interdependence, not more "sovereignty".
"I'm not ruling anything out, because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out," said French President Emmanuel Macron when asked if he stood by comments earlier this year not excluding the sending of Western troops that sent shockwaves around Europe....
Macron was the leader that was being mocked for trying to keep talking to Putin and trying to find a way to talk through the crisis.
This reversal in posture I think is extremely telling of how far gone the Russian leadership is... When even your best interlocutor turns away, even more when they turn hardliner against you, that means they have seen something that has deeply deeply shaken them.
EDIT: The header of the english statement has been updated in the statement on the website of the group. The term confiscation has distinct legal meanings that could be confused and the way the term is often used in common language is inaccurate for the legal meaning. See @geissi s comment showing the legal distinction....
New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist ( www.middleeasteye.net ) Englisch
Applicants for German citizenship will be required to explicitly affirm Israel's right to exist under a new citizenship law which came into effect on Tuesday....
Greece introduces the six-day work week ( www.dw.com ) Englisch
Russian Military Plane Suspected of Violating Finnish Airspace ( www.bloomberg.com ) Englisch
Finland said that a Russian military aircraft violated its airspace on Monday in the first such move since the Nordic country joined the NATO alliance last year....
Dutch parliament passes motion calling ‘From the River to the Sea’ criminal incitement ( www.timesofisrael.com ) Englisch
The Dutch parliament adopts by a wafer-thin majority a motion that says that chanting “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free” is a criminal act of incitement to violence....
[ OPINION] ‘Israelis go back to Europe?’ Some on the left need to rethink their slogans | Jo-Ann Mort ( www.theguardian.com ) Englisch
We need to talk about Chinese and US influence in Europe’s energy industry, European researchers say ( theconversation.com ) Englisch
The EU’s climate agenda is in trouble. The Green Deal, which aims to slash the bloc’s carbon emissions by 55% by 2030, had started off promisingly after several major pieces of legislation were adopted, including its ban on the sale of new combustion-powered vehicles from 2035 and new carbon border tax....
French President reaffirms possibility of sending troops to Ukraine ( www.france24.com ) Englisch
"I'm not ruling anything out, because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out," said French President Emmanuel Macron when asked if he stood by comments earlier this year not excluding the sending of Western troops that sent shockwaves around Europe....
My Berlin speech on Palestine that German police entered the venue to ban - and whose publication here led to my being banned from Germany! - Yanis Varoufakis ( www.yanisvaroufakis.eu ) Englisch
Jewish Voice for Peace in Germany had their bank account frozen. Bank demands names and adresses of all members the organization alledged ( www.juedische-stimme.de ) Englisch
EDIT: The header of the english statement has been updated in the statement on the website of the group. The term confiscation has distinct legal meanings that could be confused and the way the term is often used in common language is inaccurate for the legal meaning. See @geissi s comment showing the legal distinction....