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Germany: Berlin schools asked to distribute leaflet describing the 1948 Nakba as a 'myth' (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 10 months ago by Linkerbaan to c/world

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Germany's leading Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the opposition Christian Democratic Party (CDU) have ordered high schools in Berlin's borough of Neukolln to distribute brochures titled The Myth of Israel #1948.

The brochure states there are five "myths" around the creation of the state of Israel, which are subsequently refuted in short essays by various authors.

In the first section, debunking myth #1, that Jews and Arabs lived together in peace before Israel was founded, Israel's pre-state militia, the Haganah, responsible for the destruction of 531 Palestinian villages and the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians between December 1947 and the summer of 1948, is promoted as a merely "defensive" Jewish resistance movement.

"Myth #5: Israel is to blame for the Nakba", includes a text by researcher Shany Mor titled "the UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba: its view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extremely one-sided".

In the text, Mor states that "displacement during war - then and now - was nothing unusual".

He also labels the UN's attention to the Palestinian cause "obsessive" and the Arab defeat of 1948 a myth.

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[–] Aceticon 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The entire thing seems to have been taught in Germany as a lesson about one specific race shouldn't have done what they did to another, specific, race, rather than as the Humanitarian Principle that people, any people, independently of race or creed shouldn't be oppressed and killed for their etnicity-

So the framework of cold. calous, violent Racism was preserved but in the German mind a specific race - Jewish People - was moved from the list of "inferior races" to the list of "superior races like us".

(It's funny how your description of it, heavilly ladden with racial terms, is a wonderful display of just how the "regret" about that country's own extreme racist violence fully preserves the entire racist mindset of classifying people as members of races and credos and then judging them and treating them differently because of such races and credos, hency why your description of such learnings is all about a specific race, with no reference whatsoever to individuals or humanitarian principles)

Had the lesson been learned along Humanitarian lines, Germany would not unwaveringly support the "Jewish Nation" as they call it as it over the years became ever more Fascist and violent, cultimating in what very overtly is Genocide with openly racist tones (the "human animals" statement by members of the Israeli Governments says it all) because the etnicity of the majority in a nation is entirelly irrelevant for non-racists when judging that nation on its actions, as is the etnicity of its victims: the actions speak for themselves and for a humanitarian, rather than a racist, the race of those involved neither improves nor worsens the judgment of those actions.

That all this has and is being pushed into the minds of the common German using "old-style" propaganda which is even aimed, as we see here, to children, is a pretty worrisome indication that this is more than "mere" racism in Germany and that Fascism never really left the mindset of that country's power elites and that its ways are still seen as the right way of doing things, both towards the German Population by deploying the kind of Propaganda techniques that Goebbels was so fond of and towards the "enemies of our friends" by continuing to provide "unwavering" support to a Fascist nation currently engaged in the most violent murderous genocide along racial lines since the Nazis.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

currently engaged in the most violent murderous genocide along racial lines since the Nazis.

Ignorance is bliss, but this is just so wrong. I'm not sure if 10 fingers are enough to count every event making this false.