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Germany must stop making Palestinians pay for its crimes – Ali Abunimah on DW
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPa83wSa9ik

Video: How Israel helped bring down Jeremy Corbyn | The Electronic Intifada
▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/video-how-israel-helped-bring-down-jeremy-corbyn

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Washington Post reporter moves from covering Israel to working for it | The Electronic Intifada
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Avant, correspondante pour le WPJ à Jérusalem. Après, conseillère de l’ambassadeur israélien aux Nations Unies. Le même travail en fait.

One such recent move should have journalists grappling with their ethics: Washington Post Jerusalem correspondent to chief communications officer and adviser to Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations and incoming ambassador to the United States, Gilad Erdan.

#médias #israël

YouTube, Zoom and Facebook censor Leila Khaled for Israel
Nora Barrows-Friedman Lobby Watch 23 September 2020 | The Electronic Intifada
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Major Silicon Valley companies censored an event at San Francisco State University on Wednesday.

This means that during the pandemic, private companies closely aligned with the government have immense power over what can be said, even in an academic setting.

Zoom, the web-based videoconferencing platform, announced Tuesday evening that it was prohibiting SFSU from using its software to host a planned webinar on Wednesday with Leila Khaled, the Palestinian resistance icon who is now in her seventies and lives in Jordan.

Zoom has threatened to cancel this webinar and silence Palestinian narratives. We expect SFSU/CSU to uphold our freedom of speech and academic freedom by providing an alternative venue to this open classroom. We will see you tomorrow at 12:30 pm (PST) at the Zoom webinar.
— AMED Studies (@AmedStudies) September 23, 2020

This is what happens when we subcontract our universities to Zoom: they decide which events are acceptable and which aren’t. It’s outrageous. ▻https://t.co/Bcg4WwfKQ7
— سريّ المقدسي (@sareemakdisi) September 23, 2020

The event was also restricted by Facebook, which has a lengthy history of censoring Palestinians on behalf of Israel.

On Wednesday, the event went ahead via YouTube, but shortly after it began, the company cut off the video stream, replacing it with a notice that said “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s Terms of Service.”

#censure

سريّ المقدسي sur Twitter :
“This is what happens when we subcontract our universities to #Zoom: they decide which events are acceptable and which aren’t. It’s outrageous.” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/sareemakdisi/status/1308626440066195456

« zoom_us has said that Leila Khaled’s event is in violation of its Terms of Service and will not host the event at @SFSU." / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/ggreschler/status/1308566827845390336

#censure #sans_vergogne

Israel cuts fuel, Gaza goes dark | The Electronic Intifada
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The Gaza Strip’s only power plant shut down on Tuesday after Israel stopped the transfer of fuel to the territory.

The halting of fuel transfers is among a series of collective punishment measures Israel has imposed on Gaza.

Israel has claimed the measures are a response to incendiary balloons released from Gaza. The launching of such balloons by some Palestinians is, in reality, a symbolic effort to draw attention to the deteriorating situation in Gaza, long subject to an Israeli siege.

Although incendiary balloons caused several fires in Israel, “no injuries or damage have been reported,” according to The Jerusalem Post.

#necropolitics #Gaza #Israel #électricité #énergie

On Israel, Kamala Harris breaks with liberal 2020 pack | McClatchy Washington Bureau
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Soutenir sans la moindre question Israël, c’est donc, à en croire cet article, adopter une approche « modérée », ou encore « centriste », vis-à-vis de la question palestinienne ! Pour le reste, c’est sans surprise... #usa #israël

California Sen. Kamala Harris is resisting pressure from the left flank of her Democratic party to take a more critical stance on the Israeli government and its policies towards Palestinians, holding firmly to her moderate approach to U.S.-Israel relations in her 2020 run for president.

In the Senate and on the campaign trail, Harris is opposing the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement targeting Israel, foreign aid cuts to the state, condemnatory votes on Israel at the United Nations and public criticism of its leadership — all tactics increasingly popular with the Democratic base and adopted by several of her Democratic presidential rivals.

Unlike those rivals, Harris is standing by her association with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, as the advocacy organization becomes a lightning rod within the Democratic Party.

“Her support for Israel is central to who she is,” Harris’ campaign communications director, Lily Adams, told McClatchy. “She is firm in her belief that Israel has a right to exist and defend itself, including against rocket attacks from Gaza.”

Harris’ embrace of Israel — one of her first foreign travel destinations as senator — and her diplomatic response to some of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most controversial policies are consistent with Democrats’ traditional support for the Jewish state.

Her centrist positions on Israel could help her hit back against inevitable attacks from the Trump campaign, which has signaled that it plans to play up Democratic divisions on the issue in the general election.

Jewish National Fund works hand in glove with Israeli military | The Electronic Intifada

▻https://electronicintifada.net/content/jewish-national-fund-works-hand-glove-israeli-military/30716

A propos d’Al-Araqib, le village bédouin qui a été détruit plus de 150 fois par les autorités israéliennes, et qui st systématiquement reconstruit. Mais c’est fatigant.

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The Jewish National Fund promotes itself as the “oldest green organization in the world.” By running social and environmental projects, the JNF has diverted attention away from how it has played a central role in the Zionist colonization of Palestine and, by extension, the dispossession of Palestinians.

Almost 120 years after its inception, the JNF remains firmly committed to Zionism, the ideology underpinning Israel’s apartheid system.

And a trawl through JNF documentation reveals that it enables Israeli violence on a massive scale.

Unnoticed by the Western media, the organization – headquartered in Jerusalem – is hoping to implement an ambitious blueprint known as “Israel 2040.” It aims to settle 1.5 million Israelis in the Negev and Galilee regions over the coming two decades.

German anti-Semitism chief must resign, say Jewish and Israeli scholars | The Electronic Intifada
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The latest demand for the removal of Felix Klein comes following his claim at an event on 30 June that “anti-Semitism from the left-liberal milieu” had been “making life a bit harder for me personally.”

Klein went on to say that “even if right-wing narratives currently have a higher potential for violence, we must not underestimate this area.”

The scholars reject this entirely: “No ‘left-liberal anti-Semites’ are bullying you, but Jews and non-Jews are protesting the way in which you are weaponizing the fight against anti-Semitism at the expense of free speech and basic civil rights – and the fight against anti-Semitism itself.”

The signers include Dani Karavan, Alex Levac, Yehuda Judd Ne’eman and David Shulman – all winners of the Israel Prize, the state’s highest official cultural honor.

They also include Harvard University’s Jean Comaroff, writer and Yeshayahu Leibowitz Prize winner Ilana Hammerman, and Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Among the signers are Mark Levene, retired professor at the University of Southampton and winner of the Lemkin Prize of the Institute for the Study of Genocide; Michael Rothberg, chair in Holocaust studies at the University of California; and Barry Trachtenberg, chair of Jewish history at Wake Forest University.

The scholars call Klein’s latest declaration “deeply offensive.”

“You basically called us and many others criticizing you in a legitimate way anti-Semites,” they write. “We demand an apology for that.”

They also accuse Klein of minimizing the “acute danger that Jews in Germany face due to the surge in far-right anti-Semitism.”

Democrats call for aid cut to Israel over annexation | The Electronic Intifada
▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/democrats-call-aid-cut-israel-over-annexation

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Four women in the US Congress say that if Israel proceeds with further annexation plans in the occupied West Bank it would “lay the groundwork for Israel becoming an apartheid state.”

Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Betty McCollum and Pramila Jayapal are making the claim in a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that they are circulating for signature among colleagues.

According to Politico, the letter has been signed by nine more lawmakers including Senator Bernie Sanders.

Although the letter overlooks the current apartheid reality, it is not typical for US lawmakers to refer to Israeli apartheid at all.

It is even rarer for members of Congress to call for Israel to pay any price for its actions.

Palestinian appeals Dutch war crimes immunity for Benny Gantz
Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 24 April 2020 | The Electronic Intifada
▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-appeals-dutch-war-crimes-immunity-benny-gantz

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Benny Gantz will soon be sworn in as Israel’s deputy prime minister in a coalition deal with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

If the deal proceeds as planned, Gantz will take over as prime minister in 18 months.

In the meantime, Gantz will continue to face efforts to hold him accountable for crimes committed during Israel’s summer 2014 assault on Gaza, when he was the Israeli army chief of staff.

On Wednesday, Ismail Ziada filed an appeal against a ruling by a Dutch court granting Gantz and Israel’s former air force chief Amir Eshel immunity against a war crimes lawsuit.

Ziada, a Palestinian-Dutch citizen, has been suing Gantz and Eshel for a lethal bombing attack on his family’s home in Gaza. (...)

#Gaza #Procès

European Jewish Congress promotes anti-Muslim bigotry
▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/european-jewish-congress-promotes-anti-muslim-bigotry

Earlier, it links to a series of AMCHA Initiative reports, one of which claims that “acts of classic anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students decreased 42 percent, while incidents of Israel-related anti-Semitic harassment increased 70 percent” between 2017 and 2018.

AMCHA is a far-right pro-Israel organization with a long history of spying on and harassing students and teachers who utter any support for Palestininian rights.

Its founder Tammi Rossman-Benjamin has been caught on video making virulently racist statements against students involved in Palestine solidarity activism.

AMCHA’s definition of “anti-Semitism” is so broad that it includes saying Israel is racist, that it practices apartheid or commits war crimes.

That would mean that dozens of former European foreign ministers and prime ministers who recently decried Israeli “apartheid” policies, as well as the authors of countless UN investigations into Israeli war crimes, are, according to AMCHA, nothing but anti-Semites.

It even appears that the authors of the European Jewish Congress report consider it anti-Semitic to discuss whether it is right to define criticism of Israel’s abuses of Palestinians as anti-Semitism.

It approvingly quotes Rossman-Benjamin claiming that debates about “whether Zionism is an implicit part of Jewish identity and who gets to define anti-Semitism or represent Jewishness” have “negative consequences for many Jewish students.”

Included in these apparently “anti-Semitic” tendencies is any opposition to the misleading and politically motivated IHRA definition of anti-Semitism that is widely promoted by Israel and its lobby.

Free speech advocates and human rights defenders have opposed official adoption of the definition because it is a tool for censorship that falsely equates criticism of Israel and its racist state ideology Zionism, on the one hand, with anti-Jewish bigotry, on the other.

AMCHA also defines as anti-Semitic any “student and faculty-sponsored boycott, divestment and sanction campaigns against Israel that are a means of demonizing lsrael and seek to harm the Jewish state.”

In short, this means that any data AMCHA provides are utterly unreliable, since the group considers any activism for Palestinian human rights to be “anti-Semitic” and harmful to Israel.

Britain’s poisoned legacy in Palestine | The Electronic Intifada
▻https://electronicintifada.net/content/britains-poisoned-legacy-palestine/29281

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The narrative of Legacy of Empire revolves around two central questions.

First, why was Palestine relevant to the British Empire in 1917? And second, why did British colonialism remain faithful to Zionism, even in the wake of concerted Arab resistance such as the major revolt of the 1930s?

Thompson answers the first question by writing that the declaration was a “wartime exigency” and “a tale of coincidences and contingency.” Under H. H. Asquith, British prime minister from 1908-1916, Palestine was not “a strategic priority.”

The author questions historical accounts that say Britain collaborated with Zionism under Asquith. What made Palestine relevant, he argues, was the ascension of David Lloyd George to the premiership in December 1916, along with military setbacks that risked Britain losing the world war.

Thompson’s case for contingency and coincidence rests with Lloyd George, a Christian Zionist who was charmed by Chaim Weizmann, one of the leading figures in the Zionist movement.

Weizmann convinced Lloyd George that “the Jews in both Russia and the US were crucial to their respective countries remaining in the war.” The promise of a Jewish homeland would result in Jews pressuring Tsarist Russia to remain in the war and ensure that the US would become fully involved in it.

In short, Weizmann sold Lloyd George on what was essentially an anti-Semitic trope of the power of “international Jewry.”

We “slaughtered” Jeremy Corbyn, says Israel lobbyist
Asa Winstanley Lobby Watch 10 January 2020 | The Electronic Intifada
▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/we-slaughtered-jeremy-corbyn-says-israel-lobbyist

Update, 15 January: YouTube removed the copy of the video posted on The Electronic Intifada’s channel following a copyright claim by Joe Glasman. The Electronic Intifada has filed a counterclaim, asserting that its use of the video complies with the Fair Use doctrine of the US Copyright Act, which allows use for criticism, comment or news reporting. In the meantime, we have uploaded a copy to another site, which you can view above.

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A prominent Israel lobbyist in the UK has claimed credit for last month’s electoral defeat of the Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn.

“The beast is slain,” Joe Glasman delighted – Corbyn has been “slaughtered.”

He rejoiced that “we defeated him” in the election. “They tried to kill us,” he ranted, but “we won.”

Glasman leads the “political investigations team” at the Campaign Against Antisemitism, or CAA – an influential anti-Palestinian lobby group.

He made his comments in a bizarre video rant addressed to his team of supporters that he posted online during the holiday break.

The video was soon set to private.

But left-wing Labour activists managed to download a copy and posted it on the Barnet Momentum Facebook page.

In the video Glasman claimed he and his supporters beat Corbyn through a coordinated campaign using methods including “our spies and intel.”

But he said his group were “not secret Mossad spies, they’re just ordinary people.”

The video swiftly became an embarrassment. Other copies posted online have been taken down following copyright claims by Glasman.

The Electronic Intifada is reposting the full video to our YouTube channel for news reporting purposes.

#Jeremy_Corbyn

Israel prepares to turn Bedouin citizens into refugees in their own country
Jonathan Cook on October 16, 2019 – Mondoweiss
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The decades-long struggle by tens of thousands of Israelis against being uprooted from their homes – some for the second or third time – should be proof enough that Israel is not the western-style liberal democracy it claims to be.

Last week 36,000 Bedouin – all of them Israeli citizens – discovered that their state is about to make them refugees in their own country, driving them into holding camps. These Israelis, it seems, are the wrong kind.

Their treatment has painful echoes of the past. In 1948, 750,000 Palestinians were expelled by the Israeli army outside the borders of the newly declared Jewish state established on their homeland – what the Palestinians call their Nakba, or catastrophe.(...)

traduction en français : ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/809520

Builders of Israel’s apartheid walls profit from US border militarization
Nora Barrows-Friedman 8 October 2019 | The Electronic Intifada
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A major Israeli weapons company has been named as one of the top profiteers of US border militarization.

Elbit Systems has secured border contracts worth $187 million from the US government, according to research by journalist Todd Miller.

The largest, awarded during the Obama administration, is to build more than 50 surveillance towers near the US-Mexico border for the US government’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency.

Ten of those towers will be on land belonging to the Indigenous Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona.

A 2014 Bloomberg analysis predicted that Elbit’s initial profits could multiply if Congress authorized more funds to militarize the border.

Miller’s report – “More Than a Wall: Corporate Profiteering and the Militarization of US Borders” – was recently published by human rights research group the Transnational Institute, in collaboration with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization which protects migrants along the southern US border.

The report profiles the top 14 companies profiteering from US border militarization, including Elbit.

#IsraelUSA

#Ilhan_Omar sur Twitter : “Let’s be clear: the goal of our trip was to witness firsthand what is happening on the ground in Palestine and hear from stakeholders —our job as Members of Congress. But since we were unable to fulfill our role as legislators, I am sharing what we would have seen. (#THREAD)” / Twitter
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/ilhanmn/status/1162413386535190528

EU now funds Israel’s war ministry
David Cronin Rights and Accountability 2 August 2019 | The Electronic Intifada
▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/eu-now-funds-israels-war-ministry

Two years ago, Benjamin Netanyahu was heard complaining that the European Union was “crazy” for attaching “political conditions” to its relations with Israel. By the prime minister’s yardstick, matters have become less “crazy” since then: the EU has quietly expanded the financial support it gives to Israeli government bodies directly responsible for oppressing Palestinians.

Israel’s defense ministry has just begun drawing down European Union cash for the first time.

It is among the beneficiaries of a new $9 million research scheme on using drones during disasters. Known as Respondrone, the scheme is being financed under the EU’s science program Horizon 2020.

The “political conditions” of which Netanyahu complained are respect for basic human rights. By providing money to Israel’s defense ministry, the EU is helping out a major human rights abuser.

If the English language was used accurately, the defense ministry would be called the ministry for war crimes and occupation.

It is tasked with strengthening Israel’s army. In other words, the ministry is dedicated to making an extremely aggressive army even more lethal.

Not content with occupying the West Bank and Gaza, Israel’s army has bombed Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Sudan since the beginning of this millennium – when the EU supposedly began applying those “crazy” conditions. Israel has also killed Turkish humanitarian activists in international waters. (...)

#IsraelUE

Dangereux précédent : Israël démolit des habitations palestiniennes en périphérie de Jérusalem-Est
Par Hanadi Qawasmi - WADI HUMMUS, Cisjordanie occupée
Date de publication : Lundi 22 juillet 2019

Les Palestiniens de Wadi Hummus possédaient tous les permis nécessaires pour construire leur maison dans les zones relevant de la juridiction de l’Autorité palestinienne. Aujourd’hui, l’armée israélienne envoie les bulldozers

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Des bulldozers israéliens rejoints par des centaines de soldats et de policiers ont commencé à démolir des habitations palestiniennes à la périphérie de Jérusalem-Est, malgré les protestations locales et les critiques internationales.

Les forces israéliennes se sont rendues ce lundi dans le village palestinien de Sur Baher pour démolir une dizaine d’habitations dans le quartier de Wadi Hummus, près du mur de séparation israélien.

La Cour suprême israélienne a tranché en faveur de l’armée le mois dernier et a fixé lundi comme date limite pour démolir les habitations.

Les forces israéliennes ont coupé à travers une section de fil barbelé de la barrière à Sur Baher sous le couvert de l’obscurité tôt ce lundi et ont commencé à évacuer les habitants.

Des projecteurs ont illuminé la zone alors que des dizaines de véhicules amenaient les forces de sécurité casquées dans le village.

Dès les premières lueurs de l’aube, les pelleteuses ont commencé à détruire une maison de deux étages tandis que les soldats investissaient un bâtiment inachevé de plusieurs étages à proximité, rapporte l’agence de presse Reuters.
(...)
D’après les accords d’Oslo, Israël ne devrait pas avoir son mot à dire sur la construction ou non d’habitations dans les zones A et B. Cependant, une décision de l’armée israélienne de 2011 a décrété qu’Israël pouvait désormais démolir des bâtiments dans les zones administrées par l’Autorité Palestinienne. Wadi Hummus est le premier cas.

L’Organisation de libération de la Palestine (OLP) a publié un communiqué accusant la cour israélienne de vouloir « créer un précédent pour permettre aux forces d’occupation israéliennes de démolir de nombreux bâtiments palestiniens situés à proximité » du mur.

#Colonialisme_de_peuplement

« Live in fear, » Israeli officer warns German protesters on Facebook | The Electronic Intifada
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En général je ne me prononce pas sur des conflits politiques dont j’ignore les détails internes, mais ce dernier temps je me sens personnellement agressé par le lobby sioniste.

D’abord sur intervention de cercles anti-palestiniens le maire de Berlin m’empêche de me faire une idée précise de la cause de Rasmeah Odeh en lui interdisant de parler en public. Puis on chasse le directeur du musée juif quand il ose soutenir l’idée que la crititique de l’état hébreux n’est pas forcément antisemite. Là j’apprend que le gouvernement d’Israël soutient un petits malfrat à nationalité complexe qui menace de la mort quiconque osant critiquer l’état sioniste.

Je comprend le caractère violent du conflit qui ravage la région du proche orient et je pense que notre gouvernement devrait tout faire pour nous protéger contre les acteurs violents de la région. Il n’en est rien. Je constate l’existence d’un front unique antipalestinien composé de politiciens et d’organisation de tous bords, de la droite chrétienne CSU en passant par le SPD et le parti Die Linke juqu’aux autonomes de gauche anticapitalistes.

Désormais c’est un fait indéniable qu’en Allemagne on ne peut pas critiquer le sionisme étatique sans craindre des sanctions dont la violence et la radicalité maximale ne dépendent que de notre propre statut. Un étranger qui ouvre sa bouche sera arrêté et expulsé, un citoyen allemand sera demis de ses fonctions s’il occupe un poste important. Oublies ta carrière politique et/ou professionelle si tu oses critiquer le sionisme. Si ce n’est pas assez pour te faire peur on garde pour toi un tueur autoproclamé formé par Tsahal .

Je ne veux toujours pas croire que les forces politiques majoritaires en Allemagne soutiennent des terroristes sinonistes qui menacent nos concitoyens. Mais qu’est-ce que j’en sais.

Bismarck et Dahlmann définisssent la politique comme l’art de ce qui est possible . D’après eux il suffit de comprendre ce qui est possible pour connaître les actions politiques envisageables. Force est de constater qu’un de ces jours on verra des tueurs sionistes s’en prendre aux antisionistes allemands sur le sol allemand.

Je ne sais ce que pensent les Allemands en général, mais je crains que l’attitude de l’Allemagne officielle nuise à ce que notre pays a encore de démocratique. L’état d’Israël ne trouvera pas de nouveaux amis tant que cette politique sera imposée. C’est dommage. On a quand même un passé national qui devrait nous inciter à combattre racisme, apartheid et injustice partout y compris en Palestine.

An Israeli military officer and government spokesperson is openly threatening civilians in Germany with violence or death.

On Friday, reservist Major Arye Sharuz Shalicar posted on Facebook an article about Israel’s undercover gunmen – so-called mistaravim – who dress up as Palestinians to abduct and injure civilians during protests against Israel’s military occupation.

Shalicar added his own comment: “Please share! The message of this article also goes out to all those in Germany who think they can burn the Star of David publicly without being punished for it. We know who you are, where you are and how we can bring you to justice. We determine time and place. Live in fear!”

The linked article is illustrated with a masked Israeli gunman waving a pistol with one hand as he grabs a Palestinian by the head with another.

Mistaravim have regularly been involved in Israeli assassinations of Palestinians, including inside a hospital room.

Threat of violence

Shalicar’s comment is an open threat of violence against civilians on German soil.

When one Facebook user in Germany objected to Shalicar – as a representative of a foreign government – taking justice into his own hands, the Israeli officer doubled down: “Nice to know that you as a German are ready to watch how Jewish symbols are burned on German soil as in the 1930s. I’m not ready for that. And I’m German too.”

Shalicar seems to be following the Israeli government line that the burning of Israel’s national flag as a form of protest against its decades-long military occupation and massive systematic violence against Palestinians – carried out in the name of the self-declared “Jewish state” – should be viewed as anti-Semitism.

There have been protests in many countries, including Germany, since US President Donald Trump legitimized Israel’s military occupation and ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem by recognizing the city as Israel’s capital earlier this month.

But Shalicar seems to be going a step further by threatening to harm or kill protesters in Germany, just as Israel routinely slays Palestinians who protest or resist its violent land thefts and incursions into their villages, cities and refugee camps by heavily armed occupation forces.

Yet there is reason for concern, as Israel’s Mossad spy agency does have a long history of carrying out assassinations around the world.
“Gangsta”

Major Arye Sharuz Shalicar, an Israeli army spokesperson, at the office of Trump “peace process” adviser Jason Greenblatt in November. (via Facebook)

Shalicar is currently a spokesperson for Israel’s intelligence minister Yisrael Katz.

According to the “About” section on his verified Facebook page, Shalicar was born in Germany in 1977 to parents who immigrated from Iran. He completed service in the German military as a paramedic in 1997, before settling in Israel in 2001, where he joined the army as a paratrooper.

After stints working for Germany’s public broadcaster ARD in Tel Aviv and for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he began working as an Israeli army spokesperson and media liaison to Europe in 2009.

Although his Facebook page now identifies him as a “former” spokesperson, Shalicar still provides an official Israeli army email address as a contact: shalicar@idf.gov.il.

In a 2015 tweet, the Israeli embassy in Berlin says it invited Shalicar to lecture to its staff about his life story.

Maj. Arye Sharuz Shalicar,IDF-Sprecher,erzählt unseren jungen Talenten seine persönliche Lebensgeschichte #iltrip15 pic.twitter.com/dxKtNbRGSX
— Botschaft Israel (@IsraelinGermany) December 1, 2015

Israeli media have promoted Shalicar as a former “gangsta” who spent his teenage years “fighting for his life in a Muslim-dominated suburb of Berlin.”

Shalicar also appears to have been received by the Trump administration. Last month he posted a photo of himself at the office of Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s “special representative” for the so-called peace process.

A request for comment has been sent to the German foreign ministry.

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