Canadian Government Issues Apology for Historical Rejection of Jewish Refugees
Canada's Prime Minister apologizes for not letting Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany land in 1939. Learn about the MS St. Louis ship and Canada's past mistakes.
Canadian Government Issues Apology for Historical Rejection of Jewish Refugees
Canada's Prime Minister apologizes for not letting Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany land in 1939. Learn about the MS St. Louis ship and Canada's past mistakes.
Democracy v lobby power
Ever wondered why European politicians keep backing #Israel even as public opinion turns against its genocidal war in #Gaza? Groups like #ELNET play a huge role - organizing VIP trips to Israel for lawmakers, pushing ready-made talking points that equate criticism with #antisemitism, and even influencing arms deals worth billions. While polls show most Europeans want sanctions, politicians stay silent, fearing backlash or economic ties.
[…] ELNET, whose former CEO, Emmanuel Navon, presented it to the Knesset as the European equivalent of the powerful American lobby #AIPAC, operates six branches in Europe - in Paris, London, Brussels, Rome, Warsaw, and Berlin - in addition to its main headquarters in Israel. Among other activities, ELNET organizes delegations for hundreds of parliamentarians, distributes advocacy materials, promotes arms deals, and acts against pro-Palestinian movements across the continent. In recent months, a group of journalists from Germany, Israel, France, and the U.S. conducted a comprehensive investigation into the organization, aiming to shed light on its activities. The investigation, based on dozens of interviews and thousands of documents, exposes how the organization operates and its close ties with senior officials in #Netanyahu’s government and other right-wing bodies. In the few mentions of ELNET in the Israeli media, it is typically presented as a nonprofit or international/European organization focused on strengthening relations between Europe and Israel.
ELNET’s “Wall of Questions” ( #Fragenmauer https://fragemauer.de) Campaign: In #Germany, ELNET’s public campaign explicitly states that calling Israel’s actions in #Gaza a “genocide” is antisemitic. The campaign provides “answers” that dismiss such claims as baseless and motivated by hatred of Jews, without engaging with the legal or factual basis for the genocide accusation
See also
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/15/elnet-aipac-israel-lobby-europe
Photo
ELNET-Germany is the most influential pro-Israel entity in Berlin after the Israeli Embassy. Bomb autographer and gaza genocide poster boy #Herzog at an ELNET event at a security conference in Munich in 2015 (Photo: elnetdeutschland / CC BY-SA 2.0).
@palestine @palstudies
#GazaGenocide #antisemtism #aipac #proisraellobby
Democracy v lobby power
Ever wondered why European politicians keep backing #Israel even as public opinion turns against its genocidal war in #Gaza? Groups like #ELNET play a huge role - organizing VIP trips to Israel for lawmakers, pushing ready-made talking points that equate criticism with #antisemitism, and even influencing arms deals worth billions. While polls show most Europeans want sanctions, politicians stay silent, fearing backlash or economic ties.
[…] ELNET, whose former CEO, Emmanuel Navon, presented it to the Knesset as the European equivalent of the powerful American lobby #AIPAC, operates six branches in Europe - in Paris, London, Brussels, Rome, Warsaw, and Berlin - in addition to its main headquarters in Israel. Among other activities, ELNET organizes delegations for hundreds of parliamentarians, distributes advocacy materials, promotes arms deals, and acts against pro-Palestinian movements across the continent. In recent months, a group of journalists from Germany, Israel, France, and the U.S. conducted a comprehensive investigation into the organization, aiming to shed light on its activities. The investigation, based on dozens of interviews and thousands of documents, exposes how the organization operates and its close ties with senior officials in #Netanyahu’s government and other right-wing bodies. In the few mentions of ELNET in the Israeli media, it is typically presented as a nonprofit or international/European organization focused on strengthening relations between Europe and Israel.
ELNET’s “Wall of Questions” ( #Fragenmauer https://fragemauer.de) Campaign: In #Germany, ELNET’s public campaign explicitly states that calling Israel’s actions in #Gaza a “genocide” is antisemitic. The campaign provides “answers” that dismiss such claims as baseless and motivated by hatred of Jews, without engaging with the legal or factual basis for the genocide accusation
See also
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/15/elnet-aipac-israel-lobby-europe
Photo
ELNET-Germany is the most influential pro-Israel entity in Berlin after the Israeli Embassy. Bomb autographer and gaza genocide poster boy #Herzog at an ELNET event at a security conference in Munich in 2015 (Photo: elnetdeutschland / CC BY-SA 2.0).
@palestine @palstudies
#GazaGenocide #antisemtism #aipac #proisraellobby
Today in Labor History February 18, 1943: The Nazis arrested the members of the White Rose movement. The activist group called for opposition to the Nazi regime through an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign. The Nazis put on a show trial in which none of the defendants were allowed to speak. They executed Hans and Sophie Schol, and Christoph Probst on February 22, 1943. White Rose leaflets openly denounced the persecution and mass murder of the Jews. They might have taken their name from the poem "Cultivo una rosa blanca," by Cuban revolutionary and poet, Jose Marti. Alternatively, they may have gotten it from the B. Traven novel, “Die Weiße Rose” (The White Rose).” Traven served on the Central Council of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. He escaped the terror that followed the crushing of the Republic and fled to Mexico, where he wrote numerous novels, including “Death Ship” and “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.”
#LaborHistory #workingclass #WhiteRose #nazis #execution #holocaust #antisemitism #fascism #antifa #antifascism #JoseMarti #cuba #btraven #books #poetry #fiction #novel #writer #author @bookstadon
German Antisemitism Commissioner Calls for Banning of
Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East:
On 30 January 2026, Uwe Becker, the antisemitism commissioner for the federal State of Hesse and a Conservative Party politician, published a press statement on the website of the State Chancellery in which he called for the Jewish Voice to be banned “as soon as possible”. There is a certain irony in the fact that someone whose job is to “protect Jewish life” and “combat anti-Semitism” wants to ban a Jewish organization. Becker accuses us of “antisemitic incitement” at the same time that he, a German Christian, is attacking a Jewish group. We consider this not only a grotesque and authoritarian demand, but also an antisemitic one.
This behaviour is not especially surprising coming from Becker, a fanatical supporter of Israel and former president of the German-Israeli Society (the largest Israel lobby organization in Germany). For years, he has been calling for a ban on every major Palestine event in Frankfurt. In August 2025, he embarrassed the city twice by persuading it to ban the United4Gaza mass demonstration on the basis of a completely unfounded risk assessment. Two courts overturned the ban and reprimanded the city of Frankfurt for disregarding democratic principles.
Becker has defended the genocide in Palestine on countless occasions. We have written elsewhere about how, in September 2024, he honoured returning soldiers who had served in Gaza with a trophy in the shape of Greater Israel. He also called for the dissolution of UNRWA and supported the further starvation of Gaza’s already malnourished population.
In May 2023, the Frankfurt Administrative Court ruled that Becker, during his tenure as deputy mayor in 2019, had violated his obligation to objectivity by demanding the cancellation of the discussion event “Freedom of Expression Instead of Censorship”. He had violated not only the freedom of expression of the participants, but also the public’s right to form their own opinions freely (here too, the event’s title adds a certain irony). One of the speakers at this event on Palestine was Judith Bernstein, who died in November 2025, a member of the Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group in Munich and a former chairwoman of our association, whose parents had been expelled from Germany by the Nazis in 1935. She supported the BDS movement, which is why Becker had written in the press release that was found to be unlawful: “Anyone who offers these people a platform is promoting antisemitism in our country.” It is nothing new, then, that Becker, as a German non-Jew, slanders Jews as antisemites, including many whose family histories have been marked by the Holocaust.
Considering that Becker inappropriately wears a kippah at many public appearances, one has the impression that he not only wants to determine who is allowed to speak as a Jew; he also presents himself as a Jew. In doing so, he assumes the role of victim in his dangerous agitation against traitors to Germany’s pro-Israel “reason of state” and positions himself as more “Jewish” than the Jews he persecutes. Jewish groups in particular can undermine the ideological foundation on which this policy is based, which makes them a particular thorn in the side of so-called antisemitism commissioners like Becker. He embodies antisemitic Christian Zionism along with zealous German philosemitism, which confers a sense of moral superiority based on a supposed compensation and purification. Such people want to marginalise us and ultimately replace our identity with one that is loyal to the state; but, to quote the famous Yiddish resistance song: “Mir veln zey iberlevn!” (We will outlive them)
German Antisemitism Commissioner Calls for Banning of
Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East:
On 30 January 2026, Uwe Becker, the antisemitism commissioner for the federal State of Hesse and a Conservative Party politician, published a press statement on the website of the State Chancellery in which he called for the Jewish Voice to be banned “as soon as possible”. There is a certain irony in the fact that someone whose job is to “protect Jewish life” and “combat anti-Semitism” wants to ban a Jewish organization. Becker accuses us of “antisemitic incitement” at the same time that he, a German Christian, is attacking a Jewish group. We consider this not only a grotesque and authoritarian demand, but also an antisemitic one.
This behaviour is not especially surprising coming from Becker, a fanatical supporter of Israel and former president of the German-Israeli Society (the largest Israel lobby organization in Germany). For years, he has been calling for a ban on every major Palestine event in Frankfurt. In August 2025, he embarrassed the city twice by persuading it to ban the United4Gaza mass demonstration on the basis of a completely unfounded risk assessment. Two courts overturned the ban and reprimanded the city of Frankfurt for disregarding democratic principles.
Becker has defended the genocide in Palestine on countless occasions. We have written elsewhere about how, in September 2024, he honoured returning soldiers who had served in Gaza with a trophy in the shape of Greater Israel. He also called for the dissolution of UNRWA and supported the further starvation of Gaza’s already malnourished population.
In May 2023, the Frankfurt Administrative Court ruled that Becker, during his tenure as deputy mayor in 2019, had violated his obligation to objectivity by demanding the cancellation of the discussion event “Freedom of Expression Instead of Censorship”. He had violated not only the freedom of expression of the participants, but also the public’s right to form their own opinions freely (here too, the event’s title adds a certain irony). One of the speakers at this event on Palestine was Judith Bernstein, who died in November 2025, a member of the Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group in Munich and a former chairwoman of our association, whose parents had been expelled from Germany by the Nazis in 1935. She supported the BDS movement, which is why Becker had written in the press release that was found to be unlawful: “Anyone who offers these people a platform is promoting antisemitism in our country.” It is nothing new, then, that Becker, as a German non-Jew, slanders Jews as antisemites, including many whose family histories have been marked by the Holocaust.
Considering that Becker inappropriately wears a kippah at many public appearances, one has the impression that he not only wants to determine who is allowed to speak as a Jew; he also presents himself as a Jew. In doing so, he assumes the role of victim in his dangerous agitation against traitors to Germany’s pro-Israel “reason of state” and positions himself as more “Jewish” than the Jews he persecutes. Jewish groups in particular can undermine the ideological foundation on which this policy is based, which makes them a particular thorn in the side of so-called antisemitism commissioners like Becker. He embodies antisemitic Christian Zionism along with zealous German philosemitism, which confers a sense of moral superiority based on a supposed compensation and purification. Such people want to marginalise us and ultimately replace our identity with one that is loyal to the state; but, to quote the famous Yiddish resistance song: “Mir veln zey iberlevn!” (We will outlive them)
Holy shit
I thought it's fake. But he repeatedly working on making excuses for Epstein and blame the "hysteria" on radical left and antisemitism.
I have to control myself not saying I would regret later.
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-inverted-reality-of-epstein-conspiracy
#Epstein #Antisemitism #WTAF #unbelievable #USpol #Politics #Pedophiles
