A German court has ruled that a Nazi concentration camp memorial has the right to refuse entry to those wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf.
The higher administrative court in the eastern state of Thuringia on Wednesday rejected a request from a woman to be allowed entry to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial while wearing a keffiyeh.
“It is unquestionable that this would endanger the sense of security of many Jews, especially at this site,” the court said.
Regardless of anything else you might think, you just have to admit that this rationale is bullshit:
It is not unquestionable that wearing a keffiyeh would endanger anyone’s sense of security.
Argue about anything else, but you cannot actually defend that “it is unquestionable”.
Israeli jews are doing a genocide but you have you thought about the feelz of the coddled westoid jew?
I actually care very very much about the “feelz” of diaspora jews, who are actually not “coddled”, as evidenced by (a) antisemitic attacks (actual ones, not IHRA fake ones), and (b) the number of people lured by the fake Zionist promise of aliyah. anti-Semitism is very real, in the West as well. But the danger to western Jews is not in the pro-palestinian movement, it’s with the Far Right and its neolib enablers. The Christian Zionists are a far bigger threat to Jews who in Israel they have found the ideal “Madagascar” to get rid of the diaspora.
You are proving my point, thank you.
You can’t see, really, how anti-Semitism in the West is carrying Zionism’s water? The Zionist big lie is that Jews need Israel for safety. Every Zionist criminal is justifying their crimes by repeating “I have no other choice”. Zionism gets its legitimacy from Western antisemitism. Ending the Zionist colonial project means stopping and reversing the flow of settlers to Israel. That means that our job in the West is (also) to make it a silly choice for any Jew to even consider leaving here for some middle eastern bunker.
FINALLY: THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE WESTERN JEW, THIS IS ABOUT ISRAEL GENOCIDING ARABS.
And every time like clock work, somebody slides into the discussion about the genocide with: bUt ABoUT tHe WeStErN JeW, ThEY ArE SuFferIng too
That dilatory to the genocide discussion. Western jew will be fine, children in gaza are being bomb with US/EU supplied weapons today.
You are not reading what I’m writing, are you?
I am not saying Jews are the only people facing prejudice.
I am not saying they face the biggest prejudice.
Read what the fuck I’m actually saying instead of yelling at what I’m not saying.
I am drawing a direct link between the genocidal Israeli apartheid state and antisemitism in the West.
I am talking about how the one feeds and legitimizes the other.
I am talking about how defeating the one helps defeat the other.
READ WHAT I’M ACTUALLY WRITING
i think the director of the memorial has a more valid and nuanced point:
I am sorry but the rhetorical door to the relativisation of Nazi crimes has been opened by the various Israeli top politicians and assorted right wingers who have been repeating ad nauseam that Hamas is the new Nazis or even worse than the Nazis.
If an Israeli top official is claiming that what Hamas is doing is WORSE than the Nazis, then, I’m very sorry but what Israel has been doing to Gaza the last couple of years is objectively worse than what Hamas is doing, and “worse” is a transitive word.
Can’t have the cake and eat it too.
i agree in general, but this is a holocaust memorial so the context is completely different
If the director had been acting perplexed as to why the keffiyeh is relevant, and if their take was a bit more nuanced and humanizing of the Palestinians and recognizing the shared humanity, I would agree. But this specifically is about excluding this particular ethnic group from sharing in the memory of the Holocaust. Which is kind of fucked up.
but in the very next sentence he’s quoted as saying
and also, it’s not just about the keffiyeh… as the article also says
if she hadn’t have been trying to make a political statement, perhaps there’d have been a different outcome
at the very least, it’s not like a burqa where they’re not allowed to take it off, and thus couldn’t enter. she could have come in if she was willing to take the single item of clothing off… i’d expect the same treatment of someone wearing a hoodie saying “the nazis did some bad shit but have you heard what israel is doing?”: take it off or leave
Yes and Wagner’s admission actually aligns with the protestor’s intent pretty well, doesn’t it?
It ends up being easier to defend that not allowing people to wear a keffiyeh would endanger their heads to sun exposure.