The brochure aimed at high school students in Berlin's Neukölln borough also claims that criticism of illegal Israeli settlements is antisemitic

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.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    12·
    9 months ago

    The reality is that people are really disappointed in Germany for once again supporting Genocide.

    Especially with Gaza being a literal concentration camp entrapping two million people, the similarities become rather hard to ignore.

    It’s a low blow but factually the Nazis are Nazi’ing again pretty hard.

    Nobody is personally holding you responsible, but I hope you can put pressure on your government to stop their complicity in this Genocide.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        14·
        9 months ago

        It is not counter productive. It is an apt comparison that quickly gets people to understand the gravity of the situation. A huge Genocide is going on I do not care about people’s feelings getting hurt from the truth.

        I’ll leave you with a final quote.

        Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Restisters - Naomi Shulman.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        I’m afraid that Germany doesn’t get a free pass when, once again, it supports extreme violence along racial lines with an intensity that has surpassed every other such cases in the modern era but the of the Nazis, accompanied by extreme racist proclamations and even Nazi-style propaganda.

        If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s gonna be called a duck.