The three 'D's of the anti-Semitism guide that govern Germany
That. The taboo about the war between Israel and Hamas is constant in German society, to the point that they do not know exactly what can or cannot be said.. Who. The poet and art critic Ranjit Hoskote resigned from the direction of the Documenta exhibition due to disagreements over the limits of freedom of creation. When. Since 2004, politician Sharansky's roadmap on the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation has reigned
The Germans are so unsure about what can or cannot be said about Israel's offensive in Gaza that even the public managers of cultural life apply the right to freedom of expression and creation guaranteed by the Magna Carta with the famous question of ” Why don't you shut up?”. Under the constant bombardment of politics, with messages reminiscent of those that communist China propagated to the people from speakers hung on trees and street lamps, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia embrace each other like the Guadalquivir and the Guadiana.
Example: the artistic direction of Documenta, the exhibition held every five years in the city of Kassel, has resigned entirely due to disagreements over the limits of freedom of artistic creation, that is, to what extent intellectuals can rebel. with his works in the context of the tragedy that is being experienced in the Middle East. The first resignation was that of the poet and art critic Ranjit Hoskote. It was followed by that of the Israeli Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger.
Hoskote was accused of being anti-Semitic for having signed an open letter from the Indian Cultural Forum in 2019, protesting an event organized by the Consulate General of Israel in Mumbai on Hindutva.. In the letter, Zionism was equated with the movement led by the nationalist leader Vinaiak Dámodar Savarkar (1883-1963), an opponent of Mahatma Gandhi and a confessed admirer of Adolf Hitler..
He was also accused of sympathizing with the movement that promotes the boycott of Israeli products and supports Palestinian demands, BDS.. Hoskote described as “outrageous the accusation of anti-Semitism that has been leveled against my name in Germany, a country that I regard with love and admiration and whose cultural institutions and intellectual life I have contributed for several decades as a writer, curator and cultural theorist.”.
He denounced that “German journalists who do not know my life or my work have condemned and stigmatized me on the basis of a single signature on a letter that was taken out of context.”. But it didn't matter.
And while the German Minister of Culture, the green Claudia Roth, boasted of her resignation and threatened Documenta with withdrawing subsidies if the “anti-Semitic” outbreaks were not cut, in Berlin she canceled sine die an exhibition on the Lives of Muslims to avoid problems. “We do not want to show in an exhibition a one-sided presentation of Muslim life without a corresponding counterpoint, for example about Jewish life in Berlin,” the exhibitors explained.. The argument left the affected artists speechless. But it didn't matter.
Germany purges with its eyes closed the monstrosities of its ancestors, in silence and without looking to the other side.
Limiting Israel's right to self-defense and presenting it as a state that does to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to the Jews is anti-Semitic: that is what the first of the three D's of the guide to knowledge that the media repeats says Germans on their websites, “Demonization”. The second is “Double standards” or wondering if a European State would respond to terrorist attacks as Israel is doing.. The third is “Delegitimization” or denying Israel's right to exist as a State by demanding a “free Palestine”. The guide was prepared in 2004 by the Israeli politician Natán Sharansky and in Germany it is said to be internationally recognized.