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| German Government Party's NGO Disinvites Israeli Writer For Slamming Berlin Pro-Iran Policies |
| 2019-05-04 |
| [Jpost] Social Democratic Foundation worked with terrorist entity Hezbollah. The think tank of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) disinvited the distinguished Israeli writer Chaim (Hans) Noll in late April from a talk at the Ariowitsch House in Leipzig, Saxony, because he wrote articles critical of the German government’s pro-Iranian regime policies that jeopardize the security of the Jewish state. The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, which is the ideas organization for the SPD, pulled the plug on Noll’s talk at its branch in the state of Saxony because he previously wrote: “German politicians of the ruling parties – like no one else – are trying to strengthen the mullah regime in Iran, which is preparing for Israel’s liquidation, and destroying and expelling the Jews living there.” Noll, who grew up in Berlin, East Germany, fled the Communist and antisemitic regime in 1984, and moved to Israel in 1995, said: “‘Never again!’, they [German politicians] declare, sitting with concerned expressions in celebration hours, creating a show business of memorial sites and Jewish museums, commemoration sites and former torture chambers where photo-ops are given. The same politicians are making sure that money is constantly flowing to the mullahs, to terrorists in the Middle East, to organizations that boycott Israel. It is a hypocrisy that makes you speechless. It has long since become mainstreamed and has become ‘normal’ as it was then, because life in German cities was ‘normal’ when they deported the Jews.” Noll wrote on the pro-Israel and pro-American website The Axis of Good on Sunday in connection with the cancellation of his event: “Recently, I have criticized the Middle East policy led by SPD [Foreign] Minister Heiko Maas’s foreign office several times. Written and verbally. I have reminded that this antiquated, ideology-driven, unsuccessful policy costs German taxpayers millions every year. I have referred to the embarrassment of Maas’s commitment to Auschwitz as an inspiration to his political career and to his persistently anti-Israeli policies. That Maas, as stated recently by the Israeli ambassador, basically sided with the enemies of Israel in the UN, ‘In November, Germany voted 16 times in 21 resolutions against Israel,’ I have criticized German arms deliveries and other help to the belligerent regimes of the region, for example Iran and Saudi Arabia.” Maas, who last year said that he went into politics “because of Auschwitz,” permitted his Foreign Ministry to participate in a celebration of the Iran’s Islamic Revolution at the Iranian’s regime embassy in Berlin in February. Iran’s revolution calls for the destruction of Israel, and the clerical regime is the leading state-sponsor of terrorism, Holocaust-denial and lethal antisemitism. Matthias Eisel, the director of the Friedrich Ebert office in Saxony, wrote in an email to the Post that he canceled Noll’s event because of the Israeli writer’s criticism of Germany’s pro-Islamic regime policies. Citing Noll’s writings, Eisel wrote: “Anyone who knows our events and discussion forums in Saxony knows that they are always controversial. Mr. Noll, on the other hand, judges flat rate and ideological. He despises German politics as a whole, sees Germany’s politics as traitorous – with the exception of the AfD... Mr. Noll prefers to publish such texts on the ‘Axis of Good,’ a forum that you can at least can call right-populist.” Many well-known German-Jewish and non-Jewish writers post on the Axis of Good, a website that criticizes modern antisemitism and radical Islam in Germany. |
| Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660 |
| #1 I think I've heard stories about Germany like this in the past. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-05-04 07:37 |