Berlin's Governing Mayor Kai Wegner Has Condemned The Occupation Of A Courtyard At The Free University
Berlin's governing mayor Kai Wegner has condemned the occupation of a courtyard at the Free University (FU) by pro-Palestinian activists. At the same time, on Tuesday he supported the strategy of the university, which had immediately informed the police and wanted to have the protest camp evacuated. Berlin's governing mayor Kai Wegner has condemned the occupation of a courtyard at the Free University (FU) by pro-Palestinian activists. At the same time, on Tuesday he supported the strategy of the university, which had immediately informed the police and wanted to have the protest camp evacuated. “We must not look the other way at universities when anti-Semitic slogans and hatred of Jews are spread at universities,” said the CDU politician on Tuesday after a Senate meeting with the church leadership of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO). He is very grateful to the university for its approach: “I think this consistent approach is completely right.”
According to Wegner, he doesn't want to experience a situation in Berlin like the one recently experienced at US universities. “We don’t have a situation like this yet. And yet we have a problem,” he said. “We will do everything as the Berlin Senate, so that Jewish students are not afraid to enter universities.”
Wegner did not accept the argument of diversity of opinion with regard to the protests. “Anti-Semitism is not a political opinion. We won’t allow that at universities.”
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In his stride now, Rushdie chides the radicals who have failed to distance themselves from Hamas. This is a ‘terrorist organisation’, he reminds them, and it is ‘very strange for young progressive student [activists] to kind of support a fascist terrorist group’. Indeed. It’s been mindblowing to watch the self-styled anti-fascists of the bourgeois left either stay schtum or even try to rationalise Hamas’s fascistic attack on the Jews of Southern Israel. These are the kind of people who think everything is ‘like the 1930s’ – Brexit, Trump, gender-critical feminism – and yet when there was a pogrom that was genuinely reminiscent of the 1930s they essentially said: ‘Well, what do you expect…?’
Rushdie then commits a secular blasphemy – he questions the chant of our times: ‘Free Palestine.’ He himself supports the creation of a Palestinian state, but what would a ‘Free Palestine’ look like in 2024, he wonders? ‘Right now, if there was a Palestinian state, it would be run by Hamas and that would make it a Taliban-like state…It would be a client state of Iran. And is that what the progressive movements of the Western left wish to create?’
I find myself wondering this all the time. What did it mean when so-called progressives waved the Palestinian flag in the immediate aftermath of 7 October? Was that solidarity with the people of Gaza or Israelophobic triumphalism following Hamas’s vile, bloody invasion of kibbutzim? And when activists holler ‘Globalise the intifada’, what are they saying? The only ‘intifada’ we’ve seen in recent years was the racist pogrom of 7 October. Globalise that? Rushdie is right to call for deeper thought, to muddy with pesky nuance the juvenile rage against Israel that has swept the Western world.
There is something undeniably haunting about Rushdie making his plea for reason from his battered, injured face. In the interview the right lens in his spectacles is blacked out, hiding the eye he lost to the savage knife attack he suffered in August 2022. There’s scar tissue on his face. His lower lip droops to one side. When it comes to radical Islam, this man knows whereof he speaks. The inhumanity of this ideology is literally etched on his face. These are the punishments for ‘blasphemy’ in the 21st century: a severed eye, a deformed mouth. And yet still he sees, still he speaks.
The short clips — none of them longer than two and a half minutes — offer poignant insights into day-to-day life in the Strip, an area that most outsiders cannot reach and whose residents directly suffer from the consequent lack of understanding.
We meet ordinary people telling authentic stories about common problems that are drastically exacerbated by Hamas’s control, ordinary people with expectations and aspirations and dreams — from running a pharmacy to working as a journalist to simply dancing — that they are forbidden from realizing.
All names have been changed, and CPC employed animation and voice-altering technology to protect speakers’ identity.
The participants consented to be interviewed for the sake of relaying their ideas and experiences to an international audience, noted CPC president Joseph Braude, adding, “They want these stories to be heard.”
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