The Worst Anti-Semitism No One Talks About
And Why Germany’s Actions Are Stirring Old Ghosts
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Germany, long haunted by the shadows of its past, once vowed: “Never again” — never again complicit in mass atrocities, never again silent in the face of genocide. But today, that promise is being shamefully broken.
This article was submitted to numerous established and alternative media outlets in Germany. Not a single one accepted it for publication.*
Around eighty years ago, Jews and other persecuted people in Germany were dragged from their homes by the Nazis and deported to concentration camps — the public remained silent, most simply pulled their curtains shut. Today, another people faces the very real threat of annihilation — and once again, Germany stands on the side of the perpetrators. But this time, it’s not just a matter of looking away. This time, the shutters are being lowered — more tightly and deliberately than ever before.Double standards and moral blindness: Germany's treatment of Palestine and Israel
Not out of ignorance, but out of conviction: Germany's unconditional support for the expansionist project known as “Greater Israel,” and its role as the second-largest arms supplier to Israel after the United States, are no longer peripheral facts — they constitute the foundation of German Middle East policy.
As Palestinian families are buried beneath relentless Israeli bombardment and survivors in Gaza face starvation, while others endure systematic disenfranchisement in the West Bank, the German state fails to hold the perpetrators to account. Instead, it turns its focus on those who dare to show empathy or raise uncomfortable questions.
Peaceful acts of solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian people are met on German streets with violent repression — executed by a militarized police force that no longer pretends to uphold democratic values, but enforces state doctrine with uncompromising force.
It is no coincidence that Palantir — the surveillance technology developed primarily by German-born Peter Thiel and others, and eagerly embraced by the ever-expanding U.S. security and surveillance state — is also employed by German police. Grimly and ironically, the same system is used by the Israeli military in its ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian population.
It is no coincidence that Palantir — the total surveillance technology developed primarily by German-born Peter Thiel, co-founder and chairman of the company, together with others, not least the CIA, and enthusiastically embraced by the ever-expanding security and surveillance apparatus of the US — is also used by the German police. It is both depressing and ironic that the same system is being used by the Israeli military in its ongoing campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people.
Police in Berlin crack down on demonstrators who dare to publicly express solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian people (Video screenshot Middle East Eye)
The language used to legitimize this approach is not only dehumanizing—it is poisonous. Palestinians—a Semitic people—are collectively portrayed as impulsive, irrational, and violent. This rhetoric exposes a relapse into patterns of thought and language that Germany believed it had overcome—and once again reveals its anti-Semitic face.
Most perfidious, however, is the instrumental reinterpretation of the term “anti-Semitism”: it increasingly serves not to protect Jewish life, but to immunize a state against any form of criticism – regardless of the real balance of power. Anyone who defends Palestinians today is targeted. Morality becomes a weapon, memory becomes censorship – and the much-vaunted German responsibility becomes a farce.
Anti-Semitism, selectively applied
The erasure of Palestinians in German political culture
The word “Semitic” is derived from Shem, one of Noah's sons, and historically encompassed Jews, Arabs, and other peoples of the ancient Middle East.
In 19th-century Europe, however, German race researcher Wilhelm Marr coined the term “anti-Semitism” in a narrower and racially charged sense that was directed exclusively against Jews.
Today, this narrow definition has profound consequences. Palestinians, who are themselves Semitic, are excluded from this category. Their oppression is often rationalized or ignored under the false pretext of combating anti-Semitism.
Yet the current genocide of the Palestinians is the most extreme expression of anti-Semitism in our time—a genocide of a Semitic people, carried out with the tacit approval of Germany and the rest of the West, of all countries. The worst anti-Semitism is the kind that nobody talks about.¹ ²
“Palestinians and Jews have common genetic ancestors”: headline in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz
Never again – except when it is politically inconvenient
Germany has enacted some of the strictest anti-Semitism laws in the world – originally to combat Holocaust denial and protect Jewish communities.
Critics — including Jewish intellectuals and human rights activists — point out that these laws are now being used to silence Palestinian voices, as well as those of other Arab and Muslim communities. A key factor in this development is the adoption of the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of antisemitism. This definition equates criticism of the policies of the State of Israel with antisemitic hatred — even when such criticism is based on international legal norms or human rights principles.
The ban on public funding for organizations that support the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, which was reaffirmed in 2024, further criminalizes peaceful civil society protest. At the same time, dozens of Palestinian children, women, and elderly people are killed every day—and large parts of the German media remain silent or downplay the suffering of an entire people.
What is even more disturbing is that this political consensus contradicts the will of the German people. Recent polls show that three-quarters of Germans oppose further arms exports to Israel, especially in light of the rising number of civilian casualties in Gaza, which already number in the tens of thousands.
The government and the mainstream media are deliberately ignoring the will of the majority, defaming any form of public criticism, and unwaveringly approving further arms deliveries—a frontal attack on representative democracy. What we are seeing here is not merely political failure, but moral bankruptcy: a political class that submits not to the will of the people, but to ideological blindness and geopolitical allegiance – even if that means becoming complicit in crimes against humanity.
Foundations of violence
Zionist terrorism and the founding of Israel
Before the founding of Israel in 1948, several Jewish paramilitary groups—Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi (also known as the "Stern Gang")—resorted to terror tactics against British forces, Arab civilians, and even rival Jewish factions in pursuit of establishing a Jewish state. In the United States, prominent Jewish mafia figures such as Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel expressed solidarity with these militias—not only ideologically, but also materially: through money, weapons, and logistical support. Among the most brutal and well-known attacks were:
The Irgun attack in 1938, in which about 80 civilians were killed in marketplaces.
The bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946, which killed 91 people.
The Lehi assassination attempt on US President Truman in 1947.
The bombing of the Semiramis Hotel in 1948, which killed 25 people.
The Deir Yassin massacre (April 1948): Over 100 Palestinian civilians were killed in a joint operation by Irgun and Lehi.
The assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, a UN peace mediator who had negotiated the release of over 30,000 prisoners from Nazi concentration camps, by the Lehi in September 1948.
Leaders of terrorist organizations such as Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir later became Israeli prime ministers. Their violent legacy shaped the Nakba – the expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians, mass murders, and the destruction of hundreds of villages.
Even Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, formulated territorial ambitions that stretched from the Sinai to the Euphrates.³
The idea of a “Greater Israel,” based on the biblical phrase “from the stream of Egypt to the Euphrates,”⁴ encompasses areas of the following modern-day states: northeastern Egypt (Sinai), all of present-day Israel, the Palestinian territories (West Bank and Gaza),
West Bank, parts of Syria (including the Golan Heights), southern Lebanon, and large areas of western Iraq along the Euphrates River. The dominant factions in today's Israeli government remain unwavering in their vision of a “Greater Israel”—a project that is being pursued with military force and ideologically underpinned by ancient texts.
This explains why these forces have fought the two-state solution – i.e., the coexistence of a Palestinian and a Jewish state – from the outset and have now effectively made it impossible.
In 2017, the current finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, presented a so-called “subjugation plan.” This plan envisaged covering the West Bank with Israeli settlements and leaving the Palestinians with only the choice between “submission, emigration or martyrdom.”⁶ He later described Gaza as a ‘ghetto’⁷ and declared in May 2025 that it would be “completely destroyed.”⁸
The violence did not stop in 1948
The Nakba was not an isolated incident. The massacres continued, including:
Deir Yassin (1948): Over 100 civilians were murdered.
Abu Shusha (1948): 60 villagers were killed, including reports of sexual violence.
Tantura (1948): 200 people were killed after surrendering.
Lydda and Ramle (1948): Over 400 people were killed and tens of thousands displaced.
Al-Dawayima (1948): 455 people killed, including women and children.
Qibya (1953): 69 people killed on the orders of Ariel Sharon.
Kafr Qasim (1956): 49 people killed for unknowingly violating a curfew.
Khan Yunis (1956): 275–400 dead in Gaza.
Sabra and Shatila (1982): 3,000 Palestinians were massacred with Israeli complicity.
Ibrahimi Mosque (1994): 29 killed by a Jewish settler.
More recent events include the Gaza Wars of 2008, 2012 and 2014, the Great March of Return (2018–2019) and the escalation in Sheikh Jarrah in 2021 – all with massive casualties among the Palestinian civilian population, including countless children, and credible allegations of war crimes by international observers.
October 7 and the media blackout:
What Germany is concealing
Just like the war in Ukraine – which officially began with the “unprovoked” Russian invasion in February 2022, if one accepts the Western narrative, which omits the US-backed coup against a democratically elected government in 2014 and the rise of an illegitimate ultra-nationalist regime that is hostile to Russian-speaking people and has been bombing them in Donbass ever since is similarly distorted.
According to Western mainstream politicians and media, the violent clashes began on October 7, 2023, with what they described as an “unprovoked terrorist attack” on a peaceful Israel. Missing from this narrative is a crucial fact: Hamas — a group that Israel itself supported for years to fracture and weaken the broader Palestinian resistance to occupation and territorial encroachment — launched its operation from the Gaza Strip, a region long besieged, stripped of basic rights, and effectively transformed into an open-air prison.
Yes, atrocities were committed. But while those carried out by Hamas were dramatically amplified in Western public discourse, the far greater scale of violence inflicted by Israel in response has been largely ignored or erased from view — not to mention the countless acts of aggression and oppression committed by Israel against the native Palestinian population since its founding in 1948. The distinguished expert on the history and situation in Palestine and Israel, Max Blumenthal, explains:
Also absent from mainstream coverage is the fact that Israeli authorities had prior warning of the attack. Egypt’s intelligence chief, General Abbas Kamel, reportedly called Prime Minister Netanyahu roughly ten days before October 7 to warn of a “terrible operation.” It is highly likely that Western and other intelligence agencies shared similar alerts. In what appears to be part of a broader pattern, Israeli soldiers stationed along the Gaza border — often described as the most heavily surveilled in the world — were reportedly ordered to stand down on the very day of the attack, leading to widespread confusion within the ranks. All of this appears to be another piece of a much larger puzzle.
The conclusion is hard to avoid: the Hamas attack provided Israeli leadership with a welcome and long-awaited pretext to accelerate a long-standing objective — the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip and its transformation into another Jewish settler colony in line with the overarching vision of a “Greater Israel.” At its core, this is about creating “Lebensraum” (German for “living space”) — just as Greater Germany once propagated. The Nazis regarded the conquest of Lebensraum as a natural right of the Aryan race, drawing inspiration from colonial models like Manifest Destiny in the United States — just as Zionists view it as a natural right of the Jewish people, supported by biblical promises.
What is also rarely acknowledged is that prior to this escalation, Hamas had repeatedly called for the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners — including women and children — many of whom were being held without trial under harsh and degrading conditions. Numerous human rights organizations have documented widespread abuse, including torture and sexual violence, in Israeli detention facilities. These appeals were ignored by the Israeli government — and largely dismissed or silenced by Western media.
Contrary to prevailing propaganda, the goal of the October 7 operation was not the mass killing of Israeli civilians. Rather, Hamas aimed to take hostages — its only remaining leverage to compel Israel to release Palestinian prisoners. Though undeniably brutal, this strategy must be understood within the broader and ongoing context of asymmetrical violence and decades of systemic oppression.
Israel's original account of the October 7 attack—with allegations of mass rape, beheaded babies, and other atrocities—was widely amplified by international media but has since been questioned or refuted by Israeli journalists and independent investigations. Unsurprisingly, German media has remained largely silent on these retractions, continuing to uncritically echo one official Israeli statement after another.
Meanwhile, Israel has reportedly invoked the Hannibal Directive, which allows the use of lethal force in areas where Israeli hostages are being held in order to prevent their capture – leading to numerous civilian deaths, including its own citizens. This includes Israel shooting its own festivalgoers.
An Israeli family of the deceased even threatened legal action against the government, accusing it of exploiting the deaths of their relatives for propaganda purposes, even though evidence is mounting that it was not Hamas but an Israeli airstrike that was responsible. In one tragic case, an Israeli hostage said in a video that Hamas fighters had moved him ten times to protect him from Israeli attacks. Nevertheless, he was eventually killed – by an Israeli attack.
The following documentary Atrocity Inc. examines how the Israeli government and Western media construct narratives that accuse Palestinians of serious crimes, such as systematic rape, while the Israeli military commits precisely those atrocities that it usually wrongly accuses its opponents of.
This is a screenshot from the documentary Atrocity Inc.
Here is a further update based on Israeli sources.
Contrary to popular belief, Hamas accepted the idea of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders in its revised 2017 charter—an implicit recognition of Israel's existence alongside a Palestinian state. It explicitly states: “Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of June 4, 1967 [...] as a formula for national consensus.”
The charter also emphasizes the distinction between Zionism and Judaism: “Hamas does not direct its conflict against Jews because they are Jews, but against the Zionists who occupy the land of Palestine.” The organization affirms that its struggle is not against Judaism as a religion, but against colonial occupation.
Nevertheless, demands for the liberation of Palestine are often deliberately misrepresented as genocidal anti-Semitism, rather than recognized as the legitimate aspiration for a state where people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds enjoy equal rights.
Genocide in real time: Where does Germany stand today?
Meanwhile, real acts of genocidal, anti-Semitic violence against Palestinians continue unabated and without accountability. As of June 2025:
Over 70,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.
More than 131,000 have been injured.
Over 12,000 have been arrested.
Nearly 1,000 have been killed in the West Bank.
These figures, reported by the mainstream media, are almost certainly significantly underestimated. For example, they do not take into account the many victims who are still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza.
In October 2023, an Israeli airstrike struck the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City, where hundreds of civilians had sought refuge. At least 18 people were killed and many more injured. The image shows the most recent Israeli bombing of a church in Gaza — the Catholic Holy Family Church — on July 17, 2025. (Image source: The Independent)
Here is a testimony of what it means for Palestinian Christians to live under Israeli occupation.
In a recent publication, Nature—one of the world's most prestigious and widely cited scientific journals—highlighted the findings of the first independent investigation into mortality in the conflict. The study, published on the preprint server medRxiv, estimates that “Nearly 84,000 people died in Gaza between October 2023 and early January 2025 as a result of the war between Hamas and Israel. More than half of those killed were women aged 18 to 64, children, or people over 65.”
The German chancellor's crusade: Armed rhetoric, distorted truths, and Germany's haunting past
Friedrich Merz, the current German chancellor, has taken an aggressively pro-Israel stance and harbors more hostility toward Russia than any German chancellor since Adolf Hitler. His statements downplaying Israeli war crimes and denying Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilians — while simultaneously preparing Germany for a possible war with Russia — raise deeply disturbing historical parallels.
Most disturbing is Merz's unwavering defense of Israel's 12-day war against Iran in June 2025 — an unprovoked attack that not only killed hundreds of Iranian military personnel and murdered nuclear scientists and their families, but also brazenly targeted other civilians and peaceful nuclear facilities.
To portray such brutality as necessary or justified is nothing short of obscene. His characterization of Israel's illegal war of aggression as a “dirty war on behalf of the world” is eerily reminiscent of the dangerous militarism that defined Germany's darkest hour.
Merz also described the Iranian government (often referred to as the “mullah regime”) as brutal and oppressive toward its own people, highlighting alleged human rights violations, suppression of dissent, and authoritarian control.
Are you tired of constantly hearing horror stories about the so-called “mullah regime” and its alleged cruelty towards the Iranian people?
Watch the videos on the YouTube channel “Travel Buddies Iran.” But don't be shocked if everything you've heard about Iran is completely different from reality (YouTube screenshot).What the German chancellor deliberately fails to mention is that Iran—home to the second-largest Jewish population in the Middle East—grants constitutional protection to its Jewish community. Iranian Jews are not only free to practice their faith and maintain synagogues, but also live in prosperity and have a permanent seat in parliament.
Prominent Jewish-American journalists such as Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil have documented the vibrant Jewish life in cities such as Isfahan.
Former President Ebrahim Raisi, who was stereotyped in the West as a “hardliner” and was close to spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is seen here at a meeting with Iranian rabbis (source: Al-Alam News Network, Tehran).
Contrary to Friedrich Merz's claims, Iran exhibits a more inclusive form of democracy in some respects than Israel – a state that, as Israeli historian Ilan Pappé points out, systematically denies equal rights and political representation to millions of people under its control. While in Iran, despite authoritarian structures, different political currents and ethnic groups are represented in parliament, Israel is characterized by a far-reaching system of control and exclusion: a dense network of border walls, military checkpoints, roadblocks, and fortified zones systematically harasses the Palestinian population and severely restricts their freedom of movement. Even getting to the hospital can turn into hours of torture.
Nuclear Hypocrisy and Racism in Plain Sight
Germany and other Western nations continue to demonize Iran’s peaceful nuclear program—used for energy and medical applications—while ignoring Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal. Iran has complied with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and hosted IAEA inspections. In contrast, Israel has refused all inspections and holds a sizable nuclear arsenal with zero transparency.
Even after assassinating Iran’s top nuclear negotiator—just days after he agreed to limit uranium enrichment to below 5% ahead of a pivotal diplomatic meeting with the United States—Israel faced no international condemnation. Instead, distorted narratives continue to portray Iran as an existential threat, despite the fact that Iran has not initiated a war in centuries. In stark contrast, Israel routinely launches strikes against countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran, and has issued threats against Tehran for over three decades.
Germany's first dirty war: chemical weapons against Iran
During the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), Saddam Hussein's regime used chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers and civilians, using precursors, equipment, and technologies that were largely supplied by German companies. Nerve agents such as sarin and mustard gas killed at least 20,000 Iranians, and tens of thousands more were permanently maimed. Over 80 German companies were directly or indirectly involved in enabling these war crimes. Once again, Germany – despite its historical responsibility – was at the forefront of industrially organized mass murder.
The silence and tacit complicity of Western states, including Germany, reveal a disturbing pattern: when geopolitical interests are at stake, human rights and moral principles are systematically subordinated. The much-vaunted “values-based foreign policy” is exposed here as empty rhetoric.
An insightful footnote: During this period, Israel supplied weapons to Iran – the very country it now considers an existential threat. This also shows how flexible ideological enemy stereotypes become when strategic interests are at stake.
Instead of holding Germany accountable for its role in these crimes, Berlin and other Western powers are now supporting what could become the next great crime against the Iranian people.
Renowned Jewish-American scholar Professor Jeffrey Sachs offers a sobering perspective on this general attitude of the West. He argues that US foreign policy has long been dominated by neoconservative and Israeli agendas that favor regime change and military intervention over diplomacy and international law. Citing former general and NATO commander Wesley Clark, Sachs recalls the Pentagon's plan to overthrow seven governments within five years—Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran—that oppose Israeli and Western hegemony or support the oppressed Palestinian people.
Six of these wars have already been fought, leaving behind bloodshed, chaos, and streams of refugees. Jeffrey Sachs describes this approach as reckless, morally bankrupt, and strategically incoherent.
Germany's enthusiastic support for the strategy of regime change in Iran and other countries reveals a continued complicity—then as now.
Rethinking Semitic
Identity, Myth, and the Politics of Belonging
The idea of a biologically pure, racially distinct Jewish identity is a 19th-century construct—born of the spirit of European nationalism and pseudoscientific racial theories. Ironically, both Christian and Jewish Zionists adopted these racist concepts, even though they originally emerged from anti-Semitic thinking. The idea of a “pure Jewish people” thus became the ideological basis of a project that saw itself as a protection against racism – and in doing so unwittingly reproduced its premises.
Like any collective identity, the Jewish identity has been shaped over centuries by migration, conversion, and cultural exchange – from the Khazar elites who converted to Judaism in the 8th century to those Judeans who later converted to Christianity or Islam.
In his book The Invention of the Jewish People (2008), Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that the idea of an ethnically homogeneous Jewish people is a modern construct that deliberately ignores historical complexity.
Arthur Koestler also took up this thesis in The Thirteenth Tribe (1976), arguing that a significant portion of Ashkenazi Jews could be descended from the Khazars, a Turkic people who collectively converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages. Genetic studies confirm the heterogeneous origins of Jewish populations:
In addition to a common genetic basis originating in the Middle East, many communities show clear regional influences – for example, from Southern Europe, North Africa, or Eastern Europe. This conclusion was reached by Hammer et al. (2000), Behar et al. (2010), and Ostrer (2012), among others, in their groundbreaking research findings and publications.
The common narrative of a mass expulsion enforced by the Romans is also not supported by archaeology.⁹ Rather, many Judeans remained in the Levant, where they later converted to Christianity or Islam. Genetic studies suggest that today's Palestinians may be just as closely related to the ancient Israelites as Ashkenazi Jews.¹⁰
Nevertheless, Zionist leaders such as David Ben-Gurion exploited biblical conquest narratives—not out of religious belief (Ben-Gurion was a declared atheist), but as a political strategy. The Bible became the ideological foundation of the new state. To this day, it is taught in Israeli schools not as a religious source, but as a historical one.¹¹
Ben-Gurion put it bluntly: “The Bible is our mandate. Our legal title does not come from the League of Nations, but from the Bible.”¹²
This instrumentalization of religious texts for political legitimation is reminiscent of other national myths – such as “Manifest Destiny” in the US or the “civilizing mission” of European colonial powers.¹³ In Israel, however, this dynamic takes on a particularly explosive dimension due to the ongoing occupation and disenfranchisement of the Palestinians.¹⁴
The fusion of religious myths with historical interpretation has created an ideological fortress in which biblical narratives are regarded as sacrosanct facts – and any questioning of them is perceived as an existential threat.
The price of this systematic distortion of history is high: a political culture that refuses historical self-reflection, rejects moral responsibility, and glorifies violence as divinely legitimate.¹⁵
If Germany really means “never again,” then “never again” must mean now.
Germany's past cannot be atoned for by enabling new atrocities. Arms deliveries to a war zone where civilians are being killed en masse are contrary to everything that should have followed Auschwitz. The double standards must end.
Do the Germans hear nothing—children imprisoned by the soldiers they armed, subjected to rape, hunger, terror, and life without trial—and feel no shame?
Anyone who wants to credibly combat anti-Semitism must:
oppose all forms of racist domination, whether religiously motivated or ideologically disguised,
protect the lives of Semites on both sides of the wall,
and support the legitimate struggle of the Palestinians for dignity, equality, and freedom.
Anything else would be a betrayal—of memory, of morality, and of history.
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Footnotes
Amnesty International: “Israel’s Genocide Against the Palestinians in Gaza” – The report documents systematic killings, forced displacement, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure by Israeli forces, concluding that the criteria for genocide may be fulfilled.
ECCHR (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights): “Genocide in Gaza?” – The ECCHR identifies legally grounded indications of genocide and refers to South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Cf. Genesis 15:18: “On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.”
See also: Herzl, Theodor: Diaries, Vol. II, p. 711; and Rabbi M. Fischmann, in his testimony before the UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), July 1947, where he stated: “The Land of Israel stretches from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates.”
Cf. Finkelstein, Israel / Silberman, Neil Asher: The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2003, pp. 81ff. See also: Schwartz, Seth: Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. Princeton University Press, 2001.
Cf. Elhaik, Eran: “The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses”, in: Genome Biology and Evolution, 2013. See also: Sand, Shlomo: The Invention of the Jewish People. Berlin: Propyläen, 2009.
Cf. Penslar, Derek J.: Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870–1918. Indiana University Press, 1991. On educational aspects see: Don-Yehiya, Eliezer: “Religion and Political Accommodation in Israel,” in: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1999.
Quoted in: Shapira, Anita: Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel. Yale University Press, 2014, p. 121. See also: Segev, Tom: Ben-Gurion: A Political Life. New York: Schocken Books, 2012.
Cf. Stephanson, Anders: Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire of Right. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995. See also: Said, Edward W.: Culture and Imperialism. Frankfurt: Fischer, 2003.
Cf. Breaking the Silence (ed.): Occupation of the Territories – Israeli Soldier Testimonies 2000–2010. See also: B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories: www.btselem.org. On the role of ideology: Zertal, Idith / Eldar, Akiva: Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967–2007. New York: Nation Books, 2007.
Cf. Lincoln, Bruce: Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11. University of Chicago Press, 2003. Lincoln illustrates how religious narratives in modern nationalisms are used not only to justify political violence but also to shield against criticism.
Cf. Ben-Gurion, David, quoted in: Shapira, Anita: Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel. Yale University Press, 2014, p. 121.
Cf. Merk, Frederick: Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963.
Cf. Khalidi, Rashid: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020.
Cf. Shenhav, Yehouda: The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.
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*In the end, at least two German journalists had the guts to publish the article on their portal Free21. A rare flicker of hope – since it seems not every German journalist is a bought-and-paid-for hack with rotting morals.
This is a revised version of an article originally published in Forum Geopolitica.
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Felix Abt is an entrepreneur, author and travel blogger, living in Asia.
With his articles, he tries to make a modest contribution to debunking the omnipresent propaganda of the mainstream media for those who don’t have the time (and that’s most people) to do the research to see through it.