Just as Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne have already done, June 17th at 5 p.m. at the Leipzig Augustusplatz, citizens in Leipzig also demonstrate their solidarity with Israel. It seems to be especially necessary there. At an anti-Semitic procession by the Left-party/SED on June 2nd, citizens who professed support of Israel were physically thrown out of the demonstration, to which the police were also party as they did in old times for the Communist Party. On Sunday June 20th a pro-Israel demo will be in Frankfurt at 1 p.m.

From the invitation of the Leipzig Alliance against Anti-Semitism:

Demonstration from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on June 17th at the Leipzig Augustusplatz

“Israel is to blame!” is being continuously squawked from every corner because Israel, so they say, is acting “criminally,” “murdering” countless “civilians,” and waging “state terrorism.” Israel, Israel, constantly Israel! The defense of the Israel marine blockade on May 31st has been horribly misrepresented, and the usual anti-Israel resentments played over and over again.

Thus, it is a presumption, not just in Germany, who is responsible for the dead in the Mediterranean sea. It bothers nobody that thousands of people who are fleeing poverty, persecution and war each year drown off the coasts of Europe. However, when self-proclaimed “peace activists” die while on an alleged “humanitarian mission,” great is the outcry, and Israel is demonized as a “pirate state” — in dubio contra reum, in doubt against the accused — and at the forefront are the Left Party friends of peace.

Israel Hate in Leipzig

In Leipzig also, the pent up hate of Israel had to be released. On June 2nd, a demonstration under the motto “Break through the free Gaza blockade” took place in downtown Leipzig. Besides the Society for the Understanding of Nations, various other left-wing groups such as the SAV and the student organization SDS Left participated in the demonstration. Also, representative for the Saxony state assembly and president of the Leipzig City Chapter of the Left Party, Volker Külow participated in the protests.

During the demonstration, violent assaults also occurred. People who were at the edge of the demonstration route were physically attacked and injured by participants in the demonstration. The targets of attack were people who stated their solidarity with Israel by the showing of the Israeli flag. The left-wingers, along with Volker Külow, failed to show a clear dissociation from the violence.

Instead of protecting the group that was showing solidarity with Israel from the attackers, the police who were present proceeded with physical violence and pepper spray against those who had just been victims of the attack. From whom the violence originated didn’t seem to be of interest to the civil servants. It is inexcusable that an Israeli flag would be violently stolen away, torn up and trampled before their eyes. The escalation of violence continued without consequence for the the majority of the attackers. And, just as harshly to be condemned is that it clearly didn’t seem to bother most of the participants in the demonstration, who indeed profess officially to stand for human rights, that there were anti-Semitic thugs in their ranks.

Peace as they mean it

It is a sickening myth that it was a matter of humaneness, peace and freedom for the Leipzig Friends of Peace and the participants in the Gaza flotilla, and last of all that they really wished to help the destitute Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel had offered many times to transport the goods by land to the Gaza strip after a thorough inspection, and even before the pseudo-convoy set sail. Israel has a justified interest of preventing a military armament by the anti-Semitic Hamas — which tirelessly demonizes Israel and shoots rockets at them — and, in addition, it has a duty to do so under international law. This has been, and is consciously being, ignored. Thus, in spite of accepting Israel’s offer, the participants in the flotilla put up a confrontation and consciously accepted the possible endangerment of human life.

For the “Free Gaza activists, among whom Left Party representatives of the Bundestag were also found, it wasn’t a matter of “humanitarian aid,” rather that through their “political action” a military reaction by Israel would be provoked, and therefore enable the power holders in Gaza to achieve propagandistic support. Peace and human rights also mean completely nothing to those who hate Israel. For how could one seriously pretend to be an advocate for human rights and at the same time support a repressive, Islamic regime that occupies the Gaza strip, and not only terrorizes Israeli civilians but its own people as well, and uses civilians as human shields? A free Gaza simply cannot exist under the terrorist lordship of Hamas.

Against the Foreign Intervention of the Left Party!

In addition, nothing can be said of the peaceful, unarmed human rights activists that were victims of Israeli aggression. Certainly, not every passenger of the “Mavi Marmara” ship chartered by the Islamic organization IHH was out for violence. However, it was no problem for them to sit with anti-Semites, those ready to become Islamist martyrs, and haters of Israel. The participation of left-wing Bundestag representatives and their flimsy attempts at self-justification are to be especially condemned in this context and with all clarity. Various video recordings show how a lynch mob tried to kill the Israeli soldiers with knives and iron rods. Ex-representative Norman Paech, however, who one time compared the Hamas rockets with “pyrotechnic articles (fireworks),” rationalizes this excess as legitimate defense. Representative Inge Höger and Annette Groth had no problem with the segregation of the sexes on board which required being confined on a separate “deck for women.” And the latter also raved afterward about the “unbelievably good atmosphere” on board that couldn’t be marred by the anti-Semitic singing (“Oh ye Jews, (…) the army of the prophet Muhammad will return (…) Intifada to the victory”) during the sailing of the Turkish peace steamer. Also, the remarks of the party president for the Left Party, Gesine Lötzsch, that she and her fraction are proud of the “brave” foreign service by their party colleagues, make it even clearer that human rights rhetoric and hostility to Israel are in prime agreement.

It is absurd for haters of Israel who are resistent to illumination, and those who wish to play down Jihadist anti-Semitism, should now demand an independent explanation for the incidents, even though their destructive anti-Israeli condemnation is unretractable.

Free Gaza from Hamas! — Solidarity with Israel!

It is unacceptable that hate against Israel, anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic positions are being tolerated in a Leipzig league that has displayed on its banners that it battles for human rights; that the Leipzig police doesn’t prevent violent assaults against peaceful critics of the demonstration who are in solidarity with Israel and that by showing the flag of the Israeli state presents a provocation for “do-gooders” who openly justify violent activity. Volker Külow’s attitude of not making a clear condemnation of the anti-Semitic incidents is to be considered for criticism, as well as the attitude of the Left Party at the federal level.

Those who are for improving the living conditions in Gaza and wish to get involved in a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict should also be engaged in the liberation of the Gaza strip from Hamas lordship. For, as long as Islamists continue to terrorize the population of Gaza and Israel, there can be no peace in the region. Therefore, the demand must read, “Free Gaza from Hamas!”

We invite everyone who wishes to stand up against the so-called peace movement of Anti-Zionism and anti-Semitic violence to demonstrate solidarity with Israel and participate in the demonstration on Thursday, June 17th at 5 p.m. at the Augustusplatz in Leipzig.

In Frankfurt/Main, the pro-Zionist Left are also extending an invitation to a demonstration “against the alliance of right-wing radicals, leftists and Islamists.” The event begins at 1 p.m. this coming Sunday 6/20/10. The beginning of the demonstration is on Berger Strasse (subway station Bornheim-Mitte).

Just as Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne have already done, June 17th at 5 p.m. at the Leipzig Augustusplatz, citizens in Leipzig also demonstrate their solidarity with Israel. It seems to be especially necessary there. At an anti-Semitic procession by the Left-party/SED on June 2nd, citizens who professed support of Israel were physically thrown out ...

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