The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, the extra-parliamentary foundation of the German left-wing party "D-Link", which is also funded by the German government, will hold an event this Wednesday at the Goethe Institute in Tel Aviv on the subject of "The Holocaust, the Nakba and the German Culture of Remembrance". If it is to "capture the pain of the other", he seemingly creates a comparison between the extermination of the Jews in Europe and the events of the War of Independence, or at the very least brings these events together under one debatable roof.
"Die Linke" is a radical party located to the left of the Social Democratic Party in Germany, and is actually the most left-wing party represented in the Bundestag.
She holds clear pro-Palestinian positions, so one should not be surprised at the implicit comparison she makes between the Nakba and the Holocaust.
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is budgeted as mentioned by the German government, and therefore it is also responsible for the content that the foundation promotes.
The German House of Representatives, the Bundestag, photo: Reuters
Sitting in the Bundestag (archive), photo: Amos Ben Gershom, General Counsel
"The new government in Israel must reevaluate the relationship with the German government," Matan Peleg, chairman of the "If You Want" movement, said in response.
"We thank the Germans for the security assistance, but it is not possible that at the same time Germany, through entities financed by the federal government, will promote a narrative of the Nakba and the Holocaust. This is something that must stop, and it joins the intervention in the opening fire instructions of the IDF, the funding of anti-Zionist organizations that persecute the IDF soldiers, and more.
Put an end to it''.
Merav Hajjaj, from the Bereaved Families Choose Life Forum, said: "The German government dishonors the memory of the Holocaust and dishonors the martyrs of the IDF and the bereaved families. The Nakba is an invented concept whose purpose is to negate the existence of the State of Israel. We paid a very heavy price in the defense of This country, and the German government must stop striving under its existence."
CEO of If You Want, Matan Peleg, photo: Dodi Vaknin
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