Reiner & Judith Bernstein
Erklärungen und Interviews
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Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice President of the European Commission:
Statement at the European Parliament Debate on the Middle East Peace Process
Strasbourg, 15 December 2009
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Die Stunde der Wahrheit: Ein Wort des Glaubens, der Hoffnung und der Liebe aus der Mitte des Leidens der Palästinenser und Palästinenserinnen
Bethlehem, 11. Dezember 2009
Die Erklärung wurde unterzeichnet von Patriarch Emeritus Michael Sabbah, Bischof Dr. Munib Younan, Erzbischof Theodosius (Atallah Hanna), Pater Dr. Jamal Khader, Pfarrer Dr. Rafiq Khoury, Pfarrer Dr. Mitri Raheb, Pfarrer Dr. Naim Ateek, Pfarrerin Dr. Yohana Katanacho, Pfarrer Fadi Diab, Dr. Giries Khoury, Cedar Duaybis, Nora Kort, Lucy Thaljieh, Nidal Abu El Zuluf, Yusef Daher und Rifat Kassis als Koordinator.
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Einen Tag vor Beginn einer Tagung in München mit dem israelischen Historiker Ilan Pappe zu seinem Buch "Die ethnische Säuberung Palästinas" am 23. Oktober 2009 hat die Stadt den Veranstaltern ihre Räumlichkeiten entzogen. Die Entscheidung löste eine heftige öffentliche Debatte aus, die hier um wenige Stellungnahmen ergänzt werden soll.
Stellungnahme von Judith & Reiner Bernstein, München, 25. Oktober 2009
Der Leiter des Forschungszentrums Linz, Dr. Reiner Steinweg, schrieb am 25. Oktober 2009 an Stefan Stautner von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft München der Deutsch-Israelischen-Gesellschaft
Brief von Prof.Dr. Gert Krell, Frankfurt am Main, am 26.Oktober 2009, an die "Jüdische Zeitung"
Sarah Stricker: Ilan Pappe silenced in Munich
ynetnewscom/articles/0,7340,L-3804084,00.htlm (englische Internetausgabe von "Yediot Acharonot")
Left-wing groups enraged by Germany municipality's decision not to allow anti-Zionist Israeli historian to speak at governmental institution. Pappe writes to Munich mayor his policy reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
Anti-Zionist historian Prof. Ilan Pappe, one of the most important "New Historians", was scheduled to speak last weekend at the Pedagogical Institute of Munich. But a letter received from the "Israeli-German association of Munich", claiming that Pappe's lecture would turn into "an anti-Israeli propaganda show," led the Munich Municipality to reconsider the event.
The municipality eventually did not let Pappe use the room, claiming its decision was prompted by fears of violent clashes breaking out in the area. The Munich police insisted that there was no danger of fear for the security of those attending the lecture.
The Munich mayor refused to comment on the issue despite appeals from German media outlets. Pappe's associates eventually organized a room not owned by the authorities and the lecture took place as planned. "We are not seeking to criticize Israel, only to hold aninformative-scientists discussion," one of the associates said.Prof. Pappe wrote an open letter to the mayor stating that "in the 1930s my father, a German Jew, was silenced in a similar manner, and I am saddened to discover the same censorship in 2009."
Pappe noted in his letter that he had not experienced oppression or such a strong desire to silence his opinion in any other European country. He said that "a handful of people" attempted to frighten the mayor, "people who view themselves as representatives of the Jewish people and the disaster they went through in Europe."
'Words don't kill'
Germany's left-wing party, green party and the ATTAC organization, which is against globalization, came to Pappe's defense and criticized the mayor for giving in to the Jewish organization. The green party referred to the mayor's move as "an act of political cowardice." The local branch of Die Linke (the left-wing party) said that although sensitivity must be shown in terms of Jewish interests in Germany,"the attempt to defend Israel against criticism by preventing information from reaching people is unthinkable."
Pappe told Ynet about his bad feelings following the incident. "The lecture was held in a different place in Germany, not where it was initially supposed to take place, in a room owned by the municipality. I was surprised by the fact that the municipality was the one to invite me and that a letter sent by some people, and I have no idea if they included Israelis or not, led to a last-minute cancellation," he said.
According to the professor, "It's very strange that a lecture should be prevented due to fear of criticism against Israel. This is the reason,it's obvious to everyone, but why cancel? Words don't kill, but rather open the mind.
"If they wanted, why didn't they bring someone from the embassy to present the opposite stand and contradict my remarks? This hasn't happened to me even in Israel, so it's even peculiar." - Anat Shalev contributed to this report
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›DOOMED TO FAILURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST‹
by Fifty-two former senior British diplomats
in "The New York Review of Books" 24 May 2004
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"Rechtswidrig und unmoralisch"
Brief von 27 israelischen Piloten an ihren Luftwaffenchef Dan Halutz,
27. September 2003
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Abed Rabbo: "Wir werden nicht kapitulieren"
Mitinitiator Abed Rabbo über Widerstände gegen die Genfer Initiative
"Die Welt" 16.01.2003
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