Re: <nettime> the silence on the rising fascism

[podinski via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Hi all,

Thx Brian and Allan for replies...

the silences ( here in Berlin and DE especially ) are really disturbing
! and shameful !

...

I hadn't yet read the Granta Part 2 piece, and now see that it did
mention the Oyoun's severely jeopardized existence !

Their 3-day program Threads of Resilience had many profound moments !

( incl. a Naomi Klein zoom on her Doppelganger themes, which we hope got
archived, discussions with Candice Breitz, Dr. Anna-Esther Younes, Udi
Raz, usw. )

But still no big name institutions nor orgs nor media outlets are
stepping up to clearly defend or assist in Oyoun's daring efforts to
engage the necessary diversity of critical perspectives !

...

Update:

speaking of Gessen and the Arendt prize...

She will speaking at Heinrich Boell Stiftung 2mrw / 2nite - Dec. 18,
18-19:00h CET,  and it will be livestreamed.

The prize was in the end awarded at a rescheduled and more sidelined
venue, but HBS did embarassingly back out of the event...

But are now at least willing to host a discussion on the matter...

Mit
*Masha Gessen*, Journalist*in und Schriftsteller*in
*Dr. Imme Scholz*, Vorstand Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
*Jan Philipp Albrecht*, Vorstand Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Moderation: *Dr. Tamara Or*, Geschäftsführende Vorständin der Stiftung
Deutsch-Israelisches Zukunftsforum

One hour seems a bit short to go very deep... or allow for public
questions...

but should be informative !

https://calendar.boell.de/de/event/gespraech-mit-masha-gessen-hannah-arendt-preistraegerin-2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4yypPG-OE

...

ciao,

Podinski / XLt


P.s. a correction to our orig post...

the group that Oyoun had invited ( and triggered the respression ) was
Judische Stimme ( not Stimmung )

https://www.juedische-stimme.de/

...

And here's a somewhat neutral journalistic report from TAZ about the
Oyoun case ( from 14.12 ) :

https://taz.de/Debatte-um-Kulturfoerderung/!5976336/




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> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:46:23 +0100
> From: Allan Siegel <allansiegel@internet-mail.org>
> To: Christian Swertz via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>
> Subject: Re: <nettime> the silence on the rising fascism
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> *the Banality of Evil Redux*
> Thank you Podinski and your XLterrestrials for reminding us of the 
> deafening sounds of silence emanating from so-called pillars of 
> democracy; in the most outspoken bastions of ?brand democracy? what we 
> are hearing and seeing is a blatant and insidious suppression of those 
> voices articulating the strategic intentions underlying the genocidal 
> campaign being waged against the Palestinian people by the Government of 
> Israel.
>
> A highly orchestrated campaign of? suppression is not solely directed at 
> those who voice their opposition but is also being done in coordination 
> with a massive propaganda apparatus spreading an avalanche of lies and 
> misinformation resulting in not just the censorship of information but 
> also the thwarting of the most basic journalistic practices and the 
> delimiting of public discourse.
>
> Masha Gessen placed in historical context the de facto liquidation of 
> Gaza as similar to the destruction of Jewish ghettos during WWII. 
> Further to the point we see the wholesale demonisation of the 
> Palestinian people being shouted-out by Israeli leaders in the press and 
> on social media and in a manner abhorrently similar to the tactics of 
> Joseph Goebbels. Perhaps, as Gessen indicates these comparisons are not 
> just coincidental.
>
> How ironic that the enabler of the Israeli onslaught happens to be the 
> United States government and that German institutions and politicians 
> are being morally fenced in by their own historical realities and unable 
> to publicly express coherent circumspect narratives in order to navigate 
> the? current landscape of genocide. How deeply troubling is the fact 
> that Gessen herself was unable to receive in Germany the Hannah Arendt 
> Award being presented by a German Foundation and that, many tears 
> previously, it was Arendt herself who was denounced by Israeli 
> politicians for her book The Banality Of Evil. History repeats itself in 
> new guises, refurbished slogans and newly minted uniforms.
>
> There have been some very dramatic and courageous expressions of 
> solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance globally but what is indeed 
> the canary in the coal mine is the manner which that solidarity is being 
> squashed and disfigured in the supposed heartland of Western democracies 
> and the ringleader in this enterprise: the U.S. government. The slogan 
> being shouted and brandished to neutralise and eradicate any criticism 
> of Israel?s murderous campaign, and Zionism, is the necessity to fight 
> antisemitism; meanwhile, gleefully, Israel?s leaders simultaneously 
> condone the most despicable racist slogans directed against 
> Palestinians; in practice this translates as antisemitism is bad but 
> racism is ok. The contradictions embedded in this ideological framework 
> are consistent with any colonial project and especially, at this 
> historical moment, with the Zionist project that underscores the 
> genocidal war being aged in Gaza.
>
> What becomes clearer, as new pieces of information and more in-depth 
> analyses of the events of surrounding October 7th become evident, is 
> that the self-serving narratives promoting Israel as ?a Jewish state? 
> and ?the only democracy in the Middle East? are riddled with 
> fabrications and falsehoods. The implications of Israel as a Zionist 
> project, first and foremost, is now being brought into focus. At the 
> tragic expense of thousands of innocent lives. The ramifications of this 
> murderous war will endure for many, many years.
>
> best
>
> allan
>
> On 14/12/2023 16:37, podinski via nettime-l wrote:
>> Liebe nettimers,
>>
>> The XLterrestrials have been wanting to write the list for some time, to
>> restart a thread that oddly never got any traction, Brian's post about
>> World War 3...
>>
>> And was going to write "The Silence on World War 3"... or " The Silence
>> on The Latest Genocide" ...
>>
>> But now things are getting a bit more specific... And it's time to get
>> LOUDER !
>>
>> Here in Berlin, we just attended a press conference this morning for the
>> Oyoun cultural space in Neukoelln, which on Nov. 20th had its 4-year
>> funding program abruptly terminated by Cultural Senator Joe Chialo (
>> CDU) during a livestream of the cultural committee.
>>
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