On the Bundestag Anti-BDS Resolution
There’s nothing new under German sun
Today’s Bundestag resolution is no more than declarative (not that I mind if they legislate against us and then we publicly violate their law and challenge it in the European court, but this is still not the case).
Die Linke party - which represents the greatest force within Germany that’s working against Palestinian rights - naturally wanted to join the resolution against equal rights in Palestine but were rejected by CDU party who refuses to be in coalition with them within the Bundestag.
By having the entire Bundestag vote in favor of falsely equating BDS with antisemitism (three motions have been voted on - with each group promoting its own version), this sends a green light to real antisemitic elements in Germany and beyond.
Here is a short chronology of Die Linke and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Die Linke’s public relations wing) assault on Palestinian rights:
• Die Linke’s Zionist statement of June 2011, which claims that BDS is antisemitic and also that the One State Solution — having the same rights among those who are currently the ubermeschen and the untermenschen — is what they call “antisemitic”:
https://bit.ly/DieLinkeRacism4 [DE original]
https://bit.ly/DieLinkeRacism4_en [EN translation]
• Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung publication of the same, June 2012: https://bit.ly/DieLinke7
• Israeli citizens denounce Gregor Gysi and Die Linke’s support of apartheid, June 2014:
https://bit.ly/DieLinkeen [EN original]
https://bit.ly/DieLinkede [DE translation]
• Gregor Gysi confronted about his racism in Tel-Aviv, June 2014: https://bit.ly/DieLinke2
• Denis Goldberg, anti-apartheid hero, endorses BDS at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung HQ in Berlin, May 2016:
https://bit.ly/DieLinke3
• Die Linke’s racist and antisemitic motion adopted by the Berlin Federal Government, May 2018, equating BDS with what they call “antisemitism”:
https://bit.ly/DieLinke4 [DE original]
https://bit.ly/DieLinke4_en [EN translation]
• Die Linke motion 19/10261 to the German Bundestag - equating opposition to Zionist crimes with antisemitism - was unanimously voted for by Die Linke parliamentarians, May 2019:
https://bit.ly/DieLinke10 [DE original]
https://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/19/102/1910261.pdf [DE original]
