[ May 13, 2024 ]
Jewicidals strike again. This is not a Jewish but an anti-Jewish Museum” “Kapo Museum” would be more accurate.
“The recent support for BDS is a disgrace! After a total single-sided exhibition about Jerusalem, now another scandal. This is not a Jewish but an anti-Jewish Museum.”
German Jews say Jewish Museum “out of control” due to BDS support
Calls for possible dropping of ‘Jewish’ in museum’s name.
By Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, June 11, 2019:
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The Central Council of Jews in Germany launched stinging criticism on Tuesday against the Jewish Museum in Berlin for its alleged endorsement of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel.
“Enough is enough. The Jewish Museum Berlin seems to be completely out of control. Under these circumstances, one has to think about whether the term ‘Jewish’ is still appropriate,” tweeted the nearly 100,000 member group. The council added that the museum’s management “has lost the trust of the Jewish community in Germany.”
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The heated tweet appears to be the first openly sharp attack on an embattled management at the museum from the normally reserved Central Council.The council added that the museum’s direction raises the question of whether executive director Peter Schäfer is fit for his role. It also questioned “who actually sets the guidelines of the Jewish Museum.” That appears to be an indirect reference to Monika Grütters, the German Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, who retains final supervision of the museum, and has not been able to rope in the anti-Israel and pro-Iranian regime activity conducted by Schäfer, who is not Jewish, and his staff.
Richard Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany, tweeted: “I stand with my friends at the Central Council. Their leadership is crucial in Germany.”
The intense criticism directed at Schäfer’s alleged anti-Israel and anti-Jewish direction of the museum comes in response to a pro-BDS tweet from the publicly-funded Jewish Museum on Thursday. The museum appeared to endorse an article in favor of reversing an anti-BDS resolution passed by the German parliament last month.
The museum tweeted to its 7,510 followers: “Must read. The [anti-BDS resolution recently passed by Bundestag] decision of the parliamentarians does not continue to help in the fight against antisemitism: @tazgezwitscher on the accusation of 240 Jewish and Israeli academics to the Bundestag.”
The museum’s tweet linked to an article sympathetic to the BDS movement that appeared in the left-wing paper taz, which has been engulfed in antisemitism scandals over the years. The 240 Israeli and Jewish researchers opposed the anti-BDS measure. The museum is publicly funded.
On Sunday, Uwe Becker, commissioner of the Hessian federal state government for Jewish life and the fight against antisemitism, blasted Berlin’s Jewish Museum for stoking an antisemitic boycott of the Jewish state.
In a written statement to The Jerusalem Post, Becker said that “The Jewish Museum in Berlin obviously sees as its task to take a stand against Jewish life in our country and especially against Israel. The recent support for BDS is a disgrace! After a total single-sided exhibition about Jerusalem, now another scandal. This is not a Jewish but an anti-Jewish Museum.”
Katharina Schmidt-Narischkin, a spokeswoman for the museum, did not immediately respond to a Post query regarding the new wave of criticism facing the museum. She has defended the ostensible pro-BDS tweet, refusing to say who authored it.
Professor Gerald Steinberg, the president of the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, first coined the phrase the “anti-Jewish Museum” in 2012 in connection with the museum hosting the pro-BDS academic Judith Butler. She promoted BDS at the museum in 2012, earlier having expressed support for the terrorist entities Hezbollah and Hamas in 2006: “Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left, is extremely important,” said Butler.
The Jewish Museum has been viewed by critics over the years as a hot bed of anti-Israel activity.
The Post obtained a letter from Charles O. Kaufman, president of B’nai B’rith International, to Peter Schäfer.
“It appears that the German propaganda machine of the 1930s lives,” Kaufman wrote on Sunday in the letter. “I became aware of your anti-Israel mission with your recent ‘Welcome to Jerusalem’ exhibit, an utter distortion of the capital of the Jewish State. Now with its pro-BDS message to Twitter followers, the Jewish Berlin Museum becomes the leading contender to be renamed the Insult to Injury Museum.
“This latest action from the ‘Jewish Berlin Museum’ is ridiculous, if not shameful. BDS is an antisemitic movement that demonizes Israel [and] Jews, and seeks to challenge the legitimacy of the State of Israel. Economic data shows that the BDS movement actually harms, not helps, the plight of the Palestinian people. It’s sad that this museum so miserably misses the mark time and again in telling the story of the Jewish people. Its work not only serves as an insult to Jews; it’s an insult to the intelligence of the German people.”
In March, Schäfer hosted a diplomat from the Islamic Republic of Iran, sparking widespread criticism for mainstreaming the Iranian regime’s genocidal antisemitism.
“With the invitation, the Jewish Museum gives the Iranian Embassy the opportunity to make its antisemitic anti-Zionism part of the public debate,” said Stop The Bomb spokeswoman Ulrike Becker at the time.
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36 Comments
4 years ago
Why has a jewish museum a non-jewish director?
Seems pretty nonsensical to me……………
4 years ago
Reply to
romain reuter
Because it’s financed by the German tax payer like everything else Jewish.
4 years ago
Reply to
romain reuter
Because it’s financed by the German tax payer like everything else Jewish.
4 years ago
Why has it not been shut down?
4 years ago
Seriously, I dont understand why Jews want to return to the land that created the Holocaust. My own mothers family had to leave Berlin in a hurry in 1933, escaping to Prague, unfortunately. I have never wanted to visit Germany and now see I am right.
4 years ago
Reply to
cassandra
I saw 2 documentaries about Jews leaving Israel for Berlin: 1 was on the DW network and the other was done by one of the Australian broadcasters (I forgot which one). In one of them, a Jew was attacked by Muslims in Germany and instead of going after Muslims and highlighting the need to fight Jew hatred, this delusional fool used the episode to fight “Islamophobia”!!! I’m at a loss as to how someone can be so out of touch with reality.
4 years ago
Reply to
cassandra
Israel can’t compete with all the perk and privileges Jews have in Germany, Merkel and her followers fall all over themselves just to please God’s chosen in any way they possibly can..
4 years ago
AKA the ‘try to get along’ movement. It makes no difference if a Jewish person wants to ‘get along’ with Islam, Islam wants the Jews dead.
Jewish people have been forced out of Iran, and across the Arab world in the past. There is no where else to go. Israel takes up only .04 % of the ME, yet that’s too much for Islam.
4 years ago
I can’t believe American Jews today are STILL aligning with the left, even after they have shown time and time again they really care about the Muslims these days.
4 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
It is absolutely insane to me that there are Jews who support the Muslims who want them (and us) all dead, more than they support themselves. Too many delusional Jews see “Islamophobia” (a totally fictional phenomenon) as the planet’s biggest evil and rally tirelessly in support of Muslims while turning a blind eye to the real, rampant and rapidly increasing Jew hatred around the world.
4 years ago
I swear there are moments when I feel like I am crazy.
HOW CAN A JEWISH MUSEUM SUPPORT BDS?
Will they be viewing Hitler as a hero next?
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I recall not too long ago that the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam also engaged in some anti-Jewish actions.
4 years ago
springtime for hitler and chermany. not so funny anymore. how the world has changed. back again.
4 years ago
Reply to
JGray1
The world has been oversaturated with Jewish propaganda and natural law demands to move to higher grounds.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
What tempts gentiles to hate Jews can’t
be Jewish. But only real Jews know that.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
No one knows who these people are who hide
behind this label. Anyway, they are not “Jews”.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
If in all seriousness there should be people who call themselves “Jews”, but
who are up to the task of destroying the natural world order, they should be
consistently excluded from the community of civilized peoples and accused
as warmongers and genociders. For this intention is reserved for gentiles.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Is there no unambiguous announcement like this yet? “False Jews, fear, we genuine Jews observe you, and will draw you soon to the responsibility. If you should again drag all our
names into the mud & sacrifice our children for your greed, you’ll disappear completely!”
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
My German logic dictates to me: It is time to define who may call himself “Jews”. Every
toilet paper gets complaints on its neck when it uses foreign brand names, but unfortu-
nately “Jew” has become a collective term for the worst pigs, murderers and criminals.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
As absurd as it sounds, a German quality criteri-
on must judge whether something’s Jewish or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technischer_%C3%9Cberwachungsverein
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Every Muslim demands a “quality” seal for his hala pro-
ducts, I don’t even want to talk about kosher food. Why
are pigs and criminals allowed to call themselves “Jews”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certification_mark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
My minimum requirements:
1. he has at least one Jewish relative.
2. he supports the existence of Israel.
3. he commits himself to do everything for the good of the world.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
If that is not a “Jew” in your sense, then you should
be taken out of circulation. For the good of mankind.
4 years ago
Polish Jew Henryk has exactly my face expression.
Let us have a closer look: Sun Leo, Moon Gemini!
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Let’s have a look at a REAl cool Jewish face, my perso-
nal friend Georg (Troller) who is also a fried of Henryk.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
If there is anything (European!) Jewish in all
three of us, it is something lucid and sincere.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
I would love to be as mature as Troller, but am not even Broder,
Broder would love to be like Troller, but that is unattainable. The
age distance from me to Broder is the distance from him to Troller.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Troller is a mature Jew. Although he is not a
believer at all. But wisdom is the Jew’s faith.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
You can’t “pretend” to us, we destroy every facade!
Broder thinks I am silly, Troller thinks Broder is. But
Troller understands both of us, because he is wise.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
He looks directly into your soul, no more excuses, re-
cognizes you, and many of “yous”. There was a rea-
son why I felt, searched and found him as a mentor,
and he accepted me! He was ME, my mature SELF.”
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
I’m sure he misses me. I haven’t written to him for 13 years. But I also have my
Jewish pride. I’ve decided to deliberately let him die without a memory. I will not
tell you the reason here. A test of strength of the younger self with the old self.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
It’s like women calling you just to hang up the pho-
ne. Never make the mistake of calling them back!
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
The photo of Henryk is taken with a kind of “scissor light” from both sides left & right behind him, the
scissors ends so to speak at his nose. Good photographers use it to work out the personality traits,
an old trick. But I must confess with Leo pride that my mobile phone photo is in no way inferior to him.
