Appeal for activities against the “Stop the Wall” conference

On June 5th, 2004 there will be an international conference at the “Alte Feuerwache” in Cologne. The title: “Stop the wall! For a just peace in Palestine and Israel.“ The one-day event will be introduced with a welcoming speech by the Palestinian Community of Germany, Gush Shalom (“Israel will in principle recognize the Palestinian’s right of return as an undeniable human right“), as well as Klaus Lefringhausen who is the director of integration for the North-Rhine-Westphalian state government. The introduction-speech in all likelihood will be one of solidarity and understanding. Warnings, as well as serious words will be spoken in addition to edifying and hopeful ones. Not one of the participants will leave without having used expressions like “peace”, “international law”, “reconciliation,” etc…

During the first panel (“Current situation of the wall-building process in Palestine and the effects”), Moshe Zuckermann may explain how “any decent man“ should “condemn the historically irreversible reality,“ whereby Israel has been maintaining “a brutal occupation regime for decades,“ that “oppresses the Palestinians“ and sabotages their right to “national self-determination.“ After all, it is no longer “the Jews who have to defend themselves against a threat, but Jews are now threatening others.” Victoria Waltz will nod and agree, and she will add that it is also common knowledge that Israeli special units “’arm’ themselves with UN and Palestinian ambulances to enter refugee camps without being seen, and then kill randomly – including doctors, volunteers, and injured persons.“ The financing of such operations as well as political support should be guaranteed – “almost half of the members of the American government are double-statemen, Israelis and Americans.“ It is therefore vitally important to have the USA “pull back their protecting hand above the most repressive occupation regime of modern history.“ After all, the “fourth-most powerful entity” is fighting “against a defenseless people.” There are other rules in general, concerning “defenseless people,” and naturally, also in a legal sense there are other rules involved. When the Israeli public prosecutor accuses the head of Fatah, Marwan Barghouti, of being “the organizer of armed riots in the Westbank who is guilty of the murder of 26 Israelis and one Greek monk,“ it is necessary to emphasize, usining the words of André Brie, a representative of the European parliament, that this process was already from the beginning a “political show, (…) through which especially moderate forces and the use of legitimate resistance are supposed to be discredited and viewed as criminal”. Brie’s whole j’accuse! can be read at www.freepalestine.de. This website is also advertising the conference in Cologne.

During the second panel (“Perspectives for a just peace in Palestine and Israel”), Noam Salameh could possibly give closer details on why it is necessary to boycott “all Israeli products from all kind.” However, peace is quite an abstract word, and should therefore be more closely defined. Salman Abu Sitta could at least give a more precise definition of the preconditions for a “just peace:” “The right of return remains sacred, legal and possible. The refugees are determined to make it happen, however long it takes.“ In any event, one can at least depend on the moderation by Sofia Deeg, as she is the one who “legally” managed “to get to Arafat’s main quarters, which was occupied by the Israeli military, armed with only courage and a white towel.”

Norman Finkelstein, author of “The Holocaust-industry” will not even participate in panel 3 (“Germany’s and Europe’s responsibility in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”). The necessary information about the instrumentalization of the Shoah by Jews will be received from Felicia Langer, a pioneer on the topic “Shoah-Business.” Quote: “Concerning the abuse of the Holocaust for the justification of Israeli policy, I have already said that at a time when Finkelstein was still a teenager.” Mrs. Langer also opposes racism and the “de-rooting” of the Palestinians that is strived for by the Israelis. She also says that anyone who claims “that it would mean the end of the Israeli state if the Arabs came into Israel,“ holds a “racist point of view.“ Again: “Israel should recognize the Palestinians’ right of return as a human right,” (Jewish voice for a just peace in the Middle East, representative pending). By the way, Norbert Blüm will take part at the same panel. He might point out that the title of the discussion is a little too weak. An appropriate title would for example be: “I can not see a defensive fight against terrorism in the actions by the Israeli military – but only extermination.” Or another possible option: “Israel wants to intensify its state-terrorist activities,” (Rüdiger Göbel, Moderator of that panel).

Later “live Palestinian music, dance and food” will bring about the last convincing arguments for solidarity for the ‘righteous fight’ against the “barbaric, human-despising policy by the current government of the State of Israel towards the Palestinian people and their democratically elected representatives,” (German-Palestinian Society, one of the organizers).

Just like the demonstration “Palestine must live”, which was also organized by the German-Palestinian Society and others, this conference is of course not directed “against Jews.” And the event will also not be too joyous, as we have to remember the fallen heroes: “The murder of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin by the Israeli government is part of a larger step that was carried out by the government of Israel, which can be described as symbolic genocide,” (Attac AG Globalization and War, also one of the organizers).

And please remember to keep 10 Euros at hand. Initiativ e. V. (another organizer) urgently needs donations to support the mass-murderers of the Iraqi Patriot Alliance. “What the Iraqis can do, what I also find reasonable, is to cause the occupying troops appropriate losses,” (Joachim Guilliard, spokesman of Anti-war forum Heidelberg, one of the organizers).

Gruppe Casablanca, Georg-Weerth-Gesellschaft Köln and Bonner Bündnis/Berliner Verhältnisse call for the defending of Israel’s right to self-defense against the participants and visitors of this conference, along with the showing of solidarity with this country, which was founded to give safety to all those that are persecuted by anti-Semites, at that place.

Long live Israel!

Gruppe Casablanca Köln
Georg-Weerth-Gesellschaft Köln
Bonner Bündnis/Berliner Verhältnisse
[a:ka], Göttingen
A2K2, westliches Ruhrgebiet
Aktion Antikrauts, Düsseldorf
AMIGA-Gruppe Siegen
Antideutsch-kommunistische Initiative, NRW
Antideutsche Initiative Herzogenaurach
Antideutsche Kommunisten Berlin
Antifa (X) Recklinghausen
Antifa Giessen
Antifaschistische Aktion Dortmund
Antifaschistische Offensive Münsterland
Antinationale Gruppe Bremen
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Antifaschismus an der Universität Potsdam
Bund jüdischer Jugendlicher und Studenten Köln
Café Critique, Wien
Deutsch-Israelisches Jugendforum Rhein-Ruhr
Freundeskreis Israel, Regensburg (Uri Beer, Regina Wagner, Otto Schwerdt, Prof.Dr. Roland Hornung, D.u.I. Danziger, Jürgen Grande, Prof. Dr. Michael Wolffsohn, Magda Gatter, Wolfgang Kondruß, Monika Schmitz, Andrea Mink)
Georg-Weerth-Gesellschaft e.V., Detmold
Initiative gegen Antisemitismus und Antizionismus, Tübingen
Initiative Solidarität mit Israel, Stuttgart
Israel-Solidarität Bremen
Dr. Klaus Thörner (Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft, Oldenburg)
Kommunistische Initiative – Dortmund
Les Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France, Paris
Liberté toujours, Berlin
Prozionistische Linke Frankfurt
Redaktion Bahamas
Redaktion T-34, Duisburg