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Berlin's governing mayor Kai Wegner has condemned the occupation of a courtyard at the Free University (FU) by pro-Palestinian activists. At the same time, on Tuesday he supported the strategy of the university, which had immediately informed the police and wanted to have the protest camp evacuated. Berlin's governing mayor Kai Wegner has condemned the occupation of a courtyard at the Free University (FU) by pro-Palestinian activists. At the same time, on Tuesday he supported the strategy of the university, which had immediately informed the police and wanted to have the protest camp evacuated. “We must not look the other way at universities when anti-Semitic slogans and hatred of Jews are spread at universities,” said the CDU politician on Tuesday after a Senate meeting with the church leadership of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO). He is very grateful to the university for its approach: “I think this consistent approach is completely right.”
According to Wegner, he doesn't want to experience a situation in Berlin like the one recently experienced at US universities. “We don’t have a situation like this yet. And yet we have a problem,” he said. “We will do everything as the Berlin Senate, so that Jewish students are not afraid to enter universities.”
Wegner did not accept the argument of diversity of opinion with regard to the protests. “Anti-Semitism is not a political opinion. We won’t allow that at universities.”
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The statement is worth nothing if it is not finally implemented.
Major South African banks are providing funding for the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group, according to an investigative report Wednesday in the Jerusalem Post that also names a former Muslim community leader as a key figure in the financing operation.
The Post reports:
Research conducted by The Jerusalem Post staff and several sources uncovered what appears to be a network of several South African organizations and straw man companies deeply involved with funding Hamas activities through the Al-Quds Foundation, an international group sanctioned by the US and outlawed by Israel, using accounts registered in major local South African banks: Standard Bank, Nedbank, and Absa. … Sanctioning by the US and Israel notwithstanding, the foundation continues its operations across the globe, featuring roughly thirteen branches in different countries, sometimes holding different names. In South Africa, a registered organization named “Al-Quds Foundation SA” also exists which openly admits on their new website that they are “a branch of Al-Quds foundation with headquarters in Lebanon.” The organization itself boasts about its fundraising activities, claiming funds would be transferred to the needy in Gaza. The foundation’s website lists Sheikh Ebrahim Gabriels as its director, leading the South African branch since 2019.
Gabriels was once the head of the Muslim Judicial Council, the umbrella body for Muslims in South Africa, with authority over religious matters as well as communal affairs. The Post describes Gabriels as closely connected to leading Hamas officials.
Nedbank, the one bank that replied to the Post‘s queries, would not confirm the identity or existence of the Hamas accounts, while maintaining that it complies with international sanctions. South Africa’s banking sector is viewed as one of the few remaining repositories of expertise and competence in a country plagued by corruption, crime, and an ongoing brain drain.
Hamas’s apparent funding in South Africa could help explain why the country has led the charge against Israel in international fora such as the International Court of Justice, where South Africa is pursuing a case of “genocide” against Israel. The ICJ said Wednesday that it expects to issue a preliminary ruling on Friday, just two short weeks after oral arguments by both sides.
The global woke loathing for Israel is taking an even darker turn.
by Brendan O’Neill
This is the question anti-Israel campaigners have never been able to answer: why do they treat Israel so differently to every other nation on Earth? Why is it child-killing bloodlust when Israel takes military action but not when Turkey or India do? Why must we rush to the streets to set light to the Israel flag but never the Saudi flag, despite Saudi Arabia’s unconscionable war on Yemen? Why is it only ‘wrong’ or at worst ‘horrific’ when Britain or America drop bombs in the Middle East but Nazism when Israel fires missiles into Gaza? Why do you merely oppose the military action of some states but you hate Israel, viscerally, publicly, loudly?
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/12/why-wont-israelis-let-themselves-be-killed/