Goethe Institut in Tel Aviv gedenkt Nakba am 9. November

Gerade produziert der deutsche akademische Kulturbetrieb den nächsten Skandal. Diesmal in Israel und am 9. November, dem Jahrestag der sog. Recihskristallnacht.

The Foreign Ministry and Zionist and Holocaust remembrance organizations expressed outrage after the Goethe Institute in Tel Aviv announced that it was planning to hold a panel discussion comparing the remembrance of the Holocaust to the remembrance of the "Nakba" on Wednesday, as Jews around the world commemorate Kristallnacht.

"Almost 75 years after the establishment of the State of Israel, remembrance remains a politically controversial area," said the institute in a description of the event on its website. "The Jews focus on the Holocaust, while the Palestinians focus on the fateful year 1948, when hundreds of thousands of them were victims of flight and deportation by Jewish fighters, a year known in Arabic as the 'Nakba' (disaster)." 

At the event, journalist Charlotte Wiedemann, Bashir Bashir, associate professor of Political Theory at the Open University of Israel, Amos Goldberg, associate professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Judaism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Inge Gunther, a journalist covering Israeli and Palestinian affairs, are set to discuss Wiedemann's book "Grasping the Pain of the Others." (...)

Der Aufschrei aus Israel hat das Goethe Institut inzwischen veranlasst, die Veranstaltung auf den 13.11 zu verlegen.