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by Abigail B. Bakan, University of Toronto; Alejandro I. Paz, University of Toronto; Anna Zalik, York University, Canada, and Deborah Cowen, University of TorontoGovernments and academic institutions across Canada are facing growing pressure to adopt a widely criticized definition of antisemitism by...www.alternet.org
Israel destroys Irish aid to Palestinian village community
Tents, solar panels and herd shelters smashed as Ireland and EU urged to evolve policy
Nothing to see here, just another normal day in #Israel!
Don't expect the #EU to condemn it or call for sanctions or anything after so many repeated criminal action by the IDF against the Palestinians, they keep on sending help, using it as a propaganda that they care, Israel destroys them or confiscates them, and it keeps on going!
Everyone is happy since they are "doing something" to help #Palestinians!
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/israel-destroys-irish-aid-to-palestinian-village-community-1.4489881
Mimi und ihre 15-jährige Tochter Nofar wissen nicht, dass sie in Israel auf einem Pulverfass arbeiten. Unter der Stelle, an der sie mit ihrem Falafel-Truck die Soldaten der nahen Militärbasis versorgen, hat die Armee eine geheime Kommandozentrale. Da verliebt sich Mimi in den Atominspektor Oli ... - Komödie (2015) von Dror Shaul.www.arte.tv
‘You’re not Israelis, you’re Arabs’: Settlers oust family picnicking in W. Bank
Video shows Jews tell Arab Israelis they’re not allowed to be in nature spot; troops dispatched to scene agree to remove family without cause
#Apartheid #Israel #Palestine #Politics‘You’re not Israelis, you’re Arabs’: Settlers oust family picnicking in W. Bank
Video shows Jews tell Arab Israelis they're not allowed to be in nature spot; troops dispatched to scene agree to remove family without causewww.timesofisrael.com
Video shows Jews tell Arab Israelis they're not allowed to be in nature spot; troops dispatched to scene agree to remove family without causewww.timesofisrael.com
#FacesOfAntifa #antifa (i would like to reccomand that 2 hashtags, if thats ok and lets use all that little dislcaimer from @Thanatos which i partly complemented)Let’s flood #Diaspora with lovely #women who fought against #Fascism, #Racism, #Antisemitism. I’m sick of the net being full of posts about whiny male Fascist #terrorists, they fought for us in fighting them!
Sara Fortis (born Sarika Yehoshua in 1927 in Chalkis, a small town near Athens, Greece) never knew her father, who passed away when she was only two months old. Raised by her mother, Sara and her sister enjoyed a happy childhood. Though they identified as 100% Greek, they also celebrated being Jewish by lighting candles every Friday and attending temple on holidays.
Sara knew it was time to leave her hometown when the Germans arrived in 1941. She had heard about Jews in other small Greek towns being deported by the Nazis and never returning. Sara and her mother escaped to the small village of Kuturla and hid there for a short while. When it was no longer safe for Jews, Sara was told to go, although the villagers agreed to hide her mother. Leaving her mother, Sara decided to become an andarte (resistance fighter). Wanting to play a significant role in the group, she decided to go from village to village to recruit other females who wanted to fight.
Sara formed a band of #female #partisans that became indispensable to the male fighters, transforming young village girls into women. On their first mission, they were ordered to throw Molotov cocktails to distract the enemy and allow the partisans to attack. Impressed by their skills, the male partisans invited the all-female group to join in many missions. They burned down houses, executed Nazi collaborators, and aided the men in a way no group of females had before. The male andartes were given credit for many missions the women completed, as it was unfathomable that women could accomplish such acts. Often the women were forced to sleep next to the men and Sara constantly worried about the women's safety.
Sara became a prominent and well-respected figure in the andartes movement in Greece. By age 18, she was known as 'Kapetenissa [Captain]Sarika'. The Nazis sent an informer to try to capture her, but mistakenly arrested -- then brutally raped and murdered -- her cousin, Medi. Vowing revenge, she tracked down and executed the informer.
After the war, the andartes fell out of favor with the new Greek government. Sara was arrested, but owing to her great reputation, she was released shortly after. She then emigrated to #Israel, where she met her husband and settled down.
more hereSara Fortis
Born Sarika Yehoshua in 1927 in Chalkis, Greece, Sara Fortis went from village to village recruiting women who wanted to fight. She organized a band of all-female partisans, training young women to become bold fighters. They burned down houses, executed Nazi collaborators, and aided the Greek partisan movement in a way no group of females had before. By age 18, Sara was known as ‘Kapetenissa (Captain) Sarika’, a prominent and well-respected figure in the resistance, .www.jewishpartisans.org
#FacesOfAntifa #antifa (i would like to reccomand that 2 hashtags, if thats ok and lets use all that little dislcaimer from @Thanatos which i partly complemented)Let’s flood #Diaspora with lovely #women who fought against #Fascism, #Racism, #Antisemitism. I’m sick of the net being full of posts about whiny male Fascist #terrorists, they fought for us in fighting them!
Sara Fortis (born Sarika Yehoshua in 1927 in Chalkis, a small town near Athens, Greece) never knew her father, who passed away when she was only two months old. Raised by her mother, Sara and her sister enjoyed a happy childhood. Though they identified as 100% Greek, they also celebrated being Jewish by lighting candles every Friday and attending temple on holidays.
Sara knew it was time to leave her hometown when the Germans arrived in 1941. She had heard about Jews in other small Greek towns being deported by the Nazis and never returning. Sara and her mother escaped to the small village of Kuturla and hid there for a short while. When it was no longer safe for Jews, Sara was told to go, although the villagers agreed to hide her mother. Leaving her mother, Sara decided to become an andarte (resistance fighter). Wanting to play a significant role in the group, she decided to go from village to village to recruit other females who wanted to fight.
Sara formed a band of #female #partisans that became indispensable to the male fighters, transforming young village girls into women. On their first mission, they were ordered to throw Molotov cocktails to distract the enemy and allow the partisans to attack. Impressed by their skills, the male partisans invited the all-female group to join in many missions. They burned down houses, executed Nazi collaborators, and aided the men in a way no group of females had before. The male andartes were given credit for many missions the women completed, as it was unfathomable that women could accomplish such acts. Often the women were forced to sleep next to the men and Sara constantly worried about the women's safety.
Sara became a prominent and well-respected figure in the andartes movement in Greece. By age 18, she was known as 'Kapetenissa [Captain]Sarika'. The Nazis sent an informer to try to capture her, but mistakenly arrested -- then brutally raped and murdered -- her cousin, Medi. Vowing revenge, she tracked down and executed the informer.
After the war, the andartes fell out of favor with the new Greek government. Sara was arrested, but owing to her great reputation, she was released shortly after. She then emigrated to #Israel, where she met her husband and settled down.
more hereSara Fortis
Born Sarika Yehoshua in 1927 in Chalkis, Greece, Sara Fortis went from village to village recruiting women who wanted to fight. She organized a band of all-female partisans, training young women to become bold fighters. They burned down houses, executed Nazi collaborators, and aided the Greek partisan movement in a way no group of females had before. By age 18, Sara was known as ‘Kapetenissa (Captain) Sarika’, a prominent and well-respected figure in the resistance, .www.jewishpartisans.org
Born Sarika Yehoshua in 1927 in Chalkis, Greece, Sara Fortis went from village to village recruiting women who wanted to fight. She organized a band of all-female partisans, training young women to become bold fighters. They burned down houses, executed Nazi collaborators, and aided the Greek partisan movement in a way no group of females had before. By age 18, Sara was known as ‘Kapetenissa (Captain) Sarika’, a prominent and well-respected figure in the resistance, .www.jewishpartisans.org
Initiative „GG 5.3 Weltoffenheit“
Neiman: „Hannah Arendt dürfte heute hier nicht sprechen“
Tja, um es kurz zu machen: So sehe ich das auch. Es ist unerträglich, wie ein richtiges Prinzip - Kampf gegen #Antisemitismus - mißbraucht wird, um Kritik gegen die Politik des Staates #Israel abzuwürgen.
Ja, ein schwieriges, oft vermintes Feld. Kritik an der Politik des Staates Israel erfordert immer eine sorgfältige Argumentation, um klar zu machen, dass es dabei um die Politik eines bestimmten Staates geht, nicht um Verteufelung von Menschen einer bestimmten Religion oder Herkunft.
Eigentlich also doch wie immer: Auch wer, wie ich, den US-Imperialismus und seine mörderische Politik kritisiert, pflegt natürlich keinen Anti-Amerikanismus. Es geht doch dabei nicht um die (US-)amerikanischen Menschen. Das wäre in der Tat rassistisch, menschenfeindlich undwasweissich. Wer den US-Imperialismus kritisiert, der weiß, dass es auch in den USA sehr viele Menschen gibt, die diese Politik ebenfalls ablehnen. Haben wir doch z. B. in der Bewegung gegen den Vietnamkrieg oder auch gegen die Irakkriege gesehen.
So ist es auch im Fall Israel. Ja, ich vertrete die Ansicht, dass die Politik des Staates Israel gegenüber den Palästinensern als #Apartheid bezeichnet werden muss, dass die Besetzung palästinensischer Gebiete illegal ist, dass die Annektion von #Ost-Jerusalem einen klaren Rechtsbruch darstellt, etc. Und ich weiß, dass es auch in Israel Menschen gibt, die diese #Politik bekämpfen. Diese Menschen, die diesen Kampf ganz bewußt als Staatsbürger Israels oder Bewohner dieses Landes führen, wollen nicht die Vernichtung Israels. Sie wollen eine friedliche Entwicklung in der Region, die ohne die Anerkennung und Durchsetzung der Rechte der Palästinenser genauso wie der Israelis nicht zu erreichen ist.
Auch wenn ich nicht mehr glaube, dass dieses Ziel in einer #Zwei-Staaten-Lösung erreichbar ist, würde ich selbstverständlich auch eine solche Lösung begrüßen. Denn das wichtigste, was Palästina/Israel brauchen, ist #Frieden.
#Krieg #Frieden #Palästina #BDSInitiative "GG 5.3 Weltoffenheit" - Neiman: "Hannah Arendt dürfte heute hier nicht sprechen"
Mehrere renommierte Kultureinrichtungen haben vor der Gefahr gewarnt, im Kampf gegen Antisemitismus wichtige kritische Positionen von der öffentlichen Debatte auszuschließen. Sie werde wütend, wenn bestimmte Stimmen nicht zu hören seien, sagte die Direktorin des Einstein-Forums Potsdam, Susan Neiman, im Dlf.www.deutschlandfunk.de
Mehrere renommierte Kultureinrichtungen haben vor der Gefahr gewarnt, im Kampf gegen Antisemitismus wichtige kritische Positionen von der öffentlichen Debatte auszuschließen. Sie werde wütend, wenn bestimmte Stimmen nicht zu hören seien, sagte die Direktorin des Einstein-Forums Potsdam, Susan Neiman, im Dlf.www.deutschlandfunk.de
#Antisemitism is best understood not as an anthropological constant but as an ever-changing, always delusional reaction of some non-Jews to their experience of an always-evolving #society.
From this point of view, the antisemitism of the 20th and 21st century can be seen as the epitome of anti-emancipatory #ideology, in which hatred of #enlightenment, self-awareness and #freedom are combined. Because capitalist society is uncomprehended, fetishistic and self-mystifying, it contains a tremendous urge towards the delusional concretisation of abstraction (i.e. to put a tangible name and face on the source of distress). To simplify, this need to scapegoat, which seems to me to be one of the decisive elements of anti-Semitism, is, then, inherent to modern #capitalist society. The task of any materialist #critique of antisemitism is to make visible the connection between the antisemites and the society that produces them. In a delusional projection onto the ‘Jewish principle’ and its supposed physical embodiments, antisemites are fighting against social and individual ambivalences, and against individual and social contradictions and crises. This seems to me to be the constant factor in the different manifestations of antisemitism. https://fathomjournal.org/fathom-long-read-adorno-and-iran-critical-theory-and-islamic-antisemitism/ #adorno #israel #iran #education #modernity #capitalism #islamism #nazis #holocaust #lebanon #hezbollah #marx #europe #antifascism
Could covert war with Iran become overt before November 3rd?www.salon.com
A funny and impressive conversation between Russian Jew and Moroccan Arab :)
A funny and impressive conversation between Russian Jew and Moroccan Arab :)
@ghose [D*]What’s wrong with taking knee? In many countries people put their hand on their heart, take hat off, pose in a very emotional manner or even cry when their national anthem (a song!) plays even before a f… sport game. So what’s wrong if some people take knee down to reflect respect for those people whose LIVES are not RESPECTED. Taking knee, as that national song, a f… flag, are symbols. I’m sure you understand that. I’m truly respect those “six brave men” that stand (...)
Helen Mirren und Anthony Hopkins haben es getan, Sigourney Weaver, Boris Johnson und Jörg Pilawa ebenfalls - sie alle haben schon einmal in einem israelischen Kibbuz gearbeitet, der einst Freiwillige aus der ganzen Welt anzog. In den 90ern war es still geworden um die sozialistischen Kommunen, doch neuerdings stehen sie vor einem großen Revival.www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de
Photo: (c) University of Manchester.Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank reveal text
May 15, 2020
Posted in Archives & Collections
Our new research has revealed that four Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments housed at The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library, which were previously thought to be blank, do in fact contain text.
The discovery means that The University of Manchester is the only institution in the UK to possess authenticated textual fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Unlike the recent cases of forgeries assumed to be Dead Sea Scrolls fragments, all of these small pieces were unearthed in the official excavations of the Qumran caves, and were never passed through the antiquities market.
In the 1950s, the fragments were gifted by the Jordanian government to Ronald Reed, leather expert at the University of Leeds, so he could study their physical and chemical composition. It was assumed that the pieces were ideal for scientific tests, as they were blank and relatively worthless. These were studied and published by Reed and his student John Poole, and then stored safely away.
In 1997 the Reed Collection was donated to The University of Manchester through the initiative of Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, George Brooke. These fragments have been stored in Reed’s own labelled boxes in The John Rylands Library, and have been relatively untouched since then.
When examining the fragments for the new study, Professor Joan Taylor thought it possible that one of them did actually contain a letter, and therefore decided to photograph all of the existing fragments over 1 cm that appear blank to the naked eye, using multispectral imaging.
51 fragments were imaged front and back. Six were identified for further detailed investigation – of these, it was established that four have readable Hebrew/Aramaic text written in carbon-based ink. The study has also revealed ruled lines and small vestiges of letters on other fragments.
The most substantial fragment has the remains of four lines of text with 15-16 letters, most of which are only partially preserved, but the word Shabbat (Sabbath) can be clearly read. This text (Ryl4Q22) may be related to the biblical book of Ezekiel (46:1-3). One piece with text is the edge of a parchment scroll section, with sewn thread, and the first letters of two lines of text may be seen to the left of this binding.
“Looking at one of the fragments with a magnifying glass, I thought I saw a small, faded letter – a lamed, the Hebrew letter ‘L’,” said Professor Taylor. “Frankly, since all these fragments were supposed to be blank and had even been cut into for leather studies, I also thought I might be imagining things. But then it seemed maybe other fragments could have very faded letters too.”
“With new techniques for revealing ancient texts now available, I felt we had to know if these letters could be exposed. There are only a few on each fragment, but they are like missing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle you find under a sofa.”
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The Dead Sea Scrolls (also the Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish religious manuscripts that were found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert, near Ein Feshkha on the northern shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank. Scholarly consensus dates these scrolls from the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE. The texts have great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the second-oldest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the Hebrew Bible canon, along with deuterocanonical and extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism. Almost all of the Dead Sea Scrolls are held by the state of Israel in the Shrine of the Book on the grounds of the Israel Museum, but ownership of the scrolls is disputed by Jordan and Palestine.Photo: the Israel Antiquities Authority; photographer not named. June 1993. Library of Congress
Many thousands of written fragments have been discovered in the Dead Sea area. They represent the remnants of larger manuscripts damaged by natural causes or through human interference, with the vast majority holding only small scraps of text. However, a small number of well-preserved, almost intact manuscripts have survived – fewer than a dozen among those from the Qumran Caves. Researchers have assembled a collection of 981 different manuscripts – discovered in 1946/47 and in 1956 – from 11 caves. The 11 Qumran Caves lie in the immediate vicinity of the Hellenistic-period Jewish settlement at Khirbet Qumran in the eastern Judaean Desert, in the West Bank. The caves are located about one mile (1.6 kilometres) west of the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, whence they derive their name. Scholarly consensus dates the Qumran Caves Scrolls from the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE. Bronze coins found at the same sites form a series beginning with John Hyrcanus (in office 135–104 BCE) and continuing until the period of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), supporting the radiocarbon and paleographic dating of the scrolls.
In the larger sense, the Dead Sea Scrolls include manuscripts from additional Judaean Desert sites, dated as early as the 8th century BCE and as late as the 11th century CE.
Biblical texts older than the Dead Sea Scrolls have been discovered only in two silver scroll-shaped amulets containing portions of the Priestly Blessing from the Book of Numbers, excavated in Jerusalem at Ketef Hinnom and dated c. 600 BCE; some scholars also include the controversial Shapira Scroll. The third-oldest surviving known piece of the Torah, the En-Gedi Scroll, consists of a portion of Leviticus found in the Ein Gedi synagogue, burnt in the 6th century CE and analyzed in 2015. Research has dated it palaeographically to the 1st or 2nd century CE, and using the C14 method to sometime between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE.
Uns gibt es immer noch
Die deutsche Le Monde diplomatique wird 25! Dazu gibts Texte aus den letzten 25 Jahren, heute vom Mai 1998: „Uns gibt es immer noch“ von Edward Said.
#EdwardSaid #Palästina #Israel https://taz.de/25-Jahre-Le-Monde-diplomatique/!5677683/ … #taz #tazgezwitscher #tageszeitung #Postkolonialismus #Palästina #Israel
Schwerpunkt: Nahost-Konflikt25 Jahre Le Monde diplomatique: Uns gibt es immer noch
1998, ein halbes Jahrhundert nach der Staatsgründung Israels, reiste Edward Said für Dreharbeiten nach Jerusalem und ins Westjordanland.taz.de
1998, ein halbes Jahrhundert nach der Staatsgründung Israels, reiste Edward Said für Dreharbeiten nach Jerusalem und ins Westjordanland.taz.de
Yom HaZikaron (Hebrew: יוֹם הַזִּכָּרוֹן, lit. 'Memorial Day') is Israel's official remembrance day, enacted into law in 1963. While Yom HaZikaron has been traditionally dedicated to fallen soldiers, commemoration has also been extended to civilian victims of terrorism.
The day opens with a siren the preceding evening at 20:00 (8:00 pm), given that in the Hebrew calendar system, a day begins at sunset. The siren is heard all over the country and lasts for one minute, during which Israelis stop everything, including driving on highways, and stand in silence, commemorating the fallen and showing respect.
By law, all places of entertainment are closed on the eve of Yom HaZikaron, and broadcasting and educational bodies note the solemnity of the day. Regular television programs cease for the day, and the names and ranks of every soldier who died for Israel are displayed in a 24-hour television broadcast.
A two-minute siren is sounded at 11:00 the following morning, which marks the opening of the official memorial ceremonies and private remembrance gatherings at each cemetery where soldiers are buried.
Many Israelis visit the resting places of loved ones throughout the day.
Memorial candles are lit in homes, army camps, schools, synagogues, and public places, and flags are lowered to half staff. Throughout the day, serving and retired military personnel serve as honor guards at war memorials throughout the country, and the families of the fallen participate in memorial ceremonies at military cemeteries.
Channel 33 has screened the names of all civilians killed in pogroms since 1851, and all fallen from 1860 (considered the date of the beginning of the Yishuv by the Israeli Ministry of Defense), in chronological order (rank, name, Hebrew date deceased and secular date) over the course of the day.
Drohnen töten weiterhin Unschuldige
Sendung mit Diskussion zu Drohnentötungen
Seit Jahren setzen wir uns für die Ächtung von Drohnen und autonomen Waffen ein. Über ein Jahr touren wir mit der Ausstellung der Drohnen-Quilts durch die Lande, zuletzt zum Friedensratschlag nach Kassel im letzten Dezember..
Die US Regierung setzt weiterhin Drohnen für "gezielte Tötungen" ein, die mit ihren Hellfire Raketen in der Regel ein Krater von 30m Durchmesser hinterlassen und meist Unschuldige töten. In Deutschland hat die für eine Bewaffnung der 5 im letzten Sommer geleasten israelischen Heron TP notwendige ethische Debatte noch immer nicht stattgefunden. Dies ist eine vom Bundestag 2013 beschlossene Voraussetzung, die auch so im Koalitionsvertrag steht. Trotzdem wird auf dem Stützpunkt Tel Nof der Drohnenkrieg geübt.
Den letzten spektakulären und völkerrechtswidrigen Einsatz der USA, den Mord an dem iranischen General Soleimani, beim Besuch im Irak nimmt die Friedensaktivistin und Filmemacherin Elsa Rassbach zum Anlass, um auf die Verstrickungen Deutschlands in den US Drohnenkrieghinzuweisen.
Die in den USA geborene Filmemacherin Elsa Rassbach arbeitet seit langer Zeit am Thema Drohnen, besonders auch zur Bedeutung von Ramstein für die US-Kriegsführung in vielen Ländern Afrikas und des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens. Und der Sozialwissenschaftler und Nahost-Kenner Gilles Kepel beschrieb am 13. Januar 2020 in der Süddeutschen Zeitung den Einsatz von Drohnen als "Eine neue Ära der Kriegsführung".
Weil eigene Menschenleben der jeweils die Drohnen einsetzenden Länder geschont werden können - die Drohnen sind unbemannt - sinkt die Schwelle zur Kriegführung. Gleichzeitig steigen die Opferzahlen, weil bei den gezielten Tötungen sehr häufig in der Nähe befindliche Unbeteiligte und Unschuldige getötet werden, die zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort waren.
Die Ermordung des iranischen Generals Qassim Soleimani durch eine Drohne, bei der mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit auch die die Airbase Ramstein in der Pfalz eine Rolle spielte, zeigt die Aktualität des Themas.
Die Sendung vom 19.2. geht auf die Hintergründe zu den Kommando-Strukturen zwischen den USA und Deutschland erläutern und auf völkerrechtliche Aspekte ein. Aktuell finden Debatten in Berlin auch über die Möglichkeit der Bewaffnung von deutschen Drohnen statt, die von einigen Politikern gefordert, nach vielen Meinungsumfragen aber von der Mehrheit der Bevölkerung abgelehnt wird.
Das Gespräch mit Elsa Rassbach ist weiterhin bei Youtube zu sehen.
Die Ausstellung der Drohnen-Quilts, zum Gedenken an die durch Drohnen getöteten Kinder kann auch in diesem Jahr ausgeliehen werden, um es einem breiten Publikum zugänglich zu machen. Zur Bestellung reicht eine Mail an kontakt@drohnen-quilts.de .
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und https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/7182-20200225-drohnen-toeten-weiterhin-unschuldige.htm
#gezielteTötungen #Kollateralschaden #HeronTP #USA #Israel #Bewaffnung #Hellfire #SchuleohneMilitär #Atomwaffen #Militär #Bundeswehr #Aufrüstung #Waffenexporte #Drohnen #Frieden #Krieg #Friedenserziehung #Menschenrechte #Zivilklauseln #Sendung
Meron Mendel"All das zeigt, dass die BDS-Bewegung im Wesentlichen nur als billiges Ventil für Judenhass funktioniert."
Kritik an der Bewegung BDS ist richtig. Gleichzeitig muss möglich sein, antimuslimischen Rassismus zu konfrontieren
https://taz.de/!5660317
aus der aktuellen taz am Wochenende
#taz #antisemitismus #judentum #juden #israel #bds #israel #palästinaSolidarität aus falschen Motiven
Kritik an der Bewegung BDS ist richtig. Gleichzeitig muss möglich sein, antimuslimischen Rassismus zu konfrontierentaz.de
Kritik an der Bewegung BDS ist richtig. Gleichzeitig muss möglich sein, antimuslimischen Rassismus zu konfrontierentaz.de
Pidyon Shvuyim (Hebrew: פִּדְיוֹן שְׁבוּיִים, literally: Redemption of Captives) is a religious duty in Judaism to bring about the release of a fellow Jew captured by slave dealers or robbers, or imprisoned unjustly by the authorities. The release of the prisoner is typically secured by a ransom paid by the Jewish community. It is considered an important commandment in Jewish law. he Talmud calls pidyon shvuyim a “mitzvah rabbah”, a great mitzvah, as captivity is viewed as even worse than starvation and death (Bava Batra 8b).#Naama #Issachar #Gilad #Shalit #Israel #Israeli #Defense #Forces #soldier #jew #jewish #Middle East #Zahal #army #military #IDF #photo #news #USA #free #Freedom #life
Maimonides writes: “The redeeming of captives takes precedence over supporting the poor or clothing them. There is no greater mitzvah than redeeming captives for the problems of the captive include being hungry, thirsty, unclothed, and they are in danger of their lives too. Ignoring the need to redeem captives goes against these Torah laws: “Do not harden your heart or shut your hand against your needy fellow” (Devarim 15:7); “Do not stand idly by while your neighbor’s blood is shed” (Vayikra 19:16). And misses out on the following mitzvot: “You must surely open your hand to him or her” (Devarim 15:8); “…Love your neighbor as yourself” (Vayikra 19:18); “Rescue those who are drawn to death” (Proverbs 24:11) and "… there is no mitzvah greater than the redeeming of captives.” (Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Matanot Aniyim 8:10-11). The Shulchan Aruch adds: “Every moment that one delays in freeing captives, in cases where it is possible to expedite their freedom, is considered to be tantamount to murder.” (Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 252:3)
Naama is free, but our joy is mixed with tears
The release of a person from prison is always a joyous moment. When you’ve put your own effort into fighting for this individual’s release and you know for sure she is innocent, the joy doubles. Which is why I certainly am genuinely happy about my client Naama Issachar’s release, her return home and reunification with her loved ones. My heartfelt congratulations to all!
We have witnessed impressive solidarity with Naama on the part of Israeli society, lawyers, journalists, the diplomatic corps, and the government, including the highest-ranking officials. This is an inspiring example of effective collaboration between civil society, professional communities and the authorities. The story also deeply touched Russian journalists, lawyers, human rights activists, public figures, and ordinary people who simply cared. All of this instills the most genuine respect and appreciation.
It was impossible not to free Naama: her sentence was blatantly unjust, and we clearly exposed that fact at the hearing in the court of appeal, which received close international attention and interest, both public and non-public. The response given by the court of appeal was emblematic of the injustice that characterized this entire case: it contains 20 pages of the defense’s contentions regarding the irrefutable flaws in the sentence, and one page — a meaningless declaration — on why the defense’s claims were dismissed, without the slightest attempt to provide any substantive arguments.
And this is the very drop of poison that turns today’s simple joy into joy mixed with tears. Yes, Naama is free. But her case was a travesty of justice. She spent nine and a half months in detention, branded as a drug offender, an utterly bogus charge devoid of factual or legal grounds. Is that fair? Is that legal? Is that just? Despite the President’s assurance, everything is not okay.
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MORE: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/naama-is-free-but-our-joy-is-mixed-with-tears/
About the Author
Vadim Klyuvgant, a partner at the Russian law firm Pen & Paper, is the chief lawyer in the Naama Issachar case.
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