German Mess on Jewish Bent

Haben über Israel/Palästina gesprochen, deutsche Reaktionen, Haltung der Linken. Danke für die Gelegenheit, wenngleich gerade nicht so leicht Gedanken zu sortieren. politische Instrumentalisierung.

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“Most Palestinians are terrorists,” one of the Germans explained. And: “Not supporting the IDF is betraying your legacy.” A German, whose family is, implicated in historical atrocities, lecturing an Israeli about what moral or political lesson she may or may not derive from that very history was a grotesque sight to watch.

What [most of] German didn’t acknowledge was the misinformation spread by government officials and the entire western media [not only US, also in / by europe media, and of course German media] choose ‘pro-Israel bent’, is what led to the rise of hate in entire western hemisphere. Arab in Europe, dual citizenship with Arab descent in Europe, Arab America and Muslim America pleaded with the administration to say something. Suppression of speech supporting Palestinian rights is nothing new—but it’s never been this bad.

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In German society today, however, such views seem normalised. Support for Israel is seen as a prerequisite for a newly constructed, collective German identity. While a degree of sensitivity towards Israel seems understandable given Germany’s brutal antisemitic history, the issue has turned ever more problematic in recent years. Palestinians, artists and curators from the so-called global south and leftwing Israelis are regularly reprimanded, dismissed or cancelled for views on Israeli policies that are deemed unpalatable. Last week, the Social Democratic co-party leader Saskia Esken even called off a meeting with Bernie Sanders due to his stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Sanders lost many family members in the Holocaust.

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Adania Shibli’s case is the most recent and perhaps most acute example of such absurdities. Shibli’s novel Minor Detail tells the true story of an Israeli soldier’s 1949 rape and subsequent murder of a Palestinian Bedouin girl. Published by Fitzcarraldo in 2020 and longlisted for the International Booker prize, the book won Germany’s 2023 LiBeraturpreis, which is for female writers from Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Arab world. But as a result of events in Israel, it was decided by the organisers that a ceremony on 20 October to honour Shibli at the Frankfurt book fair would be postponed.

Now that Adania Shibli’s award has been cancelled, three Muslim anchors at MSNBC have been demoted, Palestinian demos have been banned in France and events about Palestinian books are being cancelled, waiting for the next Harper’s letter on the suppression of free speech.

The book is a watertight account of what Palestinians and historians refer to as the Nakba – atrocities committed by Israelis in historic Palestine during the establishment of the state of Israel. Between the third-person narration of the pained Israeli officer responsible for the action and the later first-person account of an insomniac Palestinian in Ramallah today, the story moves between two viewpoints. In the second, Shibli relates what seems to approximate her own experience: the difficulty of trying to research a historical account from the victim’s perspective in contemporary Israel. In the novel, her project leads her to embark on a risky road trip towards a site in the south of the country, beyond the boundaries permitted by her Palestinian ID card.

There is, without a doubt, a connection between the cancellation of Shibli’s award ceremony and German sensibilities. This summer, the journalist Ulrich Noller left the jury for the award in protest at the book. According to Noller, the novel “serves anti-Israeli and antisemitic narratives”.

A few days before the announcement, the journalist Carsten Otte, in an article for the leftwing newspaper Taz, wrote that the novel’s empathetic tone “overshadows a basic problem: in this short novel, all Israelis are anonymous rapists and killers”. Otte further complained that Shibli’s book neglects to recount violence against Israeli civilians and thus rests on an “ideological and inhumane basis”. Following the mass murders perpetrated by the Hamas terrorists, he concludes, awarding the prize to Shibli would be “hardly endurable”.

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First and foremost, they are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of literature, which has never been to give a balanced account of historical events or meet the demands of a Wikipedia-like homework assignment. In exploring subjectivity itself, beyond the boundaries of ethnicity, memory and even objectivity, literature’s great potential is to shed light on untold stories and open up new pathways of thinking about the world.

It is as if Shibli’s German critics nest in a warm blanket of historical fantasy: they hang on to a vision of Israel’s founding as an immaculate conception, one that has been refuted by any serious – Israeli or Palestinian – historian one can consult on the matter. They also seem to implicitly suggest that Israel’s founding constitutes a negation of their forefathers’ historical crimes. Germany has been so slow to platform voices of Israelis and Palestinians that discussions in Germany around this topic often feel so reductive.

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