Kaum war die «Pfeffermühle» eröffnet, kamen die Nazis an die Macht. Erika Mann musste aus München fliehen. In der Schweiz führte sie ihr politisches Kabarett weiter. Am Ende unter Polizeischutz.
On July 2, a tree-planting ceremony at Ahihud Forest in northern Israel commemorated nine Druze soldiers who died in the Iron Swords war.
Ein Beitrag auf „Themedialine.org – Trusted Mideast News“
The army announced July, 7, 2024 that another Druze soldier, Maj. Jalaa Ibrahem, a company commander in the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion, was killed in the line of duty in the Gaza Strip.
For the Druze community, loyalty to the state they reside in is a religious commitment, often manifested through military and police service. The Druze, along with the Circassian community, have a long-standing history of military service in Israel, a tradition of loyalty that many feel is not reciprocated by the government in civil matters such as housing, planning, and community development.
Systemic issues like the Kaminitz Law and the nation-state law, which are seen as discriminatory, along with restrictive building regulations and less governmental financial support compared to Jewish communities, impact the ability of the Druze to expand and develop. Amid a backdrop of demonstrations countrywide from multiple societal fronts, the Druze are protesting to address the inequalities they face as a response to being treated differently regarding rights compared to their service obligations.
The protests, including a significant gathering in Jerusalem, aim to highlight these discrepancies and push for a change that aligns the community’s civil treatment with their contributions to national security. To learn more, read Giorgia Valente’s latest for The Media Line, which highlights the Druze community’s sense of dual identity: treated like Jews in terms of national service but like Arabs in terms of civil rights.
Keine kurze Nachricht heute einmal, sondern einen relativ langen Essay von Sheryl Ono, der sehr einfühlsam und lesenswert ist … es gibt keine einfachen Antworten ..
„I am proud of my Jewish heritage. I am proud of our commitment to scholarship, the arts, and activism, of our role in the civil rights and union movements. I am proud of the young Jews speaking out on college campuses and the older ones who took over the Cannon Building in the Capitol last November. This is the culture that I know and connect with — people whose hearts are capable of aching for the Israeli hostages and the Palestinians at the same time.“
Auf der Plattform quantara.de, die sich in diesen Tagen von der Deutschen Welle zur ifa, dem Institut für Auslandbeziehungen, verabschiedet – zum Schluß ein spannender Beitrag von Stefan Buchen über (die) Entwicklungen im jüdisch-national-religiösen Bereich:
Es gibt auch ‚andere‘ Nachrichten aus Israel und Palästina … wir weisen an dieser Stelle immer wieder einmal auf ermutigende, neue, andere Initiativen hin, heute A Land for All:
Our Vision
A Land for All is a shared movement of Israelis and Palestinians who believe that the way towards peace, security and stability for all passes through two independent states, Israel and Palestine, within a joint framework allowing both peoples to live together and apart. Israeli-Jews and Arab-Palestinians are heavily intertwined on both side of the Green Line and therefore building walls between them is neither realistic nor desirable. Recognizing that both Jews and Palestinians are part of the same shared homeland, and respecting their equal individual and national rights, A Land for All provides pragmatic and viable solutions to the obstacles that have stymied prior negotiations, moving us from a paradigm of separation towards a future based on power sharing and shared interests.
In Le Monde Diplomatique begibt sich Charlotte Wiedemann auf die Suche, auf die Suche nach Einem Land für alle, nach Lebensrealitäten und Erinnerungen, nach inklusiven Narrationen, nach wechselseitigem Respekt für die Traumata, die auf beiden Seiten so prägend sind: Shoa und Nakba – das war schon vor dem 7. Oktober und diesem Gaza-Krieg schwierig, jetzt erst recht und doch noch nötiger als je.
Ein bewegender dokumentarischer Liebesfilm, der auf der Suche nach den Wurzeln jiddischer Musik in Osteuropa auch von der Zerrissenheit der Nachkommen von Shoa-Überlebenden erzählt.