blake shaw 🇵🇸 on Nostr: Emily Dische-Becker's research on the targets of #Germany's anti-BDS campaign found ...
Emily Dische-Becker's research on the targets of #Germany's anti-BDS campaign found that around 1/3 of those de-platformed for their support of #Palestine are #Jewish, the with the other 2/3 being mostly Arab and Muslim.
I moved to Berlin in 2011, at a time when I was quite successful for my age, having won several high-profile awards for my work, and I was making around $70k/year -- a lot for Berlin, and especially for a 23 year old. Then in 2012 I first traveled to Palestine to participate in the solidarity movement there, and after that my conviction in #BDS skyrocketed and it became the focal point of my non-commercial endeavors.
I quickly started to experience the backlash, and gradually became more and more unwelcome in the arts, hacker and intellectual scenes I would frequent, where I was discovering that various people (mostly Germans) had said that I'm an antisemite... everywhere except the Berlin techno scene to be perfectly honest. By the time I left in 2016 I was a proper outcast and was just barely making enough to pay rent.
My commitment to Palestine has only deepened, because the crimes Israel commits against Palestinians daily, for 75+ years before October 7th, aren't just wrong, they are simply unspeakable. I now make only $10K/year, can't even land a job interview, and have to rely totally on word of mouth to find work, so I think its fair to count me among the Jews who have suffered Germany's ire. But I guess my family did too, so I'm just keeping up the tradition.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/11/denouncing-critics-of-israel-as-un-jews-or-antisemites-is-a-perversion-of-history
I moved to Berlin in 2011, at a time when I was quite successful for my age, having won several high-profile awards for my work, and I was making around $70k/year -- a lot for Berlin, and especially for a 23 year old. Then in 2012 I first traveled to Palestine to participate in the solidarity movement there, and after that my conviction in #BDS skyrocketed and it became the focal point of my non-commercial endeavors.
I quickly started to experience the backlash, and gradually became more and more unwelcome in the arts, hacker and intellectual scenes I would frequent, where I was discovering that various people (mostly Germans) had said that I'm an antisemite... everywhere except the Berlin techno scene to be perfectly honest. By the time I left in 2016 I was a proper outcast and was just barely making enough to pay rent.
My commitment to Palestine has only deepened, because the crimes Israel commits against Palestinians daily, for 75+ years before October 7th, aren't just wrong, they are simply unspeakable. I now make only $10K/year, can't even land a job interview, and have to rely totally on word of mouth to find work, so I think its fair to count me among the Jews who have suffered Germany's ire. But I guess my family did too, so I'm just keeping up the tradition.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/11/denouncing-critics-of-israel-as-un-jews-or-antisemites-is-a-perversion-of-history