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Titolo: German Jewish leader: Rescind Israel hater's prize

L'arroganza delle lobby "sioniste" non ha più limiti.  Questa pretende 
che la condizione necessaria per ricevere una onorificenza accademica 
sia di non essere pubblicamente critici nei confronti delle politiche 
dello stato di Israele.  Politiche peraltro invise alla gran parte 
dell'opinione pubblica mondiale.
 
Ma chi cazzo credono di essere?  Ma perché non li pigliano a pernacchie 
invece di starli a sentire e di mettergli a disposizione ogni canale 
informativo possibile?
 
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German Jewish leader: Rescind Israel hater's prize
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
08/27/2012 19:41
General Secretary of Germany's Jewish community demands that Frankfurt 
rescind Adorno prize from BDS-supporter Judith Butler.
Judith Butler. Photo: Wikipedia
BERLIN - ­ The city of Frankfurt's decision to award the Adorno Prize to 
an American professor who supports a comprehensive cultural and academic 
boycott of the Jewish state prompted Stephen J. Kramer, the general 
secretary of Germany's Jewish community, on Sunday, to demand that 
Frankfurt not honor Dr. Judith Butler.
 
Kramer told The Jerusalem Post , "It is a systemic failure. Only a 
curatorium that lacks the moral firmness necessary for its task could 
separate Butler's contribution to philosophy from her moral depravity. A 
person who allies herself with deadly enemies of the Jewish state, 
considers Hezbollah and Hamas legitimate social movements and part of 
the global left, and would strangle Israel with a boycott does not 
deserve this honor."
 
Dr. Judith Butler, a professor in the rhetoric and comparative 
literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley, who 
has embraced boycott, sanctions and divestment groups targeting Israel, 
is slated to receive the Adorno prize on September 11.
 
Butler flatly rejected, via email to the Post, that she endorsed Hamas 
and Hezbollah. When asked specifically by the Post about her position 
toward the two anti-Israel terror groups, she declined to comment.
 
Kramer, from the 105,000-member German Jewish council, said it was not 
only "shocking" but "sad" that Frankfurt is to honor Butler.
 
"She is a well-known hater of Israel," and to award her a prize named 
after a philosopher who was forced to emigrate because of his Jewish 
background cannot be viewed as a mistake, said Kramer.
 
Frankfurt has a history of honoring anti-Israel academics. In 2010, the 
city honored Alfred Grosser, a French academic who equated Israel with 
Nazi Germany. Israel's Embassy in Berlin slammed Grosser and the city of 
Frankfurt for the ceremony at the time.
 
Kramer said the fact that Butler "is Jewish makes her worthy of a study 
of the psychology of self-hatred but in no way as a laureate of the 
Adorno prize whose name is now stained." Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) was 
a German Jewish social philosopher who taught in post-Holocaust 
Frankfurt. He wrote about contemporary anti-Semitism, and resisted in 
his writings German leftist students who attacked and sought to 
delegitimize Israel after the Six Day War.
 
In her email statement to the Post, Butler wrote that "I am a scholar 
who gained an introduction to philosophy through Jewish thought, and I 
understand myself as defending and continuing a Jewish ethical tradition 
that includes figures such as Martin Buber and Hannah Arendt. It is 
simply untrue that I am anti-Semitic or self-hating. Indeed, I have been 
alarmed by the number of Jews who, dismayed by Israeli politics, seek to 
disavow their Jewishness. I am not one of those." In response to Post 
emails and telephone queries on Monday, the new mayor of Frankfurt, 
Peter Feldmann, declined to comment.
 
Felix Semmelroth, a representative from Frankfurt¹s culture and science 
agency wrote the Post on Monday that Judith Butler will be honored "as 
an outstanding philosopher and literature professor, especially her 
contributions to the relationship between identity and body and gender 
research, as well as moral philosophy." He also noted that she has made 
contributions to the study of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm 
Friedrich Hegel.
 
The Adorno prize, which comes with a 50,000 Euro award, recognizes 
excellence in the disciplines of philosophy, music, theater and film, 
and is presented every three years.
 
A prominent US gay activist and writer, Jayson Littman, who has written 
articles about gay rights for the Post and Haaretz, told the Post, "I am 
saddened that a respected-academic like Judith Butler is working to turn 
the hatred of Israel into a queer value, and certainly hope that in 
honor of Theodor Adorno, she turns down the award." Butler earned global 
attention as a groundbreaking scholar in the field of gender studies in 
the 1990¹s. Though not trained as a Mideast academic, she has 
increasingly turned her attention to Israel.
 
It is not the first time that Butler has generated controversy in Germany.
 
After Butler termed Hamas and Hezbollah "progressive" organizations that 
are part of the global Left, Jan Feddersen, a gay editor at the 
Tageszeitung, issued a blistering commentary against Butler in a 2010 
article with the subheading, "In bed with Hezbollah."
 
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?ID=282790&R=R1
 
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Sostieni Rete ECO
 
http://rete-eco.it/it/sostienici.html
 
 

 dello stato di Israele.
 
vabbè, questo è niente rispetto a Netanyahu che voleva imporre al
segretario dell'ONU di non andare alla conferenza dei paesi non
allineati a Teheran...:D

 sia di non essere pubblicamente critici 
 
No. Di non sostenere un boicottaggio accademico e culturale che , di per sé
fascista, anticulturale.
 
Visto che il premio è culturale, la posizione del presidente della comunità
*ebraica* mi pare pienamente giustificato. 
 
Persio, l'antisemitismo violento ti fa velo nella serenità di lettura e di
giudizio. In più sei un pirla.
 
 
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Io non gufo l'Inter. Le spacco le corna.

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Non andarci avrebbe certificato pubblicamente la sua piaggeria nei 
confronti di Israele. Troppo anche per un maggiordomo come Ban Ki-moon, 
che avrebbe dovuto dissociarsi dalla grande maggioranza dei paesi 
rappresentati nell'organizzazione della quale è indegno segretario.
 
Ai partecipanti alla conferenza consiglierei il corso di don Ersilio: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkrnK0igAP0
 
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