1 September 2011, Haaretz הארץ (Israel)
Sygmunt Bauman says Israel 'terrified of peace' and 'taking advantage of the Holocaust to legitimize unconscionable acts,' in interview with Polish weekly 'Politika.'
By Roman Frister
Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week, saying it did not want peace and was afraid of it.
Bauman said Israel was "taking advantage of the Holocaust to legitimize unconscionable acts," and compared the separation fence to the walls surrounding the Warsaw Ghetto, in which hundreds of thousands of Jews perished in the Holocaust.
In a long interview to the important Polish weekly "Politika," Bauman said Israel was not interested in peace. "Israeli politicians are terrified of peace, they tremble with fear from the possibility of peace, because without war and without general mobilization they don't know how to live," he said.
"Israel does not see the missiles falling on communities along the border as a bad thing. On the contrary, they would be worried and even alarmed were it not for this fire," the Polish-British sociologist said.
Bauman, who lived in Israel briefly, referred to an article he wrote in Haaretz, in which he expressed concern that the younger Israeli generation was being raised on the understanding that the state of war and military alert were natural and unavoidable.
The Polish public has not heard such a diatribe against Zionism and Israel since the anti-Semitic propaganda campaign the Communist regime conducted after the Six-Day War.
Not surprisingly, leading Jewish figures came out against it.
"Politika" published the criticism alongside the letter of Israeli ambassador in Warsaw Zvi Bar, who rejected Bauman's "half truths" and "groundless generalizations."
Bauman, who was born in Poland in 1925, has been living in England since he left his lecturer's chair at Tel Aviv University in 1971.
He is seen as one of the greatest sociologists of our time and has dealt extensively with the ties between the Holocaust and modernism, globalization and consumer culture in the postmodern era.
Some of his books have been translated into Hebrew, including "Liquid Love."
His grandson is attorney Michael Sfard, of the human rights group Yesh Din.
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25,000 people march in Tel Aviv in support of Palestinian state based on 1967 borders
4 June 2011, Communist Party of Israel המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית http://maki.org.il
Around 25,000 people took part in a march in central Tel Aviv on Saturday evening supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
The march end with a rally at the Tel Aviv Museum. MKs Dov Khenin (Hadash), Daniel Ben-Simon (Labor), Nino Abesadze (Kadima), Zahava Galon (Meretz), the Mayor of Nazareth Ramez Jeraisy, the editor in chief of Al Ittihad daily communist newspaper and well know feminist activist Aida Touma-Sliman and playwright Yehoshua Sobol give speeches.
From left to right: Hadash MKs Khenin, Barakeh, Agbaria, the Mayor of Nazareth Jeraisy, MK Sweid and Hadash Secretary Ayman Odeh during the march in Tel-Aviv (photo: Ofer Amram / YNET)
Numerous political parties and peace groups - including Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel), Labor, Meretz, the Derech faction of Kadima, Peace Now, Combatants for Peace, Solidarity Sheikh Jarrah and Gush Shalom - participated in the march. Among the marchers several parliament members: MKs Khenin (Hadash), Galon (Meretz), Muhammad Barake (Hadash), Afu Agbaria (Hadash), Hanna Sweid (Hadash), Ilan Gilon (Meretz), Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz), Ahmad Tibi (the Arab Movement for Renewal); formers MKs Issam Makhoul (Hadash), Tamar Gozansky (Hadash), Haim Oron (Meretz) and the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Israel, Muhammad Nafa'h.
Marchers held signs reading "Palestinian state - An Israeli interest", "Bibi, recognize the Palestinians" and "Yes, we KEN [which means 'yes' in Hebrew]". The demonstrators carrying Palestinian, Israelis and red flags, reading "Yes to peace" and "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies."
Several dozen rightist activists, wrapped in Israeli flags, held a counter-rally at the starting point of the march in Rabin Square. During the march, two leftist activists were arrested because police arbitrary.
A veteran Communist Party member, Prof. Yenina Altman, 80, came to attend the march all the way from Haifa. "It’s important to me to voice the desire to see the Palestinians independent," she told. "I came from Poland after my entire family perished, I was in a ghetto and a concentration camp. I would like to have my country show tolerance and respect for the Palestinians and give them the right for an independent state just as we desired."
A member of the Communist Party of Israel Central Committee, Rawda Murcus from the Galilee town of Kafr Yasif said, "We hope that such acts of protest will grow stronger and cause a change which will see an independent Palestinian state along 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as capital."
Several streets in the area of the demonstration in Tel-Aviv were closed to traffic, causing a paralysis of circulation in the center of the city for hours.
Numerous political parties and peace groups - including Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel), Labor, Meretz, the Derech faction of Kadima, Peace Now, Combatants for Peace, Solidarity Sheikh Jarrah and Gush Shalom - participated in the march. Among the marchers several parliament members: MKs Khenin (Hadash), Galon (Meretz), Muhammad Barake (Hadash), Afu Agbaria (Hadash), Hanna Sweid (Hadash), Ilan Gilon (Meretz), Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz), Ahmad Tibi (the Arab Movement for Renewal); formers MKs Issam Makhoul (Hadash), Tamar Gozansky (Hadash), Haim Oron (Meretz) and the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Israel, Muhammad Nafa'h.
Marchers held signs reading "Palestinian state - An Israeli interest", "Bibi, recognize the Palestinians" and "Yes, we KEN [which means 'yes' in Hebrew]". The demonstrators carrying Palestinian, Israelis and red flags, reading "Yes to peace" and "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies."
Several dozen rightist activists, wrapped in Israeli flags, held a counter-rally at the starting point of the march in Rabin Square. During the march, two leftist activists were arrested because police arbitrary.
A veteran Communist Party member, Prof. Yenina Altman, 80, came to attend the march all the way from Haifa. "It’s important to me to voice the desire to see the Palestinians independent," she told. "I came from Poland after my entire family perished, I was in a ghetto and a concentration camp. I would like to have my country show tolerance and respect for the Palestinians and give them the right for an independent state just as we desired."
A member of the Communist Party of Israel Central Committee, Rawda Murcus from the Galilee town of Kafr Yasif said, "We hope that such acts of protest will grow stronger and cause a change which will see an independent Palestinian state along 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as capital."
Several streets in the area of the demonstration in Tel-Aviv were closed to traffic, causing a paralysis of circulation in the center of the city for hours.
Around 25,000 people took part in a march in central Tel Aviv on Saturday evening supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
The march end with a rally at the Tel Aviv Museum. MKs Dov Khenin (Hadash), Daniel Ben-Simon (Labor), Nino Abesadze (Kadima), Zahava Galon (Meretz), the Mayor of Nazareth Ramez Jeraisy, the editor in chief of Al Ittihad daily communist newspaper and well know feminist activist Aida Touma-Sliman and playwright Yehoshua Sobol give speeches.
From left to right: Hadash MKs Khenin, Barakeh, Agbaria, the Mayor of Nazareth Jeraisy, MK Sweid and Hadash Secretary Ayman Odeh during the march in Tel-Aviv (photo: Ofer Amram / YNET)
Numerous political parties and peace groups - including Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel), Labor, Meretz, the Derech faction of Kadima, Peace Now, Combatants for Peace, Solidarity Sheikh Jarrah and Gush Shalom - participated in the march. Among the marchers several parliament members: MKs Khenin (Hadash), Galon (Meretz), Muhammad Barake (Hadash), Afu Agbaria (Hadash), Hanna Sweid (Hadash), Ilan Gilon (Meretz), Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz), Ahmad Tibi (the Arab Movement for Renewal); formers MKs Issam Makhoul (Hadash), Tamar Gozansky (Hadash), Haim Oron (Meretz) and the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Israel, Muhammad Nafa'h.
Marchers held signs reading "Palestinian state - An Israeli interest", "Bibi, recognize the Palestinians" and "Yes, we KEN [which means 'yes' in Hebrew]". The demonstrators carrying Palestinian, Israelis and red flags, reading "Yes to peace" and "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies."
Several dozen rightist activists, wrapped in Israeli flags, held a counter-rally at the starting point of the march in Rabin Square. During the march, two leftist activists were arrested because police arbitrary.
A veteran Communist Party member, Prof. Yenina Altman, 80, came to attend the march all the way from Haifa. "It’s important to me to voice the desire to see the Palestinians independent," she told. "I came from Poland after my entire family perished, I was in a ghetto and a concentration camp. I would like to have my country show tolerance and respect for the Palestinians and give them the right for an independent state just as we desired."
A member of the Communist Party of Israel Central Committee, Rawda Murcus from the Galilee town of Kafr Yasif said, "We hope that such acts of protest will grow stronger and cause a change which will see an independent Palestinian state along 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as capital."
Several streets in the area of the demonstration in Tel-Aviv were closed to traffic, causing a paralysis of circulation in the center of the city for hours.
Numerous political parties and peace groups - including Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel), Labor, Meretz, the Derech faction of Kadima, Peace Now, Combatants for Peace, Solidarity Sheikh Jarrah and Gush Shalom - participated in the march. Among the marchers several parliament members: MKs Khenin (Hadash), Galon (Meretz), Muhammad Barake (Hadash), Afu Agbaria (Hadash), Hanna Sweid (Hadash), Ilan Gilon (Meretz), Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz), Ahmad Tibi (the Arab Movement for Renewal); formers MKs Issam Makhoul (Hadash), Tamar Gozansky (Hadash), Haim Oron (Meretz) and the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Israel, Muhammad Nafa'h.
Marchers held signs reading "Palestinian state - An Israeli interest", "Bibi, recognize the Palestinians" and "Yes, we KEN [which means 'yes' in Hebrew]". The demonstrators carrying Palestinian, Israelis and red flags, reading "Yes to peace" and "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies."
Several dozen rightist activists, wrapped in Israeli flags, held a counter-rally at the starting point of the march in Rabin Square. During the march, two leftist activists were arrested because police arbitrary.
A veteran Communist Party member, Prof. Yenina Altman, 80, came to attend the march all the way from Haifa. "It’s important to me to voice the desire to see the Palestinians independent," she told. "I came from Poland after my entire family perished, I was in a ghetto and a concentration camp. I would like to have my country show tolerance and respect for the Palestinians and give them the right for an independent state just as we desired."
A member of the Communist Party of Israel Central Committee, Rawda Murcus from the Galilee town of Kafr Yasif said, "We hope that such acts of protest will grow stronger and cause a change which will see an independent Palestinian state along 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as capital."
Several streets in the area of the demonstration in Tel-Aviv were closed to traffic, causing a paralysis of circulation in the center of the city for hours.
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