Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (1994) 227-253
Keywords:
Kunzelmann, Dieter
;
Palestinian Arabs Press coverage
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Mass media and the conflict
;
Anti-Zionism
Abstract:
Traces the attitude of the New Left in West Germany to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. After 1967, radical groups began to call for translating support for the Palestinians into action in Germany itself. In 1969, on the anniversary of "Kristallnacht", Jewish memorial sites in West Berlin were desecrated and an incendiary bomb was thrown into the Jewish community building. A proclamation by a radical left group asserted that "the Kristallnacht of 1938 is now being reenacted daily by the Zionists in the occupied territories". The commune leader Dieter Kunzelmann attacked support for Israel arising from a feeling of guilt for the Holocaust. Only the shock of the "selection" of Jewish passengers after the hijacking of the Air France plane to Entebbe by German and Palestinian terrorists in July 1976 caused many leftists to reconsider and take a more balanced position. In recent years the whole issue has lost much of its importance.
Note:
A revised version appeared in "Die deutsche 'Linke' und der Staat Israel" (1994) 47-75.
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