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The Owen Jones Podcast

German-Israeli Writer Takes Apart Gaza Witch-Hunt - w/ Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A witch-hunt against Palestinian solidarity is sweeping the Western world - but nowhere is more severe than Germany. The German state is compelling artists to sign a definition of antisemitism weaponised by the Right to shut down criticisms of the Israeli state's behaviour - that is, if they want to protect their livelihoods. As the German far-right rises, the establishment courages the idea that the real danger to Jews comes from the left and Palestinian solidarity activists - including Jewish activists.


This is the world turned on its head. So I'm delighted to talk to German-Israeli author Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus who speaks with huge moral clarity, and tells the truth about what's really going on.

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0:00.0

Hello there has been a deliberate attempt across the Western world to intimidate those standing with the Palestinian people, those opposing obviously the great atrocities currently being committed.

0:10.0

What's actually very perverse about that is this form of McCarthyism has targeted Jewish people,

0:15.3

for example, in the name of protecting Jewish people. The world has been turned completely upside down.

0:22.3

Now, with that in mind, I'm really delighted

0:24.7

to be joined again by Tomah Doten-Dreyfus.

0:27.4

We talked actually back in October not long

0:30.0

after all this particular round of intense horror began.

0:34.4

He's a brilliant German Israeli writer.

0:36.1

He's been involved in the peace movement in Germany.

0:40.9

And what's happening in Germany is, I think a lot of people think it's

0:44.2

particularly extreme and it is but it is symptomatic of what's happening in in many

0:48.7

different countries so Tom it is great to be joined by you again hello

0:51.4

hi hello thank you for inviting me again.

0:54.8

I want to talk to you about a new development, I guess,

0:57.3

which I think really is a warning, actually.

0:59.7

And it centers, for those you don't remember,

1:03.1

there was a definition on anti-semitism

1:07.4

which was formulated by the International Holocaust

1:10.1

remembrance allies.

1:10.8

The actual top definition itself, the actual key definition, I think, is something no one really had an objection to.

1:16.7

I think various Jewish scholars who didn't think it was particularly, you know, it didn't go

1:22.1

into the proper detail of anti-Semitism but it had a series of examples and two of them related to Israel.

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