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The sharpest sword in the suppression of the Palestinian voice in Germany is the accusation that criticism of the State of Israel is anti-Semitic. Especially since the Second World War, it has been essential to overcome the age-old anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism in church and theology. In politics and the church, however, the necessary deep conversion has increasingly been used as a tool for whitewashing Germany, for fetishizing the State of Israel as the representative of Judaism, for avoiding direct dealings with Jewish people, and finally for not addressing ethnic cleansing and oppressing the Palestinians. There is a debate in Germany about the relationship between colonialism and the Holocaust, more specifically about the role of genocide in the history of European colonialism and the role of Germany in European colonialism and in the history of genocide. The characteristics of the “deal” in church and society are each to be understood in their specificity, but also in their relation to each other. The content of both deals is: we welcome you back to the Western empire of the civilized world, the price is that you remain silent about Israeli crimes against the Palestinians. Besides and linked to several groups and structures in church and society forming the Israel lobby, the Israeli propaganda department (Hasbara) promotes the suppression of the Palestinian voice in many ways. There is a sign of hope in several books making a clear connection between the Holocaust and the Nakba. From the common memory of the Holocaust and the Nakba it follows that Germany shares the guilt for the Nakba of the Palestinian people. In view of German (and especially also the USA) current support and co-financing of Israeli injustice, it becomes clear that Germany, along with the West, shares responsibility for ending the crimes of Israel’s apartheid system. The churches that join the suppression of Palestinian voices in politics and society through false accusations of anti-Semitism run the risk of becoming the false church. Therefore, they must be challenged through a “processus confessionis”.

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German Suppression of the Palestinian Voices, the Role of the Churches, and Countervailing Theological and Social Forces

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    2025年

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  • Ulrich Duchrow

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The sharpest sword in the suppression of the Palestinian voice in Germany is the accusation that criticism of the State of Israel is anti-Semitic. Especially since the Second World War, it has been essential to overcome the age-old anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism in church and theology. In politics and the church, however, the necessary deep conversion has increasingly been used as a tool for whitewashing Germany, for fetishizing the State of Israel as the representative of Judaism, for avoiding direct dealings with Jewish people, and finally for not addressing ethnic cleansing and oppressing the Palestinians. There is a debate in Germany about the relationship between colonialism and the Holocaust, more specifically about the role of genocide in the history of European colonialism and the role of Germany in European colonialism and in the history of genocide. The characteristics of the “deal” in church and society are each to be understood in their specificity, but also in their relation to each other. The content of both deals is: we welcome you back to the Western empire of the civilized world, the price is that you remain silent about Israeli crimes against the Palestinians. Besides and linked to several groups and structures in church and society forming the Israel lobby, the Israeli propaganda department (Hasbara) promotes the suppression of the Palestinian voice in many ways. There is a sign of hope in several books making a clear connection between the Holocaust and the Nakba. From the common memory of the Holocaust and the Nakba it follows that Germany shares the guilt for the Nakba of the Palestinian people. In view of German (and especially also the USA) current support and co-financing of Israeli injustice, it becomes clear that Germany, along with the West, shares responsibility for ending the crimes of Israel’s apartheid system. The churches that join the suppression of Palestinian voices in politics and society through false accusations of anti-Semitism run the risk of becoming the false church. Therefore, they must be challenged through a “processus confessionis”.