THE CUT OF THE EAR

by Roberto Massari

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The true reasons for which Van Gogh cut off his ear and then had it delivered to a woman have never been clear. However, that act of self-harm certainly was the result of a state of mental alteration, let's say personal madness. On the other hand, the cut of the ear of Saidakrami M. Rachalbalizoda (to whom the ear was then put in his mouth) is not mysterious, insane, or personal: it was an official decision of the Russian government under Putin.

This is demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt by the fact that the mutilation was recorded in a video, which was then posted online, with the announcement by the soldier «butcher» that the knife used will be sold at auction. To imagine that in a dictatorial and fiercely police state regime like the Russian one, all of this was done without the consent of the authorities would mean not understanding anything about Putin's regime and the functioning of his State police (FSB and other agencies that I have described in a previous article and in my book on Čeka).

In 2004, I published (as Massari publisher and edited by the Free Iraq Committees) a book entitled: Torture «Made in the USA». Journey into the American Gulag. The book took the opportunity from the torture practiced by CIA agents and American soldiers in the Abu Ghraib prison (in Iraq, where Saddam Hussein had about 4,000 detainees killed), but then expanded the discussion to Guantánamo Bay, Bagram (Afghanistan), and the many other repressive horrors employed by the US government after September 11. I am proud to have published it (the only one in Italy) and I would very much like to do the same (again as a publisher) for the tortures and assassinations carried out by Putin's government. Moreover, now it would really be worth, not only for the recent tortures made official by the government but also for the way in which Navalny's and others opponents are being killed. For lack of information, though, I would have some difficulty publishing a book on the spread of the «oligarch syndrome», which for some years - specifically since the beginning of the aggression in Ukraine - has been claiming dozens of victims among the economic elite.

However, some important differences must be understood. The photographs that made the world aware of the barbarism of Abu Ghraib were not the result of official decisions, but of the torturers' stupid vainglory. So much so that they were then tried and variously condemned by the US government itself, not for the photos, but for having carried out the torture. Something unimaginable in Putin's regime or Lukashenka's Belarus.

None of this, in fact, will happen in Russia, where the other three attackers of March 23 at the Crocus City Hall were also tortured and exhibited in public with the obvious signs of torture. In short, it is clear that Putin's government intends to tell the whole world that in Russia torture is practiced with State consent and that it will normally be used against anyone guilty of attacks or other forms of savage aggression: over time, perhaps it could extend to other categories considered dangerous for the stability of the regime. Therefore torture - in the past always and only practiced unofficially by the Soviet and Brezhnevian police - now becomes official in Russia, while the practice of mutilation is added, always officially.

And this is news, at least officially. (I am not aware that official mutilations were carried out under Stalin's regime: indeed, in the Solovki Gulag, for example, prisoners were allowed to die of gangrene rather than amputating the limb of the inmate who was no longer fit to work... )

I will be told that Tajik ear cut is nothing new on the face of the Earth, given that «legal» mutilations are practiced in various countries, especially Islamic ones, among which Iran obviously stands out as it cuts off the toes of criminals or thieves' hands and practiced judicial blinding even as recently as 2016. Furthermore, some Iranian political currents that are more reactionary than the government (is this ever possible?) propose that judicial mutilations and rapes also be used as punishment for male opponents and female opponents of the regime.

But what about the barbarism of ISIS-K? There is nothing to add because the condemnation of the entire world was unanimous, immediate and without hesitation or mincing words. And this is a great step forward for humanity, given that there was no similar unanimity in condemnation for the Hamas pogrom of October 7, which was certainly superior in terms of ferocity. But there it was Jews who were killed and this still makes a difference today for a large part of humanity, certainly for the worst and most inhumane part.

But returning to Russia, it is certainly painful to think of those poor Moscow civilian victims (around 300 dead or missing) whose death is now being exploited by Putin to try at all costs to involve Ukraine: it is as if they were killed for a second time, because with this abysmal State lie they want to hide that their massacre is actually due to faults of the government, to the Russian repressive policy towards national minorities or to the inability of the Putin’s government to resolve old questions of national self-determination left unsolved legacy from the end of the USSR.

It is not even excluded, however, that due to torture or the spectacle of a cut off ear, some Islamic terrorist will end up accusing the Ukrainian government of involvement. Nobody will believe it, in the civilized world, but Putin is never interested in being believed abroad: it is enough for him to deceive consciences in his own country and gain mass consensus, even if only at the moment and on the basis of an emotional impulse, because then we'll see... Just think of the accusation of Nazism leveled against the Ukrainian government and which Putin continues to repeat, against all evidence, in the manner of those boxers who continue to punch into the void, although dazed by the blows received.

And these blows outside Russia are more than well known: 1) strong unforeseen Ukrainian resistance and no victory in the planned blitzkrieg; 2) strengthening and enlargement of NATO (with Finland and Sweden); 3) further development of European unity; 4) economic difficulties due to sanctions, even if resistible for now (but for how long?); 5) international indictment of Putin for trafficking in Ukrainian children; 6) increase in popular discontent, even if forced by ferociously police methods to be underground (not to underestimate the families of killed soldiers and the flight abroad of young people who do not want to be mobilized); 7) Prigožin’s revolt; 8) first serious differences between the oligarchs; 9) placing the Baltic countries and Poland on military alert; 10) moral and cultural isolation of Russia in the slightly more civilized world of non-dictatorships; 11) constant use of the nuclear threat, which is a demonstration of weakness and certainly not of strength; 12) end to any sympathy that Russia might have had among the Ukrainian population, even if Russian-speaking: it will also have an undying hatred from this.

Russia has truly closed with the Ukrainian people, after a history of contrasts and rapprochements lasting several centuries and dating back to the times of the little Ruš. In the future, a Russian-Ukrainian friendship may perhaps reopen (as we should all hope for), but it can only be with a democratic, pluralistic, non-imperial-colonialist and obviously no longer Putinian Russia.

Russia is paying all these prices only to allow the oligarchs to maintain their mafia-capitalist power and snatch some pieces of land from Ukraine, according to the old colonial logic of territorial conquests: something that the USA has not done since 1898, that is, since the Spanish-American War, having since then preferred the penetration of financial capital and the use of wars of aggression only for the purposes of containment (even if sometimes of extermination, as in Vietnam, for example). But if unfortunately the Russians were to manage to maintain the occupied territories militarily, it would be the first time that their war of conquest was victorious. Previously they had lost them all (with Japan in 1904-1905, with Poland in 1919-21, twice with Finland, with Afghanistan, with East Germany). The only ones who won were thanks to the alliance with the Nazis.

Therefore, it couldn't have gone any worse after the aggression against Ukraine and it's not over yet...

However, I would like to make one final consideration, always taking inspiration from the cut of the ear and its insertion into the mouth of the Tajik terrorist. And it is the discourse on rampant barbarism that is objectively unifying a reactionary front that is firstly anti-American (anti-United States), then anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish, then anti-European and, who knows, at a certain point it may also become anti-Christian in a militant form (culturally it already is)… Do not be fooled by the fact that this time ISIS-K has struck Russia, an important component of the most reactionary front, because in reality the world of Islamic fundamentalism is not interested in whether there are democratic or dictatorial countries, Kirill’s Orthodox Russians or Lebanese Maronite Catholics or Trump’s Evangelical fanatics or moderate and tolerant Catholics like Pope Francis: due to their fanaticism they are all infidels, enemies of Islam and therefore sooner or later to be exterminated. Starting with the Jews, of course.

And this is where Putin is making a tragic mistake of historical perspective because he is primarily concerned with maintaining his personal power and not with Russia's political future. He does not realize that the reactionary and post-medieval forces of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and other various Islamic components - who would like to destroy Israel and massacre its inhabitants - if unfortunately they succeed (but fortunately they have no chance of succeeding) , they would then turn against other countries, including Russia. The Crocus attack - preceded over the years by similar Islamic attacks in Russian territories - is only a preview of what could happen in the future if Israel were to collapse under the blows of one or more Islamic states. Islamic terrorism would spread across Europe (Western and Eastern) without any more restraints. For this too we should be grateful to the people of Israel who resist on the front line, despite mistakes and terrible right-wing governments, produced in turn by the genocidal climate that arose after the aggression of the Arab League in 1948 which destroyed the social democratic ambitions of the new State decided by the United Nations.

If Russia were run by a government capable of looking to the future and the true interests of its people, it would stop the war against Ukraine and integrate itself into the European Community (where Russia could have a preponderant role, with great advantage for the living conditions of its citizens) and would create a pan-European counterweight to the growing Chinese aggressiveness: this represents a real and terrible threat for the future of the new generations, if there also does not take place a turning point towards democracy (even if imperfect, but still better than the current ruthless «Marxist-Leninist» dictatorship).

Of course, the world would require a much different investment of energy, not to wage war, but to fight climate change, the degradation of planet Earth and digital dehumanization (with its devastating consequences on the intellectual maturation of the new generations). But Putin, the Chinese government, Iran and Islamic fundamentalism, and many of the dictatorial regimes around the world are fighting on the front lines against this prospect of progress and peace for humanity.

And regarding the dictatorial regimes, how can we fail to take into account the investigations of the Democracy Index, according to which out of 167 countries examined annually, there are 24 considered fully democratic, 48 imperfectly democratic, 36 hybrid and 59 fully dictatorial? Is this the level of political maturation of humanity at the beginning of the Third Millennium? Can anything still be done to change this political drift of humanity?

It would seem not, given that currently initiatives in support of dictatorial regimes, Islamic anti-Semitism and the destruction of the State of Israel are growing in the world, while there are no demonstrations against the killing of Naval'nyj or the cut of the ear in Moscow, or Russian aggression in Ukraine, or Hamas' genocidal program against Israel. These demonstrations are not only anti-Semitic, but reactionary in the deepest sense of the term because in a comparison between capitalisms of different levels of social development, they side with the more retrograde and reactionary ones, sometimes even still imbued with medieval legacies (Tsarist, Islamic, etc. )

And so to the barbarism of Putin, the ayatollahs, Hamas, North Korea and the Chinese government, we are also adding the barbarism of those young people who, although born in imperfectly democratic regimes, are expressing support for dictatorial regimes and rampant anti-Semitism. At the basis of this degeneration in the processes of youth radicalization there is certainly ignorance of historical facts, but above all there is the need for digital protagonism which has now become unstoppable, also induced by the spread of social networks, digital tools and false myths of mass society.

On other occasions in the past, the discomfort of young people or their deviated radicalization has led to tragedies for humanity (Fascism and Nazism first and foremost). Let it not happen again, because this time, in the face of Putin's atomic threats, the world is truly risking disappearing for the first time in a single large explosion. Putin's supporters (explicit or camouflaged) could try to understand at least this, perhaps starting from a reflection on the meaning of an ear-cut officially decided by the government of a country that instead has a great history of culture and scientific achievements behind it.

Putin's atomic threats make the world context truly dangerous. I believe that humanity has never risked as much as at this moment.

And let's remember what it meant in August-September 1939 that there was on one side the reactionary alignment of Hitler-Stalinist totalitarianism and on the other that of democracies divided among themselves…

ITALIANO

UN DIRITTO INTERNAZIONALE AD HOC. SOLO PER ISRAELE

di Cristina Franco

Caro Roberto,

ti mando un bel contributo su alcune questioni giuridiche riguardanti Israele, che mi sembra di particolare rilevanza in questo momento. L’articolo di Cristina Franco è già uscito sul sito dell’Associazione Italia-Israele, e so che Utopia Rossa in genere non riproduce articoli apparsi altrove; ma in questo caso forse si può fare uno strappo alla regola.

Nei confronti di Israele funziona una cosa molto strana, che non si riscontra in altri casi: tu, io e tanti altri critichiamo Putin e la Federazione russa per l’aggressione all’Ucraina,  chiediamo il ritiro delle sue truppe entro i propri confini, e magari un risarcimento all’Ucraina; ma non ci dedichiamo a proporre che la Russia venga distrutta. 

Si può concordare o meno con le scelte dei vari governi israeliani sia sul piano interno che nei confronti degli stati vicini. Ma le richieste che vengono fatte a Israele non vengono fatte a nessun altro.

L’ISIS ha appena rivendicato un atroce massacro a Mosca. 

Puoi immaginare qualcuno che dica: “In seguito al terribile attacco compiuto dall'ISIS a Mosca, invitiamo i russi a dar prova di moderazione e ad agire solo in conformità con le leggi internazionali. Chiediamo un cessate il fuoco immediato tra le parti. Inoltre, in Russia dovrebbe essere creato uno Stato libero dedicato all’Isis, ovvero due Stati per due popoli. Chiediamo ai russi di garantire una fornitura regolare di camion con cibo, carburante e attrezzature mediche ai membri dell’Isis fino a quando la questione non sarà risolta”.

Ma questo è proprio quello che si chiede ad Israele nei confronti di Hamas!

L’autrice è un avvocato di Savona, responsabile locale di Italia-Israele da alcuni anni, e molto attiva in iniziative che un tempo avremmo chiamato “di controinformazione”. 

In particolare segnalo a te e ai lettori di Utopia Rossa il 5 aprile la proiezione in anteprima di un film sulle atrocità del 7 ottobre 2023, che si terrà alle 18.00 nella sede della Provincia di Savona.  

Un caro saluto,

Luciano Dondero

È sempre più evidente il fatto che ci siano due categorie di diritto internazionale: quello che vale per tutti i paesi del mondo e quello appositamente tailor made che si applica e la cui ottemperanza è richiesta solo a Israele.

Preliminarmente, pare curioso che si debba invocare il diritto internazionale rispetto ad Israele allorché questo si stia confrontando con un’organizzazione terroristica come Hamas, che disconosce e calpesta qualsiasi ipotesi di diritto, umanitario e internazionale, che massacra, tortura, umilia e sequestra civili innocenti, fra i quali anziani donne e bambini, civili di cui non solo accetta la sofferenza ma di cui cerca la sofferenza. Secondo l’ordinamento internazionale, chi compie simili barbarie potrebbe e dovrebbe essere incriminato e giudicato e condannato da qualsiasi tribunale penale nazionale.

E la questione del diritto internazionale non è di poco conto, a maggior ragione per un piccolo paese che vive di commercio e relazioni con altri paesi e rispetto al quale il marchio di “illegittimità” rispetto al diritto internazionale apre voragini nelle sue stesse chances di difesa e persino di esistenza. Questo è ben noto ai nemici di Israele ed è per questo che ogni loro sforzo di comunicazione è concentrato sulla bollatura di qualsiasi attività o aspetto della vita e delle relazioni di Israele come “illegittimi”. A questo scopo, con la complicità nemmeno tanto mascherata di numerosi attori internazionali, deformando il diritto internazionale esistente ne creano uno ad hoc applicabile solo a Israele. Gli esempi sono numerosi.

The International Association 

Friends of CeDInCI was born

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We, the undersigned, social researchers from different countries around the world, are the first members of the International Association of Friends of CeDInCI, founded in March 2024.

The aim of our Association is to support the work of CeDInCI, especially in a context where the aggressive policies by the new Argentinean government are putting its continuity at risk.

The Centre for Documentation and Research on Left-wing Culture (CeDInCI, by its Spanish acronym) is a non-profit civil association founded in the city of Buenos Aires in April 1998. Its primary goal is preserving the cultural heritage of the left and social movements in Latin America.  For 26 years, it has managed to assemble complete collections of the most important publications produced in the continent by political, cultural, trade union, student, human rights, women's and sexual dissidence organizations, becoming the main source of reference in studies on the left, both in Argentina and the whole region.

The CeDInCI's Newspaper Library currently holds 10.000 collections of periodicals, its Library has an estimated 160.000 volumes, its Archive safeguards 165 personal collections of activists, intellectuals and artist, 2000 political pins, 2500 posters, 6000 photographs, 300 old records and 40.000 flyers. It also holds around a hundred original works of art by renowned artists.

CeDInCI hosts researchers and research projects sponsored by scientific organizations from Argentina and abroad, housing a dozen Conicet researchers and another dozen doctoral and postdoctoral fellows. Its digital resources, such as the Latin American magazines portal AméricaLee and the Biographical Dictionary of the Latin American Left, as well as the sites Sex and Revolution and the image bank Imagoteca, are widely visited by researchers, journalists, educators and the general public.

CeDInCI's headquarters welcomes at least 2,000 readers yearly. A high percentage of them are scholarship holders from universities in Europe and America.

CeDInCI has received numerous recognitions for its work and heritage. In 2015, its Collection of the Southern Cone Workers' Press 1863-1973 was declared "Documentary Heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean" by UNESCO. In September 2018, it was awarded the Diploma of Merit as one of the "five best institutions of the last decade" awarded by the Konex Foundation. In April 2022, it finally opened its own headquarters in downtown Buenos Aires thanks to the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

However, these national and international recognitions do not prevent the ultraliberal and reactionary gale currently raging in Argentina from threatening CeDInCI’s existence. The Centre we are defending was born as a commitment to convert the dispersed and privatized heritage of the various social movements into a common heritage, available to all in a collective space and accessible both in person and virtually. But as we know, neoliberalism is above all a vast enterprise of appropriation not only of a country's natural resources, but also and above all of the social, political and cultural conditions of commonwealth. The neoliberal government rejects not only any form of regulation at the macroeconomic level, but also any form of social regulation, any form of decision-making by a social collective over its own destiny. Even elementary forms of social action such as the sharing of cultural heritage (a popular library) or the communal management of basic foodstuffs (a soup kitchen), today appear as obstacles that hinder the declared goal: a society atomized into possessive and competitive individuals, freed to the blind automatism of the free market. It is nothing other than the local version of the global expansion of the far right, which is putting democracy under strain in various latitudes.

In this context, and just a few days before its 26th anniversary, CeDInCI has seen an increase in the cost of maintaining its buildings and, at the same time, its financial resources and work team have been drastically reduced. The aggressive austerity policies by the national government have even eliminated the modest subsidy that CeDInCI, along with other scientific institutions in the country, received from the dismantled Ministry of Science and Technology. At the same time, taxes and local services (electricity, water, cloud, etc.) for its headquarters have skyrocketed.

The largest cultural and political archive of the left in Latin America, which safeguards the heritage of every protest, revolutionary, progressive, feminist and dissident movement on our continent, is therefore at risk.

We invite all those who encourage the work that CeDInCI has been doing for 26 years to support it by making a voluntary contribution of around 10 €/US$ per month, or an annual contribution of 100 €/US$. Payments can be made by clicking on the following link: https://cedinci.org/dona-cedinci/#suscripciones

We thank you for your cooperation. We would be grateful if you could pass this message on to all your contacts who are committed to supporting cultural heritage as a common good.

First members of the International Association of Friends of CeDInCI:

Enzo Traverso (Cornell University), Silvia Federici (State University of New York at Buffalo), Pablo Yankelevich (El Colegio de México), Daniel James (Indiana University), Bruno Groppo (Centre d’Histoire Sociale du XXe Siècle – Université de París I Panthéon Sorbonne / Università di Padova), Pierre Salama (professeur émérite des universités Sorbonne Paris Nord), Hanno Ehrlicher (Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg), Arturo Taracena (UNAM-Mérida, México), Gerardo Caetano (Universidad de la República), Axel Gasquet (Université Clermont Auvergne – CNRS), Marcelo Ridenti (Unicamp), Roberto Massari (Massari editore, Red Utopia Rossa)…

NO HAY JUSTIFICACIÓN PARA EL POGROMO DE HAMAS

(Polémica con F.)

por Nathan Novik (Chile)

Tenemos visiones absolutamente diferentes con F. respecto a lo que presenta en sus artículos.

Esta justificando el pogromo que Hamas efectuo en Israel en un acto que no tiene memoria alguna el pueblo judío en esa magnitud: lo mas grave despues del holocausto. No sólo es "condenable" como lo señala F.: no basta con declararlo por salir del paso.  Ese tipo de acciones  no puede continuar en la impunidad!!

Israel es la víctima no lo es Hamás, como lo presenta F. El pueblo gazati tambien es victima de Hamás  que los utiliza como carne de cañón ya que los muertos son publicidad gratuita en favor de Hamas, tal  cómo lo aprovecha F. en su análisis para culpar de ello a Israel.

El mundo Civilizado junto  con Israel  son  victimas de esta Organizacion terrorista que en su Carta Fundamental señala con claridad que su prioridad como Organizacion es borrar a Israel del mapa y matar judíos.

¿Porque no se refiere a eso F.?

Ya tuvimos un diálogo al respecto en el día de hoy con varios de nuestros amigos que reflexionan. Un diálogo respetuoso y constructivo.

El diagnóstico  de lo que ocurre en este planeta está equivocado cuando se culpa a Israel como lo hace F. en sus artículos, tanto del pogromo como de la obligada tarea sucia que deben hacer  las Fuerzas de Defensa de israeI en desmantelar la fuerza destructiva que Hamas instaló en subterráneos bajo escuelas, hospitales, mezquitas y diversos edificios destinados a lo civil y no a almacenar armas y elementos para la destrucción.  ¿Porque F. no hace referencia a eso? ¿Acaso no es diabólico poner en peligro a gente inocente de esa manera?

F. en sus análisis no toma en cuenta nada de lo que es la realidad de Hamas como Organización terrorista. Ni siquiera  reconoce que es una Organizacion que prioriza la destruccion de Israel y la matanza de judíos.... Eso está explícito en la Fundación misma de Hamas como organización terrorista.... En su Carta Fundacional. Está a mano  en Internet

F. está en ese famoso y triste "doble estándar" de los derechos humanos: culpa a las víctimas de defenderse. Y justifica a los victimarios.

Toda la historia que se cuenta es sólo para terminar apoyando la accion de Hamas que al principio la reconoce como «condenable".

Jamas se refiere a que hacemos con lo "condenable" ¿Nos quedamos en eso y seguimos con Hamas instalado  en Gaza gobernando y manteniendo vivas  sus prioridades de borrar a Israel del mapa? ¿Y apoyandolo para que mate judíos?

No estimado F.; eso no se lo puedes pedir a nadie... Menos a los judíos.  Ya pasaron 2 mil años y la verdad es que los judios no desean aceptar tener que volver a sufrir ese tipo de situaciones: no más. Eso se acabó.

En estos momentos se trata del mundo civilizado quien ha de apoyar a Israel y presionar a Hamas en Gaza desarmando sus instalaciones y neutralizando su accionar. Necesitamos un planeta con líderes humanitarios que defiendan realmente los Derechos Humanos y no a las Organizaciones terroristas, excluyentes, autoritarias, crueles y violentas. No nos confundamos...

Es mucho más serio lo que está en juego. No sólo Israel: Toda la humanidad actual. Hoy es Israel y los judíos, mañana serán otros "infieles" quienes sufrirán  esa violencia...

Cordialmente pero muy entristecido por tu falta de diagnóstico de lo que ocurre y por la enorme confusión de tus artículos....

Te deseo que recapacites porque realmente te estimo.

Nathan

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Estimados/as:

La esencia de lo que A. señala lo quiero interpretar como el horror hacia el sufrimiento humano. Sobre todo producto de odiosidades enfermizas, excluyentes, dogmáticas y crueles.

Yo también comparto absolutamente esa sensación .

Eso mismo hace más urgente que nunca hacer un diagnóstico adecuado.

Seguir culpando a Israel por ese "trabajo sucio obligado" que implica el tener que entrar a Gaza a desarmar el aparato destructivo de Hamas para que de  acuerdo a su carta fundacional no logre "borrar del mapa a Israel y matar judios", NO ES una solucion sino sólo mantener el problema... No estamos en un problema "solo de Israel" sino de la humanidad civilizada o que a lo menos pretende llegar a serlo. Hoy es Israel, mañana será algun resto de "los infieles"...

Por eso, recientemente en otro mail,  los invité  a que difundamos que no deseamos más horror ni sufrimiento para nadie y que no deseamos organizaciones terroristas como Hamas cuyo fundamento es el odio, la exclusión, la violencia. Lo han declarado con claridad en su Carta Fundacional e Israel necesita que haya un trabajo Internacional mancomunado respecto a este tipo de Organizaciones, comenzando por la adecuada intervención en Gaza donde Israel sea relevado!! En lugar de atacar a Israel que el mundo no vuelva a traicionarlo como sucedió durante el nazismo. Que lo apoyen en una labor triste, ingrata, que es en rigor responsabilidad de la humanidad toda....

Pero que  no para la impunidad de estos desalmados... No darse cuenta de  quienes son Hamás y dejarlos "tranquilos" como algunos lo pretenden, es simplemente apostar a un desastre en nuestra humanidad.

Con mucha pena, preocupación y afecto,  invito a reflexionar, los que puedan a orar y a colaborar para un mundo mejor, reflexionando con apertura mental....

Un abrazo

Nathan 

Nella diffusione e/o ripubblicazione di questo articolo si prega di citare la fonte: www.utopiarossa.blogspot.com

SOBRE EL ANTISEMITISMO ACTUAL

de Nathan Novik y Luciano Dondero

Gracias Roberto [Savio]:

 Es un muy buen el artículo de Luciano Dondero y muchos de nosotros compartimos el criterio de que es evidente que el denominado "anti sionismo" es un antisemitismo disfrazado.  Si recordamos la shoa, (que menciona el comentarista), el holocausto, que suele ser negado como "propaganda sionista" por algunos grupos antisemitas, se hace evidente que es demasiada ignorancia o prejuicio, pensar que ser "anti sionista" es neutro ante el antisemitismo. Agrego algunos otros antecedentes de interés:

El sionismo es el movimiento político que apoya que exista  un lugar con autonomía por parte del pueblo judío, donde tiene ligazón espiritual, ancestral, histórica y poblacional,  con la misión de protegerlo. Un lugar donde no sea discriminado, asesinado, expulsado porel solo hecho de “ser judío”

Ese lugar está en la denominada “palestina” por los romanos, después que dicho Imperio expulsó a los judíos desde donde estaban antiguamente los reinos de Judea, Samaria e Israel. El único país del mundo donde los judíos son mayoría poblacional y, siendo una democracia, imperfecta sin duda, pueden sostener su autonomía: Es el moderno estado de Israel.

Ser anti sionista es estar en contra de la existencia misma de Israel, el único país en el mundo cuya misión es "amparar al pueblo judío". El sionismo desde su definición en el siglo 19 se auto consideraba democrático, incluyente de todos los credos, cordial y armónico con sus vecinos.  Con ese criterio se fundó y a pesar de ello no fue aceptado por el mundo árabe de esa época ni hasta ahora por parte de los dirigentes árabes palestinos.

Israel se funda en 1948, con acuerdo internacional, sobre un territorio con baja densidad poblacional donde en el Censo de 1945 efectuado por la Autoridad Británica,  había un total de 1.800.000 habitantes; actualmente sólo en Israel hay casi 9 millones

Y aún sería posible que exista un “estado de mayoría árabe en Gaza y Cisjordania si la mentalidad excluyente de no aceptar que Israel exista pueda cambiar. Se trata de algo cultural que con una educación incluyente puede cambiarse…

Los nazis calificaban y perseguían a personas que fuesen descendientes hasta de séptima generación de "algún judío/a".  Su “sangre estaba “contaminada” de “inferioridad racial y debía ser eliminado, lo que los nazis ejecutaron con alto nivel de “eficiencia” Se calcula que cerca del 65% de los judíos fue asesinado por el nazismo. Pero existen personas que “no lo creen”. Muchos de ellos se autodenominan “de izquierdas”, pero el antisemitismo es un prejuicio transversal.

Los sionistas no sólo son judíos. Pero la gran mayoría de los judíos si lo son.  Buena parte del mundo cristiano evangélico por ejemplo, también lo es; una muy pequeña parte de judíos ultra ortodoxos se declaran “no sionistas” ya que creen que Israel tendrá validez solo cuando llegue el Mesías. Es un tema de “creencias

Posiblemente la superación de la actual tragedia de Gaza pase por la participación de países árabes sunitas que ya tienen relación diplomática con Israel para que formen parte de un país árabe junto a los árabes palestinos que amen la paz y sus familias.

      Que incluyendo a Israel y sus vecinos, pueda ser realidad la convivencia de dos países democráticos en paz y colaboración.  La situación actual favorece esa posibilidad ya que una parte del mundo árabe sunita ha firmado tratados de paz y relaciones diplomáticas con Israel.

Por supuesto que existe la dinámica de cambio del anti sionismo y antisemitismo por miradas diferentes a las de años atrás.  Es lo acontecido con buena parte del actual mundo árabe que reconocen que Israel NO ES “el problema” sino parte de la solución.    

Cuando hay cambio de liderazgos, es muy probable que suceda. En el caso de varios países árabes sunitas se ha dado. En el caso de Chile, esperemos que se dé al terminar Boric su mandato. Lo de Boric es interesante revisar:

Cuando repasamos algunas de las diversas acciones de Boric, de sus colaboradores y admiradores, incluso desde antes del pogromo de octubre,  (es decir no sólo se trata del tema de Gaza), es evidente su  aversión a Israel y los judíos. Para cualquier analista  relativamente ecuánime, es más que claro que no recibir las cartas credenciales del embajador de Israel habiéndolo citado previamente. no asistir jamás a varias  invitaciones  a actos de la Comunidad Judía de Chile a los cuales tradicionalmente lo han hecho desde  mucho tiempo los presidentes del país de cualquier tendencia; el hostilizar al embajador reiteradamente sin siquiera responder a sus llamados, expulsar de la FIDAE a las empresas israelíes que tradicionalmente desde la primera de ellas han asistido y tantas otras actitudes de desprecio, falta mínima de deferencia, muestran una franca hostilidad que a pesar de que la Comunidad Judía se lo ha reiterado a Boric y colaboradores no les interesa modificar. Eso es claramente una mezcla de anti sionismo y antisemitismo manifiesto.

Quienes están en posturas antisemitas, (que normalmente como el caso de Boric incluyen un anti sionismo), son personas con sus prejuicios e ignorancias. No se debe poner a un país o a todo un conjunto en ese tipo de actitud y generalizar:  eso no sería real ni justo hacerlo.  Chile NO ES un “país antisemita”, sino que ese tipo de prejuicios está muy profundo en pequeños sectores de nuestra población.  Ni siquiera “es un tema” para la mayor parte de los ciudadanos. Tampoco la Comunidad árabe lo es. Ambas Comunidades árabe y judías comparten y han compartido entre sí.

Está claro que analizar y dar cuenta de manera constructiva la Institucionalidad israelí y sus fallas es algo lícito, además de una actitud constructiva, ya que postula a las mejoras que alguna vez tendrá que efectuar Israel. Nada tiene que ver con anti sionismo, sino más bien con un sionismo en serio ya que revela interés por la mejora de la democracia israelí.  Yo mismo he efectuado varios análisis al respecto. Pero ha de ser finalmente la ciudadanía israelí y el estado israelí los que tendrán que tomar cartas en ello.

Nathan Novik

 

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