Is Germany intimidated by Im Tirtzu?

After the German government was faced with accusations that the federal republic uses taxpayer money to fund anti-Israel NGOs, BDS, and terrorism activities, German officials used allegedly harsh and undiplomatic language in internal messages about an expose launched by the Israeli organization Im Tirtzu Building the Zionist Deam, Israel National News can reveal.

Matan Peleg, CEO of Im Tirtzu, on Monday told Israel National News: “We’ve always said that the German government is in a state of self-denial, where on the one hand it purports to work to resolve the conflict, and on the other hand it funds anti-Zionist propaganda groups that profit from the conflict and work to escalate it.”

He added that “Now, after seeing their internal correspondence between the various divisions at their Foreign Ministry, it turns out that they are simply lying to each other.

The German government can either let this deception continue, or it can stop funding organizations that profit from the conflict and from human suffering such as B’Tselem, which is on the top level of disgracefulness.”

In a complex back and forth email exchange between the German foreign ministry and former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chancellery, a text email was ostensibly mistakenly sent to Im Tirtzu as part of the German government’s authorized response. The message reveals a rare look into the inner workings of top German diplomats and officials who deal with Israel.

The German officials seemed to express nervousness about the importance and “range of the organization [Im Tirtzu] in Israel” and expected that part of the government’s formal response to Im Tirzu’s letter would be published in the media.

The background email was sent by an official in the foreign ministry. Israel National News sent a press query to the official.

In the internal dialogue, which was seemingly unintentionally included in the email by the official, the following quote appeared: “In addition, the organization [Im Tirzu] does not shy away from polemical exaggeration (‘these propaganda organizations thrive off conflict and need it to survive, and Germany has turned the conflict into a business’) nor from proven false claims.

The German foreign ministry’s note referenced sections of Peleg’s October letter to Merkel that triggered the row.

Peleg wrote that “The government of Germany is working subversively and undemocratically to change the character of another democratic state – a state that provides more human rights than any other in the Middle East – by funding domestic organizations that openly work to undermine it.”

Germany casted doubt on Im Tirtzu’s contention that “On September, 28, 2021, a B’Tselem activist was caught setting fire to an Arab building in a Hebron in order to frame Jews.”

In a December letter obtained by Israel National News, Peleg wrote that the official, “in her response to Mrs.[Nina] Bernhard and other German officials denied that a member of B’Tselem was caught in September setting fire to an Arab building in the Herbon region in order to incriminate Jews, despite the fact that the incident was widely publicized in Israeli media (as was reported on Channel 12 News).”

Israel National News sent press queries to the German foreign ministry and Bernhard.

The spat between Im Tirtzu and the German foreign ministry started in October when the Israeli NGO charged Germany with “both direct funding (via the German Foreign Ministry) and indirect funding (via governmental foundations), Germany provides extensive funding to Israeli political organizations that promote the BDS movement, work to exert international pressure on Israel, work to change Israel’s immigrations policies, and even work to change Israel’s policy against terrorism by means of legal and international pressure.”

BDS is an abbreviation for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state. The German Bundestag labelled BDS antisemitic in a 2019 resolution.

According to Im Tirtzu, “Over the past several years, Germany alone has funded 34 political organizations in Israel, all of whom are affiliated with the far-left. From 2012 – 2021, Germany has provided NIS 84, 204, 316 (22.5 million euro) – a tremendous sum, especially by Israeli standards.”

Im Tirtzu wrote that “Seventeen percent of the 22.5 million euro funded by Germany to these radical groups has gone toward organizations that provide legal protection to murderous terrorists and their family members in Israeli courts”.

In their letter, Im Tirtzu, mentioned as an example that one of these organizations, has provided in recent years legal protection for 81 terrorists and their families. “These terrorists are responsible for the murder of 77 people.” they wrote.

The NGO also took B’Tselem to task for its allegedly anti-Israel conduct. “ Germany also substantially funds the B’Tselem organization, which received 9,107,706 euro from Germany from 2012 – 2021.”

The German government wrote in its response to Im Tirtzu that “The Federal Government does not cooperate with partners that promote or engage in violence or deny Israel’s right to exist. We do not fund projects that actively promote BDS. German political foundations are not state entities and engage independently of the Federal Government. In this sense too, we do not necessarily endorse all views expressed by civil society partners or independent organizations, whose fundamental right to freedom of expression is part of democratic and pluralistic societies like Israel and Germany.?

The Federal government statement added that “Allegations of any involvement with sanctioned individuals or entities as well as misconduct are taken very seriously are and are investigated diligently. Our partner organizations are obliged by law to submit detailed spending and activity reports. In the same vein, we stand by human rights defenders and civil society organizations who face false accusations and disinformation campaigns.”

Peleg said “The hard-earned tax money of German citizens would be better spent on their own welfare, not on fueling the flames of the conflict in another country. Just as Israel does not fund political organizations in Germany that seek to change Germany’s immigration or economic policy, or that provide legal protection to murderous terrorists and their families, so too Germany should not be funding such organizations in Israel.”

He added that “ it is important to note that we will continue using our wide influence in Israel to prevent Germany’s undemocratic intervention in our affairs. With all due respect, Israel is not a German colony.”

The Press department of the Federal Foreign Office of German responded: “As a matter of policy, we do not comment on internal correspondence or consultation processes.”

“The work of the German political foundations is not undertaken at the behest of the Government. The foundations select their own projects and are responsible for their implementation.”

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318948

Jihad in France: Another knife attack on a passer-by

On Sunday December 19, a 60-year-old man was attacked in the subway of the railway station in Ambérieu-en-Bugey, about 50 km from Lyon, when he went to pick up his grandson. The victim was stabbed in the neck and required several stitches.

Investigators considered a terrorist background because of the attacker’s modus operandi. No robbery, no spoken words and no connection to the victim.

https://www.fdesouche.com/2021/12/22/amberieu-en-bugey-01-un-homme-poignarde-a-la-gorge-un-mineur-interpelle-la-piste-terroriste-envisagee/

Omicron discoverer perplexed by hysterical global response

For weeks now, the newly discovered Corona variant Omicron has been misused by politics and the mainstream media to spread even more fear and panic. The doctor who discovered this variant does not understand the overreaction in Europe and warned that this could lead to a missed opportunity.

The disease is mild and the spread of Omicron could lead to natural immunity in the population. That would be an advantage if new variants emerge again. Lockdowns would, however, prevent this positive development.

The South African doctor Dr. Angelique Coetzee reported the first Omicron case and treated it. In an article in the British newspaper Daily Mail the doctor was surprised at the exaggerated reaction to the variant in Europe. “Let me be clear: nothing I’ve seen in this new variant justifies the extreme measures the British government has taken in response,” said Coetzee, shocked after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people to “think carefully” before attending Christmas parties and social events.

“I was stunned by the response,” she said. “Nobody here in South Africa has been hospitalized with the Omicron variant, and it is also assumed that nobody here is seriously ill with it,” added Coetzee.

“My first Omicron case, a young man who came to my practice who initially believed he had been in the sun too long after working outdoors. Patients typically come with aches and pains in their muscles and limbs, headaches, and some tiredness. And their symptoms don’t seem to be getting worse. They subside after about five days, and that’s it,” she explained, describing the mild course of the disease.

Patients are treated at home with anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and low doses of cortisone. Contrary to the alarmism in Europe, there are no considerations in South Africa to impose new restrictions or lockdowns. The doctor explained that one has got used to new variants. “When our scientists confirmed the discovery of another one, no one made anything big of it. Lots of people didn’t even notice.”

She also pointed out that relatively few people in South Africa have had the experimental preparations. So far, just over 31 percent have had an injection, and around 26 percent have been jabbed stung. “Even unprotected bodies repel this variant much more easily than Delta.”

South African data analyst Pieter Streicher agreed with Coetzee’s take on the Omicron variant, saying it could in fact end the pandemic.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/12/22/omicron-discoverer-perplexed-by-hysterical-global-response/

Muslims want to build a Turkish district in Wuppertal, Germany

Wuppertal is well known. With around 350,000 inhabitants, the city is the economic, educational and cultural centre of the Bergisch district, which is located in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is the seventeenth largest city in Germany. It is best known for its suspension railway – the only one of its kind in a major German city. That could soon change. In a few years, Wuppertal may be the first city in Germany to have its own Turkish district. Will non-Muslims be allowed to enter it then?

This is really new in Germany: the Turkish-controlled Islamic cultural association DITIB – specifically the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion e.V. – wants to build a whole new district in Wuppertal-Elberfeld. The new quarter is to cost around 30 million euros, which is to come from unknown “sponsors”. DITIB has been working on a feasibility study for about ten years, which has now become public. On 6,000 square metres, architect Cengiz Müjde is planning bars, grocery shops, nursing homes and, of course, a mosque with a large minaret and cupola visible from afar.

“In addition, we want to offer a kindergarten. For the elderly, we offer assisted living. But the business will also create new jobs,” the architect reveals his plans and tries to make the project attractive to the local population with jobs that are urgently needed in the region.

Almost all the land needed already belongs to the association. Where the association got the money for the plots of land, the planners of the district do not say. And not a word is said about where the investors will come from. It is well known that the Turkish state controls DITIB. Whether it will finance the project directly or indirectly is a matter of speculation. But would the immigration-friendly German government seriously oppose a foreign state interfering in the construction of city districts?

How such a district fits in with the government’s propaganda that it supports the integration of immigrants remains a mystery, because the project would further segregate the population. On the other hand, such a district would further promote the formation of parallel societies, and other speculators could also detect a business model for other cities. Is this really what is intended? Because in Wuppertal, two more mosques are already being planned or built elsewhere, which the city – as expected – willingly supports. These are a mosque of the Moroccan community and a mosque of the Kurdish cultural association. </div>How such a district fits in with the government’s propaganda that it supports the integration of immigrants remains a mystery, because the project would further segregate the population. On the other hand, such a district would further promote the formation of parallel societies, and other speculators could also detect a business model for other cities. Is this really what is intended? Because in Wuppertal, two more mosques are already being planned or built elsewhere, which the city – as expected – willingly supports. These are a mosque of the Moroccan community and a mosque of the Kurdish cultural association.

Only the announcement that the city’s Antifa Centre, a meeting place for numerous left-wing extremists, which is located on the planned site, would have to make way for it, caused a lot of scorn and ridicule, because the left-wing extremists, who should actually welcome the project, suddenly have a critical attitude towards it. But of course the city of Wuppertal can be relied on to find a new home for the extremists.

The mainstream media and the old parties have so far been conspicuously reticent with criticism or applause. Only the AfD has commented on the ambitious plan: “It is to be feared that the construction of a ‘Ditib’ quarter will lead to existing parallel societies moving even further away from the majority society and that people will eventually live there according to their own rules and values – which will ultimately be dictated by Erdogan and fundamentalists close to him. Tomorrow, ‘Ditib’ could claim to want to live there as autonomously as possible,” says AfD board member Joachim Paul, criticising the plan. But Islamisation is not happening at all, is it?

https://www.wochenblick.at/politik/ditib-will-tuerken-stadtteil-in-wuppertal-errichten/

Is Germany’s restrictive 2G system for the unvaccinated based on a lie?

To justify socially oppressive and economically harmful 2G COVID-19 restrictions on the unvaccinated, Peter Tschentscher, the left-wing mayor of Hamburg who is also a medical doctor, deliberately misled the public, citing patently false information which suggested nearly all of those infected with COVID-19 were unvaccinated, according to German media news reports.

Prominent lawmakers are now calling on Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) to resign from his post after it was revealed that he used false data, which maintained 95 percent of the COVID-infected people in the Hanseatic city were unvaccinated, to justify the implementation of strict 2G restriction measures on the unvaccinated to purportedly curb the spread of the virus, Die Welt reports.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder, left, and the Mayor of Hamburg Peter Tschentscher, right, attend a joint press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. All three politicians are known to be champions of harsh COVID-19 restrictions and mandatory vaccination.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)

The SPD mayor’s false claim that 95 percent of people infected with COVID-19 in Hamburg had not been vaccinated paved the way for the state’s Senate — ruled by a coalition between the Greens and the SPD — to become the first federal state in Germany to introduce the so-called 2G system. Following the introduction of the 2G measures in his state, Tschentscher then lobbied publicly for the 2G system to be applied throughout the entire Federal Republic of Germany.

On Nov. 16, Tschentscher justified the corona measures with the high incidence value of the unvaccinated, saying, “Of our 3,452 new infections this calendar week, over 90 percent are in people without full vaccination protection,” said the mayor during a press conference.

“Because of those who have not yet been vaccinated, the incidence has an impact. Against this background, we said in Hamburg in August: We need more security in such a situation, which consists in the fact that there are simply too many unvaccinated people. And that’s why we were the first federal state in Germany to introduce a 2G rule for areas where there is a higher risk of infection,” he said during the conference.

Under the 2G system, entry into public spaces like restaurants, gyms, cafes, theaters, and other cultural venues is restricted unless an individual can provide official documentation that they’re either fully vaccinated or have recovered from the COVID-19 virus.

The mayor’s honesty and integrity were both brought into question when his colleague Anna-Elisabeth von Treuenfels-Frowein, a lawmaker for the Free Democratic Party (FDP), submitted an information request to the Hamburg Senate which ultimately revealed that the number of unvaccinated individuals infected with COVID-19 was significantly lower than Tschentscher had claimed.

Epidemiological data from calendar week 35 — which began on Aug. 30 and ended on Sept. 5 — that was released by the Senate showed that 68.3 percent of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were unvaccinated. More recently, however, a mere 14.3 of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 were unvaccinated. The figures were further skewed by the fact that all cases where the patient’s vaccination status had been unknown were included in the unvaccinated category.

Despite the Hamburg mayor claiming in a press conference on Nov. 16, 2021 that 95 percent of the cases of infected people were unvaccinated during calendar week 45, the data released by the state’s Senate at the behest of Treuenfels-Frowein’s request revealed that 63.2 percent of patients infected with COVID-19 had an unknown vaccination status, 22.5 percent were vaccinated, and 14.3 percent were unvaccinated.

When asked by the German newspaper BILD how 14.3 percent became 95 percent, and how the actual data justified the 2G rule that he imposed, Tschentscher replied, saying: “If there has been any uncertainty, I very much regret it. I assure the people of Hamburg that our recommendations are very well-founded.”

“One reason seems to be the use of different IT systems that provide different categories for the vaccination status. In addition, the rapidly increasing number of infections could no longer be classified quickly enough,” Tschentscher added.

Wolfgang Kubicki, FDP vice chairman and member of Germany’s federal parliament, has rejected the mayor’s excuses and believes his claims were deliberately deceptive.

“It is unbelievable and a disaster for trust in the integrity of state action when a state government clearly presents manipulated figures. Mayor Tschentscher will have to explain himself to parliament and should say why the Hamburg Senate considers it necessary to deceive its citizens with such tricks,” Kubicki said.

Treuenfels-Frowein also slammed the mayor, saying: “I consider this approach to be irresponsible. Anyone who, among other things, interferes with fundamental rights based on incorrect numbers should not be surprised if their acceptance among Hamburgers is rapidly declining. I would go one step further: Anyone who does this is legally responsible.”

Meanwhile, pressure continues to build on the unvaccinated. Despite Chancellor Angela Merkel and all major chancellor candidates promising no vaccine mandates in the run-up to federal elections, all have now backtracked and openly support mandatory vaccination.

https://rmx.news/germany/is-germanys-restrictive-2g-system-for-the-unvaccinated-based-on-a-lie/

2021 Word of the Year in Dutch: ‘Jab regret’

“Jab regret” [prikspijt] has been named Word of the Year 2021 by the famous Dutch dictionary Van Dale. The word received 82.2 percent of the 49 000 votes cast on the Van Dale website.

“That is an overwhelming majority,” agreed editor-in-chief Ton den Boon with reference to the poll on Twitter. “That was done by people who do not want to be vaccinated. It reflects the polarization that is present in society around vaccination and boosting it,” said Den Boon in an interview with the NOS Radio 1 Journaal.

Was the vote fair? “We have found that there have been no ‘bots’ at work, those programmed responses that automatically cast a vote. We checked that. But as we have seen on Twitter – and everyone could see that for themselves – there were frequent calls to vote for this word.”

As a result, the number of votes cast was relatively high. Last year 12 000 people voted, in 2019 it was 17 500. In 2018, when “blokkeerfriezen” was the winner, about 49 000 votes were also cast.  Frisians in the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Groningen had successfully blocked the A7 highway to stop leftists from staging “anti-racist” protests against Zwarte Piet in Friesland causing massive disruptions.

For Den Boon the vote is a valid one even though he feels “sorry” that it has won as the Word of the Year. “It is the word chosen by the people. But you may wonder how broad that people is and to what extent this word reflects the idea of ​​what the word of the year should be. At the same time, it reflects the polarization in society and therefore it might be an interesting word.”

Jab regret is the “regret a person feels for having been vaccinated against a particular infectious disease”. The editor-in-chief added: “It’s an interesting word, you’ve also seen it in the opposite sense lately: that you regret not getting the injection.”

The words “housing protest”, the protest against the crisis on the housing market, came a long way off in second place with 3.7 percent of the vote. The word “wappiesound” came in third, with 3.6 percent. This refers to an opinion about a social issue, which does not support the mainstream narrative, often used by the vaccinated for remarks by so-called conspiracy theorists.

“Wappie” is a pejorative term that originated in the Dutch language in the nineties of the twentieth century. During the Corona pandemic, the terms “corona wappie” and “covid wappie” were used as disqualifying terms for those who questioned the government’s Covid policies.

In Belgium, the Dutch word ”knaldrang” was chosen as Word of the Year 2021 with 37.2 percent of the votes. That means the “strong desire to go crazy” or to “break out”.

People could submit words that they thought should have a chance to win. Van Dale compiled a top 15 from all entries. Not only were there words that had to do with the Corona pandemic, but other current affairs were also shortlisted.

The list nominated words were:

Booster shot: repeated injection of a vaccine
Delta variant: highly contagious variant of the Coronavirus in 2021
Breakthrough infection: virus infection that occurs in the fully vaccinated
Influencer: someone who gives investment advice on social media
Sensitivity reader: editor that scans text for politically incorrect statements
Cave syndrome: fear complex of after prolonged isolation from social life
Intimacy vacuum: the lack of connection and intimacy
Meme share: share of small company bought en masse to manipulate price
Pandemocracy: democracy (permanently) changed by a pandemic
Jab polarization: when jab proponents verbally attack opponents
Jab regret: regret someone feels for having been vaccinated
QR society: society in which only certain people have access to places
Vaccine proponent: someone who jumps the line to get vaccinated
Wappiesound: a fringe opinion about a social, political, etc. issues
Housing protest: protest against housing crisis which excluded first-time buyers

[Source: Van Dale]

The winning word of 2020 was the “one-and-a-half meter society”. The term received 29.8 percent of the vote. In total, more than 12 000 votes were cast for the twenty words that Van Dale had nominated.

The organizers have now decided to stick to fifteen words from now on for the sake of clarity and “not because we didn’t have enough words”.

“Boomer” became word of the year in 2019, “app accident” in 2017, “bullying vlogger” in 2016 and “cheating software” in 2015 .

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/12/22/2021-word-of-the-year-in-dutch-jab-regret/

Austrian Government Hires Vaccination “Hunters” to Track Down those Inhabitants Who Have Not Had Their Fauci Vaccine

They admit it now that you’ve taken it. This IS Cell and Gene Therapy. And they know you wouldn’t have taken it had you been told. Bayer manager:

https://vladtepesblog.com/