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Germany's leading Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the opposition Christian Democratic Party (CDU) have ordered high schools in Berlin's borough of Neukolln to distribute brochures titled The Myth of Israel #1948.

The brochure states there are five "myths" around the creation of the state of Israel, which are subsequently refuted in short essays by various authors.

In the first section, debunking myth #1, that Jews and Arabs lived together in peace before Israel was founded, Israel's pre-state militia, the Haganah, responsible for the destruction of 531 Palestinian villages and the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians between December 1947 and the summer of 1948, is promoted as a merely "defensive" Jewish resistance movement.

"Myth #5: Israel is to blame for the Nakba", includes a text by researcher Shany Mor titled "the UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba: its view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extremely one-sided".

In the text, Mor states that "displacement during war - then and now - was nothing unusual".

He also labels the UN's attention to the Palestinian cause "obsessive" and the Arab defeat of 1948 a myth.

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[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Germany's leading Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the opposition Christian Democratic Party (CDU

Where greens

[-] Schmetterchen@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

Federal government currently is a coalition of 3 parties social democrats, greens and libertarians.

[-] moonleay@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

But the greens have nothing to do with this one. They were not mentioned once in this article, see:

The culprits are the SPD and CDU, the latter being in the opposition. Your reasoning does not make sense here.

[-] Schmetterchen@feddit.de -2 points 9 months ago

Yes true in the case of this pamphlet. But my argument isn't about this propaganda pamphlet alone - the greens are heavily involved in supporting Israel and aiding the genocide in Gaza since the foreign minister is from the green party (Annalena Baerbock). If she didn't want to be guilty of aiding in genocide she should have resigned under protest.

And to be clear: I do want to see them thrown in jail for this. Even though I know that will never happen.

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