German City To Honor Anti-Israel Group Code Pink With Tolerance Prize

[Purveyor]

February 25, 2016 3:04pm

BERLIN (JTA) — Jewish leaders are slamming a German city’s plan to honor an American organization, Code Pink, that backs the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel with a human rights award.

The American Jewish Committee’s Berlin office urged Bavarian state legislators to publicly distance themselves from the Bayreuth award, which is to be presented on April 15.

The University of Bayreuth had recommended the nongovernmental organization for the Wilhelmine-von-Bayreuth Prize for Tolerance and Humanity in Cultural Diversity, which is worth about $11,000.

“Greater sensitivity” is called for in selecting a recipient, Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said Thursday, noting this was especially important at a time when Germany “wants to transmit our values to many new immigrants.” According to the German news agency dpa, Schuster noted that Code Pink calls Israel an “apartheid state.”

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http://www.jta.org/2016/02/25/news-opinion/world/german-city-to-honor-anti-israel-group-code-pink-with-tolerance-prize

[King_David]

1. How do you feel about them being in conflict with a Jewish group... Not an Israeli group at all ,

But a Jewish group.

And in Germany too....


How do you feel about that?

[Little Tich]

2. Code Pink is doing a god job, and deserves the award.

I don't really understand the reasoning behind the American Jewish Committee protesting the award, but I do know that they promote the concept of the "new" anti-Semitism, which basically means that all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism or connected to anti-Semitism in some way (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/arts/31jews.html?_r=0).

I took a peek at Code Pink's website, and I didn't see anything wrong with what they were doing. Code Pink is involved in many issues, but on the subject of "Justice for Palestine" they highlighted the following issues:

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE
BOYCOTT AHAVA: STOLEN BEAUTY
CODEPINK launched stolenbeauty.org in June 2009 with a protest at the Ahava shop in the Tel Aviv Hilton. As part of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement that aims to ensure equality, freedom and justice, CODEPINK has focused its boycott efforts on Ahava and Soda Stream, two companies that have manufacturing plants in illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank.

REMODEL RE/MAX: NO OPEN HOUSE ON STOLEN LAND
In 2014, CODEPINK launched a campaign entitled Remodel RE/MAX: No Open Homes on Stolen Land, asking the RE/MAX, the Denver-based real estate corporation, to cease its complicity in the sale or rental of settlement properties through its contract with RE/MAX Israel. Remodel RE/MAX: No Open House on Stolen Land campaign is part of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a call by Palestinian civil society to engage in non-violent activism by boycotting companies and institutions that are complicit in Israel’s occupation. Find out more at remodelremax.org

BOYCOTT SODASTREAM
SodaStream markets itself as an environmentally friendly product to “Turn Water Into Fresh Sparkling Water And Soda”… but there is nothing friendly about the destruction of Palestinian life, land and water resources! Although SodaStream products are labeled as "Made in Israel," its main production facility is in the industrial zone of Mishor Edomin, an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank.

END US MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL
CODEPINK, together with Global Exchange, Interfaith Peace-builders, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and over 100 peace and justice groups, are dedicated to exposing and decrying the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a far-right Israel lobby group. Visit MoveOverAIPAC.Org to learn more about how to take action

SUPPORT PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES
Background: CODEPINK, Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation have worked to elevate the voices of popular Palestinian organizers. In collaboration with the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee (PSCC) in the West Bank, US-based solidarity groups have been instrumental in raising the profile of the many non-violent activists who commit themselves to organizing against the Israeli occupation and who face Israeli violence and repression because of their steadfastness.

Source: http://www.codepink.org/justice_for_palestine

[shira]

3. CodePink? They're 100% racist pieces of shit. Iran Holocaust Denying Conference....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113483103
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113483118

Yeah, it's that bad.

You once claimed there are some idiot racist BDS'ers, and then there are good ones.

I'm not sure you can tell the difference.

[Little Tich]

5. Apart from the visit of one of the co-founders to the New Horizon Conference in Iran,

are there any other evidence that you can provide that proves that Code Pink are "100% racist pieces of shit"? I usually look at patterns to find evidence of anti-Semitism, and if Code Pink are indeed "100% racist pieces of shit" there should be ample evidence in their articles and comments. I didn't find anything, but I didn't bother digging too deep either...

[shira]

6. That comment is revealing. Ignoring CodePink's participation at that vile conference...

....is apparently what it takes to keep blindly supporting BDS.

Do you defend any other organizations that are insanely racist against Blacks, Arabs, or Aborigines?

[shira]

4. CodePink's ties to Holocaust Deniers may be why German town honors them...

Iran kicked off its anti-America and anti-Israel New Hori­zon Con­fer­ence as the final part of the 13th Inter­na­tional Resis­tance Film Fes­ti­val in Tehran. The three-day con­fer­ence opened on Sep­tem­ber 29 and marks the sec­ond time Tehran has hosted the event. Accord­ing to orga­niz­ers, the event will include “tens of elite thinkers, philoso­phers, activists and politi­cians world­wide” who will dis­cuss and “expose” Zion­ist con­trol of the film indus­try and the influ­ence of the “Zion­ist lobby in America.”

As in the pre­vi­ous con­fer­ence, this year’s New Hori­zon Con­fer­ence has drawn the par­tic­i­pa­tion of sev­eral anti-Israel activists, anti-Semitic con­spir­acy the­o­rists and Holo­caust deniers. A new pres­ence at the con­fer­ence is the par­tic­i­pa­tion of a so called Amer­i­can anti-war activist, Medea Ben­jamin, a co-founder of CODEPINK.

In addi­tion to Ben­jamin, the conference’s offi­cial web­site pub­lished the names of sev­eral Amer­i­can and inter­na­tional anti-Semites, anti-Israel activists and Holo­caust deniers that are expected to be in atten­dance, includ­ing Maria Poumier, a French con­spir­acy the­o­rist and Holo­caust denier; Clau­dio Moffa, an Ital­ian Holo­caust denier; Kevin Bar­rett, an anti-Semitic con­spir­acy the­o­rist and fre­quent con­trib­u­tor to Iran’s Eng­lish lan­guage pro­pa­ganda news net­work, Press TV; Garth Porter, an anti-Israel jour­nal­ist; Pepe Esco­bar, a Brazil­ian anti-Israel jour­nal­ist; and Art Olivier, a for­mer elected offi­cial from Cal­i­for­nia and 9/11 con­spir­acy theorist.

More­over, Iran­ian news agen­cies have reported that a num­ber of other indi­vid­u­als are sched­uled to also attend the three-day con­fer­ence in Tehran. Iran­ian news agen­cies have reported the expected par­tic­i­pa­tion of Ali­son Weir, the direc­tor of If Amer­i­cans Knew and the Coun­cil for the National Inter­est, two grass­roots anti-Israel orga­ni­za­tions; Ken O’Keefe, an anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist for­mer U.S. Marine and a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to Press TV; Wayne Mad­sen, an anti-Semitic con­spir­acy the­o­rist; Cyrus McGoldrick, the for­mer Civil Rights Man­ager for the New York chap­ter of Coun­cil on American-Islamic Rela­tions; Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, the French anti-Semitic come­dian and the cre­ator of the anti-Semitic “quenelle” ges­ture; and Mark Sil­jan­der, a for­mer U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive (R-MI) who was found guilty in 2010 of two fed­eral charges relat­ing to his ties to an Islamic char­ity alleged to have funded ter­ror­ist groups.


http://blog.adl.org/international/iran-new-horizon-conference-draws-u-s-anti-semites-holocaust-deniers

[oberliner]

7. Medea is such an obvious hypocrite

An apologist for the worst regimes in the world.