Dieter Hallervorden: Central Council of Jews feedback on Gaza video | EUROtoday

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ZThe Central Council of Jews has now additionally spoken out about Dieter Hallervorden's controversial video concerning the warfare in opposition to Hamas in Gaza. A speaker described the poem within the video as “confused” and “questionable,” as he wrote to the dpa information company. “The presentation of the so-called poem, the text and the other statements by Mr. Hallervorden are so confused and questionable that we refrain from making a further thematic statement.”

In the three-minute video that Hallervorden posted on Instagram and Facebook, he speaks in a poem in reference to Israel's coverage of apartheid and genocide. He known as for a ceasefire and the discharge of “all hostages.”

He wrote the textual content along with the controversial songwriter and former Bundestag member of the Left, Diether Dehm. To assist his statements, Hallervorden additionally used propaganda movies from Hamas and excerpts from the Qatari information channel Al-Jazeera. He described his video as a “call for peace.”

Specifically, he says a few father from Gaza whose baby was killed: “Should I recommend this father to be as cool as a talk guest, just not to miss a word that appears anti-Semitic?” He says about German politics : “They pledge allegiance to apartheid, from traffic lights to AfD.” The idea of apartheid is ideologically extremely controversial in reference to Israel. He additionally criticizes arms deliveries to Israel and asks: “And that shouldn’t be genocide?”

Hallervorden: “I am immune from (…) being an anti-Semite”

Hallervorden defended itself in opposition to accusations of anti-Semitism on Thursday. “I am immune from being somehow pushed into this corner – just because I expressed criticism – of being an anti-Semite,” mentioned the 88-year-old. “I grew up as the grandson of a grandfather who saved a synagogue from being burned down and was bitterly punished for it.”

He described himself as a political particular person, however not as a Middle East skilled. “I knew that of course I wouldn't be met with love from all sides, but that didn't matter to me.” He has nothing in charge himself for.

Hallervorden was at an occasion on Thursday organized by the Federal Children's Hospice Association, for which he has been an envoy for years. “I cannot get involved in the children’s hospice here and refuse the cry for help from children who die every day in the Gaza Strip.”

The President of the German-Israeli Society, Volker Beck, criticized Hallervorden on X (previously Twitter). He accused him of not leaving out any anti-Israel clichés within the video and of reversing the perpetrator and sufferer. Hallervorden additionally says within the video: “Atrocities usually have a history. And no one is born a terrorist.”

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The video was additionally mentioned within the Berlin House of Representatives. Among different issues, it was about whether or not Hallervorden could be invited to the subsequent court docket competition. Just a few weeks in the past, the actor and Berlin theater director shared a publish on Instagram through which he took a place in opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and known as on the German authorities to work in the direction of an finish to the warfare between Israel and Hamas.

On October seventh, the terrorist group Hamas, which guidelines within the Gaza Strip, attacked Israel, massacred greater than 1,200 folks and kidnapped round 240 folks as hostages. Israel then launched a warfare in opposition to Hamas within the Gaza Strip. According to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, the variety of deaths in Gaza not too long ago rose to round 33,800.

Hallervorden is the director of the Schlosstheater in Berlin and has made a reputation for himself over the many years as a cabaret artist and actor in movie and tv. In the Nineteen Seventies he grew to become recognized for the sequence “Nonstop Nonsens”, and in 2014 he starred alongside Til Schweiger within the movie “Honig im Kopf”.