Israel slams German university for claim it harvests Palestinian organs

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BERLIN - A German university faced scathing criticism from Israel’s foreign ministry for teaching students that the Jewish state is an apartheid government that harvests Palestinian organs and commits genocidal atrocities.

"This is an ugly and outrageous demonstration of Jew hatred. This is not a university - it is a hatred factory. One would think that in Germany of all places people would understand the pernicious nature of hatred and racism under a pseudo academic guise", Emmanuel Nahshon, the foreign ministry’s spokesman, wrote The Jerusalem Post by email on Thursday. The academic Dr. Rebecca Seidler, who blew the whistle on the anti-Israel seminar, told the Post she was slated to teach a course on Jewish life in Germany, but was presented with course material for a seminar titled “On the Social Situation of Young People in Palestine.” After Seidler reviewed the seminar articles and material, she told the Post in a telephone interview on Thursday, she could not teach a seminar with “such anti-Semitic and anti-Israel” content.

The Post examined scores of articles for the course curriculum for the period 2015-2016. One seminar article from 2009 titled “Our sons are plundered of their organs" by the Swedish journalist Donald Boström, claims Israel harvests Palestinian organs. The article was translated into German for the seminar. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared the organ-harvesting report at the time to "medieval libels that Jews killed Christian children for their blood." In an interview with Israel Radio, Boström later casted doubt on his sourcing, adding that he could not verify the stories of his Palestinian informants.

Articles for the seminar ranged from “Apartheid in the Holy Land” to “70 victims of torture in Israeli prisons since 1967” to “Third Class Citizens: The targeted discrimination of Arab Israelis.” The source for the article on “Third Class Citizens” is the far left weekly Junge Welt--a socialist paper accused of stoking modern anti-Semitism in Germany. Additional articles covered “The Israeli Apartheid Wall” and Israeli violations of the rights of Palestinian children. The curriculum features poetry from the late hardcore anti-Zionist writer Erich Fried, whose literature makes parallels between Israel and the Hitler movement. Several articles accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians. One document from the German-Palestinian Society on Jewish groups who massacred Palestinians invites the HAWK students to become members of the pro-Palestinian NGO....

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