{"id":105874,"date":"2023-07-28T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=105874"},"modified":"2023-07-28T12:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T10:23:02","slug":"04-05-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=105874","title":{"rendered":"Israeli ambassador kicked out of Berlin cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/jpost.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\"><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-752847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Israeli ambassador kicked out of Berlin cafe<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>TOBY AXELROD \/ JTA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rough estimates say around <span style=\"color: #800000;\">10,000 Israelis live in Berlin. Many are left-wing<\/span> politically and critical of Israel\u2019s policies.<\/strong><br \/>\n.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822\/546501\" width=\"100%\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Ron Prosor \/ (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">An expat&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/podcast\/travel-edition\/article-712422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Israeli in Berlin<\/a>&nbsp;ejected Israel\u2019s ambassador to Germany from his cafe on Sunday as a political statement in the midst of Israel\u2019s ongoing political crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Avi Berg, owner of Caf\u00e9 Dodo in Berlin, announced on Facebook that he had told Ambassador Ron Prosor he was \u201cnot welcome in my caf\u00e9\u201d because he \u201crepresents Israel, and since he implements an invalid and manipulative policy, which claims that any&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/article-736416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticism of Israel is antisemitic<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">That policy, wrote Berg, \u201cclaims that I and my peers are antisemitic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">After being asked to leave, Prosor and his bodyguards left the cafe immediately, Berg reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cI would like to emphasize that I did what I did specifically because the ambassador isn\u2019t an individual but an official representative of the state of Israel,\u201d Berg told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency via Facebook Messenger on Wednesday, \u201cand since he and the embassy are deeply involved in putting pressure on the Bundestag and on German media and institutions to block any criticism of Israel and to label any such criticism as antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/f_auto,fl_lossy\/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822\/546502\" width=\"100%\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Israeli ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor. (credit: Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This diplomacy is implemented all over the world, but is especially effective in Germany\u2026 This policy is also very damaging against the fight against genuine antisemitism!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Berg opposes the IHRA definition of antisemitism<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman told Haaretz that Prosor had been unaware of Berg\u2019s political stance when he visited the cafe. Berg has been critical of the&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-750297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance<\/a>\u2019s working definition of antisemitism, because it says some forms of Israel criticism are antisemitic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rough estimates say around 10,000 Israelis live in Berlin. Many are left-wing politically and critical of Israel\u2019s policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israel is currently mired in a political crisis over its right-wing government\u2019s push to weaken the country\u2019s judiciary. A protest movement of hundreds of thousands against the legislation reached a peak earlier this week, as demonstrators blocked major highways and were met with water cannons.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli ambassador kicked out of Berlin cafe TOBY AXELROD \/ JTA Rough estimates say around 10,000 Israelis live in Berlin. Many are left-wing politically and critical of Israel\u2019s policies. . Ron Prosor \/ (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) An expat&nbsp;Israeli in Berlin&nbsp;ejected Israel\u2019s ambassador to Germany from his cafe on Sunday as a political statement in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105874"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105882,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105874\/revisions\/105882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}