We appreciate the public statement of the Munich group (1) about their resignation from the nation-wide network of the CARAVAN for the right of refugees and migrants. It would be consequent and straightforward as well to shed the name and not act under false pretence.
CARAVAN means movement for solidarity and against any form of oppression.
An African saying state: “The story told by the lion is completely different than those told by the hunters!”. Between those two positions, that of the lion and of the hunters, grows opportunism. It exposes itself by downplaying the crimes and its arguments are soaked in the ideology of the rulers and at the same time are excluding history*.
The camps and prisons for asylum seekers of today are not the same concentration camps of German colonialism. They are not the same elimination camps of Nazi Germany. But they are still camps for humans and therefore an expression of the same chauvinistic ideology and view. Only from understanding the history, we can understand why. The European colonialism, its ideology of being superior, and its racism was the fertile soil for the racial doctrine of the Nazi fascists.
How does Europe legitimate its existence in front of a Tribunal of humanity? It defends its luxurious existence only by force, terror, wars, propaganda, and corruption.
Palestine/Israel is only a micro cosmos of the global apartheid that has been initiated by old Europe. Israel / Palestine, the huntsman and the lion, was legitimated with direct reference to the elimination policy in Europe, especially legitimated by the genocide committed by fascist Germany. The concrete implementation meant occupation, displacement and racist ideology against the Palestine people. It corresponds to a historical continuity, when refugees are today labelled as infiltrators and are detained in desert camps.
Today, fascism is levelled to power in Ukraine and in Ceuta and Melilla hang in the NATO barb wires bodies that have bled to death. Which judgement does this Europe and its white societies expect? The perspective and ideology of the huntsmen continues to dominate from right to left. The claim on the prey is hypocritically rejected and is hidden behind an ahistorical and anti-racist mask.
Not the accusation of Anti-Semitism hits us, but the mockery about the victims and the perpetual efforts to weaken a solidarity movement and its collective resistance.
CARAVAN for the rights of refugees and migrants
(1) http://karawane-muenchen.org/karawane-muenchen.org/2014/01/30/zur-solid…
* We recommend the book “White barbarism” written by Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe, original Title: “La Férocité blanche: Des non-blancs aux non-aryens, génocides occultés de 1942 à nos jours”.