Re: Debconf in Israel

[Ghassan_Kanafani <Ghassan_Kanafani@protonmail.com>]

Thank you for these emails.

Providing tacit approval for apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and international crimes ought to be antithetical with Debconf's - and the entire Debian project's - mission. I share Nasir El-Amin's frustration and feeling of betrayal over this poor decision, and am also actively organizing a response.

As a minor note also, implying that Poland has taken German land, considering the history of World War 2, and equating that to the present-day Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, is incorrect, dissimilar, and might be construed as being said in bad faith.

- Ghassan Kanafani

(nom de guerre since it's unsafe to criticize zionism due to blacklists by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Mission and others)

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On Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:36 PM, Nasir El-Amin <nasir_elamin@protonmail.com> wrote:

That’s not even a logical example we’re talking about an ongoing apartheid and continued theft of land by a illegitimate state that’s violating international law and treaties. Your trying to water down what’s going on in Israel. United Nations has described Israel as an apartheid state. When you internationally choose to have a technical conference in a apartheid state you are supporting that regime and supporting its criminal and human rights violations against Palestinians.

UN Human Rights Report says Israel is an Apartheid State:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/16/is-israel-an-apartheid-state-this-u-n-report-says-yes/

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

On 3/21/19 5:10 PM, Nasir El-Amin wrote:

> Debian having a conference in contested land where military conflict and oppressive acts are occurring is unacceptable.

According to this logic, you wouldn't be allowed to host a DebConf in almost any

country in the world as almost any stretch of land has changed owners, deliberately

or by force over the time.

The farm of my great grand-parents is now owned by Polish people and the land around

it which used to be Germany is now Poland. But that's a historic fact that cannot be

reverted. That doesn't mean I boycott Poland or Polish people in any way. In fact, one

of my best friends is from Poland.

Adrian

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