#NGOs #funding vs. #NeverAgain in #Germany
"Fifteen Israeli NGOs said it ‘would be instrumentalised to attack and constrain German funding for our human rights work’."
"The resolution calls for immigration, asylum and criminal law to be tightened to combat antisemitism, and for universities, where antiwar activists have occupied buildings and set up encampments, to be granted wider powers to discipline and expel students. All levels of government are asked to prevent the financial support of projects and organisations – Documenta is mentioned as an example – that ‘spread antisemitism, question Israel’s right to exist, call for a boycott of Israel or actively support the BDS movement’. The IHRA definition is to be considered ‘authoritative’. The new resolution cites the 2019 BDS text as its model, ignoring a parliamentary assessment from a year later, which found that if that resolution had been formulated as legislation, it ‘would not be compatible with the fundamental right to freedom of expression and would therefore be unconstitutional’."
"With a non-binding resolution, recipients of state funding will be drafted, willing or unwilling, as enforcers. Curators, convenors of academic conferences and charity administrators will be expected to screen and blacklist any partners or collaborators who could be seen to violate the IHRA guidelines. An old social media post or a signature on a petition could result in funds being withdrawn."
Ruairí Casey: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/november/questions-of-funding
**Hokey Cowboy**
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/david-runciman/hokey-cowboy. 
**‘Everything is possible’**
On Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’
