Last week, the German organization Jewish Voice for a Just peace in the Middle East received a peace prize from the city of Göttingen. As the organization supports the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, the announcement of its nomination became a battleground, wherein prominent Jewish leaders tarnished its members as anti-Semites, suggesting that they were the ‘wrong kind of Jews’. The mayor and the president of the Göttingen university withdrew their support and cancelled the booking of halls for receptions. Nonetheless the jury stuck to its decision, and crowdfunded a prize of 28,000 Euros, which the organization will donate to human rights organizations in Palestine as well as to the liberal Israeli +972 Magazine.
This is a familiar pattern in Germany, where Holocaust guilt is weaponized as a means of stifling any meaningful protest against Israel and its policies.
— source mondoweiss.net | Mar 18, 2019