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Israel's Gaza war tied to rising Islamophobia in Europe: report (www.newarab.com)

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The European Islamophobia Report 2023 found that Israel's ongoing war on Gaza has functioned as a 'geopolitical catalyst of anti-Muslim racism in Europe'.

A report on Saturday has revealed that Israel's ongoing military actions in Gaza have led to a significant increase in Islamophobia across Europe.

The European Islamophobia Report 2023 looked at anti-Muslim sentiment in 28 European countries, finding that the war on the besieged Palestinian enclave had "functioned as a geopolitical catalyst of anti-Muslim racism in Europe".

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[–] Saleh@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The meforum is a radical pro Israel lobby group that wants the military defeat/annihilation of Palestinians. Their website proudly boasts a program called "Israel Victory Project"

https://www.meforum.org/ivp

The Israel Victory Project steers U.S. and Israeli policy toward backing an Israel victory over the Palestinians to end the conflict by convincing the Palestinians of their defeat in their century-long war against Israel. The project offers general policy guidelines does not deal with the specifics of resolution; whatever one’s ideas about final status, Palestinian defeat enhances their prospects. Our motto: First recognition, then negotiation. First victory, then peace.

Only when Palestinians end their nihilism and rejectionism can they build a polity, economy, society, and culture worthy of their skills. Thus, is a defeat benefits Palestinians even more than Israelis.

The project focuses on decision-makers, opinion-shapers, and publics in Israel and the United States with an eye to reviving victory as a concept.

Note that the emphasized statement follows an extremely dehumanizing cynicism like it was argued by European colonialists as they committed genocides all over Africa, the Americas and Asia.

The Leopold Weiss Institute is named after Muhammad Asad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Asad

Muhammad Asad[a] (born Leopold Weiss; 2 July 1900 – 20 February 1992) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Pakistani Muslim polymath. He worked as a journalist, traveler, writer, political theorist, and diplomat.

The university of Vienna reports an address in Vienna for a registered organization under that name, founded in 2007 with the state goal to "research contemporary Muslim life and thought".

https://www.islam-landkarte.at/detail/leopold-weiss-institut-zur-erforschung-zeitgenoessischen-muslimischen-lebens-und-denkens

The author of the text on the meforum Soeren Kern even published the registration information on his website

https://soerenkern.com/pdfs/islam/lwiwien.pdf

The head of the organization in the registration entry is Farid Hafez, who is mentioned in the meforum text too. As the meforum text admits. Hafez lived in Austria at the time. The allegations of terror affiliation made by the meforum text are absurd though, as a judge cleared Hafez, like the text itselfs admits.

To conclude: There is some legitimate questions regarding the connection to the Turkish government. However the meforum is an islamophobe lobby group, that tries to spread Islamophobia and call for Israels military "victory" over the Palestinians, which given the reality of the already existing occupation only leaves the ethnic cleansing or genocide of Palestinians. the meforum is part of a network to spread exactly the hate, whose existence and increase as a part of Israels political strategy, they try to deny.