{"id":5625,"date":"2025-10-24T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2025-10-24T19:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:59:19","slug":"they-are-called-pro-palestine-demonstrations-but-they-are-directed-against-israel-and-against-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/news-en\/they-are-called-pro-palestine-demonstrations-but-they-are-directed-against-israel-and-against-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They are called pro-Palestine demonstrations &#8211; but they are directed against Israel and against Jews&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Camille Lothe and Stephanie Gartenmann<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Under the guise of solidarity  <\/h2>\n\n<p>On October 11, Bern turned into a battlefield: arson attacks on restaurants, injured police officers, slogans full of hate. The pro-Palestine demonstration left its mark &#8211; and questions. <\/p>\n\n<p>For Sacha Wigdorovits, founder of the Fokus Israel und Nahost association, it is clear that these protests are no longer political rallies, but attacks on Israel &#8211; and on Jews. That is why he fights with facts against false allegations, against the distortion of history &#8211; and against silence. In this interview, he talks about the new anti-Semitism, the blind spots of the left and the UN&#8217;s inaction.  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sacha Wigdorovits: \u00abMan nennt es Pro-Pal\u00e4stina-Demo \u2013 aber es richten sich gegen Israel und Juden\u00bb\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GGKq8U46eRk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Camille Lothe and Stephanie Gartenmann Under the guise of solidarity On October 11, Bern turned into a battlefield: arson attacks on restaurants, injured police officers, slogans full of hate. The pro-Palestine demonstration left its mark &#8211; and questions. For Sacha Wigdorovits, founder of the Fokus Israel und Nahost association, it is clear that these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_socialbar":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[823],"tags":[626,1135,1283,1286,654,1282,1285,825,1284,1281,1111,666,1287],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-anti-semitism","tag-berne","tag-focus-on-israel","tag-hate-speech","tag-israel-en","tag-jews","tag-left","tag-middle-east-conflict","tag-pro-palestine-demo","tag-protests","tag-sacha-wigdorovits","tag-un-en","tag-violence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5628,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}