Bizarre video of German MP hiding in toilet from two Jewish reporters

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Gregor Gysi smears Max Blumenthal & David Sheen then locks himself in the Bundestag toilet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQUpUGCfT3s

Starting on Thursday Max and David were publicly accused of spreading Judenhass (Jew hatred) by Volker Beck, Petra Pau, Reinhold Robbe and the Berliner Morgenpost, a German major daily. Gysi collaborated with these efforts to publicly smear Blumenthal and Sheen as spreaders of Anti-Semitism in order to prevent Blumenthal and Sheen giving testimonies to the German people about top Israeli leaders inciting racist violence against Non-Jews. Blumenthal and Sheen waited day after day for their hosts, the German members of Parliament Annette Groth and Inge Höger, to publicly reject theses attempts to slander Blumenthal and Sheen and express support for their journalistic credentials. After four days they still did not do this.
These German parliamentarians invited Blumenthal and Sheen to speak in the German Parliament, not Palestinian journalists who are saying the same things as them for years, precisely because Blumenthal and Sheen are both Jews and because Sheen is Israeli. The Parliamentarians hoped to avoid accusations that they themselves encouraged Judenhass (Jew hatred) by presenting two Jews who criticised Israeli racism.
When Blumenthal and Sheen were attacked with the same accusations that those Parliamentarians were trying to dodge, they broke their word to publish a release. Even four days later they issued no statement of support for Blumenthal and Sheen and rejecting the accusation that they spread hatred of Jews (Judenhass).
At the press room of the website of the Left fraction of the Parliament you cannot find any press release: http://linksfraktion.de.
Any Jew in Israel who challenges state sponsored racism is tarred and feathered as a race traitor and is subjected to physical attacks and threats of gang rape, torture and murder of them and their families.
Under these conditions in which German politicians, who invited Blumenthal and Sheen, do not defend them, Sheen says that he had no other choice but to defend his reputation and honour on his own and confront Gysi directly for his role in this slanderous campaign as they told me directly after they confront Gysi.
Max Blumenthal, an US-American writer of Jewish origin, says in this video that he wants to sit down with German parliament member Gregor Gysi (The Left) in order to see if Gysi can explain the allegations against Blumenthal and if Gysi can explain why Blumenthal and Sheen should be silenced. Gysi did not present alternative views and arguments, according to Blumenthal. Blumenthal says about the methods of Gysi: “This is Stasiism. The Spirit of Stasi is still alive in Berlin right now under the name and in the office of Gregor Gysi who is acting behind the scenes to background deals in an undemocratic fashion and claiming the mentor of a democrat and a leftist in order crash Palestinian rightsâ€, says Blumenthal about Gysi.

 
 
German Politicians Applaud Call To Confront Gysi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ9WAOc7j9k&app=desktop

After delivering testimony at the Bundestag (German Parliament) about the recent Israeli assault on Gaza, journalist Max Blumenthal calls upon the audience to join him in confronting Die Linke party leader Gregor Gysi at his parliamentary office over his involvement in efforts to smear us with accusations of encouraging hatred of Jewish people, in order to discredit us and get our talks cancelled, thereby preventing Germans from learning of the extent of state-sponsored racism in Israel. Many in the audience, including German politicians from Gysi's own Die Linke party, applaud Blumenthal's call to confront Gysi at his office.

 

#Toilettengate: Gysi, die Israel-Kritiker und der Geist der Stasi

http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/952104.toilettengate-gysi-die-israel-kritiker-und-der-geist-der-stasi.html

 

Kundgebung vor der Volksbühne am 9. November 2014 anlässlich der Diffamierung und Ausgrenzug der beiden jüdischen Journalisten David Sheen (Israel) und Max Blumenthal (USA) am 9. November 2014 in Berlin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhVmS8jFz2I

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GbKsAvuBDM

 
David Sheen testifies at the Bundestag, the German Parliament in Berlin, on 10 November 2014, about Israeli top officials inciting racism and racial violence

[Supersonic 49,376]

What bothers me is: Does this guy know that the sh*tter is a peacful place of Germany where nobody wants to be bothered and won't ever bother somebody else?

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https://twitter.com/davidsheen/status/532556357921038336

 

https://twitter.com/davidsheen/status/532510661863940096

 

https://twitter.com/davidsheen/status/532554991420964864

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

Good for the guy standing up to the racists :applause:

[Melech 9,900]

https://twitter.com/davidsheen/status/532556357921038336

 

they were rude. 

 

There is nearly no serious politician support the both Anti-Setimist. Sahra Wagenknecht called their behaviour inacceptable.

Nobert Lammert (Christian party) said they will get order to stay away from the Bundestag.  

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they were rude.

There is nearly no serious politician support the both Anti-Setimist. Sahra Wagenknecht called their behaviour inacceptable.

Nobert Lammert (Christian party) said they will get order to stay away from the Bundestag.

How can a Jewish man be anti-semite? How can German politician decide which Jewish people can talk and which can't? How can you accuse them of anti-semitism as a German, and put their life in danger when they go back to Israel?

They were not rude, they fight against racism. German MP was the rude one. He falsely accused them and put their life in danger, then locked himself in a toilet, like a chicken.

[Melech 9,900]

How can a Jewish man be anti-semite? How can German politician decide which Jewish people can talk and which can't? How can you accuse them of anti-semitism as a German, and put their life in danger when they go back to Israel?

They were not rude, they fight against racism. German MP was the rude one. He falsely accused them and put their life in danger, then locked himself in a toilet, like a chicken.

Who else should decide who talk in the Bundestag when not the politicans?  

 

And maybe he needed to pee?! 

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Who else should decide who talk in the Bundestag when not the politicans?  

 

And maybe he needed to pee?!

They are the ones being racist, when independent Jewish journalists can't speak, just because they have "wrong opinion" according to them.

And you didn't answer how they're antisemites?

If you look at the video, he was afraid of confrontation.

[Melech 9,900]

They are the ones being racist, when independent Jewish journalists can't speak, just because they have "wrong opinion" according to them.

And you didn't answer how they're antisemites?

If you look at the video, he was afraid of confrontation.

Well, then Nazis should be also allowed to speak at the parliament.

 

What he did was right. They were following on the toilet. I mean how low is that. No respect for those people 

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Well, then Nazis should be also allowed to speak at the parliament.

 

What he did was right. They were following on the toilet. I mean how low is that. No respect for those people

But they were not Nazis. You know nothing about them. Are you comparing these two Jewish reporters to Nazis?

And of course you have no respect for people who are exposing the truth. How low is to falsely accuse people of something and put their life in danger. Now they're getting death threats from Germans too. It's disgusting.

[Melech 9,900]

But they were not Nazis. You know nothing about them. Are you comparing these two Jewish reporters to Nazis?

And of course you have no respect for people who are exposing the truth. How low is to falsely accuse people of something and put their life in danger. Now they're getting death threats from Germans too. It's disgusting.

what lol 

[lego 44,165]

what lol

https://twitter.com/davidsheen/status/532556357921038336

 

https://twitter.com/davidsheen/status/532510661863940096

 

https://twitter.com/davidsheen/status/532554991420964864

[Goosey 3,017]

Why was he hiding? Were they going to attack him for what the Germans did during WW2 or something?

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Why I confronted Gregor Gysi

 

In the last week, the German media has been replete with articles accusing me and my fellow journalist Max Blumenthal of spreading hatred of Jews. These baseless accusations are not only defamatory, but also amount to a real physical threat to myself, as I live in Israel, where dissidents are branded as “destroyers of Israel†and are often subject to rape threats and violent physical attacks.

 

Despite the orchestrated attempt to smear our names and get our Berlin speaking gigs cancelled, we testified at the Bundestag – the German Parliament – about the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza and incitement to racist violence by top Israeli leaders. After giving our testimonies, we confronted one of the leading legislators who had publicly endorsed the smear campaign against us. In the wake of that debacle, Max and I might very well be banned from the Bundestag in the future.

 

I may not list potentially being banned from the Bundestag on my curriculum vitae as an accomplishment I am especially proud of, but I am certainly not ashamed of it, or of my actions that led to it. I trailed a 66-year-old parliamentarian down his office hallway, following him into a random room which turned out to be a restroom, and did not retreat when he sandwiched me into the door jamb. All the while, I called upon him to engage me and answer for his actions of the previous days.

 

I understand why some people without any knowledge of the events that preceded this incident might find it uncomfortable to watch the video of me in pursuit of a 66-year-old man in a business suit who clearly is not interested in exchanging words with me, in any language. But for the sake of my reputation, for the sake of my safety and the safety of my family, for the sake of other Jews who dare to criticize the rampant racism in Israeli society, and for the sake of Palestinian people and others who do the same – I felt I had to confront this man to his face, even if for only a moment.

 

The sequence of events that led to the confrontation began when Blumenthal and myself were invited by left-wing German lawmakers to come to Berlin to speak about the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza and incitement to racist violence by top Israeli leaders.

Of course, I understand well that these left-wing legislators did not offer to host Max and myself at the Bundestag because we are the only journalists in the world to report on these issues. Many Palestinian journalists have long written extensively on these topics and could have presented at least as competently as we did, if not much more so. No, let’s be honest – Max and I were specifically selected at least in part because we are Jews.

Non-Jewish critics of Israel are often accused of being motivated by a hatred of Jews, whether or not there is any substance to such slurs. By inviting a Jewish critic of Israel – or even better, a Jewish Israeli critic of Israel – to speak about Israeli crimes, non-Jewish critics of Israel may hope to shield themselves from these damaging accusations.

 

I do not believe that all non-Jewish critics of Israel are motivated by Jew-hatred. Also, I want people outside of Israel to know about the horrific racism that pervades Israeli society, so that we might combat it – because it is clearly not going to end on its own. So while I do not advertise my Jewishness or Israeliness in order to get invitations to speak, I will accept such invitations, even if I suspect they are in part motivated by identity politics.

 

But what I will not do is agree to be a soft target for baseless accusations of anti-semitism by opportunistic politicians who court favor with the Israeli government and its supporters. Nor will I agree to play a “Jew-shield†or “Israeli-shieldâ€, and defend from attack opportunistic politicians from the Left who want me to speak publicly about Israel’s crimes on their home turf, but refuse to publicly support me when I endure the poisonous slings that they themselves had hoped to avoid.

On the eve of my flight to Germany, a Sheldon-Adelson-funded publicist orchestrated a campaign to have my and Max’s speaking engagements in Berlin cancelled. Jerusalem Post contributor Ben Weinthal successfully convinced German lawmakers Volker Beck and Petra Pau to denounce Max and myself, saying that with our work, we spread anti-semitism. Senior leftist lawmaker Gregor Gysi joined the public pile-on, announcing that we would not be allowed to speak in the Bundestag.

 

As one German newspaper after another repeated these vile accusations from Weinthal’s hasbara hit-piece, I waited for days for the parliamentarians who invited us to the Bundestag, Inge Hoger and Annette Groth, to repudiate these scandalous slurs. I implored them repeatedly to issue a press release publicly defending me and Max. After several days, they finally agreed to do so – but only after Max and I spoke at the Bundestag. Despite my reservations, Max and I delivered our presentations to the parliament, but no press release was issued afterwards, as promised.

Under these circumstances, I felt I had no choice but to confront my accusers.

 

At the end of our presentations, Max called upon those assembled to join us and confront Gregor Gysi, and this call was applauded by many in the audience. A group of us then walked to his office, prepared to talk to him politely and explain the consequences of his cavalier political ploy. However, he refused to come out of his office and meet with us, even for a minute. When he finally emerged, he strode right past us at a brisk pace, and – well, you probably saw the rest – I followed him and demanded that he acknowledge responsibility for the repercussions that I would have to face as a result of his actions.

 

I later uploaded the footage to YouTube, so that there would be a public record of the event and I could not be accused of something I did not do. ]

As I explained to a local journalist who filmed the entire episode, this is not about my ego being bruised. Because I have exposed Israeli state-sponsored racism, particularly towards African refugees, for years, I am defamed as a “destroyer of Israel†and physically attacked on the streets of Tel Aviv. On occasions too numerous to count, angry Jewish Israelis have called upon me and members of my family to be raped, gang-raped, mutilated and murdered. As this happens, average Israelis stand aside and police officers look on. Sadly, I am used to accusations of anti-semitism and the threats and assaults that follow.

 

It is contemptible that any person, let alone a German, would baselessly slander a critic of Israel as “spreading anti-semitismâ€, especially when that person is Jewish or even Israeli. But in the current climate, when Israelis are losing their jobs and are beaten in the streets when they dare to oppose army’s assaults on Gaza and the regime of racial and religious separation, labeling someone as such is akin to calling for them to be physically attacked. More than this, it is a reprehensible attempt to silence dissent and condemn the Palestinian people and other non-Jews in areas controlled by Israel to perpetual servitude and suffering.

For the sake of my self, my family, my friends, and my fellow human beings in Israel and Palestine – I will not be silent, not now, not ever.

 

 

-David Sheen, an independent journalist and film maker

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/confronted-gregor-gysi

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GbKsAvuBDM