Thank you for these emails. Providing tacit approval for apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and international crimes ought to be antithetical with Debconf's - and the entire Debian project's - mission. I share Nasir El-Amin's frustration and feeling of betrayal over this poor decision, and am also actively organizing a response.
As a minor note also, implying that Poland has taken German land, considering the history of World War 2, and equating that to the present-day Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, is incorrect, dissimilar, and might be construed as being said in bad faith. - Ghassan Kanafani (nom de guerre since it's unsafe to criticize zionism due to blacklists by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Mission and others) ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:36 PM, Nasir El-Amin <nasir_ela...@protonmail.com> wrote: > That’s not even a logical example we’re talking about an ongoing apartheid > and continued theft of land by a illegitimate state that’s violating > international law and treaties. Your trying to water down what’s going on in > Israel. United Nations has described Israel as an apartheid state. When you > internationally choose to have a technical conference in a apartheid state > you are supporting that regime and supporting its criminal and human rights > violations against Palestinians. > > UN Human Rights Report says Israel is an Apartheid State: > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/16/is-israel-an-apartheid-state-this-u-n-report-says-yes/ > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > >> On 3/21/19 5:10 PM, Nasir El-Amin wrote: >>> Debian having a conference in contested land where military conflict and >>> oppressive acts are occurring is unacceptable. >> >> According to this logic, you wouldn't be allowed to host a DebConf in almost >> any >> country in the world as almost any stretch of land has changed owners, >> deliberately >> or by force over the time. >> >> The farm of my great grand-parents is now owned by Polish people and the >> land around >> it which used to be Germany is now Poland. But that's a historic fact that >> cannot be >> reverted. That doesn't mean I boycott Poland or Polish people in any way. In >> fact, one >> of my best friends is from Poland. >> >> Adrian >> >> -- >> .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org >> `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de >> `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
