Jewish-Israeli Dissent Leipzig

Jewish-Israeli Dissent Leipzig (German: Jüdisch-israelischer Dissens), also known as JID Leipzig is a left-wing Palestinian solidarity network in Germany that is composed of Jewish-Israeli German activists.
History
JID Leipzig was founded by Michael Sappir, an anti-fascist and socialist Israeli-Jewish immigrant and grandson of a German-Jewish Holocaust survivor who moved to Germany in 2019. Despite having spent years as a left-wing activist in Israel, Sappir was surprised by the degree of hostility to critics of the Israeli government that he experienced in Germany, much of which came from the philosemitic, Zionist "Antideutsch" movement. Sappir and other activists created JID Leipzig in July 2020 as a network for left-wing Israeli Jews in Germany in order to create "a space for Jewish activists to show solidarity with Palestinians to challenge Germany’s unquestioning support for Israel." JID Leipzig's first public event was called "Ask us Anything", and was a forum for the German public to hear the perspective of the Israeli left. Membership in JID Leipzig is open to anyone who grew up in Israel and who agrees with the organization's principles. The name "JID" was an "intentional reclaiming" of the antisemitic slur "Yid". JID Leipzig supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. JID Leipzig is critical of what it views as the antisemitism that non-Jewish German Zionists allegedly direct against Jewish anti-Zionists. Sappir believes that non-Jewish Zionists conflate Jews and Israel in a way that is "simplistic" and "also dehumanizes Jews because it denies us the collective humanity of having different opinions, internal struggles, and disagreements."
In 2022, JID Leipzig co-signed a statement by Jüdische Stimme, a left-wing Jewish group in Berlin, that condemned anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia, and attempts by non-Jews to "defame" the Jewish left as antisemitic.

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