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Shimon Stone (2012)

Shimon Stein (born March 9, 1948 in Hadera , League of Nations mandate for Palestine ) is a former Israeli diplomat . From January 2001 to autumn 2007 Stein was Israel's ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany .

life and career

Stein studied Modern History (BA and MA) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . During his military service, the Six Day War took place in 1967 , in which he participated as a paratrooper . In 1974, Stein entered the diplomatic service, initially from 1974 to 1980 as a senior analyst at the Center for Political Research of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. In 1979 he was a trainee at the European Communities. From 1980 to 1985 he worked for the first time in Germany, as counselor for political affairs in the Israeli embassy in Bonn .

Further stations in his career were: 1984 member of the Israeli delegation to the CSCE Conference, Mediterranean Department. 1985–1986 Deputy Director, North America Division, State Department of State of Israel, Jerusalem. 1986–1988 Deputy Director, Office of the Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel, Jerusalem. 1988–1993 Envoy Councilor for Political Affairs, Embassy of the State of Israel Washington, DC 1993–1998 Various positions in the Israeli Foreign Ministry .

1993–1997 Envoy, Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel, Jerusalem. 1998 Deputy State Secretary, Director of the Department for the CIS and Central and Eastern European Countries in the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem .

On January 11, 2001, the then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appointed him as the successor to Avi Primor as Israel's Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. In September 2007 his term of office in Germany ended nominally; his successor in this post was Yoram Ben-Zeev until 2012 .

Stein has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University since retiring from the diplomatic service . He also works as a consultant and author on foreign and security policy issues.

Stein is married and has a son and a daughter.

Anti-Semitism debate

Together with the Israeli historian Moshe Zimmermann , Stein participated in the German debate from May 2017 with several contributions on how to differentiate between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism. They criticized the instrumentalization of social phenomena for political purposes and in particular the tendencies of Benjamin Netanyahu's government to ally with right-wing populist and anti-Islamic forces internationally. In a comment published in ZEIT , they initially opposed the broad definition of Israel-related anti-Semitism as presented by the German Bundestag 's anti-Semitism expert committee and adopted by the German government . As anti-Semitism, therefore, not only the questioning of Israel's right to exist, but also the complaint of Israeli land grabbing as an injustice against the Palestinians would be rated. Stein and Zimmermann argued against such labeling of legitimate political positions and voiced the suspicion that the government of Israel was involved in the extensive condemnation of criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism, which, however, is more harmful than good in the fight against anti-Semitism. In June 2017 they took a position against the controversial documentary film Chosen and Excluded - The Hatred of Jews in Europe , which they accused of confusing criticism of Israel and hostility towards Jews . On the occasion of the demonstrations in German cities against US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017, Stein and Zimmermann reiterated their warning against political instrumentalization of anti-Semitism in a comment in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Behind the evoked Christian-Jewish alliance against Muslim anti-Semitism is a diversionary maneuver, "the ploy of Donald Trump, Stephen Bannons , Benjamin Netanyahu and others." In Europe, too, there are political interests to accuse refugees and Muslims in order to divert attention from local anti-Semitism. In January 2018, Stein and Zimmermann repeated their call for a clearer separation of the terms in the anti-Semitism debate in a comment in the Tagesspiegel and warned in the Frankfurter Rundschau against an isolated consideration of the hatred of Jews without taking other forms of social racism into account . Stein's longstanding commitment to a differentiated approach to anti-Semitism was particularly recognized by the German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in his public letter of congratulations on Stein's 70th birthday in March 2018.

Fonts

  • Israel, Germany and the Middle East. Relationships between uniqueness and normality (= Jena Center History of the 20th Century. Lectures and Colloquia, Vol. 9), Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0872-5

Web links

Commons : Schimon Stein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shimon Stein, INSS website, accessed on March 9, 2018 (English)
  2. ↑ Shimon Stein and Moshe Zimmermann: Anti-Semitism: And soon “Bikini instead of Kippa”? In: The time of September 27, 2017
  3. ↑ Shimon Stein and Moshe Zimmermann: Antisemitism: The evil label. In: Die Zeit vom May 31, 2017, accessed on March 9, 2018
  4. ↑ Shimon Stein and Moshe Zimmermann: Anti-Semitism: This enemy is on the right. In: Die Zeit from June 26, 2017, accessed on March 9, 2017
  5. ↑ Shimon Stein and Moshe Zimmermann: The instrumentalized anti-Semitism. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 21, 2018, p. 10.
  6. ↑ Shimon Stein and Moshe Zimmermann: Judaism: Because it sounds better. In: The time of August 23, 2017
  7. ↑ Shimon Stein and Moshe Zimmermann: Because not all Jews are the same as Israeli. In: Tagesspiegel from January 28, 2018 ( available online in the PressReader )
  8. ↑ Shimon Stein and Moshe Zimmermann: Anti-Semitism: AfD shifts the main blame. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of January 29, 2018, accessed on March 9, 2018
  9. ^ Federal President Steinmeier congratulates Shimon Stein. ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundespraesident.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release from the Office of the Federal President of March 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Shimon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stein, Shimon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hadera , Palestine