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The images are blurred and a bit chaotic, as they often are in on-the-spot videos of fast-moving events circulating on social media. But the gist of the story is clear. Three men clad in dark face masks and combat gear, their identities hidden behind their uniform exterior and emotionless body language, are rounding up a crowd of women. The women are fighting back, trying to break out of the cordon. Suddenly the three men in camouflage retreat. One holds his mask in his hand and looks distressed. They walk away quickly, the crowd whistles after them. What happened? The answer rests with a 73-year old great-grandmother who is a celebrity of the Belarusian protests. Fearlessly she demonstrates, scolds and sometimes kicks the security forces. And she always attempts to take off their masks—this time successfully. Belarusian security police do not like to show their face while shoving around women. And the Belarusian women know this. They have been coming out onto the street in ever increasing numbers to continue the fight against an entrenched dictatorship, inspired by their three female leaders, who are not career politicians, but ordinary women, some with husbands and children, all of them with aspirations.
In the following, three scholars have a look at the question of how to explain the female presence on the Belarusian streets and what it means both in the short and in the long term. The articles were written on the day of mass arrests of women in Minsk. The future is uncertain. Mass violence is on the cards as much as the possibility of a Lukashenko retreat. Whatever it will be, however, it deserves the world’s attention.
1967 rückte der Palästinakonflikt in den Fokus der politischen Arbeit des Sozialistischen Deutschen Studentenbundes (SDS), der diesen Konflikt im Zusammenhang mit den Befreiungsbewegungen der sogenannten Dritten Welt deutete. Politischen Zuspruch erhielt der SDS von palästinensischen wie auch israelischen Studentengruppen, die in Frankfurt am Main ihr Wirkungszentrum hatten. Diese sich als antizionistisch verstehenden Akteure fanden in dem ebenfalls in Frankfurt sitzenden Bundesverband Jüdischer Studenten in Deutschland (BJSD) einen Kontrahenten. Die Präsenz dieser zentralen Protagonisten transformierte das studentische Milieu im Frankfurter Westend zum bundesrepublikanischen Nukleus eines Deutungskampfes um die Geschehnisse im Nahen Osten. Eine sabotierte Veranstaltung mit dem israelischen Botschafter Asher Ben-Natan im Frankfurter Hörsaal VI am 9. Juni 1969 dient dem Aufsatz als Beispiel, um diesen Konflikt zu historisieren. Neben schriftlichen Quellen stützt sich der Beitrag auf Bildmaterial des Frankfurter Fotografen Kurt Weiner.