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Mischa Ushakov, the founder of Never Again Right Now, at the Allianz headquarters protest in Berlin on Jan. 21. (Tibet Initiative Germany via JTA.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Toby Axelrod<\/p>\n

BERLIN \u00a0\u2014 On a recent Friday afternoon, with the Beijing Olympic Games only three weeks away, Mischa Ushakov and Padma Wangyal chained themselves to the entrance of the Allianz insurance giant\u2019s headquarters in Germany\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

They had two demands: that Allianz \u201cdrop their sponsorship of the games in China and comment on the human rights abuses of the Chinese government,\u201d Ushakov said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gave them a one-week deadline,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Ushakov, 23, is a cofounder with Bini Guttmann of Never Again Right Now, a two-year-old Jewish group dedicated to raising awareness about China\u2019s persecution of its Uyghur Muslim minority. Wangyal is a 73-year-old Tibetan exile; Never Again Right Now had joined forces with the Tibet Initiative Deutschland for the Allianz protest.<\/p>\n

Their protest failed to move Allianz. But when the Beijing Winter Olympic Games open on Friday, they and other protesters will be back, this time at the iconic Brandenburg Gate.<\/p>\n

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Members of Never Again Right Now protest at Allianz headquarters in Berlin on Jan. 21. (Tibet Initiative Germany via JTA.org)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

They are also planning a \u201chumanistic\u201d torch relay in 15 German cities to mark the start\u00a0 of the Olympics \u2014 which they are calling the \u201cgenocide games.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a Jew in Germany you are always seen as a so-called genocide expert,\u201d Ushakov told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. \u201cWhen Bini and I started this campaign we hoped that as Jews talking about genocide \u2013 and some of us are descendants of Holocaust survivors \u2013 we would get more attention. I call it a disintegration of the narrative: People in Germany will always see the victim in me, so if they will, then I will talk about something they don\u2019t want to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ushakov\u2019s group is far from alone. In London, Jewish groups will join a demonstration at Piccadilly Circus. In other cities, there will be demonstrations outside Chinese embassies and consulates.<\/p>\n

Since 2015, China has cracked down on its Uyghur population \u2014 a Turkic Muslim minority with a presence in the country\u2019s western Xinjiang region \u2014 placing them in so-called re-education camps, which can be spotted in satellite photos.\u00a0Reports<\/a>\u00a0smuggled out of China and spread in mainstream media tell of police and military brutality, sexual crimes and forced sterilizations. Members of the Uyghur diaspora have been cut off from their families in China for years, even decades, and some reportedly have been pressed to spy for China, under threat of harm being done to their relatives.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon reported in 2019 that\u00a0at least one million people out of a total population of some 10 million Uyghurs<\/a>\u00a0had been rounded up and put through the camps since 2015.<\/p>\n

The United States, Britain, Canada and Australia are holding a diplomatic boycott of the games. While Israel has remained largely silent, ostensibly due to\u00a0warm relations with China<\/a>, prominent Jews elsewhere have raised their voices: British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis last year joined\u00a0a British Jewish protest campaign<\/a>,\u00a0calling on the public<\/a>\u00a0to \u201ctaint the [Olympic] brand\u2026 in protest against the unspeakable atrocities that are being committed today against the Uyghur Muslims.\u201d European Parliament Member Rapha\u00ebl Glucksmann of France, who is Jewish,\u00a0launched a campaign to boycott international retailers linked to Uyghur forced labor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has published information about the persecution on its website<\/a>\u00a0and major U.S. Jewish organizations like the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League have spoken out on the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople being persecuted for things like wearing beards or prayer shawls, these are things that the Jewish community knows too well,\u201d said Serena Oberstein, 42, executive director of Jewish World Watch, a California-based organization established to raise awareness about genocide. Last fall they held a protest outside a Chinese consulate on the anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews in Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the Holocaust: There is no perfect comparison,\u201d Oberstein said. \u201cBut for me personally, the stories we are hearing coming out of the region are too familiar to the stories I heard growing up from my grandfather\u201d \u2013 a soldier who helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.<\/p>\n

Oberstein helped form an interfaith \u201cBerlin-Beijing Coalition,\u201d which draws a parallel between the Olympic games in China today and the ones held in Nazi Germany in 1936.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nazi party used the Berlin games to strengthen its reputation in the world. Two years later came Kristallnacht. [Today,] we know what authoritarian regimes that systemically persecute people do, when they build concentration camps and ghettos and forced labor camps,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Members of Jewish World Watch protest at Volkswagen headquarters in Southern California. (Serena Oberstein via JTA.org)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The level of Jewish protest has ramped up as the Games have drawn closer. Last week,\u00a0the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity took out a full page ad in The New York times<\/a>, signed by the French Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, the former Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky and Wiesel\u2019s son Elisha, urging athletes and corporate sponsors to \u201cwalk away from these games unless Beijing takes steps to reunite Uyghur families. And we urge the world\u2019s citizens to embrace the cause of this persecuted population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of all the groups taking up this issue, none have been more active than Jewish ones, said Washington, D.C.-based attorney Nury Turkel, chair and cofounder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project. Second to the Jews in the United States are the Southern Baptists, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Never again\u2019 is relatable to what the Uyghurs are going through,\u201d said Turkel, 50, who was born during the Cultural Revolution in a Chinese reeducation camp for Uyghurs and came to the United States in 1997. \u201cIt looks like [Chinese leader] Xi Jinping is using Hitler\u2019s playbook: targeting the social elites, the intellectuals, religious leaders, going after women and children, using slave labor, and using the fanfare around global events to normalize their behavior. When the Berlin Olympics took place, Hitler had already built [the concentration camp] Dachau.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI talk to my Jewish friends and supporters and have been deeply touched listening to their passionate remarks,\u201d added Turkel, who has been invited to brief members of the AJC and other Jewish organizations. \u201cThey told me, \u2018We cannot tolerate that this happens.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The call to action is urgent, says Mia Hasenson-Gross, executive director of the London-based\u00a0Jewish charity Ren\u00e9 Cassin<\/a>, which has been a major force galvanizing Jewish activism in the United Kingdom on the Uyghur issue. The organization is named for the French-Jewish co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ren\u00e9 Samuel Cassin (1887-1976).<\/p>\n

\u201cUyghur women are forcibly sterilized; children are forced to denounce their language and culture tradition, they are under surveillance,\u201d Hasenson-Gross said. \u201cIf we stop the Chinese government now from its acts of preventing births, from acts of future destruction, then we have a chance at preventing the genocide of the Uyghur people.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are also lone Jews standing up, like Andrew, a 50-something Orthodox Jewish businessman in London who did not reveal his full name over privacy concerns. Twice weekly for the last year and half,\u00a0he has been protesting outside a Volkswagen showroom on a busy street in Southgate<\/a>, asking the German company to leave the Uyghur area, where it has a factory. He and a friend named Daniel even recently stood quietly with signs outside a Holocaust Remembrance ceremony at Middlesex University, with the approval of Andrew\u2019s mother-in-law, a Holocaust survivor.<\/p>\n

Andrew occasionally faces harassment \u2014 both \u201canti-Muslim hatred\u201d and \u201cantisemitism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am the victim of anti-Muslim hatred for holding up a sign that says \u20183 million Muslims in Chinese concentration camps and in slave labor,\u2019 and I get quite a bit of antisemitic abuse,\u201d he said. \u201cI am trying to save women\u2019s and children\u2019s lives, and they shout at me, \u2018Free Palestine.\u2019 That is pure antisemitism.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout three weeks ago, someone drove past and said, \u2018Do yourself a favor and get a job.\u2019 Well, I have a job, and I think spending an hour or two twice a week is worthwhile to save those lives if we can,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

For athletes, protest has its own challenges. First of all, Olympic athletes have no say in where Olympic games will be held, says former Olympic skier Noah Hoffmann, who is Jewish.\u00a0He recently co-founded Global Athlete,<\/a>\u00a0which aims to correct what he describes as an imbalance of power between sports administration and athletes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe power that the International Olympic Committee wields is immense,\u201d said Hoffmann, 32, who is finishing an undergraduate degree at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, after moving on from his sports career.<\/p>\n

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A volunteer walks past empty seats in the National Speed Skating Hall in Beijing on Jan. 30. (Peter Kneffel\/picture alliance via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The other challenge is the danger of speaking up in China. \u201cI believe in the power of athletes to be forces of good\u2026 so I hate telling them to stay silent in China, but the risks are just too high there,\u201d he said, noting the recent disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai after she accused a retired Chinese Communist Party official of sexual assault.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Women\u2019s Tennis Association canceled all 2022 tournaments in China, they walked away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0IOC did not follow suit<\/a>. According to a Jan. 5 report in The New York Times, the IOC has been reluctant to comment on human rights abuses in China.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe use of sport to distract from genocide is not new,\u201d added Hoffmann, whose great-grandmother left Holland before the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

The IOC \u201chas never been held to account for its strange affinity with totalitarian regimes around the world,\u201d said Turkel, who urges the public to denounce corporate sponsors and refuse to watch the games.<\/p>\n

Back in Berlin, Ushakov said he and Wangyal unchained themselves from the Allianz doors last month after a security official told them their concerns would be discussed at company headquarters in Munich. But \u201cthat information is not accurate,\u201d Allianz spokeswoman Anja Rechenberg told JTA in a phone call later that day. \u201cThe initiative has been in contact with us for many months, and their demands are known.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their demonstration in Berlin \u201cdoesn\u2019t change anything,\u201d Rechenberg said. \u201cFor us, this is a long-term commitment. Allianz is a strong supporter of sport, and in this framework we have an eight-year commitment to the Olympic Games.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allianz is one of many German firms that have\u00a0uncovered and publicized their Nazi past<\/a>. But the company hasn\u2019t learned the right lessons, said Berliner Tenzin Yangzom, 30, executive director of the Tibet Initiative Deutschland, who contacted Never Again Right Now for help with its Allianz protest. \u201cIt is very important to have the voices of the Jewish campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis world was given the promise of \u2018Never Again,\u2019 and that means on one hand combating all forms of antisemitism and standing with Jews \u2014 of course,\u201d the Never Again Right Now co-founder Guttmann said in a call from Vienna. \u201cBut the promise also meant preventing genocide and mass atrocities around the world. The world has failed in that mission again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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