Talk:Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

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There are plenty of non-trivial references to this organisation in reliable sources, which is the criteria for inclusion. I don't speak enough German to reliably parse the sources, but this news search turns up a lot, as does these scholar and book searches, which reveal a high level of coverage. I'm sure enough coverage exists to justify this organisation, as suggested by the greater content on de. Mostlyharmless (talk) 05:24, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Actually, unless I have misread, the criterion is "significant", not "non-trival". And passing mentions, or descriptions of activity without editorial commentary, is not (in my opinion) "significant". Likewise, inference from number of Google hits in a foreign langauge (whether news or otherwise) does not demonstrate notability. However, the fact that you removed the {prod} means that it's more than sufficient to require it to be taken to AfD for deletion. If you add some real sources (in English) within a few days, I'll refrain. Bongomatic 05:50, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

"Significant coverage is more than trivial but may be less than exclusive". I don't read German, so am unable to make use of the vast majority of sources. With coverage that extensive, I assume notability, but of course cannot prove it by adding sources in a language I do not understand. I've asked for assistance at Wikiproject Germany, where German speakers can evaluate the sources. 150.203.230.27 (talk) 08:22, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but that is an amplification of, not an alternative to the criterion that it must "address the subject directly in detail". Bongomatic 08:26, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

significant?

The German political system makes it necessary that every party has a foundation which can do something the parties are not allowed to do. They get their money from Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany) and the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany). The normal spectrum of work is political education, publication and cotact to parties with similar political direction in foreign contries. So I think as the party is worth a article the foundation can also have one. --Stone (talk) 10:21, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

The incident with Amira Hass

This was discussed at Talk:Birzeit University#Regarding exclusion in October last year. To put it simply, there is no policy to exclude Jews. --IRISZOOM (talk) 20:15, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

removed "Controversy" section

removed "Controversy" section (pasted in Talk): the relatively minor issue, where the article's subject is not portrayed as an antagonist or the main party, and particularly given the brevity of the article, this section gives the information undue weight and creates a biased impression that the one notable thing about the subject is a/this controversy -- Tsavage (talk) 17:51, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Controversy

In September 2014, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the Center for Development Studies at Birzeit University organized a conference entitled, "Alternatives to Neo-Liberal Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territories – Critical Perspectives", but left-wing Israeli Haaretz journalist Amira Hass was asked by two Birzeit lecturers to leave on account of a rule against the presence of Israelis. She said that she had attended the university many times and had never heard of such a rule. The international conference's organizers were offended. The regional head of the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation Katja Hermann stated after the incident that she would not have agreed to hold the conference at Birzeit if she was aware of the policy. The university later issued a statement that "The administration has nothing against the presence of the journalist Hass. The university as a national institution differentiates between friends and enemies of the Palestinian people... and works with every person or institution that is against the occupation." In a previous incident, Israeli anti-Zionist historian Ilan Pappé had been invited to deliver a lecture at Birzeit which was held off-campus, as not to infringe with the ban on Israeli Jews.