A crackdown on political dissent is well under way in Germany. Over the past two years, institutions and authorities have cancelled events, exhibitions and awards over statements about Palestine or Israel.
There are many examples: the Frankfurt book fair indefinitely postponing an award ceremony for Adania Shibli; the Heinrich Böll Foundation withdrawing the Hannah Arendt prize from Masha Gessen; the No Other Land directors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham being defamed by German ministers. And, most recently, the philosopher Omri Boehm being disinvited from speaking at this month’s anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald.
In nearly all of these cases, accusations of antisemitism loom large – even though Jews are often among those being targeted. More often than not, it is liberals driving or tacitly accepting these cancellations, while conservatives and the far right lean back and cheer them on.
Germany has recently taken a chilling new step, signalling its willingness to use political views as grounds to curb migration. Authorities are now moving to deport foreign nationals for participating in pro-Palestine actions. As I reported this week in the Intercept, four people in Berlin – three EU citizens and one US citizen – are set to be deported over their involvement in demonstrations against Israel’s war on Gaza. None of the four have been convicted of a crime, and yet the authorities are seeking to simply throw them out of the country.
Even the more progressive parties like greens and SPD are pro genocide. The only political party openly in support of Palestinians are Die Linke “the left”. Sadly they only have 11% in parliament. People are so stupid and don’t care or see where this is going.
Nothing like a bunch of liberals (Greens) cosplaying as progressives to prevent an actual leftist movement from growing.
Literally Jews pushing the German government that is centre-Left to help them call other Jews anti-semetic. As it pushes for Germany to continue sending weapons and money to kill Palestinians.
Legal experts told me that invoking Staatsräson in deportation proceedings is legally dubious. A recent parliamentary review reached a similar conclusion, noting that Staatsräson – often cited to justify Germany’s foreign policy toward Israel, including the plan of the incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, to invite Benjamin Netanyahu despite an active international criminal court arrest warrant – carries no legally enforceable weight.
Abraham said he had planned to return to Israel the day after the closing ceremony, but that he changed his plans during a stop-off in Greece, when he learned that Israeli media outlets were describing his speech as antisemitic, with some citing German officials.
As well as receiving death threats on social media, Abraham said several individuals turned up at his family members’ home in Israel, causing them to vacate the premises out of fear for their safety.
“In the runup to the election, parties across the spectrum, from the Greens to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), spoke about migration as a security threat, and promised deportations and tighter controls. In this climate, Palestine has turned into somewhat of a litmus test for asylum policy.”
Worth noting that the ones doing this are the Left and Center-Left parties that are IN power. As these parties are Left leaning when compared to the US Republicans and even US Democrats. To us, many Dem policies are Right of the Canadian Liberals or even our Conservarives. So much for freedom of speech.
Christian aspect aside the CDU they are closer to our Canadian Liberals in many of their policies same as the Greens. The AdF are ignored, so weird that they focus on them when they are not even the ones literally making and doing these policies.
zioni$t$ at work I see
This will be the new America. A country who backs Israel no matter what, even war crimes.
Why do you think that is thw case? Honest question.
Nooo, not germany.
Who would’ve thought that?In Fantasy Axis and Allies news, Germany’s election to join the Axis this time around is not expected to have a significant scoring impact, unlike the Brexit Shakeup of 2016. Instead, while many players correctly anticipated America’s most recent fascist power play, few gambled on a parallel humanist shift from the former Axis MVP. The sentiment of those surveyed can be summarized as, “Well, yeah, it’s Germany, what did you expect?”
Idk if is deliberate or just a consequence, but I’m very confused by the duplicit meaning of antisemetic (having anamosity toward jews or being anti israeli policy)
Germans like using their previous genocide as an excuse for their current one.
While the argument makes no sense at all, it is literally illegal to deny it in Germany or you will get deported for wrongthink.
So this very bad racist argument keeps being made, and nobody is allowed to debunk it.
To make it even more confusing Palestinians are Semites themselves. So being pro Israel war is also being anti-Semitic… But nobody talks about that.
The complicated thing is that zionist israeli ideology is completely anti-semitic. They hate jews not supporting them and have sold them out to their allied fascist germ nazis before and during WW2.
Also by mislabeling themselves as Jews and hiding behind that victimhod while commiting genocide puts the real jews in danger.On purpose. They conflate so people feel scared to criticize. In the end all it has done has make people dismiss claims of antisemitism because it’s being used as a cludgel against anyone who criticizes the Israeli state or Americas god awful approach to the middle east.
The nation state Israel is not a religion
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Citations or gtfo
Ah yes. Those Irish Islamists. Always demanding Sharia law.
what’s with the influx of new accounts posting such dogshit?
The cancellation of the demos and deportation are in fact based on law, Its the same article that prohibites the Hitler salute. Even oure foregin minister is allowed to critisie israel, but to say that it has no right to exist is banned.
And new immigrants only get accepted if they’re willing to say that Israel has a right to exist.
I just hate these articles about chaotic situations in Germany especially if compared to the current US situation
Did you know the Holocaust was legal in Germany?
‘You are a criminal when you make something that outsiders banned’
Fascism is okay when it’s legal.
Go back to Reddit.
Very very very odd law, is it not? Right to exist?? What does that even mean and why would a government force you to subscribe to it?
Kinda reassuring, I was surprised by those articles
I don’t understand why they exist, I hear nothing about an outrage or something about this. Today is in the biggest news an articke about the Buchenwald situation, stating Israels influences on thus controversy
