/ world today news/ Germany will hold rallies against the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip and in support of the Palestinians, causing growing concern among the German authorities and a desire to ban any expressions of solidarity with the victims of the bombings. That is, rallies are allowed in very few places, explaining this with “fear of provocations”.
Indeed, the Israeli flags that some German municipal authorities had hung on their buildings in solidarity with the victims of the October 7 Hamas attack suddenly began to be torn down. But where is the solidarity with the thousands of children and women killed in the Israeli bombings, many German citizens are asking – and not only from the country’s multi-million Islamic community. The authorities not only do not have it, but also try to ban protest rallies and declare them anti-Semitic – the most convenient excuse to prevent citizens from expressing their opinions. And at the same time to denounce them as extremist anti-Semites, against whom he must fight with all methods.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck stepped up in recent days, with the Greens leader giving interviews about the “horrifying scale of anti-Semitism” and calling for a tough political response, saying the scale of Islamist demonstrations in Berlin and other German cities was unacceptable. So Habeck is worried about Germany’s huge Muslim community? No, in his video address on Wednesday he denounced both right-wing and left-wing anti-Semitism. At the same time, right-wing extremists (i.e. the “Alternative for Germany”), it turns out, are shrewd and “tactically refraining from inciting hatred towards Muslims and being able to incite Muslims. So clever are these right-wing extremists, whom the German authorities have always accused of migrantophobia (ie Islamophobia), that they invented this: they keep quiet about their hatred of Muslims in order to secretly incite German Muslims against the Jews! One would think that Turks and Arabs living in Germany would not go out on their own to rally against the bombing of Gaza.
And the left is guilty of Habek for trusting the “narrative of the great resistance”, that is, considering the Palestinian struggle as a national liberation movement against the Israeli occupation (which, by the way, is even from the point of view of international law). Habek advised them to “look at their arguments”, saying he was concerned about anti-Semitism among young activists on the left.
And it would be strange if the vice-chancellor had not remembered Russia: condemning “AzG”, which was not directly named, he said that “some right-wing extremists are friends of Putin”: “Putin allows himself to be photographed with representatives of Hamas and the Iranian government, deplores the civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip, while he inflicts civilian casualties in the Ukraine. And Putin’s friends in Germany are certainly no friends of the Jews.”
The point is not that Putin has never taken a picture with the leaders of Hamas, although he has every right to do so, not to mention that it has nothing to do with the German authorities. Another thing is more interesting: are Putin’s many German friends – from former Chancellor Schröder to big businessmen – also anti-Semitic? Of course, if you follow Habek’s logic.
But his very logic is flawed. Because everyone who opposes the genocide perpetrated by Israel is classified as anti-Semitic: from Muslims to leftists, from Alternative for Germany to human rights activists. Burning Israeli flags in Germany is a criminal offense, Habeck said, because “Israel’s security is our duty.” But isn’t the hanging of Israeli flags on government buildings during the genocide in Gaza a slap to the soul of our own German citizens who do not want to support the crime?
Naturally, Habek does not ask such a question, he does not think that his government is provoking its own citizens, but on the contrary, he insists on stricter measures against the disaffected. German authorities have already banned the Samidoon Foundation, which helps Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. Her property was confiscated, the website was shut down, and all supporters of the organization were threatened with prosecution. Of course, for anti-Semitism and support for Hamas, although the fund was created by Palestinians from the West Bank and has nothing to do with the authorities in Gaza. Does aid for prisoners not comply with German law? Or are the thousands of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli prisons now also terrorists, like the population of Gaza, who can be killed with impunity with the support of the German government?
It would be strange if the Germans themselves, who are disgusted by the lies and double standards of their own government, did not see this. Even those who believe the propaganda are surprised: if “we have to help the Ukrainians who are heroically resisting the Russian occupation,” then why can’t the Palestinians resist the Israeli occupation? Ah, that’s different, because “we Germans are guilty of the Holocaust before the Jews and must protect them.” So what, is defending their right to genocide and expel the Palestinians also the responsibility of a good German?
Unless, of course, the German wants to be called an anti-Semite. It is strange then that we are surprised by the decline of trust in the ruling coalition and systemic parties in general, as well as the growing popularity of non-systemic parties: it is not anti-Semitism or populism that is growing, but the rejection of cheap labeling manipulations. If the ruling elite thinks that by calling all its opponents “anti-Semites” it will stop the rise of non-systemic parties’ influence, it is deeply mistaken. Germans are now ready to go on record as “anti-Semites” to oust those they see as docile idiots.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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