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However, the known record of German institutions cracking down on dissident Jewish voices(*) is a very good indicator of what’s going on here. Now, I’m not saying that any of these people are little saints, or that they did nothing questionable, but that there is a systemic bias in Germany against pro-Palestinian activism. Which is the more burning point than counting pennies of the particularities of each individual legal case.

(*) such as Masha Gessen, Nancy Fraser, Yuval Abraham, Omri Boehm and others.

Shame on you.

Are you asking me to play the role of a search engine for you? 😏

Imagine if the NYT treated Palestinian lives with as much concern.

#notallmen vibes

Can’t read German. Is the article about how the group they were allegedly with did things? Because the article I linked to says they were targeted by association.

It really blows my mind. Masha Gessen, Nancy Fraser, Yuval Abraham, Omri Boehm, and also others not mentioned in the article. Who the fuck gave Germany the right to decide who is a good pro-Israel Jew and who is a bad anti-Israel Jew? Germany of all countries, being in the business of labelling Jewish people as acceptable and unacceptable. The fucking nerve on these people.

The author of the article links to their own earlier article in the Intercept that goes in detail: https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/germany-gaza-protesters-deport/

The only event that tied the four cases together was the allegation that the protesters participated in the university occupation, which involved property damage, and alleged obstruction of an arrest — a so-called de-arrest aimed at blocking a fellow protesters’ detention. None of the protesters are accused of any particular acts of vandalism or the de-arrest at the university. Instead, the deportation order cites the suspicion that they took part in a coordinated group action. (The Free University told The Intercept it had no knowledge of the deportation orders.)

Some of the allegations are minor. Two, for example, are accused of calling a police officer “fascist” — insulting an officer, which is a crime. Three are accused of demonstrating with groups chanting slogans like “From the river to the sea, Palestine Will be Free” — which was outlawed last year in Germany — and “free Palestine.” Authorities also claim all four shouted antisemitic or anti-Israel slogans, though none are specified.

Two are accused of grabbing an officers’ or another protesters’ arm in an attempt to stop arrests at the train station sit-in.

O’Brien, one of the Irish citizens, is the only one of the four whose deportation order included a charge – the accusation that he called a police officer a “fascist” – that has been brought before a criminal court in Berlin, where he was acquitted.

All four are accused, without evidence, of supporting Hamas, a group Germany has designated as a terrorist organization.

It’s really really cute to see Germans/Europeans/Westerners pretending that antisemitism is an imported problem.

Vlad Vexler makes the point that the point of is not at all economics but that it does have a basis in logic: it is about asserting that he can do this, that his political power is above economic rationality. It is a political move, not an economic play.

But their shills in the West will make sure that if you raise your voice, depending on your legal status, you will be slandered, roughed up by police, have your degree revoked, snatched up from your family or in the middle of the street, and deported.

And they will use the charge of antisemitism as a cudgel, all the while playing into all the worst antisemitic tropes and preparing the ground for the next round of actual antisemitic violence.

Zionism hurts Palestinians first, people who stand up for humanity second, all Jews third. It’s a shit ideology.

The current incarnation of the USA is not the usual USA, it’s MAGA USA, just like we characterize Fascist Italy, Peronist Argentina or Frankoist Spain. The NYT is in opposition but it’s still a newspaper from the MAGA USA.

Ok so hear me out: fuck the New York Times. I don’t even bother to read the article and I happen to think the CDU is a bunch of yahoos. But an …American newspaper, telling a European democracy what it does or what it doesn’t need? Get the fuck out of here.

Sure, the essayist is probably German and probably makes some good points. But, honestly fuck MAGA USA and their newspapers.

Signed, a dual EU/Canada citizen.

God no, the EU countries are not blameless. But they by far not the prime mover of the blowing up of the Middle East.

Junior partners are junior.

Arguably the hard right foreign policies of the US from the last 10-20 years are responsible for a lot of the migrant waves Europeans are fearing. You guys blew up the middle east…