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In Germany, the weight of historical guilt silences protests for Gaza victims (english.elpais.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Defending Israel’s security is considered a ‘reason of state’ in the country, where there is practically no public criticism of Netanyahu’s government. Meanwhile, statements in favor of Palestinian human rights are censored

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There were peaceful protests in Germany. Nobody had a problem with those.

Nobody? Really? You don't think the right-wing Springer press (just to name the most glaring example) that is ideologically allied with ultranationalists in Israel had a problem with those? That they wouldn't have cried foul even if the protests where utterly devoid of any radicals? That they wouldn't have tried to censor even your imagined peaceful protests?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

your imagined peaceful protests

Yeah, sure. Protests with 10 thousand people in which maybe a few dozen were stopped by the police and a handful of banners were confiscated as questionable were totally not peaceful and unproblematic. And they are also not well documented in the media but imaginary.

If you refuse reality, that's a really bad basis for trying to argue.

Oh, these evil violent Protester with dangerous strollers