Ruairí Casey
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Irish, journalist - work with @reuters @latimes @foreignpolicy @cnni @ajenglish @cjr @vicenews @irishtimes . ruairieoincasey at gmail
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Germany 🤝 Israel
Making Palestinians pass
through checkpoints to enter
their own neighbourhood
German police set up control zones with mandatory searches for all people in Sonnenallee Neukölln, Berlin's neighborhood known for its strong Palestinian community. Clashes expected today. MASSIVE police deployment.
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Remarkable exchange between Mustafa Barghouti and an interviewer from Taz, Germany's largest left-wing newspaper
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Since some people are doubting this, I confirmed with the Berlin police: They only allow English and German to be spoken at the protest camp in front of the Bundestag (and Arabic in the evenings). Speeches, songs, etc. in other languages, including Irish, are not permitted.
Update: they have now banned us from speaking Irish (the official language of an EU state) and told us we’re not allowed to be anywhere near the Bundestag
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Police have interrupted the Palestine Congress in Berlin halfway through a video message by Ghassan Abu Sitta and now cut the power
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For nearly 2 months, a Palestinian staff member of GIZ, Germany's development agency, has been imprisoned in Israel - without charge, under administrative detention. Her lawyer told me she has been beaten, abused, and subjected to humiliating treatment
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Some lyrics from 'October in Europe,' a new song by left wing rap German group Antilopen Gang about antisemitism:
"Surprise, even Greta hates Jews"
"My taxi driver talks like a Nazi"
"Civilians in Gaza are the shield of Hamas, the shield of the descendants of Jew gassers"
Endlich was neues von Deutschlands am wenigsten genozidaler linken Hip-Hop-Band
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German man loves Ireland, shocked to find Irish hold anti-colonial views
Irland ist ein großartiges, freiheitsliebendes EU-Mitglied, aber die pro-palästinensische Haltung grenzt hier an Verteidigungsideogie für die
#Hamas
und Täter-Opfer-Umkehr. Unbegreiflich. 🇮🇪🇮🇱
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The German health minister is now sharing the Douglas Murray interview, which he says is "extremely worth watching". Completely insane.
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Why do German politicians blame immigrants for 'importing' antisemitism, or call on Muslims in the country to distance themselves from Hamas?
I spoke with Esra Özyürek, who's studied what she calls the 'outsourcing' of German Holocaust guilt to Muslims
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The culture centre Oyoun announces it will close next month after Berlin's senate cut its funding, apparently for refusing to cancel a peace vigil by a left-wing Jewish group. A big loss for Berlin and a warning to any other culture institutions that receive state funding.
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Germany's leading news show omits the IDF's admission that it opened fire on Palestinian civilians. Softer on Israel than the IDF's own press office.
Zum
#FlourMassacre
gestern in
#Gaza
gibt die
@tagesschau
~11 Mio. Deutschen das Narrativ des
#israel
|ischen Militärs wieder und alles andere ist
#Hamas
.
Das Framing dieses Beitrags ist bemerkenswert.
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Remember the Palestinian refugee Merkel made cry on TV in 2015?
Bild has denounced her as an antisemite for posting "from the river to the sea
#freepalestine
" on Instagram. Politicians quoted in the story say her German citizenship should be stripped.
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Why does Germany think Ireland needs a timely reminder on anti-semitism and anti-colonialism? Maybe the embassy should be clearer here about what's being implied.
"Anticolonialism must not lead to antisemitism" - an important and timely reminder from Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, both for Germany and Ireland.
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The reason being they are monitoring the speeches for possible offenses and only have translators for the permitted languages
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@mlothianmclean
The luxury apartments, useless private security, irresponsible employers, late ambulance - the thread's like a full bingo card of British decline
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The expert committee Berlin formed to look at the possibility of expropriating corporate landlords came to a surprisingly radical conclusion
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How many languages can the Berliner Polizei ban in a week?
Update: they have now banned us from speaking Irish (the official language of an EU state) and told us we’re not allowed to be anywhere near the Bundestag
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Around 150 antiwar protesters began an encampment at Berlin's Free University this morning. The university called the police to clear it - students say without any prior dialogue with them. Many were arrested violently - police punched, kicked and choked students repeatedly
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This is the written statement I received from the Berlin police
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Have just looked through the homepages of Germany's leading newspapers - Bild, SZ, Zeit, Welt, FAZ, Zeit, Taz. Coverage of the ICJ genocide hearing is given no prominence at all.
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@damomac
I don't understand the distinction? The police confirmed that songs, chants, speeches and so on were banned unless in English or German.
Similar restrictions have been placed on other pro-Palestine events in Berlin before.
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Extremely depressing that this is the guy who bought the artist space where I work in Kreuzberg, which is now being evicted so the rent can be tripled (pic from his interview in the SuperYacht Times)
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The German federal govt releases a statement saying the genocide accusation against Israel has "no basis whatsoever" and that it intends to intervene as a third party in the ICJ hearing.
No reference to Palestinians, just "Israel's operation in Gaza."
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"Germans would like to believe they have learned from their history. The rest of the world hears their loud silence and sees them deliberately look away. It no longer takes German politicians seriously when they talk about human rights."
@bax_daniel
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Looks like former RAF member Burkhard Garweg escaped the raid on his home because Danielle Klette tricked the police into letting her go to the toilet and texted him a warning
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Jewish Israeli activist Udi Raz being detained by police just after they announced the event was being shut down
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Unfortunately very common in the German media. Guilt often determined by vague insinuations rather than facts, and no right of reply offered. Even 'prestigious' publications fail to uphold basic journalistic standards when it comes to such allegations.
You'd think, with all the attention to the Arendt Prize debacle, I'd be inundated with media calls/texts. You'd be wrong. Not one German journalist has reached out for comment. One US journalist did. All reporting has happened with no input/reaction from me. Inaccuracies pile up
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The day before the German Foreign Ministry posted this, I saw Berlin police charge and punch at peaceful protesters, knocking over their "All eyes on Rafah" sign in the process
The German Foreign Ministry have made an IG post about Rafah that arguably comes across as a shitpost
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Lights are back on. An organiser says police are reviewing the video message before allowing the event to resume
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Crazy dystopian pic of German police defending a coal mine excavator from climate protesters (credit:
@marius_mich
)
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*Salman Abu Sittah. My mistake. Ghassan Abu Sittah was also on today's schedule, but has been prevented from entering Germany
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Worth noting, once again, that the near-total support for Israel across German politics and media is not reflected in public polling:
41% think Israel's military reaction has gone too far
61% do not believe military actions are justified if they harm Palestinian civilians
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And there's a video
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Something particularly horrible about the "Free Palestine/Gaza from Hamas" slogan so beloved by the German left, isn't there? The sneering pretence to care about the people you support annihilating with bombs. Like the welfare of Palestinians is some kind of joke.
FC St Pauli fans show solidarity with the Jewish community, while also holding a message to some of
#FCSP
‘s intl. fan clubs after criticism for their statements re the war in Israel.
“Never again is now! Fight antisemitism! From Gaza to Glasgow: free Palestine from Hamas!”
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In full agreement with Hanno. The police were excessively violent throughout, constantly attacking anti war protesters without provocation.
The degree of violence used by the police against the encampment today was something I have not seen in years. The fact that
@FU_Berlin
enabled / stood by brute battering of protesters calling first and foremost for an end to this war disturbs me - also as a former student there.
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Steyerl's contribution here is so embarrassing. Basically telling international artists in Germany speaking up about Gaza to shut up or leave.
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Justified with reference to Staatsräson, a pre-democratic concept which does not exist in German law
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The new Staatsräson anthem has now been endorsed by high ranking government officials and the right wing Springer press 👍
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Police have announced they are shutting down the event. No exact reason given
Police have interrupted the Palestine Congress in Berlin halfway through a video message by Ghassan Abu Sitta and now cut the power
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Police say event was shut because of a ban on political activity placed on Salman Abu Sittah, who appeared via pre-recorded video. And because of the risk of antisemitic speech. Organizers say Abu Sittah had been on the schedule for weeks without issue
Auf dem "Palästina-Kongress" wurde ein Redner zugeschaltet, der ein politisches Betätigungsverbot hat.
Es besteht die Gefahr, dass wiederholt ein Redner zugeschaltet wird, der sich schon in der Vergangenheit antisemitisch bzw. gewaltverherrlichend öffentlich geäußert hat.
Daher
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Ghassan Abu Sittah said he was questioned for 3.5hrs by German police. When they denied him entry to the country, they told him even appearing in Germany via Zoom call or in a pre-recorded video could lead to a fine or up to a year in prison.
Professor
@GhassanAbuSitt1
is safely back in London.
As his lawyers, we will be taking up his removal from Germany with the authorities and will expect a full explanation for the manner in which he was treated today.
@GermanyDiplo
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@damomac
That's not incorrect, though I suppose people could read it as meaning *all* public events. But the replies and other posts are clearly referencing the protest at the Bundestag.
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"As our Arab and Muslim neighbors are beaten and silenced, we fear the atmosphere in Germany has become more dangerous—for Jews and Muslims alike—than at any time in the nation’s recent history."
Now in English: A very important letter from Jewish artists and writers in Germany
Our open letter in English at
@nplusonemag
. “We refuse to live in prejudicial fear. What frightens us is the prevailing atmosphere of racism and xenophobia in Germany, hand in hand with a constraining and paternalistic philo-Semitism.”
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A useful read if you want to understand the self-congratulatory nonsense swilling around the heads of German foreign policy elites
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The brutal conclusion of
@zeithistoriker
's assessment of the German radical centre, and its self-defeating and anti-democratic tendencies
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Excellent short piece on the state of foreign reporting from the perspective of a Jerusalem bookshop owner
@bookseller_jer
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Alex Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner, the most powerful figure in German media:
"I'm very pro-climate change. Warm phases of civilization have always been more successful than cold ones. We shouldn't fight climate change, we should adapt to it."
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Some excerpts. One author is a former Knesset member for Labor who said noone should be let back into northern Gaza without renouncing their refugee status. Another wants to abolish UNRWA. The group that published the brochure is registered to the address of an antideutsch bar...
Today the Berlin district assembly decided to distribute a brochure *in schools* boasting right-wing revisionist historiography on I/P. Germany remains impervious to warnings of intellectuals from all corners, instead patting itself on the back for its neverending smallmindedness
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Berlin's rental market spares no one: Even former RAF members are reduced to subletting
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Astounding contradictions in this poll. Large majorities of Israeli Jews believe:
-The IDF doesn't have clear plan for Gaza
-Israel should not care, or care little, about Palestinian civilians
-The IDF abides by intl law
-Intl criticism is because of hatred of Jews and Israel
Between December 11th & December 13th, 81.1% of Jewish Israelis said that Israel should not, or to only a very small extent, "take into consideration the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza when planning the continuation of the fighting there"
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Tuned in to the press conference for the Palestine Congress in Berlin with the head of
@JSNahost
A Danish journalist asks if it's difficult as a Jew being called antisemitic by German media. He says yes but you get used to it. Next question from a German: "Are you antisemites?"
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Palestinians have been arrested and sentenced to administrative detention in massive numbers since Oct 7, with many reporting systematic torture in Israeli prisons. But Israel imprisoning a staff member of one of its closest allies is rare.
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In a country that took press freedom seriously, what is happening to Hebh would be met with public outrage by her peers in the media, journalist unions, politicians and civil rights groups. But in Germany there is just silence.
I’m being retaliated against due to my participation in the Palestine Congress. Police have opened an investigation into me and one of the reasons is my work as a journalist and my interview with Zaid Abdulnasser for my upcoming documentary. A crime to properly do my job?
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German politicians wanting to strip foreigners of basic rights brings to mind communist leader Max Reimann, who opposed the 1949 constitution:
"We don't sign. However, the day will come when we communists will defend this constitution against those who have adopted it."
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"Never again is now: Come what may"
This appears to be this German IDF spokesperson's response to the ICJ ruling. He has been platformed widely across the German media and had dinner with the foreign minister on her birthday last month.
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Around 80-100 people protested in front of the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi today against the war in Gaza and Israel's influence in Georgia
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Since döner inflation is in the news again, I'll repost my story from last year on the history of the döner and why the price has soared. In short, it's as much about postwar German racial politics and labour market integration as it is about inflation.
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Özyürek says the 'outsourcing' of guilt to Muslims allows right-wing antisemites in Germany to whitewash themselves.
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Under the contemporary understanding of German memory culture, taking responsibility for historic German atrocities against Jews means supporting Israel. This leaves millions of Muslims excluded.
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Can't believe Noma is closing because they can't make their unpaid interns prepare intricate fruit beetles for months on end anymore
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Muslims, without a blood link to the perpetrators of the Holocaust, cannot benefit from the redemptive narrative memory culture offers to white, Christian-background Germans.
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Germany's agency for civic education:
"The principle of Staatsräson had a great importance in previous centuries, when kings and princes still ruled states... In democratic states, the Staatsräson, as described here, no longer plays a role."
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The problem with giving an unelected German aristocrat the power to make EU foreign policy is that they might act like an unelected German aristocrat
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Still pretty easy to spot East Germany when you compare average incomes
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'An Israeli film-maker who won one of the top prizes at the Berlin film festival has said German officials’ description of the awards ceremony as “antisemitic” has led to death threats and the physical intimidation of family members'
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With the price of a döner kebab in Germany almost doubling in a year, I took at why it was so cheap for so long.
It's a long Turkish-German story migration, discrimination, low-wage labour and (increasingly) integration.
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Around 100 pro-Palestinian protesters took to Sonnenallee tonight as Israel continues its assault on Rafah
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A statement by the Irish Bloc Berlin about the incident
Statement on the Ciorcal Comhrá
Bheirlín incident / Ráiteas ar eachtra an Chiorcail Chomhrá
Bheirlín
(from irishblocberlin on Instagram)
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@matthewstoller
This NBC report is clearly based on my investigation with
@mjponsford
- which they should have credited at the very least. Ours is much more detailed on how Blackstone ran CARD and the company's poor treatment of workers
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Muslims participants, however, were capable of what she calls a "radical empathy" with Holocaust victims that she believes could form a part of a more inclusive memory culture, one that includes all Germans, regardless of their ethnic or religious background.
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In the Holocaust education programmes she studied, Muslims were berated for relating the persecution of Jews to racial discrimination that exists in Germany today.
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23% of adults in Berlin can't vote in today's state election because they don't have a German passport.
In some neighbourhoods, like Kotbusser Tor, it's as high as 45%. Turkish and Polish communities are particularly disenfranchised.
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This ZEIT piece also shows how Döpfner and Springer tried to strengthen the FDP's polling ahead of the 2021 federal elections to counter the Green Party. In government, the FDP is doing exactly that, consistently blocking the coalition's climate agenda.
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A government spokesperson declined to answer a question yesterday on whether Germany has requested Israel to release Odeh from administrative detention. She has been imprisoned without charge for over two months now.
(57.30)
For nearly 2 months, a Palestinian staff member of GIZ, Germany's development agency, has been imprisoned in Israel - without charge, under administrative detention. Her lawyer told me she has been beaten, abused, and subjected to humiliating treatment
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Sally Rooney on the hypocrisy of Irish politicians holding their tongue when it comes to criticising the US:
"Our Government can bask in the moral glow of condemning the bombers, while preserving a cosy relationship with those supplying the bombs."
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Glad to see taz has picked up my story on GIZ worker Baraa Odeh, who has been imprisoned by Israel for two months. This is a good interview with human rights lawyer Sahar Francis on Israel's use of administrative detention.
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Here are some videos of police clearing the campus (audio unfortunately not working)
In the last video, police clear antiwar protesters out to the street while forming a protective line around pro-Israel counter protesters
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Since the 2000s, Muslims, who were previously considered outside a model of memory culture that focused on family links to Nazi perpetrators, have increasingly taken a central role.
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Look forward to her next piece in the NLR about big tech's militarisation of data modeling or whatever
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"If Germany keeps refusing to engage with both Israeli and Palestinian voices within its society, it could soon be steering into cultural irrelevance and political intolerance."
Germany must face its issues over Israel and the past. Silencing a Palestinian author won’t help. My op-ed for
@guardian
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For
@LRB
I wrote about the eviction of climate protesters from Lützerath, and Germany's historic dependency on lignite coal, the world's most polluting fossil fuel.
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Not gonna happen though since the new CDU/SPD coalition is busy banning new bike paths and doing austerity on poor kids instead
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How long do you have to live in Germany before you find Die Partei funny?
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Choking off aid at land crossings, forcing it instead through a ridiculous maritime route, only to murder those delivering and choke off the aid once again. A level of cynicism beyond imagining.
World Central Kitchen is stopping its aid services in Gaza as a result of IDF strike on its employees. This was Israel’s go to alternative for UNRWA
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An FDP politician, part of Germany's governing coalition, calls for banning Al Jazeera for 'spreading hate against Jews and the West'
Al Jazeera ist in Deutschland noch immer frei verfügbar, kann damit Hass und Herze gegen den Westen und die Juden verbreiten. Und für viele muslimische Mitbürger und Einwanderer in Deutschland ist er die einzige Informationsquelle. Er sollte hier ebenso wie der russische
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Yet in education programmes, Palestinians and Arabs are still taught that they too have links to Nazi perpetrators and thus bear guilt, not via family but the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
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Revenge of the conservative suburbs - Berlin's encirclement by the CDU looking a lot like Boris Johnson's in London 2008
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Gideon Levy: "Those who wanted the Jewish state and Zionism — it’s too late, friends. If you want the Jewish state, you should have pulled out of the occupied territories a long time ago. You didn’t do it. Too bad for you."
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In the late 50s, Germany bought weapons from Israel so that it could rehabilitate German rearmament:
"The Uzi in the hand of the German Soldier is better than any brochure against antisemitism."
Many were later sold on to Salazar's Portugal and used against Angolans.
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@amyhuberman
Launching
#Dreamboat
album for our friend Padraig as
#rehab
can't provide proper neuro treatment. Pls RT
http://t.co/bNmKy8qOF3
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German police arrested 25 far right monarchists this morning, who had allegedly been planning an armed attack on the Reichstag to overthrow the German government.
Heinrich XIII. Prince Reuß, 71, a property developer in Frankfurt, is the main suspect.
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A totally unserious account: we raised 'public concerns' in the past and someone said the word apartheid 10 years ago before walking it back
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Wrote a short piece for
@LRB
on the messy realities of Europe's fight against migrant smuggling
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