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Journalist in Germany. Freelance ✍ @Telegraph @ajenglish @thetimes & more 📻 @BBC 🇬🇧 & holpriges🇩🇪🇪🇸🇫🇷 Religionswissenschaftler gegen Judenhass
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West Berlin vs East Berlin
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Obsessed with the range of these answers to “what should people abroad know about Germans?”
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An artist with German Jewish heritage cancels her exhibition in Germany after being questioned about signing her IG posts “Free Palestine” without “from Hamas”
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Yesterday a man was arrested for throwing a donner kebab at a security guard in Berlin Neukölln.
This photo was taken by the police for evidence.
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The oldest newspaper in the world - the Wiener Zeitung - has been printed for the last time. This is the final front page
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Director Basel Adra calls for Germany to “respect the UN calls and stop sending weapons to Israel” from the stage of the Berlinale
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Pro-Palestinians protesters at the Berlinale’s industry event
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Whose idea was it to put up a wooden sign warning about the beaver?
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German climate activists took unsold food from supermarkets to give away
The police then confiscated the food and put it back in the bin
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Germany's freedom ranking has been downgraded in a review from "open" to "restricted" due to repression of pro-Palestinian as well as climate activists
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Israeli Jew Hadas was arrested yesterday by Berlin police for holding this sign
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Just found a company that refurbishes Yugoslav K67 Kiosks and now desperately thinking of business ideas that would justify buying one
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German leftist: “For NATO-Ukraine you are turning Germany into ruins?!?”
The same day, Dnipro in Ukraine was bombed to actual ruins.
There’s a German word for this Wohlstandsverwahrlosung - living in such prosperity you lose grip on reality
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Photo from protest. Remember that the Bundestag’s non-binding BDS ban was initially an AfD proposal
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German "peace movement" meme (left)
Literal Nazi propaganda (right)
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Labour’s Kier Starmer and David Lammy using the Holocaust memorial as a backdrop for their party political video
This is a massive faux pas in Germany
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If he said this in Berlin, he would be arrested
87-year-old Holocaust survivor, Stephen Capos, says: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free, no matter how long it takes".
Kapos, who attended the march for Gaza in London, was 7-years-old when he and his family survived the Nazi Holocaust on Jews in Hungary in 1944
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“We cannot believe anything Russia promises. For Russia promises when it is forced to do so and then goes back on its word from the moment its strength is renewed.”
Józef Piłsudski, 1919
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I’m a simple fella. I see “Crimea is Ukraine”, I like
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Philosophy professor Nancy Fraser, who is Jewish, has been uninvited from a guest professorship in Germany for signing a public letter in support of Palestine
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Berlin police respond with force when a Palestinian woman calls an officer “ridiculous”
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A Russia propagandist just posted this pic, accidentally making Baerbock look extremely cool
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Just saw a jacket that made me say "oh fuck!" a little too loud.
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Berlin police searched a 41-year old woman’s apartment and arrested her yesterday for writing “from the river to the sea” on social media
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I live in Germany but no one warned me large parts of it look like this
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61% of Germans think that Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip are unjustified
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Exclusive: the German bank account of Jüdische Stimme / Jewish Voice has been blocked by their bank, who has demanded a full list of members and their addresses. The group sees a worrying echo of history.
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A right-wing influencer in Germany - who is gay and of Turkish heritage - tried to join the AfD but was surprised by the amount of racist abuse he got from other party members
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I don't think people are fully aware but parts of Germany is having a 2000s style anti-arab racist meltdown because some kids went kinda nuts with fireworks
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An efficient country should not have 2 cities called Frankfurt
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People say German politics is boring but MASZ just attacked the CDU for racism while dressed as some kind of vampire
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we are approaching the "Wunderwaffen" stage of Russian military Cope
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Babe are you ok? You’ve barely touched your Feetloaf
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I don’t think it’s landed how bad these cancellations are for Germany’s international reputation. People don’t think cancelling Holocaust survivors is justified by being pro-Israel. They just think Germany is silencing inconvenient Jews
Marione Ingram is an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor and peace activist who has been demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. She just had a series of talks canceled in Germany, for which she says she never got a real explanation.
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Germany 2024: rural youth singing “foreigners out” from a beer-drinking Lego carnival float
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In every borough but one in London people spend over 50% of their income on rent.
In only 2 German cities do people spend more than 30% of their income on rent
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The Antideutsch (German pro-Israel “Antifa”) being escorted by police while by-passers look on in horror.
Their chants reportedly included “bomb Gaza”
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Many Germans are condemning this speech by an Israeli filmmaker as antisemitic
Our film “No Other Land” on occupied Masafer Yatta’s brutal expulsion won best documentary in Berlinale. Israel’s channel 11 aired this 30 second segment from my speech, insanely called it “anti semitic” - and I’ve been receiving death threats since. I stand behind every word.
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While everyone reports that John Cents gave the award naked, Der Spiegel describes him as wearing Birkenstocks. There’s always a local angle !
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Germany's racist anti-arab NYE meltdown was partly caused by the police giving fake numbers and journalists uncritically repeating them.
Instead of 145 mostly-foreign arrests, it was 38 mostly German.
Journalists aren't police stenographers.
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The AfD is the most popular party among 14-29 year olds in Germany
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Someone hacked a
@berlinale
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The AfD are reappropriating a Nazi symbol in a campaign to ban gender inclusive language
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You couldn't make it up.
Angela Merkel praises Neville Chamberlain(!) in a Spiegel interview, saying that she bought time for Ukraine by rejecting them for NATO membership at Bucharest 08 like Chamberlain bought time at Munich.
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This woman in Munich is so angry that the parking spots on her street were replaced with a kids playground that she has started shooting a water pistol at playing children
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A very German scandal?
In today's Times I covered a once-rising star of the SPD. A young woman from the east, she is now First Minister of Merkel's home state. But recent revelations show she "turned her office into a branch of Gazprom"
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This is what this Palestinian refugee posted - and Germany’s best selling newspaper implies her citizenship should be taken away for it
This is a shocking new level of hate-mongering from tabloid Bild. What's this girl's crime? She posted an instagram post with the hashtag from the rivers to the sea. Honestly this level of targeted harassment will endanger her and should be illegal.
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I'm a simple fella. I see mass killings of civilians by Russia, I oppose it.
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Israeli Jew Iris Hefets once again arrested in Berlin Neukölln for holding a “Jews against Genocide” sign
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I spent months digging into Ahmad Mansour, visiting Tira, spoke to classmates, family, and his college. Much of his backstory is an exaggeration or a fabrication. He was never a Muslim Brother, the Imam wasn’t an Imam, he didn’t study psych @ Tel Aviv Uni
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A new study has found that Germany could save 6.7 million tons of CO2 by introducing a speed limit on the Autobahn. That's the same amount as annually emitted by the D R Congo, a country of 95 million people.
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The inability of German conservatives to realise that not all white people in Germany are German is so hilariously provincial. Ausländer: we walk among you!
„Ju arr bräking mei Hand.“ Warum reden deutsche Studenten an einer deutschen Uni mit deutschen Polizisten auf Englisch? Weil sie denken, dass die Weltöffentlichkeit zusieht, wie auch sie Opfer von Gewalt und Unterdrückung werden? FU Berlin 2023
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Breaking: civil servants have called on Germany to stop supplying Israel with arms, saying the country’s “crimes in Gaza” are “in clear contradiction to international law and thus to the Constitution”.
My exclusive for
@AJEnglish
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Everyone knows when WW2 started in 1939, when the Nazis invaded Poland.
So why do the biggest war memorials in Berlin say the war started in 1941, and what does this tell us about the memorial debate in C Eastern Europe? 🧵
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Jewish philosopher Judith Butler has joined the
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call to boycott Germany’s cultural institutions
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The plans for mass deportations at a Potsdam conference were so extreme that Marine Le Pen is threatening the AfD with being kicked out of EU group
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A lot of prominent Germans on left and right have been backing away from arming Ukraine because “you can’t beat war with war.”
do they think the Nazis just gave up?
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A German “liberal” MP calls for Al Jazeera to be banned in Germany
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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Germany: we are facing a gas shortage
Also Germany: let’s keep 1400 gas lights burning all day during summer
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German far-right screaming "Nazis out" and "piss of you pigs, you live on our benefits" at Ukrainian demo in Leipzig
2014 Den Ukrainer*innen wird „Nazis raus“ und „Ihr Schweine verpisst euch, ihr lebt auf unsere Kosten“ entgegen geschrieen.
#le1010
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Two of Germany’s few journalists of colour have been removed from a TV show because it’s moving to Leipzig and the EIC there wants “hosts with an east German background” (almost certainly will be white).
Both posted identical Tweets 👀
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1 minute after taking this photo of delicious Ukrainian wareniki in Magdeburg E Germany, an old lady said to me “if I hear the word Ukraine again I will throw up. The West started this war, the West!”
She realized this after watching Putin’s speech
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Algebra (al-jabr) coffee, chess, the first university, hospitals, pens, glass, syringes, the modern numeral system, arabesque art
Unfollow Visegrad 24
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I’m not saying I’ve been in Berlin too long, but a stranger was just nice to me and I nearly cried
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The six worst train stations in Europe were all in Germany (inc Essen)
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the worst map you could possibly use to illustrate this news story
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Anas Modamani, the Syrian refugee who famously took a selfie with Merkel, has become a German citizen today.
Congratulations Anas! 🖤❤️💛
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A German centre for "antisemitism research" describes "stop genocide in Gaza!" graffiti as antisemitic.
📣 Statement der IIA zu einem antisemitischen Graffiti auf dem Uni-Campus in
#Trier
: Gegen jeden
#Antisemitismus
- auch an der
@TrierUni
!
Das vollständige Statement ist in den Sharepics in diesem Thread zu lesen oder auf unserer Website unter:
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German restaurants are refusing to take card payments again. Nature is healing.
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Germany is often praised for how it has dealt with its dark history
The reality is far more complex. Here is a state antisemitism commissioner indirectly praising the Nazis for their humanity and guilty consciences
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Friend in Tel Aviv says they’re outraged that entire IDF brigades were taken from Gaza to secure the Sukkot festivals of the West Bank settlers (many of whom don’t join the army), while worries of southern Israeli residents ignored
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@ajfreiners
do you think that Geschichtsaufarbeitung could also mean not applying the same logic that the Nazis used to justify killing hundreds of thousands of civilians "in retribution"?
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It took them 632 years, that's how
How on earth did they build this without power tools or modern machinery?
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People are doubting the legitimacy of this photo. Here’s the original post on Twitter, from
@ap
photographer with
@ap
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This photo….
Israeli female soldiers pose for a photo on a position on the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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photography about Muslim life in Berlin was taken from an exhibit by the organisers “to avoid conflict” because they “did not want to take a political position”
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Breaking: Berlin drops the IHRA clause - which limits criticism of Israel -from cultural funding applications after sustained protest from artists
"I have to take seriously the legal and critical voices that saw the clause as a restriction on artistic freedom" Senator
@ChialoJoe
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Two Ukrainian women were attacked without provocation on the Berlin U-bahn by 3 Russian-speaking men. This fits with so much of the reporting I've done.
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69% of Germans think Israel’s military actions in Gaza are unjustified
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Breaking: former Greek Finance Minister
@yanisvaroufakis
says he has been banned from all political activity in Germany, including speaking via Zoom, after being due to give a speech at the Palestine Congress
Police refused to comment to me due to “privacy reasons”
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80,000 people on the streets of Hamburg protesting the rise of the far-right
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Longtime German Left MP Dieter Dehm called the description of Russian mass killings in Bucha “probably faked”
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80% of Germans want abortion fully legalised, but the public media decides to broadcast a "comment" that this is a "divisive topic". There is a huge societal consensus - not even mentioning this is a complete failure of journalism.
Die Ampelregierung sollte die Finger von
#Paragraf218
lassen. Die aktuelle Abtreibungs-Regelung ist ein guter Kompromiss! Warum also ein neues Spalter-Thema aufmachen? Vieles in der Regierungspolitik bietet schon genug Zündstoff. Meine Contra-Meinung gestern in den
#Tagesthemen
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A German professor calls the imprisoned Palestinians let free by Israel “convicted Hamas terrorists”.
Most of them were minors with no connection to Hamas, many of them were not convicted at all.
Germany needs better experts
Wie in dieser Welt gilt diese Person als „Experte“?
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Spiegel claims that the Israeli army found suicide vests “adapted for children”
This is hugely incendiary and must be proven rather than just reporting IDF claims. Did the reporters see images?
Framing is odd too - why is birth rate relevant? Are all Gazan kids a threat?
Mehr als 180 Geburten, jeden Tag, mitten im Krieg: Die Uno mahnt eine humanitäre Feuerpause in Gaza an. Die israelische Armee hat dort derweil Sprengstoffgürtel gefunden – offenbar für Kinder angepasst.
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A Start Up Flat in Berlin are looking for a new member “based on psychometrics” and their video is even more cringe than you’re imagining
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