‘Complete censorship’: Germany’s Palestinian diaspora fights crackdown
‘Complete censorship’: Germany’s Palestinian diaspora fights crackdown
From bans on rallies and flags to arrests and police profiling, Germany’s Palestinian community says it is under attack.
There is a crackdown/entrapment going on, and many people who took part in Pro-Palestinian demonstrations are then ID and catalogued. Palestinian flags on apartment windows and student dormitories are taken down by police. Not to mention, Palestinian flag that was painted in a shop's garage next to my house and has been there for literally 10 years, was painted over by the city government today. There is a concentrated effort to silence any Palestinian voice, and Germans are just as "clueless" like they were back in the 1940s.
Germans aren't clueless, they're complicit.
What Israel has been doing for many years (and now greatly intensified) is beyond excessive, to say the least. Criticism of Israel's stance was and is valid - especially since right-wing Netanyahu took office. This criticism is very loud in Germany and has been for years, contrary to what this article claims. There are protests everywhere now and it's in the TV news and talkshows every hour of the day. There is certainly no censorship of anti-Israel positions in Germany, as long as you don't deliberately urge people to commit crimes against Jews (which happens often enough, sadly).
With that being said: Palestine pays and thereby encourages suicide bombers against Israel, has stopped being a democracy in 2009, punishes homosexuality as a criminal offense and kills and tortures its internal critics, among other things. Many civilians of both Israel and of Palestine have become needless victims of the current events (terror attack and military retaliation) and I do want the killings to stop immediately. But to hell with Hamas and the Palestinian flag; I personally really don't need to see that flag (and what it currently stands for) in Germany.
BS.
You can't walk 5 minutes in any major city into any direction and not meet some pro-palestine protestors.
Also Talkshows discuss palestine stuff for days now.
In Hamburg they've been banned for over a week now and still are until Sunday at least (and I'm sure they'll keep going)
Lol this article is a joke
The whole article is complete BS.
Just one small example:
Pro-Palestinian protests in many parts the country as well as Palestinian flags, pro-Palestinian speech and the Palestinian keffiyeh headdress have been banned with schools in Berlin given official permission to do so.
What happened is that schools CAN ban keffiyeh. And of course they can, political symbols of any kind always have been not allowed at schools. It was the same when I went 10 to 20 years ago.