Berlin’s immigration authorities are moving to deport four young foreign residents on allegations related to participation in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, an unprecedented move that raises serious concerns over civil liberties in Germany.
The deportation orders, issued under German migration law, were made amid political pressure and over internal objections from the head of the state of Berlin’s immigration agency.
The internal strife arose because three of those targeted for deportation are citizens of European Union member states who normally enjoy freedom of movement between E.U. countries. None of the four has been convicted of any crimes.
“What we’re seeing here is straight out of the far right’s playbook,” said Alexander Gorski, a lawyer representing two of the protesters. “You can see it in the U.S. and Germany, too: Political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters.”
what antisemites? deporting people is a Nazi tactic so it’s ironic to label this “combatting antisemitism”.
I’m not supporting illegal deportation, but I’m also not supporting true “I really just hate jews because they are jews”-antisemites that unfortunately feel right at home in valid protests against Israel’s actions.
protests are public, those people are gonna show up no matter how progressive the protest.
most antisemites in Germany are pro-Israel, people that go at AfD marches to support their party’s line of Zionism by all means necessary in order to bring about the rapture of Jewish people from the Holy Lands.
I don’t understand, the rapture of the Jewish people by establishing a Zionist ethno state? I think it’s much simpler: The original fascists were antisemites because Jews were the scapegoat that could mobilise the masses due to a hatred for Jews that has been cultivated for centuries in Europe, it was en vogue. The fascist(oid) populists today use Arabs/Muslims (not that the average AfD supporter knows the difference) and therefore show public support with a regime that already shows little mercy for those. And yeah, true neo nazis, islamists and whoever else hate Jews will show up for the protests, and if there really need to be deportations, they should be first.
the deportation of anyone, regardless if they’re a political enemy or not, is a direct pipeline to normalizing fascism.
this is an article exemplifying how fascism always comes for trans people first and you’re here talking bs about islamists. most terrorists in Germany are white Germans.
I haven’t been clear. Yes, deportations are wrong (even though my heart really wants fascists out of the country), and yes, it’s alarming that at least half of the victims are trans/queer.
i agree entirely with you. i think the only way for Germans to get rid of fascism is to start tackling their white supremacist culture.
That’s true for all of Europe. But first, we’ll need to get our shit together and fend off agitprop from Russia, China, and, in the future, the US.
I’ve lived all over Europe and once upon a time I naively expected that people in the country of Nazism would nowadays be the most sensitive to racist thinking and acting of all, and hence the least racist of all, but that’s not at all my experience.
Germany and Germans justifying the racist practices of their own power elites and the fast slide back to authoritarian practices, with whataboutism and “legality” (as if most of the worst actions of the Nazis weren’t things they first made sure to make legal) is, frankly, scary as fuck for any European who is not a far-right Muppet, not least because it shows the moral and ethical distance between mainstream German politics and the AfD is paper thin.
Most of Europe isn’t supporting the mass murder of children by a nation because of the ethnicity said nation claims to represent and most of Europe hasn’t made it legal to deport people who weren’t tried and found guilty of something, and that Germany, of all nations, who did what they did almost a century ago and spent the time since telling us “Never again!” are back to the level of racism that knowingly sends wepons and ammo to a nation mass murdering chidren justifying that support with the ethnicity of the people of that nation, and is passing Fascist legislation to deport people without trial, is really making them stand out from the rest of Europe when it comes to Racism and Fascism.
Your peers in Europe on the Racist and Fascist scales are the likes of Hungary, not the Scandinavians or even the French.
Jewish people are not an ethnicity. They are defined by religion.Alright then, ethno-religious state; see below.Jews are a classic example of an ethnoreligious group, being Jewish is not solely a question of religion. E.g. many Jews in the US identify as Jewish, but do not believe in Judaism. And religious hardliners in Israel have a very clear image of what kind of people can be real Jews.
Not necessarily, no. Organizers can publicly distance themselves from unwanted people beforehand and during speeches, as well as check people’s banners and clothing, and that will generally help quite a bit.
I don’t experience it like that. I think the right wing is genuinely split over whether to support a Jewish religiously-defined state or whether to support anything anti-Jewish.
which banners and clothing do you want to be censored? if you mean Free Palestine and from the river to the sea, don’t even bother as you’d be outing yourself as a zionist
Primo job jumping to conclusions. I was naming examples of actions. How organizers implement them is not something I am going to have a say in anyway.
I am saying though that interactions like this are probably unnecessary: https://files.catbox.moe/ssct8w.mp4 If you don’t understand German: The “reporter” is an Afd member who is asking a pro-Palestine protester about the historical Nazis and the protester responds that he likes the number “6 million” [as in 6 million Jews killed during Holocaust]. Also, ftr: I do not endorse using the Jandl quote over the video in this context.
I can’t research this particular incident if all you give out is a video without sources from local media saying whether he experienced repercussions or not.
I don’t get what this is supposed to prove, that anyone can put on a keffiyeh and say Nazi shit?
It’s not local media, it’s literally a nazi live streamer filming people for profit. Nonetheless, it’s proving that it’s not always hard to tease out actual antisemitism from a subset of the people attending pro-Palestine demonstrations. And I do find that a credibility issue.
I agree and also, what the fuck does this have to do with anti-genocide protesters getting deported?