#German Solidarity with Palestine

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FUCK YEAH

BASED ENGLAND

BASED GERMANY

BASED FRANCE

BASED ROMANIA

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"Where do you think my grandmother spent the Second World War?"

"Adam Broomberg, a prominent Jewish artist and Berlin-based photographer, asked this of the police after they grabbed him by the neck, threw him to the ground, beat him on the back then led him away in handcuffs."

(later in the article...)

"The justification for a pre-emptive ban on a child-friendly afternoon action to hold up watermelons, the fruit associated with Palestine, would almost be comedic if it weren’t quite so cynical—’antisemitic watermelons’. On Nakba Day itself, police vigilance was so extreme that police at one point stopped people from dancing the dabke on the basis that this traditional Palestinian dance potentially amounts to ‘political expression.’ All literature about BDS and any flyer containing the word ‘Nakba’ was seized."

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Germans for a free Palestine 🇵🇸🇩🇪

Banners read "freedom for Palestine", "Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine" and "No to the criminalization of solidarity with Palestine".

[disco-cola]

the fact that there was an official UN-resolution „3379“ - declaring zionism as a form of racism and racist discrimination - in order from 1975-1991 should really tell you that this is not a new discussion at all. if you look at the world map from 1975 highlighting all the countries that were in favor and those against it is very obvious just how long this has been going on. it’s almost identical to those countries‘ positions even today. they should never have taken that resolution back tbh. could have saved tens of thousands of lives.

[lasttarrasque]

Germany on the wrong side of history again

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JEWISH PEACE ACTIVIST: "THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT DOES EVERYTHING IT CAN TO SILENCE US."

📹 Jewish German peace activist, Udi Raz, based in Berlin, accuses the German government of suppressing peace protests against the Israeli occupation's genocide in Gaza.

According to Raz, the German authorities continue to suppress the Palestine solidarity movement, accusing the German authorities of doing all it can to silence protesters.

The activist slams the Israeli occupation, which publicly accuses the pro-Palestine peace movement of antisemitism, while at the same time, the Zionist occupation declares its ability to speak for all Jews around the world.

"Israel cannot speak in the name of Jews," Raz tells Anadolu News Agency. "Whoever claims otherwise, to my understanding, this is an antisemitic claim."

"Jews are diverse. Jews live in diverse and different geopolitical contexts and national contexts," the Jewish peace activist continues.

"We Jews who live here in Germany, of course, we care about other Jews who live elsewhere, but it does not mean that we are ambassadors of a racist state called the state of Israel," Raz added.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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In honor of Ireland, Norway, and Spain recognizing Palestine. Here are my favorite former East Germany (DDR) art in solidarity with Palestine. (The DDR along with Malta, the former socialist/communist countries of Albania, Czech Republic, and Serbia, where the first European countries to recognize Palestine).

Now that I have you here, here's the Creators for Palestine link which goes to four Palestinian organizations:

And a post that talks about getting esims to Gaza:

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Palestine Conference in Berlin impeded by police - Here's what happened

[translated from Perspektive Online, 14. April 2024]

The so-called "Palestine Congress", at which the role of Germany in the ongoing Gaza war would be discussed, was harassed and made impossible by the Berlin police shortly after it began. For weeks, bourgeois German press and politicians stirred up a smear campaign.

On Friday, April 12, after just a few hours and only one full speech, the event scheduled for the whole weekend was ended and banned by the police under enormous repression. The "Palestine Congress" was supported and organized by a broad alliance of left-wing and Palestine solidarity groups.

Against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Gaza and the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, the aim was to discuss the legal, humanitarian and political context of the situation in Palestine and Israel and, in particular, the German state's support for the Israeli war. The congress was held under the slogan "Palestine accuses" - "accused" was the German state.

Since the mobilization and ticket sales for the three-day event began, a wave of hostility, racism and even outright incitement has poured over the organizers and their environment. There was talk of a "hate congress" and that the "anti-Semites of the world" wanted to gather in Berlin. As a result, the congress with lectures and workshops had its venues cancelled several times after pressure was exerted on the organizers. As the culmination of the repression in the run-up to the event, a ban on the congress was demanded.

Start of the event - Repression comes to a head

On Friday morning, a few hours before the start of the congress, a press conference was convened. Among other things, the goals and demands of the organizers were stated: A ceasefire in the current Gaza war, humanitarian aid as well as the opening of the border and a stop to German arms deliveries to Israel.

The first provocations already took place outside the press conference rooms. A small pro-Israeli counter-demonstration gathered on a street corner. The police presence was enormous. Some journalists from the media outlets, that had previously been actively involved in the smear campaign against the congress, turned up and demanded entry to the press conference. However, there was only limited space in the small rooms.

An "alliance against anti-Semitic terror" jointly opposed the event. In a statement from the critics they claimed that glorification of terror and calls for the destruction of Israel were to be expected. The alliance is backed by various organizations such as the Amadeu Antonio Foundation as well as politicians from the FDP, SPD, Greens, CDU/CSU and Left Party.

Repression at the venue

The congress was due to begin at 2 p.m. in an office building in Berlin-Tempelhof. Here, too, the police were on site in advance with dozens of police vans. Around 800 tickets had been sold for the congress and participants began to gather in front of the venue. However, the police quickly decided, under various pretexts, that only around 250 people would be allowed into the room.

When the congress started delayed by several hours, there were more police officers than participants in the room, according to eyewitnesses. The police unilaterally defined the waiting ticket holders in front of the building as an unregistered assembly and began to read out instructions and directly threaten to evict them. In the end, the assembly was registered and people started shouting Palestine solidarity slogans out of necessity, but also out of conviction. The police refused to negotiate and banned all other people from entering the event.

The congress itself then also fell victim to state repression: the police used the pretext of potential "incitement of the people" as early as the second item on the program to ban the entire congress. The rooms were stormed, the electricity was cut off and arrests were made.

The reason was a stream with the Palestinian academic Salman Abu Sittah. The German government banned several guest speakers from entering the country. The politician Yannis Varoufakis, the surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitteh, who is active in Gaza, and the well-known journalist Ali Abunimeh also faced entry bans.

"They take our rooms, we take the streets".

The congress was subsequently canceled by the organizers. It was impossible to hold a congress under these conditions. Instead, a demonstration through the center of Berlin was called for Saturday afternoon. The slogan was: "They take our rooms, we take the streets".

The protest camp in front of the Bundestag also received a massive influx of people as a result of the events. People from different backgrounds have been camping there for several days against Germany's complicity in the Gaza war on the side of Israel. The protesters spoke of a "error by the police" and a historic "Day 1 after the Palestine Congress". How the resistance will now develop remains to be seen. There will probably not be another congress.

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i hate germany, fucking shit-hole of a country

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Greta Thunberg criticised Germany’s “silencing” and “threatening” of pro-Palestine activists in a video message she shared on Wednesday. This comes after a solidarity encampment in Dortmund where Thunberg was invited to speak was shut down by German police.

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was greeted by crowds of protesters upon his arrival in Türkiye. The protesters called out Germany’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing total war of extermination against the Gaza Strip. Internationally, Germany has not only come under heavy criticism for its crackdown on Palestine solidarity activism but also for its role in supplying roughly 50% of Israel’s weapons supply, only second to the US.

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Cops clearing a pro-Palestine camp in front of the German parliament, which was set up by activists demanding the government stop arms exports to Israel and an end to the criminalization of the Palestinian solidarity movementm

[opencommunion]

"The images of hundreds of masked and heavily armed police invading the apartments of Palestinian students, workers and refugees in Germany today appears as an imitation of the daily invasions of the Israeli occupation forces in Palestinian homes in occupied Palestine, as well as a disturbing echo of Germany’s own Nazi fascist history. And as Palestinians in occupied Palestine have never stopped struggling despite over 75 years of Zionist occupation and 100 years of colonialism, these attacks will not silence the growing movement in Germany and every other imperialist power involved in attacking Palestine, as new generations refuse their involvement and complicity in genocide.

We affirm: No bans, police raids or criminalization will silence the spirit, the will and the organization of the Palestinian, Arab and internationalist voices confronting imperialism, Zionism and reaction. As Samidoun, we are committed to challenging the ban and these attacks by all legal means, and our eyes will not be turned away from our role in working urgently to end the genocide and free all Palestinian prisoners. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Long live the Palestinian resistance. Victory, return, total liberation and decolonization for all of Palestine."

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By Olivia Reingold

Here are just three individuals highlighted in the report.

Mohammad Hannoun, a 62-year-old Jordan native who the report describes as “the epicenter of Italian actors operating or sympathizing with Hamas,” has sent at least $4 million to the terrorist group over the past decade via the Charity Association of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The U.S. Treasury Department recently said the Italy-based organization, which Hannoun founded in 1994, “ostensibly raises funds for humanitarian purposes, but in reality helps bankroll Hamas’s military wing.” Just three days after October 7 of last year, Hannoun told an Italian journalist that Hamas’s invasion of Israel was “self-defense.” Hannoun, who lives in the northern Italian city of Genoa, has helped promote anti-Israel rallies throughout the Mediterranean country on his Facebook page, often posting about what he calls a “Nazi Zionist genocide in Palestine.”

Majed Al-Zeer, who has been co-designated as a Hamas operative by the U.S. and Israel, is “the mastermind of the Hamas-affiliated activity” in the UK and Germany, according to the report. In 1996, Al-Zeer, a 62-year-old British-Jordanian citizen, founded the Palestinian Return Centre, which lobbies British Parliament and holds a special status at the UN that allows its members to attend meetings and “mobilize support for the Palestinian cause in the UK and overseas.” In 2010, Israel declared the Palestinian Return Centre an “unlawful association,” stating that “it is part of the Hamas movement.” Even though German authorities have identified the Palestinian Return Centre as a likely front for Hamas activity, Al-Zeer continues to live and organize anti-Israel rallies in Berlin, where he moved from the UK in 2014.

Amin Abou Rashed, who Dutch authorities arrested last year for allegedly sending about $6 million to Hamas, has a pattern of “hiding behind politics” and “alleged humanitarian efforts” to “promote Hamas’s ideology” through purported charities like the now-defunct Al-Aqsa Foundation. According to the report, Rashed gained asylum to the Netherlands in 1992, and has been pictured with now-deceased Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and other officials for the terrorist group. 

The report identifies five European countries where Hamas is most active outside of Gaza: the UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium. (via European Leadership Network)

The European Leadership Network was able to link these charities and individuals to Hamas through publicly available information such as social media posts and nonprofit registration filings. Mark Sachs, a U.S.-based director of the European Leadership Network, told me “most of the world has absolutely no idea what is taking place right beneath their noses.” 

“It is essential that we in the West start to wake up to how deeply embedded this infrastructure is and how sophisticated Hamas is in taking advantage of the West,” Sachs said.

U.S. regulators have estimated that since early 2024, Hamas has received as much as $10 million a month from these fraudulent groups, most of which are located in Europe, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. 

“Hamas has exploited the suffering in Gaza to solicit funds through sham and front charities that falsely claim to help civilians in Gaza,” the U.S. Treasury Department said last week. “Hamas considers Europe to be a key source of fundraising and has maintained representation across the continent for many years in part to raise funds through sham charities.”