Germany’s strong confrontation with freedom of speech for unilateral support of Israel

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, newspaper ” Berliner Zeitung “in an article critical of Germany’s wrong policies towards the Zionist regime, especially during the Gaza war, and this writing is reminiscent of the McCarthy era.

The author continued to write : If you had predicted to me a few years ago what is happening today in Germany regarding Israel and Gaza, I would have thought it was a fantasy.

A German coalition government consisting of The Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals have guaranteed unconditional military and diplomatic support to the regime, which must now answer to the International Court of Justice in The Hague on suspicion of genocide – a suspicion that the court itself classifies as probable. In this situation, internationally famous intellectuals and artists – including Jewish voices – who work for human rights and international understanding are not invited by Germany to various events, and their guest professor chairs and award ceremonies are canceled, including Nancy Fraser, Lori Anderson and Masha Gessen.

The crime of these people is to mention the widespread war crimes and human rights violations in Gaza and demand something that the United Nations General Assembly also strongly demands. It means an immediate and permanent ceasefire to end the senseless killing in Gaza. More than 33,000 people, including 13,000 children, are currently victims of the Zionist regime’s bombings in the Gaza Strip, and a famine disaster is on the way in this region. German government and officials, lawbreakers are increasing almost every day. Filmmakers Yuval Abraham of Israel and Basel Adra of Palestine, who won the Berlinale Documentary Film Prize for “There Is No Other Land,” about deportations in the West Bank, were accused of anti-Semitism by prominent politicians and media because they called for an end to German arms deliveries that During the war, they requested about tenfold at the request of the Zionist regime, and also because they dared to use the word “apartheid”, which the world’s two leading human rights organizations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, after Conducting several years of in-depth studies on the site, they have been using it for years in relation to Israel. In this way, anyone who today invokes the United Nations, international laws and human rights organizations recognized in Germany is considered an involuntary person, hater of Israel and anti-Semitic.

This is not the whole story. Such people should now even expect to be banned from entering and operating in Germany, such as Yannis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece, and Ghassan Abusita, the famous British Palestinian surgeon and president of the University of Glasgow, who were held for several hours at the Berlin airport upon entering Germany. and then they were returned to the origin.

But the three-day Palestinian congress where these people were supposed to speak was canceled by the police after two hours and the police quickly cut off the electricity The official reason for the ban was announced at the congress by an online contribution by 87-year-old Palestinian researcher and writer Salman Abu Sita. A few days ago, Sita’s activity and entry ban was imposed because she mentioned in an article that in her youth she could have been one of those who would carry out the attack of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023. What legal basis exists for canceling an entire congress because a speaker made questionable remarks via video message remains unclear from officials.

“> This article continues: While according to polls, 69% of Germans do not believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza are justified, the country’s politicians continue to rely on unconditional support for Israel. They emphasize By doing so, they are taking increasingly brutal measures against critics of the process and have begun a dangerous course of confrontation with freedom of expression and international law standards. In this way, Germany is under the threat that it will sink more and more towards a repressive-authoritarian order. Internationally, Germany has long been squandering and completely destroying its reputation. This is also reflected in Nicaragua’s complaint against Germany for complicity in the Gaza genocide at the International Court of Justice, a process that has received widespread support in the Global South. Due to the spread of the “cancellation culture” towards events critical of Israel, international artists and intellectuals are increasingly moving away from Germany. For example, French Nobel laureate Annie Arnaud has joined an initiative calling for a boycott of Germany’s state-run cultural institutions because, she says, Germany is pursuing “McCarthy” policies that suppress free speech.

This German newspaper went on to write: The reason for this wrong turn by the German federal government is that this country considers itself obliged to stand firmly by Israel for historical reasons. But can taking a stand against international laws, human rights and freedom of speech be a true lesson from the biggest crime in human history? Is pledging eternal and unconditional solidarity with a particular regime, completely indifferent to who runs that regime (in Israel’s case, the far right now) and what it does, the morally correct conclusion? ? Shouldn’t our solidarity be more towards the injured people? Shouldn’t this past sin lead to the conclusion that German governments should especially protect people’s rights against harassment, trauma, and death regardless of origin, nationality, skin color, and religion? But why German politicians do not support the people of Gaza? Why are those who defend these rights and want to prevent further killings ostracized and banned from the German public? Right now, truth and law are upside down in Germany and the rest of the world is shaking their heads.

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