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Loren Balhorn

@fraubalhorn

2 years

When Jeremy Corbyn arrived at the venue yesterday, his Palestinian taxi driver refused to accept payment, saying it was an honour to drive him. Then he looked to me and said “This just happened to me last week. Wherever I go, Palestinian taxi drivers won’t take my money!” 😭❤️

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Today, Germany's biggest non-tabloid newspaper, founded by antifascists in 1945, published an op-ed suggesting that wearing a keffiyeh is comparable to donning a Nazi uniform.

Süddeutsche Zeitung

@SZ

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Das Problemtuch: Ist die „Kufiya“ hier noch tragbar? Als „Pali“ gehörte das Tuch sogar lange zum deutsch-deutschen Trachtenbestand. Aber diese Zeiten sind vorbei. #SZPlus

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Speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Slavoj Žižek pointed out that none of the other speakers even mentioned the mass destruction in Gaza, and suggested Germany has instituted a "ban on analysis" of the conflict. He was then interrupted and heckled.

Slavoj Žižek: Tumulte nach Žižek-Äußerung zum Auftakt der Frankfurter Buchmesse

Der slowenische Philosoph Žižek verurteilte bei der Eröffnung der Buchmesse die Hamas, forderte aber auch Verständnis für Palästinenser. Mehrere Gäste verließen den Saal.

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4 years

Workers lining up for flights to Germany in Cluj, Romania. Poor people literally risking their lives to secure Hänsel and Gretel's annual white asparagus fetish party.

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9 months

Russian political culture is authoritarian because it is inherited from the Mongol Empire rather than Europe, which is totally decolonized because Queen Camilla decided not to wear an Indian jewel during her coronation ceremony. Wow, very serious analysis!

How Russian colonialism took the Western Left for a ride

Blindness to Russian colonialism distorts Westerners’ view of the Ukraine war

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Liberal German institution interviews a Jewish-Israeli Holocaust scholar, edits out his comments on the potential for genocide in Gaza without his knowledge let alone permission, and publishes the interview.

Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב

@bartov_omer

1 month

It has been pointed out to me that some of my words in this conversation around min 38, apparently referring to potential genocide in Gaza, were edited out. I checked and that is indeed the case. This is very troubling and will hopefully be corrected.

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2 years

The two fundamental socialist strategies, reform and revolution, both imply a wager: advance or defeat. The postmodernist shibboleth of “resistance” contains none, which goes a long way in explaining its popularity among movementists – no chance of advance, but no risk of defeat!

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3 years

The campaign to nationalize one of Berlin’s biggest landlords collected enough signatures to force a referendum, meaning voters will decide whether the city should “expropriate Deutsche Wohnen and Co.” this September. It will be a tough fight, but even this feels like a victory!

Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen

@dwenteignen

3 years

Der Moment, in dem wir die endgültige Zahl bekannt gegeben haben. 😍

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According to available polling data, there are two groups in German society who still predominantly support Israel's destruction of Gaza: voters of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, and the cultural and political elite. Make of that data point what you will.

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The McDonald's at iconic Frankfurter Tor in East Berlin, long a symbol of the defeat of socialism and The End of History, has closed and been replaced by a BrewDog Pub. First as tragedy, then as farce, etc. etc.

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German Green MEP and refugee activist says that if people protesting for Gaza *actually* cared about Palestinians, they would demand that Egypt open the border. The moral and intellectual rot of Germany’s political class is truly without comparison in the Western world.

Erik Marquardt

@ErikMarquardt

7 months

Wo sind denn die Demos gegen die geschlossenen Grenzen zu Ägypten? Ägypten könnte die Zivilbevölkerung des Gaza-Streifens Perspektiven und Sicherheit bieten. Wenn es den „Solidaritätsdemos“ wirklich um die Zivilbevölkerung in Gaza gehen würde, würden sie das ins Zentrum stellen.

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Vandals wrote “death to all Russians” on the Red Army memorial in Berlin – a memorial commemorating the sacrifices of all Union Republics, including Ukraine, in the war against Nazism.

Presseservice_RN

@PresseserviceRN

2 years

(1/3) In #Berlin wurde das Sowjetische Ehrenmal im Treptower Park geschändet. Mehrere Teile des Ensembles wurde mit Farbe und Parolen beschmiert. Hintergrund scheint der Krieg in der Ukraine, insbesondere mutmaßliche Kriegsverbrechen in Bucha zu sein. #B0704

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Only in Germany could a “leftist” musical group release a song containing the lyrics “even Greta hates Jews” and “Shield of the descendants of those who gassed the Jews” and have it be celebrated by a large swathe of the liberal establishment. At least the “music” is god-awful.

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2 years

The popular radlib belief that all successful welfare states were historically premised on ethnic homogeneity is both easily disproven as well deeply reactionary, which is probably why white nationalists in the US agree with it wholeheartedly.

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5 months

Hate to nitpick, but Bulgaria sided with Germany in World War II, occupied Macedonia and northern Greece and deported Jews in the occupied territories to Nazi death camps until the Soviets invaded. Might want to rethink that comparison.

Dimitar Bechev

@DimitarBechev

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Removing the monument of the Soviet Army in Sofia is a bit like the removal of Confederate statues in the US South. The monument's point was to lay a claim to power over Bulgaria, a Soviet satellite in the 1950s. The same way as Confederate memorials legitimised white supremacy.

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After the Palestinian-Israeli film "No Other Land" won best documentary at the Berlinale on Saturday, German journalists are working themselves up into a frenzy trying to construe the decision as motivated by antisemitism. Germany is beyond parody at this point.

Julius Betschka

@JuliusBetschka

2 months

Auch Berlins Regierender Bürgermeister Kai Wegner & Kulturstaatsministerin Claudia Roth applaudieren bei einer #Berlinale -Rede, in der Israel Apartheid vorgeworfen wird & ein “Ende der Besatzung” gefordert wird. Das zeigen TV-Aufnahmen. Wegner zumindest spricht kaum englisch. 1/2

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Wer sich mehr über Judith Butlers Äusserungen zu Hamas aufregt als darüber, dass gerade Tausende Kinder in Gaza kurz vor dem Hungertod sind, ist schlicht und ergreifend ein Rassist. Es gibt kein anderes Wort für diese Art von Dehumanisierung.

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1 year

Berlin is full of “Fuck Putin” graffiti. As much as I may sympathize with the sentiment, I couldn’t help thinking of the Soviet joke about how Soviet citizens, just like Americans, are free to gather on Red Square and yell “Down with Ronald Reagan!”

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Greta Thunberg did thousands of middle-class German families a favour with her pro-Gaza post yesterday. For the first time in years, Green Party-voting millennials and their CDU-voting parents agree on something. Turns out, their values aren't so different after all.

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Guy who published a book called “Russia’s War on Everybody” wants you to know that when it comes to people who volunteered to fight for Nazi Germany, “history is complicated”.

Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi

Canada’s Hunka scandal is a demonstration of how when history is complicated, it can be a gift to propagandists who exploit the appeal of simplicity.

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7 months

Thinking of my Palestinian friends in Germany, who now face the prospect of losing their entire families in the coming onslaught while the political establishment, most of the Left included, cheers on their collective punishment. We have failed them as human beings. I’m so sorry.

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Iconic German 68er and “feminist” Jutta Ditfurt asks why there aren’t more women and children in the photos coming out of Gaza. Surely, her pathological dehumanisation of Palestinians is entirely unrelated to her own ruling-class family’s enthusiastic support for the Nazis. 🤡

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@fraubalhorn

3 years

As I prepare to leave Berlin after 13 years, I need to get something off my chest: Tempelhofer Feld is vastly overrated, and frankly kind of sucks. There is no water, shade, or vegetation – just hot concrete and dead grass! Easily Berlin's second-worst park (after Gleisdreieck).

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1 year

"Pranksters have mown a giant penis into a famous 'perfect lawn' on one of Britain's most exclusive streets - just days before a Coronation party there. Residents of the posh Royal Crescent in Bath were stunned to see the large phallus on the grass outside their homes today."

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7 months

Eight years ago when I was defending Syriza against Trotskyists and anarchists who were predicting the party would sell out, never in our wildest dreams could we have come up with this particular scenario.

Populism Updates

@PopulismUpdates

7 months

🇬🇷 Greece: Stefanos Kasselakis, a 35-year-old businessman and Biden 2008 volunteer, is currently a frontrunner to be the next leader of SYRIZA according to the most recent poll

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Konkret, Germany's biggest "left" magazine, is leading this month with a strict "no weapons for Ukraine/fight German imperialism" line, followed by a sympathetic interview about the judicial reform in Israel with... Alan Dershowitz. Beyond parody.

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6 months

The German Minister of Health, a Social Democrat, recommends Douglas Murray’s 7-minute rant about how Hamas is more barbaric than the Nazis, who at least felt bad about the Holocaust. It’s “in fact extremely worth watching, even if you “don’t agree with every point”.

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Communist Party of Austria wins 11% of the vote in the Salzburg state elections, an increase of over 1000% compared to last time around. Hope their self-sabotaging comrades up north are taking notes.

Österreich Wählt

@Wahlen_AT

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SALZBURG | Hochrechnung Landtagswahl OGM/ServusTV, 17:09 Uhr SVP: 29,4% (-8,4) FPÖ: 29,1% (+10,3) SPÖ: 17,9% (-2,1) KPÖ: 11,0% (+10,6) GRÜNE: 6,1% (-3,2) NEOS: 4,3% (-3,0) Sonstige: 2,4% (-4,0) Änderungen zum Wahlergebnis von 2018 #ltwSalzburg

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The Berlin police have banned a demonstration under the motto “Jewish Berliners against Violence in the Middle East” and all other protest against the bombing of Gaza for the next seven days. Germany, a nation of cowards governed by teacher’s pets.

Polizei Berlin

@polizeiberlin

7 months

Nach Bewertung aller Umstände und Erkenntnisse sowie der Abwägung sämtlicher Interessen – insbesondere dem Grundrecht auf Versammlungsfreiheit – wurde die für morgen angezeigte Versammlung auf dem #Oranienplatz „Jüdische Berliner*innen gegen Gewalt in Nahost – Gegen den Mord an…

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1 year

Für Sahra Wagenknecht habe ich schon lange keine Geduld mehr, doch die Vehemenz mit der die gesamte Medienlandschaft und der linksliberale Lager sie angreift für Positionen, die in großen Teilen der Welt völlig mainstream sind, ist der Außenwelt nicht mehr rational vermittelbar.

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Tanzanian sociologist Joachim Mwami has spent the last ten years translating Marx's Capital into Kiswahili, the lingua franca of East Africa. I spoke with him about the project and how he utilizes Marxism in his own work for @rosaluxglobal :

Das Kapital in Kiswahili - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

Joachim Mwami on translating Marx — and Marxism — into the vocabulary of East Africa

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The city of Berlin has now decreed that all recipients of public culture funding will be obligated to sign onto an “anti-discrimination clause”, which includes accepting the highly controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism.

Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Ges. Zusammenhalt

@SenKultGZ

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Ab sofort werden Zuwendungen der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt mit einer Antidiskriminierungsklausel versehen. Mit dieser Maßnahme soll die Prävention von Diskriminierung und Antisemitismus verstärkt werden. ℹ️

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Es war grausam genug, wie manche den Ukraine-Krieg als eine Art Herr der Ringe verfolgt haben, als würden da nicht Menschen sterben. Aber die wochenlange Flächenbombardierung von über 2 Millionen eingesperrten, schutzlosen Menschen zu bejubeln ist wirklich eine andere Stufe.

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1 year

Never forget: on 25 April 1974 the Portuguese working class overthrew a fascist dictatorship and ended colonialism with one blow. Terrified by the unrest, German Social Democracy funnelled millions of Deutschmarks into an astroturfed Socialist Party to undermine the Communists.

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Yesterday, Germany prevented a Palestinian speaker from entering the country, then shut down the event he was supposed to speak at entirely and arrested its Jewish organizers. Today, the minister of the interior defends the move in the name of fighting “hatred against Jews”.

Nancy Faeser

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Es ist richtig und notwendig, dass die Berliner Polizei hart durchgreift beim sogenannten Palästina-Kongress. Wir dulden keine islamistische Propaganda und keinen Hass gegen Jüdinnen und Juden.

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“Ukraine’s Viking roots”

Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦

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This year, the Azov Regiment celebrated winter solstice by burning a stylized viking ship, commemorating their fallen comrades and invoking Ukraine's viking roots

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Germany's Minister of Culture doubles down on her "I was only applauding for the Israeli, not his Palestinian colleague" line, then goes on to say the radical left is full of "disgusting open antisemitism", explicitly citing Jean-Luc Melénchon as an example.

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Der Ökonom @yanisvaroufakis war jahrelang ein Star in Deutschland, doch spätestens seit seinem Engagement gegen den Gaza-Krieg ist das anders. Ich sprach mit ihm für @jacobinmag_de über das Betätigungsverbot gegen ihn und den neuen McCarthyismus in der BRD.

Yanis Varoufakis lässt sich nicht den Mund verbieten

Im Zuge der Auflösung des Palästina-Kongresses durch die Berliner Polizei wurde Yanis Varoufakis ein Betätigungsverbot erteilt. In seinem ersten Interview mit einem deutschen Medium seit dem Eklat...

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56% of Berliners voted “yes” in a referendum to nationalise one of the city’s biggest landlords, an incredible result, yet over half of those same voters also voted for parties that announced their intention to scupper the result (SPD and Greens) weeks ago. Dialectics!

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@dwenteignen

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96% ausgezählt und 56,4% für die #Vergesellschaftung ! #dwenteignen #btw21 #aghw21

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A very young Mikhail Gorbachev with his Ukrainian grandparents.

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Israeli Jew speaks out against Israeli apartheid on a German stage, is roundly denounced as an Antisemite by the German establishment, and a day later far-right mobs back in Israel come to terrorise his family. Is that how #NieWiederIstJetzt works?

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A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German…

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Angela Merkel enjoying a laugh with "Karli", the official mascot of the Chemnitz Niners basketball team.

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A German MP from the ruling coalition says that buying weapons for Israel will do more for human rights in Gaza than any alleged "humanitarian aid". These sadists have no place occupying a leading role in Europe or anywhere else.

Max Mordhorst

@maxmordhorst

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Wasserleitungen, Treibstoff, die Hamas schreckt vor nichts zurück, um es zu ihren Zwecken zu missbrauchen. Jeder Euro sogar für israelische Waffen ist zurzeit mehr im Sinne der Menschenrechte als diese vermeintliche „humanitäre Hilfe“.

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Germany has an odd political tradition in which aging centrist politicians past their prime are allowed to visit Palestine and use the word "occupation", only to be subjected to torrents of bile from erstwhile supporters, while their party colleagues remain silent.

Jürgen Trittin

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Nach Gesprächen mit @UNRWA und @NRC_Norway in #Ramallah . Hinter mir besetzte C-Gebiete. Hier eskaliert seit #October7 die Gewalt mit über 200 Toten durch Soldaten und Siedler (1/3) ...

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@dfertl The author doesn't have the courage to make a coherent argument that the Palestinian cause is inherently antisemitic or anything like that, it's just 3,000 words of subjunctive navelgazing, throwing in the Nazi thing at the end for effect. German discourse in 2023.

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Haben Psychologen mittlerweile eine Theorie darüber, was eine bestimmte Art von Deutschen dazu treibt, unter solchen grausamen Bildern von Kriegsopfern manisch „AbEr DiE hAmAs“ zu schrieben?

Karim El-Gawhary

@Gawhary

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Der 3jährige Hamoudi aus Gaza hat bei israelischen Angriffen seine Eltern und seine beiden Beine verloren. "Er weiß nicht, dass er seine Familie verloren hat. Er glaubt, dass seine Beine wieder nachwachsen, wie bei einer Pflanze", sagt sein Onkel #zib2

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2 years

For everyone declaring the death of electoral left-populism, show me any other left strategy that has come close to delivering results like this in the last two decades. The European Left needs more Mélenchon, not less!

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Merci ! #Presidentielles2022 #Melenchon

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2 years

Decent turnout.

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6 months

Funktionsträger meiner Partei trauen sich nicht, nach fast 3 Wochen Dauerbombadierung und über 5.000 toten Zivilisten, zu einem Waffenstillstand in Gaza aufzurufen, aber haben wohl die Muße, mit Lach-Emojis sich an Wagenknecht abzuarbeiten. So viel zum Gebrauchswert.

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I got a lot of pushback for this article when @jacobin ran it back in March from comrades who said I just didn’t understand our strategy or am too cynical about the potential of “social movements”. Part of me wishes they were right 😐

Germany’s Left Has New Leadership but Not a Strategy

After years of stagnant poll numbers and declining electoral results, Germany's Die Linke party hopes that its new leadership team will return it to the promise of the 2000s. But as its social base...

jacobin.com

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Spiegel diffamiert einen progressiven französischen Sozialdemokraten als "linksradikaler Nationalist" und erwähnt nicht mal, dass er in den Umfragen gerade führt. Das grenzt an aktive Desinformation. Absolut verachtend und verantwortungslos.

(S+) Links-Allianz in Frankreich: Von Lafontaine lernen, heißt scheitern lernen

Der linke Volkstribun Jean-Luc Mélenchon will mit einer französischen Variante von Rot-Rot-Grün Premierminister werden und eine altsozialistische Agenda durchsetzen. Ein Irrweg – und eine Gefahr für...

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3 years

Rosa Luxemburg presents Karl Kautsky, Jr. with a portrait of him she drew on Christmas, 1907. Merry Christmas, everybody!

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2 years

In all my years as an editor, this has got to be the best excuse for a late submission

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7 months

If you're cheering on the ethnic cleansing of Karabakh based on the notion that it's somehow hurting Russia (it's not), you obviously never gave a damn about Ukrainian lives or human rights in the first place, but are just some creep who treats geopolitics like a football game.

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Lead international correspondent for Germany’s second public broadcaster saying pro-Palestine demonstrations are actually “an attack on our state, our democracy” and calling for them to be repressed.

Katrin Eigendorf

@KEigendorf

6 months

Die Demos, in denen es vermeintlich um die Palästinenser geht, sind in Wahrheit ein Angriff auf unseren Staat, unsere Demokratie. Es ist eine Kultur des Hasses auf unsere Werte die wir erleben. Der Staat, aber auch die Zivilgesellschaft müssen dem entgegen wirken.

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tfw die Gesellschaft die gesellschaftliche Linke links überholt

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Dass es in großen Teilen der deutschen Linken mehr Aufregung gibt über welche Begriffe man benutzt, um die Vernichtung Gazas zu beschreiben, als über die Vernichtung selbst, markiert sowohl moralisches Versagen als auch, wie zahm und staatstreu diese inzwischen geworden ist.

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Die Deutschen werden den Palästinensern die Gräueltaten der eigenen Großeltern nie verzeihen.

Cicero Online

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Ein Bild aus dem #Gazastreifen wird zum #Pressefoto des Jahres gekürt. Diese Entscheidung macht sich das palästinensische Narrativ zu eigen, lediglich unschuldiges Opfer der Israelis zu sein, schreibt @Ingoway .

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Activist jargon is such a curse. How can anyone write a sentence like "in a context of the expanding borders of extractivist capitalism, indigenous women are uniting around the defense of life, bodies, territories, and nature" and think yes, totally normal thing to say.

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Ich bin in den USA nach 9/11 großgeworden. Es war schrecklich - eine blutrünstige, größenwahnsinnige Nation brachte unerhörtes Leid über Millionen von Menschen, weil sie sich weigerte, zu kontextualisieren und verstehen. Lasst uns diese Katastrophe bitte nicht wiederholen.

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The “Ukrainian refugees are treated better because they’re white” claim is, I think, wrong. Syrians were initially greeted by a huge wave of solidarity across Germany in 2015 – only later did xenophobia win the upper hand. No reason to assume it won’t be the same for Ukrainians.

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Op-ed by head of Spiegel's international desk, titled "The Hypocrites", says that rather than call for a ceasefire, Arab states and the UN should "join the fight against Hamas" because "there can be no peace with terrorists". German commentariat reaching 9/11 levels of jingoism.

DER SPIEGEL

@derspiegel

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Viele arabische Staaten und die Uno appellieren an Israel, seine Militäraktion in Gaza zu stoppen. Besser wäre, sie würden sich am Kampf gegen die Hamas beteiligen. Denn mit Terroristen kann es keinen Frieden geben.

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2 years

Dying

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@jacobinmag_de

2 years

„Get Jacobin“ 🚩

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A Green Party *member of parliament* congratulating the Berlin police for banning two pro-Palestine demonstrations. That’s the German centre-left in 2023: enthusiastic support for state repression and violence, as long as half of those committing the violence are women or PoCs.

Lamya Kaddor

@LamyaKaddor

1 year

Gut, dass die ⁦⁦ @polizeiberlin ⁩ 2 geplante pro-paläst. Demos verbietet. Zu oft kommt es dabei zu Gewalt, Volksverhetzung & antisemitischen & israelfeindlichen Rufen,was nicht zu dulden ist.Wer demonstrieren will, muss dies ohne Hassbekundung tun.

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@fraubalhorn

2 years

Gregor Gysi and comrades celebrate May Day in East Berlin, 1990. Hell of a photo!

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@fraubalhorn

3 years

In "On Stalin's Team", Sheila Fitzpatrick claims that Stalin was a voracious reader, averaging 500 pages of literature and high-brow periodicals *daily* while simultaneously overseeing the administration of a vast empire and ordering the deaths of thousands. Feel inadequate yet?

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My party, Die Linke, wraps up its congress for the EU elections today. Strong speech from the party chair against Europe's "double standards" in peace and security policy – unfortunately, he wasn't referring to Palestine. The near silence in the face of 10,000+ dead is deafening.

Naomi O'Leary

@NaomiOhReally

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Message from within an EU institution

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Now that I’ve got everyone’s attention I’d just like to say Cluj is a beautiful city as is the surrounding region. Great food and nice people as well. A shame people have to leave it just to earn a few bucks.

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@fraubalhorn

9 months

Belgische Partei der Arbeit: erlebt atemberaubendes Wachstum mit klarem Profil als antikapitalistische Arbeiterpartei und ist kurz davor, in Brüssel stärkste Partei zu werden Deutsche "Linke":

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7 months

The funniest part about this story is that after the leader of the German Social Democrats cancelled on Bernie because he allegedly is not anti-Hamas enough, Sanders clarified that there was no meeting between them to begin with, just a reception to which she was (also) invited.

Bastian Brauns

@BastianBrauns

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Germany’s ruling party leader Saskia Esken cancels meeting with U.S. Senator @BernieSanders due his latest statement about Hamas attacks on Israel. She says Sanders doesn’t stand clear enough on Israel’s side. 1/2

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@fraubalhorn

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Standing in front of the apartment Marx once inhabited in Brussels and watching this evening’s AirBnB guests struggle to unlock the door. Poetic.

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@fraubalhorn

3 months

Wolfgang Streeck: “[T]here is now an entire generation of young journalists and social scientists learning that if they want to have a career, they must learn to pretend not to see something everyone else sees, and not to talk about it for staatsraison.”

Get ready for the worst

Germany’s political crisis is a warning for Keir Starmer.

www.newstatesman.com

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@fraubalhorn

4 months

Former mayor of Düsseldorf announces he is leaving the SPD and joining Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party in an open letter that calls for, among other things, abolishing the right to asylum and returning to the economic policies of Gerhard Schröder, architect of German neoliberalism.

Veit Medick

@vmedick

4 months

„Sozialdemokraten in der Tradition von Willy Brandt und Helmut Schmidt sind in der SPD heimatlos geworden.“ Der Abschiedsbrief des Düsseldorfer Ex-OBs hat es in sich. Er geht zu Wagenknecht. Mehr bei ⁦ @FlorianSchillat ⁩ und ⁦ @nurnelo ⁩ hier:

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@fraubalhorn

2 years

At this point, Roussel, Hidalgo, Arthaud, and Poutou are actively working against their country's working class by not conceding and calling on a vote for Mélenchon. Shameful.

Clémence Guetté

@Clemence_Guette

2 years

Mélenchon à 18% ! Nous sommes à 2 points du second tour ! 🚀 Le second tour est à portée de vote, on arrive ! #MelenchonSecondTour #MelenchonVaGagner

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@fraubalhorn

3 months

Rosa Luxemburg wäre für einen Waffenstillstand, und hätte keine Angst davor, sich dazu zu bekennen.

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@fraubalhorn

3 years

Feels good, man #Briefwahl #Linksrutsch #LetsGoForLinkspartei

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@fraubalhorn

5 months

Prominent German journalist gloats over the destruction of Alazhar University in Gaza, mocking a Palestinian journalist who has lost over 20 family members in the war.

Jan Fleischhauer

@janfleischhauer

5 months

Der „Dresden“-Twist. Palestinian Style.

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@fraubalhorn

5 months

Oyoun served as the venue of the @jacobinmag_de / @transform_ntwrk conferences for the last two years and was great to work with. That their funding was revoked for hosting a *peace vigil* by a *Jewish organization* speaks volumes about the German public sphere in 2023. Shameful.

Shoshana Schwebel

@sschweb1

5 months

German govt pulled funding from one of the only cultural centres in Berlin that highlights PoC voices: Oyoun. Bc Oyoun didn't cancel a vigil hosted by Jüdische Stimme (a leftist Jewish group). The GREEN PARTY rep called them antisemitic + pulled their funding.

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@fraubalhorn

1 year

Historians will look back at the Russian invasion of Ukraine as the inflection point for post-modern identity politics reverting to modernist race science. The pace at which retrograde, blood-and-soil cultural essentialism has been mainstreamed in the last year is astounding.

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@fraubalhorn

9 months

Yet another German politician appears to have plagiarized large swathes of her PhD. Literally dozens if not hundreds of cases like this over the last decade. How long will we let political correctness stop us from talking about what is clearly a deeply rooted cultural problem?

Tagesspiegel

@Tagesspiegel

9 months

Berlins Verkehrssenatorin Manja #Schreiner (CDU) will ihre Doktorarbeit durch die Universität #Rostock überprüfen lassen. Dies sagte eine Sprecherin der Senatorin am Sonntag dem Tagesspiegel.

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@fraubalhorn

6 months

This is funny, but frighteningly also reflects the worldview and mental state of a large swathe of the German public and particularly its political and media establishment at the moment.

Clash Report

@clashreport

6 months

Head of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann: The Russian attack on Ukraine and the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel are directly related. This was on Putin's birthday in October 7. This is not a coincidence.

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@fraubalhorn

3 years

Ich kann verstehen, warum Leute @dieLinke von ihren Interessen her nicht wählen – schließlich gilt Klassenkampf für beide Seiten. Doch wer behauptet, Grüne oder SPD wählen zu müssen weil Wagenknecht so unerträglich ist, hat sich vom Anfang an nicht für Klassenkampf interessiert.

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@fraubalhorn

4 years

Really enjoyed speaking with @safbf about Brazilian politics last week. Always a pleasure when an interview teaches you something new!

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

@rosaluxglobal

4 years

“We have a divide that is directly class-based but also racialized in #Brazil , you may have more upper-income people infected but they are less likely to die.” — @safbf on the last episode of "Global Crisis – Global Solidarity". Link to discussion here:

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@fraubalhorn

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Germany's leading pro-Israel "left" magazine interviews an Israeli filmmaker, but spikes the interview after deciding his opinions on Israeli politics are "too much", although "if I were an Israeli, I would share them". Totally normal behaviour in a totally normal country.

Yossi Bartal

@BartalYossi

11 months

Der 🇮🇱 Filmregisseur @Barak_Heymann wurde zuletzt von @konkretmagazin interviewt. Weil er die Politik Israels zu sehr kritisierte, wurde das Interview jedoch nicht veröffentlicht. Deutsche Befindlichkeiten machen er erforderlich, sogar linke Israelis zum Schweigen zu Bringen.

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1 year

Of all the weird things about the German Left today (and boy is it weird), the weirdest is perhaps the resurgence of “anti-Americanism” as some kind of damning indictment of political opponents. Intellectually, it’s about 1.5 steps to the (liberal-)left of “it’s OK to be white”.

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@fraubalhorn

2 years

Thermobaric warheads are basically the most destructive non-nuclear weapons known to man, which, incidentally, both the Soviets and the Americans have preciously used in Afghanistan with considerably less shock and outrage.

🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽

@PaulaChertok

2 years

🚨🚨CNN Spots Russia's Heavy Flamethrower Near Ukraine Confirming numerous reports of a truly horrific Russian weapon that shoots thermobaric warhead rockets. "They set the air on fire, suck the air out & cause people's lungs to collapse," @fpleitgenCNN tells @Acosta

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Vor einer Weile habe ich einen ehemaligen ND-Redakteur interviewt. Nach dem Interview habe ihn gefragt, ob er persönlich glaubt, dass die Zeitung überleben kann. Er meinte, theorietsch ja, aber manchmal hat man den Eindruck, die wollen gar nicht überleben.

»Feminist*innen« können strukturell antisemitisch sein

Die Sexworker*in Ruby Rebelde muss sich anwaltlich mit selbsternannten Feminist*innen herumschlagen. Letztere bringen gefährliche Verschwörungstheorien ins Spiel, schreibt Sibel Schick in ihrer...

www.nd-aktuell.de

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@fraubalhorn

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Während die israelischen Streitkräfte ihre Offensive auf den letzten »sicheren« Ort in Gaza ausweiten mit voller Rückendeckung der Bundesregierung, findet man auf der Startseite der Linken kein einziges Wort dazu. Soll das diese »Haltung« sein, die Dietmar Bartsch so wichtig ist?

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@fraubalhorn

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In Berlin, a (presumably not Jewish) Green Party official is calling on the city to defund a cultural centre after it hosted an event by Jewish Voice for Peace, clear evidence of “antisemitism” in their eyes. From Nazism to narcissism, indeed.

Berliner Senat gegen »Oyoun«: Im Zentrum der Empörung

Weil »Oyoun« eine Veranstaltung der Gruppe »Jüdische Stimme für einen gerechten Frieden im Nahen Osten« nicht absagen will, prüft der Senat die finanzielle Förderung. Haus und Gruppe wehren sich...

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@fraubalhorn

6 months

I’m generally wary of explaining German foreign policy attitudes with recourse to what their grandparents did from 1933-1945, but reading the comments below his post it’s hard to conclude anything else. “Ja, Opa committed genocide, but at least he wasn’t an Oriental barbarian!”

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@fraubalhorn

6 months

Friends of the Palestinian people would generally be well-advised not to promote Jackson Hinkle, a vile, misanthropic right-wing provocateur who exploits outrage over the oppression of Palestinians as an outlet for his own barely concealed antisemitism. Read Haaretz instead.

Haaretz.com

@haaretzcom

6 months

This post contains blatant lies about the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7. It has absolutely no basis in Haaretz’s reporting, then or since

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@fraubalhorn

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Deutsche Linksintellektuelle geben sich große Mühe, öffentlichkeitswirksam Social Media-Dienstleister zu wechseln weil Elon Musk ein "Fascho" ist, trauen sich aber nicht, die Unterstützung der eigenen Regierung für eine ethnische Säuberung zu kritisieren.

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@fraubalhorn

2 months

Alexei Navalny's politics were problematic, but it seems like a weird reflex to drag out 20-year-old videos right after the guy was murdered by a state that vigorously promotes nationalism, chauvinism, and homophobia. What's the point? To imply he deserved it?

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@fraubalhorn

1 year

Wenn ich sehe, wie viele Linke angesichts der russischen Agression in der Ukraine das Recht auf bewaffneten Widerstand plötzlich für sich entdecken, frage ich mich, warum sie den Palästinensern dieses Recht absprechen. Leider, befürchte ich, hat es viel mit Hautfarbe zu tun.

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@fraubalhorn

9 months

Als Sozialist, der den Aufbau einer Massenpartei nach wie vor für essenziell hält, überzeugt mich keine der beiden Seiten in meiner Partei momentan. Weder eine Bewegungspartei noch eine Aufstehen 2.0 führen dahin, wo wir eigentlicn hin müssten.

Ein Bruch ist noch kein Aufbruch

Mit dem Vorschlag von Carola Rackete als Spitzenkandidatin für die Europawahl rückt die Spaltung der Linken nochmals näher. Doch weder eine Bewegungspartei noch eine Liste Wagenknecht weckt Hoffnung...

jacobin.de

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@fraubalhorn

3 years

Ich habe mal bei Sixt 350€ gezahlt um für 6 Tage einen dreckigen Jeep mit kaputter Klimaanlage und einem CD-Player der sich nicht öffnen ließ durch Albanien zu fahren.

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@fraubalhorn

3 years

Today’s gonna be a tough one for middle-brow Sally Rooney fans across the German-speaking world. Thoughts and prayers.

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@fraubalhorn

4 months

Prominent German scholar of Islamic Studies says that Die Linke's proposal to bring wounded Gazan civilians to Germany for medical care would mean "bringing Hamas supporters to Germany". Yesterday she tweeted it would constitute "importing antisemitism", but has since deleted.

Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter

@susannschroeter

4 months

Palästinenser aus Gaza nach Deutschland zu holen, wie es die Linkspartei fordert, heißt auch, Hamas-Unterstützer nach Deutschland zu holen. #Antisemitismus

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3 years

It will never cease to amaze me how quickly German autonomists can go from “ACAB” and “fully automated queer luxury communism now!!1!” to mouthing Republican Party talking points whenever Palestine comes up 🙄

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