This is the legacy of a country that never denazified, but still falls in line with Western hegemony regarding the imperialist project of Israel. They have found a new victim to foist their racist paranoia unto and simultaneously use the widespread opposition among Muslims and Arabs to Israel (a state that ethnically cleanses and exterminates them) as means to justify their extermination because their opposition to the Israel is systemically and legally classified as antisemitic.
This is the obvious consequence of labeling valid criticism of Israel as rote antisemitism is fueling anti-Muslim villainization and hysteria. If you oppose Arab extermination and ethnic cleansing, you are antisemitic. And if you’re antisemitic you deserve extermination.
The last week has been wild here, my dumb communist comedy podcast got to leak a Deutsche Welle memo saying you can’t criticize Israel and deffo can’t use the word apartheid or colonizer in relation to it. I’m hopeful that this (and the events of May 1st) are the last gasp of the Antideutsch in the left though because they’re all posting like a divorced man in his 40s refusing to believe he’s not cool anymore especially in the face of the increasingly more diverse and principled newer German left.
Ansalm Jappe had a huge blow up at red may Seattle over Palestine just last week lol when Andreas Malm dared speak against apartheid. He’s technically part of a group that split from antideustch but still basically the same.
International Workers Day, it’s a public holiday here in Germany where in Berlin there’s a huge demonstration of left wing groups. Somewhere between 6-8k and of course a violent police response. https://twitter.com/cornerspaeti/status/1388550703753400330
Edit: The May 1st demo in Berlin was largely lead by groups against the Antideutsch like Migrantifa, Jewish Bund, Palestine Speaks. Antideutsch were very eager to call those groups antisemitic but most people who were on the ground managed to point out online that Hebrew was one of the many languages spoken at the demo. While discussion of this stuff in media is vile, the Antideutsch are slowly falling away and zionism is becoming an exclusively right wing thing.
