Germany continues to learn the wrong lessons from its past
JVL Introduction
Germany continues to prop up Israel as it commits genocide against the people of Gaza; silencing Palestinian voices and those who speak up in support of their rights. As we have posted before, Germany seems to have learned the wrong lessons from its terrible past and acts as though support for whatever Israel does is atonement for the Nazi Holocaust and anything short of that is considered antisemitism.
We stand with the growing number of Jews around the world who have understood for decades that “never again” means “never again for anyone”. This article refers to a letter that raises these sort of issues that has been largely ignored by the media in Germany – and beyond. We are pleased once again to amplify the opposition to the blinkered German view that considers support for Israel as its “Staatsräson”. Back in 2022, Jewish Currents noted “the bizarre and worrisome ways that Germany’s understandably zealous Holocaust memory culture is playing out…(2019) anti-BDS resolution passed in the Bundestag….led to draconian repression of speech across German society, much of it directed not only at Palestinian Germans, but also at some critical Israeli Jews, upward of 10,000 of whom live in Germany.” That this continues in a time of genocide should be impossible, instead the German State has done its utmost to suppress those who stand for, let alone demonstrate for, the rights of Palestinians to be realised.
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This article was originally published by The New Arab on Thu 19 Dec 2024. Read the original here.
Never again? How Germany is defying its vow by supporting Israel
Not only has Germany been aiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza, it has also actively suppressed, silenced & criminalised Palestine solidarity…and stating facts about the number of children killed, mutilated, or maimed or using descriptive scholarly language such as genocide of Nakba is now considered anti-Semitism.
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I’ve read elsewhere that after the war Germany wasn’t de-nazified. It seems to me that while Jack booted brown and black shirts have disappeared the Nazist kind of thinking has not. Nazist thinking is based on racism and the superiority of a white western race. This thinking is embedded across the US and you can see it in Europe. There is no such thing as “race” (see encyclopaedia Britannica) but it plays to egos. How do we defeat this?
Thanks for sharing this strong letter, which I have just signed and urge others to sign too, though they don’t seem to be adding new names very often. There are too few signatories from outside Germany, including very few from the UK. I hope some of us will sign and circulate it.
“Germany continues to learn the wrong lessons from its past”. Even worse: Israel believes the lesson from their past is to be the new Nazi standard bearer, acting in the same manner as its former would-be exterminators. But this time the Western countries, aping the US, have rallied to aid the aggressor, not the victim.