Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters
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Berlin’s immigration authorities are moving to deport four young foreign residents on allegations related to participation in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, an unprecedented move that raises serious concerns over civil liberties in Germany.
The deportation orders, issued under German migration law, were made amid political pressure and over internal objections from the head of the state of Berlin’s immigration agency.
The internal strife arose because three of those targeted for deportation are citizens of European Union member states who normally enjoy freedom of movement between E.U. countries. None of the four has been convicted of any crimes.
“What we’re seeing here is straight out of the far right’s playbook,” said Alexander Gorski, a lawyer representing two of the protesters. “You can see it in the U.S. and Germany, too: Political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters.”
Just yesterday people were cheering up germany government for rearming for war and everyone arguing against it was being downvoted.
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Unfortunately in germany, france and uk, there's a big chunk of people that participate in protests against israel and in the protests in favor of turning germany into a caliphate. Anyway i don't think this article is true since it's not being reported anywhere.
Are you German?
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Give me one example
Immediately goes on a threatening and extreme Anti-Zionist rant.
history won’t fare well of people like you
History already tried to kill people like me. We are still here.
Zionists know that the Jewish people need a state to protect their existence. You want the country destroyed that's home to half the world's Jewish people. Zionism is necessary because of people like you.
History also tried to kill people like me, yet I’m not engaging in a genocide to steal land and create a quasi-state resembling every aspect of the countries that tried to eradicate people like me.
Funny how people with similar experiences can be so far away in terms of values.
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Then it must be fake news and the >1000 people that got killed since the end of the ceasefire and the deliberate mass starvation of the people in Gaza who have to survive on a bowl of rice per day, all that isn’t happening right?
Because I don’t see any news about that at all by our oh so holy liberal left wing academic journalists. The bubble you live in is pathetic, don’t make it sound like all of us in Germany are as bigoted and blind to the amount of suffering our political and media elites are causing to the Palestinians through constant dehumanization and outright support of the genocide against them. I hate to live in the same country as people like you.
Heart. You’ve got it. It’s in the right place.
If I may offer my perspective-
My natural response here is “wow thank you for doing the legwork, maybe a German article will be posted later tonight, let’s check back“
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The first thing I do when negative news about Israel is published is question the source as well. Israel and Germany would never violate international law.
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What shady stuff have they published in the past? I’ve generally found their coverage good and they often cover stories like this that other mainstream sources won’t.
You are right, I thought that Greenwald was still involved, but left in 2020. i did not like his downplaying of the trump Putin friendship
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Fash support fash. Germany has been supporting genocide for a long time.
It's really amazing how liberals will completely accept genocide up until the very second that it affects them.
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Unfortunately in germany, france and uk, there's a big chunk of people that participate in protests against israel and in the protests in favor of turning germany into a caliphate. Anyway i don't think this article is true since it's not being reported anywhere.
It comes from a credible journalist who explicitly names the four victims and quotes their real, existing lawyer who has defended similar cases before.
This is the typical Zionist playbook of spreading lies until we moved on to the next topic, and by the time it turns out to be true everyone already forgot about the issue. Don’t forget that they just did a 20-fold increase to $150m for their Hasbara botfarm. It wouldn’t be surprising if they also showed up here already. Also lots of new accounts here spreading Zionist propaganda.
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I'm pretty sure Kamala, being a private citizen and not the president, has nothing to do with the deportations taking place in America right now.
I'd check who the current president is and assign blame to him.checks who the current president is
How could the democrats let this happen?!?
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Unfortunately in germany, france and uk, there's a big chunk of people that participate in protests against israel and in the protests in favor of turning germany into a caliphate. Anyway i don't think this article is true since it's not being reported anywhere.
Yeah, checks notes.. Cooper Longbottom, Kasia Wlaszczyk, Shane O’Brien, and Roberta Murray are surely trying to turn Germany into a caliphate...
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If you search for it, its only reported by two outlets. There is not a single German newspaper reporting this, including left wing or Berlin regional ones. Searching for the names in the articles returns no results linked to Berlin or Free Palestine at all. The name of the public official also turns up nothing.
Could be misinformation.
The financial times and the Irish times have since picked it up.
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If you search for it, its only reported by two outlets. There is not a single German newspaper reporting this, including left wing or Berlin regional ones. Searching for the names in the articles returns no results linked to Berlin or Free Palestine at all. The name of the public official also turns up nothing.
Could be misinformation.
I was also sceptical but it seems to be generally true, however the details of it are way more complicated. Read for yourself if you know German or use a translator, one of the biggest Berlin newspapers picked it up and added details : https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/nach-beteiligung-an-palastina-protesten-in-berlin-drei-eu-burgern-und-einem-studenten-aus-den-usa-droht-ausweisung-13468543.html
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I have some notes on that. 3 of the 4 are EU citizens, that makes deportations highly complicated. I also can't find another source, and the intercept has a history of pushing some shady things.
Something feels off.
The financial times and the Irish times have since picked it up.
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It comes from a credible journalist who explicitly names the four victims and quotes their real, existing lawyer who has defended similar cases before.
This is the typical Zionist playbook of spreading lies until we moved on to the next topic, and by the time it turns out to be true everyone already forgot about the issue. Don’t forget that they just did a 20-fold increase to $150m for their Hasbara botfarm. It wouldn’t be surprising if they also showed up here already. Also lots of new accounts here spreading Zionist propaganda.
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Yeah, checks notes.. Cooper Longbottom, Kasia Wlaszczyk, Shane O’Brien, and Roberta Murray are surely trying to turn Germany into a caliphate...
This is the related incident:
Slogans and the triangle of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas were sprayed on the facade of the historic building.
You make your judgement.
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This is the related incident:
Slogans and the triangle of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas were sprayed on the facade of the historic building.
You make your judgement.
triangle of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas
Hamas triangle? Do you mean the red triangle on the Palestinian flag, the one that predates hamas by half a century?
What hamas slogans were painted? The picture only shows "free gaza", "killers" and "complicity", nothing supporting hamas, unless anything calling for the end of the genocide is supporting hamas.
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Just yesterday people were cheering up germany government for rearming for war and everyone arguing against it was being downvoted.
"I think re-arming doesn't do anything but spend money that could be better spent on helping people."
"Shut up, this is exactly what we need right now!"
"So you don't care about helping people?"
"That's a strawman!"
Wow it looks like we were right again, but still downvoted and removed. Odd how that always works.
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triangle of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas
Hamas triangle? Do you mean the red triangle on the Palestinian flag, the one that predates hamas by half a century?
What hamas slogans were painted? The picture only shows "free gaza", "killers" and "complicity", nothing supporting hamas, unless anything calling for the end of the genocide is supporting hamas.
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Give me one example
Immediately goes on a threatening and extreme Anti-Zionist rant.
history won’t fare well of people like you
History already tried to kill people like me. We are still here.
Zionists know that the Jewish people need a state to protect their existence. You want the country destroyed that's home to half the world's Jewish people. Zionism is necessary because of people like you.
Zionism is an ethno-nationalist death cult, just like Nazism. Your Lebensraumprojekt needs to end, as soon as possible. Stop playing the victim card while you’re victimizing millions of Palestinians through GENOCIDDE, while you’re being simply called out on supporting an apartheid ethno-state that is wiping out every living being in Gaza as we speak and expanding that to the West Bank currently.
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Heart. You’ve got it. It’s in the right place.
If I may offer my perspective-
My natural response here is “wow thank you for doing the legwork, maybe a German article will be posted later tonight, let’s check back“
Thanks! Tough to do it sometimes but I don’t want this to become like Reddit or leave the narrative to people who dismiss anything they don’t like to hear as fake news. It’s enough that Trump made this a thing, I don’t think we need it here, especially in this case where imo there was never any evidence for this being fake news and now there’s indeed more articles.
