Why does the German government follow Hitler's example?

On December 14, a group of students from the Freie University of Berlin organized a demonstration of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Mar 15, 2024 - 22:29
Why does the German government follow Hitler's example?
Why does the German government follow Hitler's example?

 This meeting, unprecedented in Germany, took place completely peacefully despite the efforts of some to disrupt it, but it did not end well! The university's reaction to this incident was to call the police and arrest 20 protesting students. Although both the police and the university authorities admitted that no anti-Semitic or racist actions were taken in this protest, the university declared a crime against these students and a petition signed by 26 thousand people was also prepared to expel them from the country. . The events of December 14 and the legal and media persecution that followed occurred as German society attacked anyone who showed solidarity with the Palestinian people. The broad and relentless campaign is designed to harass, intimidate, silence, deport and remove people and organizations that dare to protest the German government and its stubborn support for Israel. Anti-Zionist student demonstration in Berlin But the main goal of this persecution is to spread guilt throughout the country under the pretext of Germany's historical sin, the Holocaust. Image Caption The message from the sinners is clear: Germany represents an exception in its stance against anti-Semitism. Although Germany opposes the exceptionalism of the Nazi era, today it implements the same behavior in a different and seemingly progressive way. Thus far, several Jewish writers and scholars have repeatedly emphasized the anti-Semitic nature of this approach to atonement. Emilia Roig, a French Jewish researcher and writer, says in this regard: We have a type of anti-Semitism that cannot even be given this title. And this is to silence the voices of Jews who do not follow the dominant discourse in Germany.

 On the other hand, according to the Jewish writer and researcher Emilie Dish Becker, a third of those excluded in Germany due to the false claim of anti-Semitism (or rather, solidarity with the Palestinians) were themselves Jews, including their children. Holocaust survivors. Guilty fundamentally does not care about the safety of Jews, otherwise, at a time when hate crimes against Jews, Arabs and Muslims are on the rise and collective solidarity is needed, he would not have tried so courageously to impose a discourse that has brought into increasing tensions social being Guilt also prevents Germans from taking a principled stand against state terrorism, genocide and systematic violations of human rights, which should be the historical responsibility of any state, especially Germany . Image Caption The Israeli government and military authorities have repeatedly openly and shamelessly declared their genocidal goals. However, German authorities and public figures continue to ignore them. They also ignore the International Court of Justice ruling that Israel is definitively committing genocide, and the consensus of human rights groups and most of the international community on the nature of Israel's apartheid and historic violations of international law.

Guilt allows Germany to continue to pursue its expansionist foreign policy, a foreign policy that reflects a racist worldview and that involves continued support for Israel and other reactionary regimes in West Asia. The accusation also allows Germany to hide the country's structural and institutionalized racism against various minority groups. It seems that German exceptionalism has simply replaced one form of racism with another, taking advantage of the international community's complacency with today's anti-Islamic and anti-Arab prejudices. In fact, it has created an alternative victim society. A show that was recently performed in the city of Cologne and at a carnival showed this process very well. At this carnival, an image of a woman wearing a Palestinian headscarf and holding two dogs named "Hate" and "Violence" was displayed. The grain of these dogs also came from the Palestinian flag. The transposition of an anti-Semitic metaphor into what is imprinted in the German mind as Palestinian illustrates well the racist nature of the guilt. Meanwhile, in a shocking example of historical revisionism, schools in Berlin have been told to distribute leaflets describing the 1948 Nakbat as a “myth” – despite Israeli lawmakers also using the term. Image Caption In the midst of this massive invasion, history, German academic institutions and even human dignity did almost nothing. Even though they should act as the moral conscience of society and oppose the current distorted public discourse, they shirk the burden of responsibility. This article is taken from a note published on the Al Jazeera website.