Independent journalist in Germany looking east. Host @MadInGermanypod l 🇬🇧 & 🇩🇪🇪🇸
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German activist Anna Liedtke describes being penetrated against her will by Israeli guards to me, while telling them to stop on the 2025 Gaza flotilla
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Schrödinger’s London: simultaneously full of Muslim hordes attacking our western freedoms and queer degenerates openly flaunting their indecency
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“There will never be reparations for the atrocities of the Holocaust. The only way we can atone for our past is to stand up against apartheid today” -Macklemore at concert in Germany
Ali
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German actor and supporter of Israel Uschi Glas hired a geneologist, hoping she would discover Jewish roots. She found out her father was in the SS.
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The world’s richest man backing the German far right. It really is the 20s
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Something about Germans telling the Pope to stay silent about genocide investigations is deeply worrying historically
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The AfD requested the most common first names of welfare recipients, hoping to prove they were foreigners
The results:
1. Michael - 19.200
2. Andreas - 16.200
3. Thomas - 15.700
4. Daniel - 14.800
5. Olena - 14.400
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Your surname means mountain in German
Most common surnames along "Palestinians":
al-Mughrabi (North Africa)
al-Masri (Egypt)
al-Yamani (Yemen)
al-Hijazi (Saudi Arabia)
al-Lubnani, al-Tarabulsi (Lebanon)
al-Shami, al-Halabi, al-Hourani (Syria)
al-Iraqi, al-Baghdadi, al-Tikriti (Iraq)
Hmm.
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Greta supports Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia and Palestine: she is a German liberal’s nightmare
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Obsessed with the range of these answers to “what should people abroad know about Germans?”
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Berlin police entered a black woman’s apartment unannounced while she was naked in bed because neighbours had assumed she was a burglar
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Breaking: German-Iranian comedian Enissa Amani (1.2 million followers) joins the Gaza Sumud flotilla in Tunisia
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An artist with German Jewish heritage cancels her exhibition in Germany after being questioned about signing her IG posts “Free Palestine” without “from Hamas”
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Yesterday a man was arrested for throwing a donner kebab at a security guard in Berlin Neukölln.
This photo was taken by the police for evidence.
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German minister poses at an Israeli teacher training college which shows the illegally occupied Golan Heights on a map
.@PrienKarin besuchte heute das Beit Berl College für Lehrerausbildung und tauschte sich dort mit Uni-Präsidentin Yuli Tamir und ihrem Team aus.
Ein weiteres Highlight war die Wiedereröffnung des Museums für deutschsprachiges Judentum “Jeckes-Museum”. Mehr dazu im Video. 🎥
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German police officer wearing a medic badge punches a woman full in the face
Tarek Baé
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The oldest newspaper in the world - the Wiener Zeitung - has been printed for the last time. This is the final front page
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Left Party MP Cansın Köktürk was thrown out of the Bundestag today for a t-shirt that says “Palestine”
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The initial Soviet response to Nazism was to sign a non-aggression pact and jointly invade Poland
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Community note
When Nazi Germany has invaded Poland in 1939, the United Kingdom and France immediately declared war on Germany, whereas the USSR has signed a non-aggression pact, joined the invasion and continued to supply Hitler with essential raw materials until he invaded the USSR in 1941
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_
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AfD leader Alice Weidel decries “act by an Islamist full of hate for what brings people together”
The suspect was an ex-Muslim AfD supporter. Shameless disinformation.
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Massive violence against women by Berlin police at the international women’s day protest
Drop Site
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Director Basel Adra calls for Germany to “respect the UN calls and stop sending weapons to Israel” from the stage of the Berlinale
Frederik Schindler
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Absolutely huge demonstration for Palestine in Berlin - likely the biggest in German history
sully 🍉
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No Other Land, a film that was wrongfully scandalised as antisemitic in Germany, has won the Oscar for best documentary.
This should be a wake up call for the German establishment that human rights apply to victims of Israel too
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“AfD is most popular in the same areas of Germany that were most resistant to the Nazis”
Nazi (black) election map 1932
AfD (blue) election map 2024
I’m not endorsing a party in the German elections, as it’s not my country and we hope to have good relations with all Germans. But this is an interesting piece.
Also interesting; American media slanders AfD as Nazi-lite, But AfD is most popular in the same areas of Germany that were most resistant to the Nazis.
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I'm not supporting Germany in this tournament, but the way the far-right are fussing about the pink and blue kit makes me want to buy one
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The Swiss under-23 fencing team turned their back on Israeli competitors during the national anthem
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Der Spiegel wrote a 5000 word article on why Greta is antisemitic but haven't covered Musk's Hitleresque salute, other than in a column calling America vulgar.
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German climate activists took unsold food from supermarkets to give away
The police then confiscated the food and put it back in the bin
#Hambi bleibt
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One hundred neo-Nazis marched in east Berlin unbothered by police one day after they set dogs on pro-Palestine protesters
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Jewish activist from “Not in our Name” protests in Vienna at a conference addressed by the Israeli president
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Germany’s biggest young rapper Ski Aggu chants Free Palestine to a demo of 100,000
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Gaza activist Yasemin Acar of the Freedom Flotilla was found innocent in court for stating "from the firver to the sea, Palestine will be free."
Another loss for Berlin police who even arrested someone in front of court for chanting it
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Germany's freedom ranking has been downgraded in a review from "open" to "restricted" due to repression of pro-Palestinian as well as climate activists
spiegel.de/politik/deutschla…
Community note
There is no "restricted" rating in Civicus tool.
German rating is 76 "narrowed"
Other ratings:
Open 81-100
Narrowed 61-80
Obstructed 41-60
Repressed 21-40
Closed 1-20
Examples:
France 71
Austria 86
USA 65
China 13
Venezuela 20
Russia 13
Saudi Arabia 4
Sources
monitor.civicus.org
unesco.org/en/world-media
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At this point it’s worth point out that only former Axis powers and their collaborators don’t recognise Palestine
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This is a staff member of one of Germany’s leading left-liberal publications
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German flotilla activists Yasemin Acar, Judith Scheytt & Louna Sboua are still in Israeli custody, with almost no communication from the German government
Louna has started a hunger strike. Almost 100,000 have signed a petition for their release
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It's shocking to me, but it really seems like Scots and Germans are a match made in heaven
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Today is a good day to remember that Anne Applebaum wrote that Palestinian media is a legitimate target
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That Germany’s top educational YouTube channel depicts antisemitism with a Palestine protest & Gaza rather than Auschwitz can only be understood as a way to distract from the Holocaust
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Israeli Jew Hadas was arrested yesterday by Berlin police for holding this sign
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Just found a company that refurbishes Yugoslav K67 Kiosks and now desperately thinking of business ideas that would justify buying one
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New: majority of supporters of every German party believe Israel is committing genocide
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German police on holiday left a Spanish taxi driver like this
Four German tourists beat up a 70-year-old taxi driver in Mallorca, broke two ribs and his wrist, tried to bribe him to stay quiet (also tried to destroy his phone), went back to Germany.
Guess what they do for a living over here?
They're cops!
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I spent years studying UltraDeutsch historical narcissism, and he just …. tweeted it out
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Huge black block for Palestine in Berlin nitter.app/takeawalkonthe2/status…
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German leftist: “For NATO-Ukraine you are turning Germany into ruins?!?”
The same day, Dnipro in Ukraine was bombed to actual ruins.
There’s a German word for this Wohlstandsverwahrlosung - living in such prosperity you lose grip on reality
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Confirmed: the “heavily injured” police officer is reportedly this one seen punching members of the crowd brutally
BE24111 ist die Nr. des schwer verletzten Polizisten, der nicht mehr allein gehen konnte und von Kollegen gestützt werden musste, nachdem #Nakba77-Demonstranten auf ihm herumtrampelten. Eine Aktivistin fällt hin und Polizisten helfen ihr auf #berlin #b1505 piped.video/4gaZvJVIR84?feature…
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Photo from protest. Remember that the Bundestag’s non-binding BDS ban was initially an AfD proposal
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German former IDF spokesman spreads a picture of a knife he says was used to stab people in the West Bank, but shares a stock image
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“I learned about German narcissism. It’s not about how the Palestinians feel, it’s about how the Germans feel about Palestinians feeling that way” Francesca Albanese
Rashad Alhindi
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German police push a Muslim woman, grab after she calls him an “arsehole” and kick her.
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A thirteen year old girl - below the age of criminal responsibility - was detained at a pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin
sully 🍉
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Changing at Alexanderplatz nitter.app/ClassicTomb/status/146…
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This is why pseudo-academic knowledge is so dangerous. Russia has literally settled and colonised Ukrainian territories, stolen Ukrainian children and land
Sorry, but Ukraine is nothing like Palestine. Palestine is a people fighting against settler colonialism. If anything, Ukraine is more like israel—a Western-backed project propped up for geopolitical interests & sustained by empire.
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Sahra Wagenknecht accuses Israel of “barbaric warfare” where “women and children are murdered without any justification”. A rare sight on German TV
TranslateMom
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German Greens dress in rainbow colours after Bundestag president bans staff from pride
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Anne Frank’s cousin speaks out against the German government’s support of Israel
somanypixels
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Labour’s Kier Starmer and David Lammy using the Holocaust memorial as a backdrop for their party political video
This is a massive faux pas in Germany
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Hungary not arresting Netanyahu is “a bad day for international criminal law” says FM Baerbock. Her own government also said it wouldn’t arrest Netanyahu. Absolutely shameless hypocrisy
Anna 🎗️🇮🇱✡️🦁
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“People in Germany are being beat up by the cops because they speak out against a different state”
Legendary hardcore band Refused call out Germany’s support for “genocide”
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If he said this in Berlin, he would be arrested
87-year-old Holocaust survivor, Stephen Capos, says: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free, no matter how long it takes".
Kapos, who attended the march for Gaza in London, was 7-years-old when he and his family survived the Nazi Holocaust on Jews in Hungary in 1944
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“We cannot believe anything Russia promises. For Russia promises when it is forced to do so and then goes back on its word from the moment its strength is renewed.”
Józef Piłsudski, 1919
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The idea that religions "have countries" was one I thought we left in the Middle Ages
It’s exhausting having to explain to otherwise rational people that Jews deserve to live and have a country, just like Muslims have over 56 countries, and Christians over 100. Sometimes it feels like I’ve been dropped into a dystopian Netflix show since October 7.
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Philosophy professor Nancy Fraser, who is Jewish, has been uninvited from a guest professorship in Germany for signing a public letter in support of Palestine
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