Man, even the Jews are antisemitic now. SMH.
Interestingly, I just looked up who "semites" are and it includes Arabs. Israel are the biggest antisemites of all.
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At the sit-in I attended in February 2024 against the bloody propaganda peddled by Axel Springer, which participates in illegal investments in settlements in the West Bank, I was made to watch a policeman choke my wife until the blood drained from her face and she struggled to breathe. She was then accused of assault and resistance in a country whose police force has been under years-long scrutiny by Amnesty International, other human rights organizations and various bodies of the United Nations for widespread excessive brutality, corruption, abduction of minors and removal of freedom of expression and assembly.
In these moments, my line of vision was replaced by a portal of time, melted between today and the 1940s, flooded by fury and the chill of fascism, as I sat on the same ground where my family’s blood is less than a century dry. As my wife was dragged away by her feet by the German cops, I ran after her, screaming in panic, the last thing I saw being her red face with the white-knuckled hands of a German police officer wrapped around her neck. As I tried to reach her, another cop tried to cut me off. I grabbed the cop’s wrist, snapped her arm to her side, and smacked her square in the face.
Thereafter, I was tackled by 4 or 5 officers, pulled out of the demonstration and quickly went into a state of catatonic shock, thinking that the German state could have just killed my wife. We were locked in a police van and thankfully reunited in the next hour or so, then thrown into jail for 6-7 hours and repeatedly denied the opportunity to call a lawyer. (This is, sickeningly, a resoundingly tame breach of German law as far as Berlin is concerned. The Berlin police are a force that enjoys weekly, sometimes daily, savage attacks on demonstrators – as well as the medics who attempt to reach them to provide care – until they are bloodied on the sidewalks or beaten unconscious behind closed van doors for sport.)
I make no apology for the blind rage that consumed me in response to this psychological, generational and institutionalized torment. My and my community’s participation in an act of entirely justified, legitimate civil disobedience should not have been necessary, save for the genocidal complicity of the German state in the extermination campaign in Palestine. I am not sorry for responding with rage to watching and experiencing violent domination by unreconstructed Zionist police officers in the face of the annihilation and slaughter of our siblings in Palestine. Rage is the righteous defense of those left with nothing else to reach for but their own humanity.
Unfortunately this is consistent with what i have witnessed at many demonstrations in Germany. Police deliberately seeks to escalate tensions by random acts of heinous violence. In particular women and minors are targeted as the police relies on the basic human decency of people not to stand by idly when a group of men is violating a women or minor. Once people try to step in, all hell breaks loose as the police now gets to storm into demonstrations beating anyone and everyone, shoving people over and on their way back collecting the people that fell for arrest. This often includes chocking them, police sitting on their backs to prevent them from breathing, beating them further as they are already surrounded and restrained by 4-6 police officers.
I have seen Antizionist-Jewish activists, who publicly identify as Jews and wear a kippah being beaten and dragged into arrest using pain grips
Despite dozens of videos showing the police violence after every demonstration, despite emergency services sometimes having to set up tents as a "field hospital" to treat the large number of casualties amongst the demonstrating people, German mainstream media subsequently reports the demonstrators as violent and rarely talks about any police violence. Particularly problematic is the Axel Springer Verlag, who has their "reporters" closely cooperating with the police in Berlin to make sure they get the right scenes in to claim violence against the police. This includes their "reporters" to insult and provoke demonstrators to escalate tensions themselves. At one demonstration i saw a "reporter" groping a minor. Despite numerous witnesses telling the police what happened and where the perpetrator was sitting after, the police refused to arrest him, or even question him.
EDIT: The Axel Springer reporter i mean is "Iman Sefati". Instead of his behaviour being questioned by his colleagues he is paraded around as a hero and victim of violent extremists in German mainstream media. He is of Iranian descent and as his father was executed by the Iranian regime, he is a key figure to the narratives of what are "good" and "evil" immigrants in Germany.
I mean, everyone who pays attention knows how spinger is absolute trash. Has been since the founding of the FRG. Unfortunately, the morons who read it don't die out. They thrive on stupid and mentally lazy people. I wish I knew how to change that.
BILD circulation is down 80% since 1998. Obviously all print media has lost readership, but for example Spiegel is only down by 38% since then. Most other newspapers do a lot better then BILD in retaining readership, but BILD is so massive that they remain a power.
Also they pivoted to online/video formats; are those part of the numbers?
No, this is just print. However even when you add subscribers of the digital version of BILD, they went from over a million subscribers end of 2022 to 650k today.
However obviously Immowelt, Idealo, Stepstone, Autohaus24 and so forth are also part of the company and are very profitable. But they can not influence politics nearly as easily.
Is this Berlin specific? If so why is Berlin specifically so bad and other jurisdictions not as bad?
It certainly seems to be a disproportionate issue in Berlin.
Berlin has the largest Arab population and a relatively stronger "radical" left compared to other cities. Berlin also has the largest Zionist population in Germany and Zionist lobby organizations are most present in Berlin, both for historic reasons and as Berlin is the capital city.
The current mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner is a Machiavellian opportunist and a Ethno-nationalist. He won the last state level elections after he called for police to release the first names of juvenile suspects, so that people could judge if those juvenile suspects were "real Germans" or "just German citizens". The current government also is reactionary in many other aspects such as stopping the expansion of public transport and bicycle infrastructure, slashing funding for social programs and cultural institutions and the like. The claim that it would bring order to the notoriously dysfunctional public administration of Berlin at the same time keeps being disappointed, while the cost of living also keeps exploding.
So you have a racist and repressive government, which has allied with and tokenized the Zionist lobby early on, in particular the Axel Springer media, and is failing in most regards of governance. It has a vested interest in presenting itself as successful and Berlin under threat from "Islamist migrants" and "extreme leftists", against which is protects the city. This meets a large population of people who suffer directly as their friends and relatives are being slaughtered and a left scene that won't relent easily to government repression, most notably at two of the three large universities. The left scene in Berlin is also more international, so the "antideutsch" pro-Israel "left" is relatively weaker, albeit not less confrontational.
I hope this gives an idea, of the factors coming into play. In regards to general police violence against progressive causes, Berlin police is bad, but we see similar from police in other states of Germany. So i think the terrible state of the Berlin police does not explain, why things are worse in Berlin, because other police in Germany is equally terrible.
One final notion: While we saw student encampments and later occupations at the Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität escalate, we did not see similar at the Technische Universität. The President of the Technische Universität has been more open to dialogue with students and not thought escalatory measures, when the FU and HU had the police evict peaceful protest camps. (which turned out to be unlawful iirc.)
The most visible elements like the goose stepping and the swastika might have gone but the ~~treating~~ putting races before people and the preference for authoritarian methods never went away.
Why would it have?
The Allies only executed 16 Nazis.
Even more important, IMHO, is that it weren't the Germans who rebelled and overthrew the NAZIs, foreigners were the ones who defeated the NAZIs and pushed Germans to change.
A powerful "this is wrong" amongst the German bringing down the NAZIs would have been a reflection of a change of spirit and way of thinking (or the majority even never really having thought like that to begin with), whilst this externally imposed change as consequence of the military defeat at the hands of a cohalition of Western nations followed by an occupation (which didn't last long and didn't really try to integrate Germans into the conquering nation's culture) just means what was changed was that which is visible to outsiders - the appearances, not the spirit.
It's no surprise the fast rise of the AfD in Germany when even parties like the Greens still think along the same "it is right to treat different races differently" lines as in the "old days" and the German political mainstream thinks Surveillance and using Lawmaking and Policing as an iron fist to suppress ideological dissent are appropriate tools to use in a supposed Democracy.
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
OP fails to recognize the immense, irrational fear of German politicians to be viewed as anti-Israel and therefore antisemitic.
But by whom? Not their constituents...