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[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Hey OP, get better news sources, DailyTelegraph.co.nz is Russian junk news.

https://www.webworm.co/p/badnews

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Thank you, good to know. I was looking for English articles after reading it in German articles. IIRC i also saw it on TRT but avoided it because TRT is a Turkish outlet under the influence of Erdogan.

Police repression has been escalating in Germany and particularly in Berlin over the past years and both German and international media are not addressing the issue with the attention it deserves. Germany is taking more and more steps to become an authoritarian democracy. If the trend isn't stopped, it will look like Hungary or Turkiye in some years.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pro-Palestine protestors really seem to get the pigs into a rage. They must believe that they'll be able to get away with it.

And so far, it looks like they have. Right now, in the U.S., the Trumplicans (and Leon) are revoking the visas of international students who took part in protests to support Palestine. I'd guess for every couple we hear about there are a hundred more we don't.

It seems strange the countries all over the world are using similar violence against anyone protesting the Zionist genocide.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

All that shit is happening in Germany, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

From the article

Police intervened when the protesters allegedly violated the restriction, triggering a confrontation, Bild reported. As tensions escalated, demonstrators reportedly threw bottles and clashed with officers, leaving at least one officer injured. Berlin police confirmed the incident on their official X account, stating that 28 people were detained and insisting that the officers had no choice but to use force against protesters who they claim were acting violently.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

In Germany, "Pro-palestine" protestors usually try to hijack left-wing demonstrations for unrelated topics. Saw that many times myself, and get super sad about it all the time.

It is really tough if you are out demonstrating fascism, and all of a sudden people with antisemitic symbols stand behind you, waving their watermelons and god knows what

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Israel is a fascist apartheid state committing genocide. Police violently cracking down on anti-israel / anti-zionist speech is also fascist. You are conflating anti-zionism with anti-semitism, which is genuine anti-semitism. Anti-zionism calls for the end to genocide and for Palestinians emancipation.

Zionism is about Settler Colonialism and Ethnic Cleansing of native Palestinians, it is not reflective of Judaism nor is it representative of Jewish people. Anti-zionism is not anti-semitism. The conflation of the two is genuinely antisemitic, as it falsely attributes the actions of Israel to all Jewish people.

Zionism is anti-Semitic at it's core, it other-izes Jewish people, and justifies the violent settler colonialim of Israel as in the defense of all Jewish people, which only serves to further fuel genuine Antisemitism at the expense of Jewish people globally. Zionism is also an inherently fascist ideology. The ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine has always been fundamental since it's inception as a colonialist movement.

Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 12 hours ago

here's a video on the history of palestine, you can decide for yourself if the jews have a right to live in palestine, have a right to a state in palestine, have a right to return to palestine and how long the conflict has been going on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv8F4NLr4E0

[–] [email protected] -2 points 21 hours ago

depends on the kind of anti-zionism

"destroy israel" for example is genocidal

palestinians and israeli's have been trying to genocide eachother for about a hundred years

[–] [email protected] -3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

here's a video on the history of palestine, you can decide for yourself if the jews have a right to live in palestine, have a right to a state in palestine, have a right to return to palestine and how long the conflict has been going on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv8F4NLr4E0

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

the palestinian "protest" has been injected into everything possible to influence a lot of things

courtesy of one of their sponsors; a mr putin from moscow, who ironically is best friends with a mr trump from NY - one of their worst enemies

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just so you know, "Bild" is a german right wing magazine. Imagine fox news as a newspaper. They are well known to report false information to smear left wing initiatives and further hurt victims if they are left wing. Since the victims of police brutality here are apparently pro-palastine, Bild cannot be trusted to report accurately

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

was good enough for dailytelegraph.co.nz (the linked source) but if you find any other sources please link

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You might want to be careful trusting that site:

https://www.webworm.co/p/badnews

[–] [email protected] -1 points 23 hours ago

i'm happy to shit on that site and take it all back if it turns out to be junk reporting

it was just the article posted by the OP

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"The restriction" being: speaking any language other than german or english at a protest.

I think this should be spelled out. That's how nazi this is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The demonstration, which took place at Oranienplatz, reportedly remained peaceful until some began chanting anti-Israel slogans in Arabic, which is banned in Berlin.

the interpretations from the first poster of this article to everyone that has replied is so wildly incorrectly biassed against the german authorities and police to the extent that you compare them to nazis is astonishing

i think the violent fundamentalists are obviously yourselves

[–] [email protected] -1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

All languages other than German and English are banned at these protests in Berlin. It's not only Arabic. Irish is also banned (see link below). Same goes for Hebrew (as per Hebrew speaking pro Palestine activists). And most likely any other language other than German or English would get instantly banned. This isn't normal in a democracy. But sure, go find more excuses for the egregious attacks on our freedom of speech and assembly.

https://www.theleftberlin.com/dangerous-language-bans-at-pro-palestine-camp-in-berlin/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Is there any reason for protesters to use a language other than German to make their opinion heard? It's even extended to include English to be inclusive of foreigners who do not have a constitutionally protected right to protest in Germany in the first place. (In case you don't believe me, Article 8 GG says "all Germans", not "everyone").

You know what the German left would do when he police tried to outlaw Italian at protests? a) challenge it in court because banning "alerta, alerta, antifascista" has no warrant, everyone knows what it means and it's not like anyone would know any more Itanian to chant (short of "latte machiato spaghetti stronzo basta") and b) not use it while that thing is in the courts. Choose your battles.

I cannot explain the ignorance of local mores that certain pro-Palestine groups are displaying in Germany as anything else but a false flag attack on the Palestinian cause. Because there's no way in hell people can be so willfully dense, be so unable to work within the local conditions. Conditions which offer plenty of freedom if you don't, at every opportunity, try to piss people off for no gain whatsoever. I'm trying to employ "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity" but it's getting damn hard the more those certain groups steadfastly refuse to learn, and even refuse advise regarding their tactics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

the languages are banned only if they cannot monitor hate speech, which they are very tough on in germany and happens to be all too common at these protests

you can still express yourself freely in german or english

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And from the paragraph you cited: "Berlin police confirmed the incident on their official X account...insisting that the officers had no choice but to use force against protesters who they claim were acting violently."

They say shit like this even when there are hours of video demonstrating otherwise. I'm sure afterward they'll investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They say shit like this

demonstrators reportedly threw bottles and clashed with officers, leaving at least one officer injured

before they violently arrest you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the article it seems like bottles started flying after they started beating people. But of course it's the protestors' fault, always is

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

nope, they started racist chants which meant the police attempted arrests which caused the projectiles

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (22 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Watch germans scramble to take the side of cops, as usual. I've heard boots are a speciality this season.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

Nah, our police has a well known issue with brutality, every leftist already experienced that. But our conservatives are always talking it down as "Einzelfälle" but everyone else knows its a systemic issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tagging [email protected] who believes german police is super chill

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you want to tag a user you have to start with an @ symbol. You just posted an invalid e-mail.

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