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Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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Pretty dark stuff
Yeah totally. It seems like a common take in Germany that in order for the State to be seen as a "good" State and no longer Nazi, Germans must support Israel no matter what. They don't want to be seen as Nazis any more, after all.
But what about when that unconditional support means repressing your own citizens who criticize Israel? That's authoritarianism, plain and simple.
And how is unconditional support for a genocidal Israeli ethnostate that is currently busy killing all their non-Jewish neighbours meant to make the German state seem less Nazi? Hint: it doesn't. It looks to me like they've just switched focus from killing Jews to helping Zionists kill brown people.
Germany really needs to move on from the excuse of servicing war guilt from 80 years ago, and start actually doing the right thing by withdrawing it's support for Israel.
Definitely. I visit germany regularly, and as an outsider I see it plain as day. The older generations are so trying to show they are doing the 'right thing' re isreal that they'll hurt themselves to keep that face up.
The younger ones (40 and under), not so much.
This time will end with the passing if those older generations.
His party's color is black.