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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

NAZI GERMANY, you mean.

Which isn't exactly surprising,

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Sadly this is EU wide sanctions. The entire EU apparatus has come together to sanction people who speak up against genocide.

That said, the campaign against the journalist was very much done by Zionist propaganda outlets and politicians in Nazi Germany in a coordinated Nazi blood libel campaign.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Haven't seen a single instance of that which you describe in Portugal, were I live, and the country is currently ruled by the mainstream rightwing party which is basically the party formed by ex-Fascists after the Revolution in 74 which overthrew the Fascist Dictatorship and are definitelly pro-Israel (though most of the population is not, possibly because only a small part of the Press pushes pro-American Propaganda)

It would be a massive scandal around here if they tried to do shit like that - plenty of people who lived under Fascism are still alive and remember the censorship and state police.

Next door Spain too, isn't doing that kind of shit as far as I know, mainly because the government there is center-left (if it was the "center"-right party, I bet they would try it, since they seem to be closer to their Fascist roots than the one in Portugal).

Also haven't heard anything like that from The Netherlands (were I used to live).

Absolutelly, there are several of countries in Europe doing that kind of shit, most notably Germany and Britain, but as far as I can tell they're a minority rather than a majority.

Whilst I don't doubt the likes of Germany (and their agent who heads the EU Commission) would push for that kind of shit at an EU level (and plenty of country would give it lip service given Germany's importance in the EU), A LOT of countries in Europe have societies which are against that censorship because of their values (Scandinavia, The Netherlands) or because they've lived under Fascism not that long ago and many people react badly against anything with a wiff of secret police and censorship (Portugal, Spain, probably Greece).

Also the EU Parliament is properly independent and, being way more representative than the EU Comission (thanks to actually being elected, via Proportional Vote no less) shies away from actual repressive measures like that - vaguelly worded condemning motions, sure, actually censoring people, not really.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I can give you this one off the top of my head, and there's probably many more. There is plenty of EU wide repression against the voices of Palestinians but they barely get any media attention.

Netherlands to expel Palestinian journalist, raising fears of handover to Israelis

A larger article on it: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/11/palestinian-journalist-mustafa-ayyash-to-be-extradited-to-austria

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 32 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago) (1 children)

He wasn't expelled, he was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Austria, something that they could only do because the "crimes" he was accused of were commited in Austria.

Once in Austria he ended up being released by the Austrian authorities, so I guess the Austrian court system still works as it's supposed to in a Democratic country.

From the side of The Netherlands that was bureaucracy doing it's thing and obbeying that legal mechanism rather than that country practicing censorship.

But yeah, I've been quite worried about the European Arrest Warrant system being abused exactly because countries that are sliding into Fascism can use it to project their politics abroad, as well as other kinds of things which had influence in this situation such as the US having put Gaza Now in its list of terrorist organisations and Europe going along with it.

That's not Europe as a whole repressing the voices of Palestinians, or even The Netherlands doing it, it's a broader problem of how certain systems in the EU can be abused by Fascists if they take over in certain European countries as well as the excessive influence of America (which is way more rightwing) in Europe.

As for what the authorities in Austria did, frankly that's not surprising or representative of most of the EU: Austria has had the far-right in power longer than everybody else in Europe and they're pretty much a worse version of Germany, it's just that, because they're much smaller, it's not generally talked about.

It's quite a stretch to go from this to saying that Europe is NAZI.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 28 minutes ago

From the side of The Netherlands that was bureaucracy doing it’s thing and obbeying that legal mechanism

Just following orders, if you will.