theacharnian

Like people who always jump to say this in such posts: we don't know the context. And it's true that we don't know the immediate context. But we do know the wider context. This forceful suppression of pro-Palestinian speech is consistent with the concerns repeatedly expressed by multiple human rights organizations about the systemic biases of the German state.

To make a slightly distasteful analogy: if this was a video of ICE agents arresting a Latino person at a protest outside a detention center, sure we would not have the context of that person's actual immigration status. But we do have the wider context of a systematic crackdown on Latinos by ICE.

Do you want to actually defend the honour of German police? Organize and push politically for systemic change. Otherwise, your pearl clutching about "context" will only read as complicity to the systemic issues.

Microsoft

In comes the AI bubble with the folding steel chair.

And at the same time, we're cutting off international student visas. So genius professor comes here with bags of Impact+ money and nothing to do with it.

The new Trump Doctrine national security strategy document (the same one that attacks Europe for being too woke) is all about how the Western Hemisphere is theirs and does not identify Russia as a US adversary. Corollary: we already have a pimp.

At moments like these we should all take stock, reconnect with our humanity, take a deep breath, hold that for a moment, step back and remember that Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Parkland shooting survivors of being paid actors.

When this apartheid regime collapses, the future German Chancellor will be issuing a formal apology for shit like this.

There won't be a rift so long as at the southeastern part of Europe there is still a tension between Turkey and Greece/Cyprus. The Americans are the only ones who care to manage that tension (in the most toxic way possible) while the Europeans can't be bothered to give a shit. That's actually the Achilles heel of European unity and the Americans know it.

There is nothing unique about Zionism in how it weaponizes religion. Same as "Christian nationalism" in the US, like Hindutva in India, like all kinds of Islamism, like Francoism or like any other clerical fascism. We should be better than to accept the weaponized forms of religions. Unless you consider something as silly as "Mohammed was a pedophile" as a useful counter to Daesh, which is terminally unserious.

This is antisemitism. Don't do it, don't upvote it, don't spread it. Israeli ethnonationalism is not reducible to the Jewish religion. There is nothing in Judaism that deterministically leads to apartheid and genocide. Many Jews see the "chosen people" story as an intergenerational responsibility to unfuck the world (Tikkun Olam). Many Jews are antizionists precisely because of their Judaism.

The fact that this was up for debate, the fact that there are countries that choose to boycott as a result, the fact that this is news: these are wins people. The cracks have formed and it's starting to buckle. It is now normal and mainstream to talk about boycotting the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime. Even the German apartheid-apologist institutions are forced to say they respect the decisions of non-apologist ones. Don't take this as reason for cynicism and disappointment, it's quite the opposite! Apartheid South Africa didn't get boycotted, isolated and forced to recon with its crimes all at once, it was a process. KEEP PUSHING!

Stunningly shallow.