Germans Revolt Against Complicity In Israel's Genocide
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:31.9 | Throughout Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people, |
| 0:35.5 | the German state has been at the forefront of facilitating some of the gravest crimes of our age. It's justified them on the grounds of its own genocidal past, and the atmosphere in Germany has been suffocating, with opponents of the genocide facing vilification and silencing. That's included Jewish Germans who've spoken out, like the Israel-born architect and academic Eovizman, |
| 0:55.2 | who said there was a certain irony in being lectured and how to be properly Jewish |
| 0:58.8 | by the children and grandchildren of the perpetrators who murdered our families and who now |
| 1:04.1 | dare to tell us that we are anti-Semitic. I'm about to talk to two German signatories to this |
| 1:09.5 | letter about German complicity and why so if you have spoken out and if that's going to change. |
| 1:14.3 | But first for context, despite polling showing that, and this is despite the consensus of the political elite, |
| 1:20.3 | only a small minority of Germans actually support arming Israel's genocide and onslaught. |
| 1:25.0 | But nonetheless, public dissent has been relatively small. |
| 1:27.7 | That's now changed. A public letter signed by German academics, intellectual, civil servants, |
| 1:32.2 | as well as international public figures, has been sent to the German federal government. |
| 1:36.6 | Well over a thousand declaring, with utmost horror, we see the unfolding genocide committed |
| 1:41.2 | by Israel against the Palestinian people. It expresses outrage at the |
| 1:45.6 | German government's normalisation for the blatant disregard for life, as well as its active |
| 1:49.8 | participation in the killing and dehumanisation of Palestinians, with political, military, and legal |
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