This unbelievably disturbing story is so revealing about the age in which we live,

in which the world as it should be has been turned upside down.

Yesterday the Palestine Congress was due to take place in Berlin in which a range of figures

Palestinian Jewish public intellectuals like Janis Farfakus would you to speak.

The Congress was based around exposing the reality of Israeli crimes in Gaza, crimes aided and abetted by Germany,

which is Israel's second biggest arms dealer at the United States, to support the Palestinian

cause and advancing a just and lasting peace, making sure of course that

Palestinian voices are front and centre.

Now is asked alongside other progressive figures such as the Spanish leftist politician

Pablo Glazius to sign a letter in support, important given the climate in Germany,

I probably did so. So what happened next? The German police shot it down, and it gets worse than

that as I'll explain.

So only one speaker, Heb Jamil, a Palestinian American journalist,

was allowed to speak before the police shot the Congress down

after Salman Abu Sitts, a Palestinian researcher in his late 80 spoke for a minute via video

link.

Let's watch that moment and the response of attendees. You were farzammer here, I lost in the road,

and I'm doing the police officer off the list.

What?

But we have a woman,

for me, I want to do this one kind of a lot,

and for last video

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