I think it's time for a boycott of the German state specifically I mean a boycott of its public events by artists, performers, writers, authors, musicians, those who care about human rights who oppose mass murder who oppose what the highest court on earth the International Court of Justice is investigating

as an alleged genocide that is Israel's mass murderous onslaught against Gaza and its people.

Here's why. Now if I were the German state at this particular juncture I would

simply keep a low profile. Let me just sit down and just sit this one out. That is not the

fact they've gone for. Instead they've settled on a particularly gruesome

strategy to gain absolution for the attempt by the German state to

exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe

in which two-thirds of Jews murdered within living memory.

Now, firstly, the German state has long, loudly demanded that somebody else pay for the crimes committed by the German state,

specifically the Palestinian people. It seems to believe, well does clearly believe,

that compensation for what it did should be paid by

Palestinians through being violently ethnically cleansed repeatedly occupied

their land stolen colonized subjected to apartheid huge state violence over and over again, mass incarceration,

suspension of basic civil liberties, we could go on.

These are all horrors which clearly no German citizen would tolerate. Now I'm aware that it's not just the German state

responsible for 2,000 years of European anti-semitism by any stretch. It is simply the case

that first the 19th century German anti-Semitism played a pivotal role in the racialization of anti-Semitism that is turning anti-Semitism into a race theory which became a precondition for its particularly

genocidal form and the rise obviously of Nazism and then the shower the

murder of six million Jews all of that is a precondition for what is happening today. Now this attempt to force

other people to pay the price for what Germany did as a state now takes a form of being

one of the world's leading legitimizers and

apologists and backers for the present mass murder of Palestinians.

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