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  • I’m clearly talking under a post about “police violence at PRO GAZA PROTESTS” which the main german media is clearly ignoring and pushes a hardcore pro Israel agenda on. And again, many similar cases as the one in the article I’m commenting on also happening here that the mainstream German media is ignoring. Why would I even be talking about police violence in other contexts other than the one everyone is clearly talking about here, which is on an article on explicit cases of police violence at pro gaza protests. What I am very clearly saying here is that the mainstream German media has a blind eye for Israel, or the exact same cases of police violence as the one discussed in this article go uncovered. I very clearly didn’t come here to talk about meta studies on police bureaucracy


  • What I clearly meant by that is that it is impossible to successfully sue a cop. No one cares that you can sue if the chances of winning are literally zero. And that’s what your chances do look like in Germany.

    Besides that Volksverpetzer is trying way too hard to go the enlightened centrist route which is especially now a problem when we’re looking at a possible genocide. Katapult Magazin is okay in that aspect. There are a few other acceptable media outlets out there too. But again, these are mostly fringe outlets, which was exactly my point in the first place.

    Police violence that is at least as bad as the one seen in this article, or even worse, is not picked up by big media outlets in Germany as it is in other countries like the US or UK. And that is what I was criticising. If you do find an article from a big German media outlet going into detail on cops using excessive violence and pummelling protesters with fists in the current context of pro Palestine protests, then link it here. Otherwise I don’t think there’s anything left to discuss.


  • Germans love to pat themselves on the back while telling themselves that. But it’s just performative. It has no substance, no value. Their nazi grandpas were still working for the government after the war. Some of them were even ministers. Some of them were big generals in the German army during and after the war. At the same time Germany is cracking down on the “bad jews” that do not fit their rabid colonialist ideology. Oh, where have I seen that before? Separating the bad jews from the good ones.



  • If the international law is so clear cut then Israel would’ve left the territories it occupies illegally under international law. They’ve been invading, occupying and settling for decades. That is illegal and has been declared as such by the UN. Israel actively goes against international law. So get off your high horse there.

    But look, at least the people out of your German bubble, the people around the world, can see how delusional the German society really is. You’re boiling in your own delusions. A fever dream, a parallel reality that even Israel allies do not share with you. Not even America. It’s going to be a hard wakeup call when these delusions come crumbling down around you.



  • So the guy you just linked as a historian (one historian, not historians) is an ex AfD (extremist right wing party) politician.

    Has he published any books on Israel Palestine or why would whatever he says be worth a dime?

    On another note, I find it hilarious that he uses the example of illegal israeli settlers getting attacked by the local population after driving through the West Bank, which last time I checked was definitely NOT in Israel and absolutely no one welcomed them there. Now I wonder, what were these Israelis doing there in illegally occupied territories? And he uses that as an example to justify his racist ideology that every single Palestinian would “stab an israeli in the back if they had the chance”. The german delusions at their best.






  • Just a ton of videos of police violence taken at protests and posted in activist groups on Instagram. I’ll drop you some links to them here. As I’ve said, almost no german media outlets picks on these cases of extreme police violence even when they are actually there when it is happening so it’s next to impossible for me to send you links to newspapers.

    Most of these videos are from a few days ago. Oldest one is from three weeks ago. Honestly they’re all scattered all throughout my gallery, so here are just the last few ones I’ve found now. This has been ongoing since last year.

    Here you can see a police officer repeatedly hitting a protester that’s already on the ground. Remember that cops have gloves with knuckles covered in hard plastic.

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6OauD0MK7j/

    There’s also this one from the same event with cops pummeling protesters that are on the ground with fists and jumping on them with their knees.

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6PSMzaxwUp

    Here is one with a cop hitting a woman directly in the face, again, with hard gloves.

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7Ji4JGM6Ta/

    Here are some of cops spraying people with pepper spray at extremely close distance.

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7H4E3OMGUW/

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7HjvAzMHEM/

    Attacking sit-in protesters, jumping on them with their knees

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5HH7H3sNWN/

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6OXmErNRRu/

    Beating on a man that’s on the ground

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6Op_5LMudO/

    This looks like a straight up rape scene (Major TRIGGER WARNING)

    https://streamable.com/of0f86

    Attacking a guy for peacefully carrying a flag

    https://streamable.com/7rjsmt

    Attacking a lone man at night

    https://streamable.com/diprmv

    Remember that these happened either over the last few days or very recently. This has been ongoing for many months now and there are many more horrible examples of this happening. There are also the many iconic pictures and videos of police officers holding protesters from the back while completely covering their eyes and mouths from behind. This is inhumane. Also most of these situations are easily avoidable, but cops are more trigger happy at some protests than at others for some reason. It seems like they’ve been let off the leash to escalate these situations to the extreme. These protests are almost always peaceful. They’re not riots. They’re not destroying the city. They’re merely walking from one place to another and are met with extreme violence.

    There are many reports of activists with broken noses, arms, or legs coming out of here (again, in activist groups and so on; also many of the victims are simply posting to look for witnesses to sue cops when they inevitably end up in the hospital because of them). One report of a protester ending up in intensive care after being beaten by the cops.

    It also doesn’t help that in Germany the chances of successfully suing a cop are close to zero. Police officers have the closest thing to immunity when it comes to being sued. Because they are sworn in under oath, their word always counts more in a court of law than yours, under German law. If they say you were resisting, then you were resisting and there’s nothing to discuss.

    So you can see, police violence that makes international headlines when it comes out of the US, goes unnoticed in Germany. It feels like I’m living in a fever dream, where the worst in the US is considered the norm in Germany.

    EDIT: deleted further replies and added everything to the same comment for better readability