The state's commitment to the murderous Netanyahu regime outstrips its dedication to preserving democracy at home

Berlin’s backing for Israel in the current context has irrevocably ruined Germany’s international standing.

At the same time, as a result of Germany’s neoliberal restructuring, processes of de-democratisation have been ongoing for years.

The deliberate erosion of democracy has paved the way not only for the selective application of international law, but also for the restriction of fundamental rights within Germany itself.

The German population is firmly against their country’s participation in the extermination of the Palestinian people. In a recent poll, 73 percent said they had a negative view of Israel, while 80 percent have rejected further weapons exports to Israel. Despite this, German arms export licenses to Israel have surged, enabling the state to continue committing war crimes.

While the German government’s blatant disregard for the will of its own people already points to a process of de-democratisation, this is exacerbated by domestic restrictions on fundamental rights, including freedom of assembly, freedom of opinion and speech, and academic freedom, alongside violations of due process - all in the service of the Zionist slaughterers.

  • bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    5 hours ago

    No surprise here, they are criminals too. Embezzling funds meant for roads and infrastructure to fund pensions as well as being openly corrupt.

    They’re just arseholes who have no real economic agenda except filling their own poket.

    • jenesaisquoi@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Germany is more than the current CDU government. Chancellor Merz is the most unpopular chancellor ever in the history of the federal republic.

  • jenesaisquoi@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    3 hours ago

    Berlin’s backing for Israel in the current context has irrevocably ruined Germany’s international standing.

    Nah.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    3 hours ago

    They are reverting to their old ways, even though the target has changed.

  • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
    92·
    9 hours ago

    I wish I’ll live to see germany on the right side of history for a change

    • supersquirrel@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      82·
      14 hours ago

      It seems to me a whole lot of really smart, amazing jewish scholars over generations and generations of jews have established a pretty rigorous body of knowledge and wisdom about how to integrate as a potentially targeted minority into society and how to immunize that society against being manipulated into xenophobia and racism/religious discrimination.

      What is happening in Gaza and the West Bank… and Lebanon… as confident as I am there are no words to describe what is happening, I am confident there is no god that would ever call for that in their name, I guess that is not a statement I can prove or disprove… but at the same time I feel entirely sure any god that would demand that would be an abomination… so what else can this genocide occurring be, other than first and foremost a betrayal of judaism at a basic level? An insult to god, whoever and whatever you identify god as?

      If you think god is a many armed spaghetti ball floating in the ether and I think god is a giant spacecrab, we can disagree about a whole lot in how those two beliefs intersect in political and real world ways, but on the other hand it is pretty easy to establish that whether god is a many armed spaghetti ball or a giant spacecrab, god made the universe and thus doing something that feels needlessly violent and destructive clearly can’t be something god desires to be done, in general… Would the spaghetti ball really want you to do needless violence upon the spacecrab heretics even if they worship forbidden beliefs? Vice versa would the spacecrab desire their followers to obliterate followers of the flying spaghetti monster just because their path to worshiping god erred in the details?

      What is happening now goes beyond any distinction between one human and another you can possibly draw, it goes beyond any single evil act anybody or anything could commit to deserve an equally evil response, it is an atrocity and it threatens to drag us into WW3 :(

  • stylusmobilus@aussie.zoneEnglish
    443·
    17 hours ago

    The same exists in Australia

    We’re actually holding a RC into antisemitism, it’s that bad

    Around 80-85% of us disapprove of Zionist cunts but the federal government will not hear us of course.

    Australia is spiralling down the drain as well with all this shit. I have a genuine concern for our sovereignty, if it exists at all.

          • stylusmobilus@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            It’s an inquiry held by a Kings Commissioner, it’s done by representatives of the crown so outside of parliament but within the functions of government.

            I actually said Queen at first, it’s still difficult to get used to that change

            • jenesaisquoi@feddit.orgEnglish
              1·
              8 minutes ago

              Interesting that they are appointed by the executive. That might be a problem if their job is to find government misconduct. My country has something similar, called a Parliamentary Inquiry Committee - but they are appointed by parliament, because it’s parliament that’s supposed to check the government’s doings.