cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/15368324
The frontman of British punk rap band Bob Vylan was denied entry to Germany, detained at the Berlin airport, and ultimately deported to the United Kingdom last month due to his pro-Palestine statements.
German federal police justified deporting the band’s vocalist on June 15, referencing a performance at the Glastonbury Festival in England in 2025 where Bob Vylan led a chant of “Death, death to the IDF,” or the Israel Defense Forces.
A police file on Robinson-Foster obtained by The Intercept alleges that he disseminated antisemitic narratives and Hamas propaganda that could “radicalise certain segments of the [German] population” and serve as “ideological justification” for terrorist groups or individuals. It also says that Robinson-Foster poses a threat to Germany’s public security and public order. Allowing him into the country would cause “considerable reputational damage” by creating the impression that Germany was making “no effort to prevent the spread of the propagated antisemitism and the associated calls to violence.”
On the contrary: Germany of all countries should realize that the way Israel is treating Palestinians is increasingly similar to how the Nazis treated Jews.
That’s exactly why they should know better.
Yeah. I agree.
But the descendants of the people who tried to exterminate Jews are stuck: they have to support their ancestors’ victims. They also have a responsibility to prevent it happening again to anyone else. They can’t do both and they can’t do neither.
They know better, but they can’t act on it.
Israel is ruled by mentally hill fascists who are destroying their own country for their personal goals, helping the people living in israel out of this regime sound like a good way to support their ancestors’ victims
Yes, but have you considered the profits that can be made in the Military Industrial Complex? /S
I agree, entirely. Politicians however are
fucking idiot cowardsslaves to diplomacy when it comes to other countries.