Estelle PlatiniGermans take pride in their diplomas. A mandatory lesson was that noone should touch a Jew.
#EstelleSays #yarn 🧶
The German state has bound its own re-birth into the “realm of civilized nations” through a particular protective relationship with the figure of the Jew, where (always Jewish) Israelis are a prime embodiment of Jewish life.
"As long as the figure of the Jew remains a medium through which German post-unification identity is articulated and experienced, the performance of Jewish collective difference and political agency will be exclusively relegated to the State of Israel. The figure of the Palestinian, as well as Palestinians’ political subjecthood and demands for equality will, in turn, be addressed as either an annoyance to be ignored or a threat to be criminalized—rather than as a crucial prism through which the multiple layers of legitimatized moral violence in Germany have to be recognized."
Hannah Tzuberi & Nahed Samour in 2022: https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/the-german-state-and-the-creation-of-un-desired-communities/
#taboo #fetishism #sacred #holly #Germany #guilt #philoSemitism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #guilt #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael
The German State and the Creation of Un/Desired Communities | Contending Modernities
The birth of a morally “improved” German collective necessitates the memory of the Holocaust to remain in vivid proximity, but also requires a sense of perpetual vulnerability of Jews in the present and future.
@germany: "The only substantive difference in the opposition pitting the political parties who are seen as capable of contributing to governance and those who are deemed inadmissible (i.e. the AfD) is that the former believe that it is acceptable to ethnically cleanse and settler colonise in Palestine, whereas the latter is of the opinion that ethnic cleansing should be performed at home too. A defense of the right to colonise across the seas is seen by mainstream opinion as crucial to maintaining political coherence, whereas the AfD is unwilling to abide by the classic colonial distinction separating colony and metropole. It is an uncanny predicament: both sides are thinking about colonialism, one implicitly proclaiming its admissibility somewhere, the other its desirability everywhere. And yet neither is referring to it."
Lorenzo Veracini: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2201473X.2024.2397261#d1e387 🧶
#imaginaries #redemption #atonement #decolonization #decolonial #Reconciliation #AfD #NeverAgain #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrĂĽnen #GreenParty #DEPol
"Spreading fear and silencing
[…]
"As it silences and threatens to sanction any dissent against Israel, its apartheid system, and its crimes against humanity as antisemitic, it is obvious that the government and parliament intend to spread fear of being branded antisemitic, being criminalised and persecuted for expressing your opinion as a basic individual citizenship right.
[…]
"From the very beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, #Germany has joyfully and wholeheartedly embraced what Theodor Herzl offered to the “West”.
"By demanding support for the Zionist movement from European powers, he submitted the offer that in Palestine the Zionists would “form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of #civilisation as opposed to barbarism”.
"God’s chosen people": https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-not-holocaust-guilt-entrenched-racist-superiority
#coloniality #landGrab #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #freeSpeech #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism
Expropriation from the European Jews transfered properties billions worth. From then on, the grabbed money and wealth mostly followed laws of ownership and capitalism. Only in #Germany, they grew into companies and assets in the realm of between €300 billion and €1 trillion.
In their book , Katharina and Zachary #Gallant write:
"Hitler didn't produce Zyklon-B and profit off of its use in the murder of millions: Degesh, Degussa, Henkel, and IG Faben did. Hitler didn't rip the shares of major companies from their Jewish owners, … major German businesses did… And it wasn't Hitler who took over houses and properties that had belonged to Jews through Aryanization, it was everyday Germans, many of whose families still live in those homes today."
mock-up: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hitlers-nazis-and-how-germany-became-good-again/ 🧶
#Denazification #Aufarbeitung #history #morals #reparations #compensations #Volkswagen #BMW #Daimler #Melitta #Bahlsen #Henkel #Degussa #Persil #Allianz #Porsche #DeutscheBank #Bosch #SĂĽddeutscheZeitung #Bundesbahn #antisemitism #guilt
Germany's claim to have reckoned with its racial supremacist past is fraudulent, proven by decades of supporting fascist regimes.
Esad Širbegović: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-support-israel-far-right-alliances-shatters-denazified-facade
#complicity #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism #Denazification #afD #normalization
Wieland Hoban explains #philosemitism in Germany:
"It’s very difficult to have a general sense of Jews as ordinary people who are part of the country’s population. Many people have an image frozen in time of Jews as the victims of the Nazis, who were the parents or grandparents of many Germans.
"In some cases, this leads to an over-compensation which means that people want to have a particularly favourable idea of Jews. They make a point of doing what they think is supporting Jews. Including supporting Israel, going on holiday in Israel, or cultivating connections to Israel thinking this somehow revives Jewishness."
https://theleftberlin.com/wieland-hoben-interview/
#lacuna #conflation #beliefs #antisemitism #EuropeIsrael #Germany #IHRA #recycling #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Europeanness #Hoban
