German Israel discourse in a nutshell: Central Council for Jews in Germany awards a prize to a racist, reactionary comedian and this comment section is full of shocked and outraged Germans who are ideologically incapable of accepting that Israel is a right-wing project with right-wing supporters.

Five activists charged with trespassing, property damage, and membership in a "criminal organization" under Section 129 of the German Criminal Code for attacking an Elbit arms firm in Ulm last year are being tried today in Stuttgart's notorious Stammheim prison, once the site of the RAF trials.

The only responsibility I feel right now, along with many others in Germany, is to keep bookmarking moments like this, so that people here don't turn around and tell the rest of the world "we had no idea what was happening". They know. Everyone knows. At best - at best - they don't want to see it.

Here are Dave and David's full unedited comments for those interested:

Sollte Wolfram Weimer zurücktreten? Die Antwort ist einfach: Ja. Nicht wegen eines einzelnen Fehlers, sondern weil sich ein Muster zeigt. Dieser Mann beschädigt die Kunstfreiheit, die Autonomie kultureller Institutionen und das Amt, das er bekleidet. Weimer muss gehen. Augenblicklich. Sofort.

Europa braucht kein Palantir, kein AI, keine andere Face Recognition Software, keine anderen Überwachungssysteme und Analyse Zentren dafür. Sicherheit entsteht nicht durch mehr Polizei Präsenz oder Kontrolle und das Ziel des Staates ist auch nicht das Wohlergehen von Menschen oder deren Schutz.

someday the story will be told of how Germany voluntarily destroyed its soft power crown jewels -- flagship international cultural events and institutions – because of a bunch of ungrateful foreigners who wouldn't keep their mouths shut about the actual destruction of Gaza

Don't ask about Palestine at the Berlinale! Here's my question to the jury about selective solidarity of the film festival with the people of Iran and Ukraine vs. Palestinians. Wim Wenders (jury president) actually said: "We have to stay out of politics" #Berlinale2026

My question to the Berlinale jury just got censored by the festival on their livestream. The so-called „technical difficulties“ suddenly ended after the answers to my question about selective human rights and solidarity with Palestine.

Die Berlinale zensiert: Als ich gerade meine Frage an die Jury zum Thema Politik und selektive Menschenrechte stelle, wird der Livestream online unterbrochen. Angeblich „technische Störung“. Weder die Antworten noch die Unruhe im Saal sind zu sehen. Skandalös!

A weapon made solely to deny families closure, to inflict psychic damage on entire societies. People planned and built this. They sold it to their superiors. They manufactured it. They loaded it on planes and drones and dropped it on human beings.

To be fair when it happened in Germany, my grandparents were probably also too busy correcting other people's historical comparisons to do anything about it.

German memory culture has devolved into discourse gatekeeping designed to preclude meaningful action against tyranny. Who is harmed by memes associating ICE w/ Nazis? Why is it terrible if this history is used hyperbolically to draw the lesson that we need to fight fascists? Supreme entitlement, jfc

💥Leak💥 „In der Polizei Berlin werden keine Schmerzgriffe ausgebildet“, behauptete die Berliner Polizeipräsidentin. Wir veröffentlichen jetzt ein Handbuch, das belegt: Berliner Polizeikräfte lernen, wie sie Demonstrierenden möglichst effektiv Schmerzen zufügen können. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...

Ein Angriff auf UN Gebäude ist genau eines: ein Angriff auf die UN. Dass eine UN-Institution so offen per Rechtsbruch attackiert wird - sowohl ihre Infrastruktur als auch die UN als solche - hat auch eine deutsche mediale Komponente. Ein kompakter Thread: 1/5

For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence. I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk

In its new global ratings report on civic freedoms, the CIVICUS Monitor announced that it has further downgraded Germany’s civic freedom to “Obstructed” – en par with Hungary. Three years ago, Germany's status was "open." monitor.civicus.org/press_releas...

Imagine BEATING your Elderly Citizens for Peacefully Protesting a FOREIGN Entity Shame on you Germany 🇩🇪

The combination of fascism covid more fascism genocide capitulation to fascism and the clear goal of AI tech bros to eradicate the workforce and make all jobs and future goals irrelevant as we all slide into poverty while eleven rich people become gods is really doing a number on us.

10/10 take. No notes.

Kurze Zusammenfassung für alle, denen das jetzt etwas viel wird: Die CDU Berlin vergibt willkürlich Gelder für Antisemitismus-Bekämpfung, u.a. an eine Immobilienfirma mit Geschäftsführer Max Mustermann oder auch an die Kollegin des haushaltspolitischen Sprechers im Parteivorstand Lichterfelde. 1/4

In München zeigt sich, wie eng politische Macht, Diskurskontrolle und rassistisch motivierte Ausgrenzung inzwischen ineinandergreifen.

Nine million euros in federal research funding for a project led by a culture warrior which "assumes that anti-Semitic attitudes are 'a given' in a 'Muslim culture'." Meanwhile the critical humanities wither and die.

"München ist bunt" verweigert linker Jüdin Zutritt zu Veranstaltung über rechtsextreme Strukturen Das ist wirklich ein Skandal: Am vergangenen Montag wollte unsere jüdische Freundin Shelly Steinberg, die Sprecherin der Jüdisch-Palästinensischen Dialoggruppe ist, zusammen mit

So the main culture war in Germany, fought by the country’s leader, is that despite mass deportations there are still too many non-white men in German cities: which needs to change so that white German daughters can feel safer. That’s an actual position that he is taking. An incitement to violence.

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

Ein #BMI-Ministerialdirektor fabuliert auf "Anti-Terror-Kongress" mit Kriegsverbrechern in ISR: DEU Proteste gegen #Gazakrieg seien "oft antijüdisch", adressierten religiöse Stätten, hätten am 15. Mai in Berlin ("sog. Nakba") Polizist schwer verletzt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=15eu...

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

“The video of me being beaten went viral because I’m white but the violence I experienced is just a drop in the ocean compared to what my Palestinian, Arab & other racialised comrades have endured at the hands of the German state police over the past 2 years.” This is what solidarity looks like

The journalists and politicians pretending that right now is somehow different to every single moment since late 2023 make me sick to my stomach. They are all complicit and none of us should ever forgive them.

Western liberals can't stop depicting trump and putin as a gay couple doing gay stuff. There's so many caricatures of them, out there, either fucking or giving each other a blowjob. Homophobia as the height of liberal criticism of trump and putin. That's it, bruh. That's all the shitlibs have.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.