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DoomsdaysCW

#Germany seeks to #deport #protesters

Submitted by webadmin on 9 April, 2025

"The German state has issued deportation orders for three #EUCitizens and one #American who have attended #ProPalestinian protests.

"Berlin immigration authorities issued the orders on 31 March, demanding that the four individuals leave Germany within one month or else face deportation. Their orders cite a protest in October 2024 in which masked individuals caused 'significant property damage, including #graffiti', as well as resisting arrest and calling a #police officer a '#fascist'.

"Unusually, three of the four orders also invoke the German principle of #Staatsräson, (“#StateReason”). This term originates from a speech #AngelaMerkel gave to the #IsraeliKnesset in 2008, asserting that #Israeli security was fundamental to the purpose of the German state.

"Staatsräson is not an officially defined term or codified anywhere in the German constitution or by German courts. At least two of the protestors are appealing the decision, with their lawyer telling Al-Monitor that it is a 'political concept, not a legal concept, and therefore unlawful'.

"In any case, the #deportation of #activists for #protesting should be opposed.

#Khalil

"The activists’ lawyer has drawn parallels to the case of #MahmoudKhalil in the US. 'I see similarities… It is weaponization of #ImmigrationLaw as a tool to silence #PoliticalDissent'. Khalil’s case may also lead to a debate on interpretations of the US constitution’s #FirstAmendment.

"Back in February, #Berlin police broke up a protest, citing a ban on '#ArabicChanting', the playing of #ArabicMusic, or giving a speech in #Arabic. In October 2024, police raided the homes of five men, four of whom were being investigated over 'authorship of #antisemitic social media posts'.

Clapping

"And after the joint Israeli-Palestinian documentary #NoOtherLand won an Academy Award, German culture minister Claudia Roth insisted that she was only clapping for Israeli director Yuval Abraham, not Palestinian director #BaselAdra. Several politicians, including the mayor of Berlin, called for her resignation. A torrent of public criticism was aimed at #YuvalAbraham for his acceptance speech, to which he responded: 'To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire — and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger.'

"Israeli politicians cited German politicians when attacking the filmmakers themselves, and only weeks later, co-director #HamdanBallal was attacked by #IsraeliSettlers in the #WestBank, and removed from an ambulance by #IDF soldiers.

"German Staatsräson is less about assuring Israel’s right to exist, and more about giving a free hand to the #repressive policies of the Israeli right."

Source:
workersliberty.org/story/2025-

#CriminalizingDissent #ProPalestineActivists #ProPalestine
#CriminalizingProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GermanyPol #GermanAntiProtestLaws
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #RightWing #StudentProtesters #Zionism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Enablers

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Nonilex

Building a #DualState need not end in #genocide: Vladimir #Putin’s #Russia & #LeeKuanYew’s #Singapore have followed the same model of the dual state that Fraenkel described, though neither has undertaken a mass-killing operation as the Nazis did [Putin has, just not within Russian borders on a genocidal scale]. Their deepest similarity, rather, is that both are intolerant of #PoliticalDissent & leave the overwhelming majority of citizens alone.

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

There’s a lot of misinformation going around about what’s happening in Iran. That the 15,000 protesters said to be facing a death sentence is false. But it’s true.

There is one dictator who will decide their fate. U.S. attorney Elica Le Bon explains Iranian law against political dissent, why these people will likely die, and why we should all be rising in support to save their lives.

Edify yourselves:
instagram.com/reel/ClBvMTEpiQA

Instagram‎Elica Le Bon || اليكا ل‌ بن‎ on Instagram: "Not “atrocity propaganda,” atrocity. In fact, “atrocious” is a generous adjective. Have the countless atrocities that have desecrated our land and brutalized, raped, and pillaged our people not been enough to rise to your definition of “atrocity?” Has the blood spilt on our soil for more than four decades not been perverted enough for the satisfaction of your violence porn? How about the thousands of “extrajudicial” killings done in the name of “national security” by the IRGC against protesters in and outside of their homes every day in Iran? While know-nothing ideologues sit in the comfort of their warm, safe homes hammering out unsubstantiated allegations of “atrocity propaganda,” atrocities worse than Stanley Kubrick’s nightmares are pervading the daily lives of innocents Iran. We know because it’s us. It’s our families, our parents, are siblings, are cousins, are friends. Will you listen to our voices? Will you believe us? Never. Precisely the reason why we are where we are - western incredulity, steeped in the type of racism & orientalism that makes it impossible to take middle easterns (who can’t possibly know what’s happening to them) at their word. Trying to analyze the IRI though a western/democratic construct was the first fatal flaw of their mass idiocy. The next question is whether those who have destoryed the prospect of salvation for the innocents whose lives hang in the balance will apologize to the Iranian community or instead double down on their pro-regime propaganda, disinformation, and revisionist historty? Our blood is on your hands, @joelibrahim_ @ustazamarshiq @jass.withsmoke @jos.hau @vrye rickiryan @proletarianfeminist lunchables_full_of_blood savesheikhjarrahnow @suneengel @newafrikan_nino_psl #opiran #freeiran #iranianrevolution"‎Elica Le Bon || اليكا ل‌ بن‎ shared a post on Instagram: "Not “atrocity propaganda,” atrocity. In fact, “atrocious” is a generous adjective. Have the countless atrocities that have desecrated our land and brutalized, raped, and pillaged our people not been enough to rise to your definition of “atrocity?” Has the blood spilt on our soil for more than four decades not been perverted enough for the satisfaction of your violence porn? How about the thousands of “extrajudicial” killings done in the name of “national security” by the IRGC against protesters in and outside of their homes every day in Iran? While know-nothing ideologues sit in the comfort of their warm, safe homes hammering out unsubstantiated allegations of “atrocity propaganda,” atrocities worse than Stanley Kubrick’s nightmares are pervading the daily lives of innocents Iran. We know because it’s us. It’s our families, our parents, are siblings, are cousins, are friends. Will you listen to our voices? Will you believe us? Never. Precisely the reason why we are where we are - western incredulity, steeped in the type of racism & orientalism that makes it impossible to take middle easterns (who can’t possibly know what’s happening to them) at their word. Trying to analyze the IRI though a western/democratic construct was the first fatal flaw of their mass idiocy. The next question is whether those who have destoryed the prospect of salvation for the innocents whose lives hang in the balance will apologize to the Iranian community or instead double down on their pro-regime propaganda, disinformation, and revisionist historty? Our blood is on your hands, @joelibrahim_ @ustazamarshiq @jass.withsmoke @jos.hau @vrye rickiryan @proletarianfeminist lunchables_full_of_blood savesheikhjarrahnow @suneengel @newafrikan_nino_psl #opiran #freeiran #iranianrevolution". Follow their account to see 360 posts.
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