Germany’s morally bankrupt political and media class, with their scandalous lack of historical self-awareness, continue to manufacture consent for a genocidal war that has German entanglement written all over it.
June 21 saw the largest Palestine solidarity protest in German history. According to organisers Abed Hassan, who rose to social media prominence as the “German voice from Gaza," and Amin Rjoob, a food-blogger who the national propaganda rag Bild and Hamburg’s (Weaponisation of) Antisemitism Commissioner have repeatedly smeared as a “Jew-hater”, 70,000 people flooded the streets of the capital Berlin under the banner United4Gaza.
The presence of this long overdue critical mass of people of conscience, especially in a city where administrative violence and police brutality against anti-genocide rallies are particularly vicious and routinely invite condemnations from human rights watchdogs, is in stark contrast to Germany’s political and media class’ increasingly isolated position of unconditional support for "Israel’s" genocidal war on Gaza.
As starving Palestinians are lured into death traps masquerading as aid distribution sites just to be murdered there for sport in what has been compared to dystopian media franchises like Squid Game or The Hunger Games, the German government and its stenographers in the national media remain unfazed at "Israel’s" execution of “one of the cruelest genocides in modern history,” to quote UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
Instead, Germany is doubling down even harder on its politics of denial and distortion and its already brutal state violence against peace activism in a desperate attempt to stay in control of a losing narrative that misrepresents colonial barbarism as self-defense and serves the interests of its military-industrial complex, as Berlin remains the second-largest exporter of killing machinery to the Israeli regime after the US. (more...)
How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide
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