Soon after joining Ireland’s Green Party in the 1990s, I attended a few discussions about the roots of ecological politics.
I don’t recall contributing much to those discussions. I just sat and listened to activists who were more clever and better informed than I was.
One such activist noted that there had previously been a political organization expressing a strong attachment to nature: The Nazis often talked about blood and soil.
At the time, I didn’t want to believe that Nazis could have influenced the international green movement in any way. The German Greens I had seen on television all appeared to be espousing a “make love not war” philosophy.
Today, the Greens’ Annalena Baerbock is foreign minister in the Berlin government. She talks about learning from her country’s past, while doing the opposite.
Baerbock identifies the Holocaust as “the worst crime the world has ever seen.” To atone for it, she is enabling a holocaust in Gaza, the worst crime that the world has seen so far this century.
Germany has just released new data showing that it approved military exports worth more than $100 million to Israel over the past three months. (more...)
Germany’s Greens need to be denazified
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