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German guiltwashing in times of genocide

Sabbour, Omar
http://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/27/german-guiltwashing-in-times-of-genocide

Publisher:  Al-Jazeera
Date Written:  27/02/2024
Year Published:  2024  
Resource Type:  Article

We have experienced the full severity of Germany’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism. We know it is not about historic guilt.

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Germany is experiencing a societywide assault on anyone expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people in Germany. There has been a relentless campaign to harass, scare, intimidate, silence, fire, dismiss and defund people and organisations who have dared go against the German government’s and institutions’ staunch support for Israel.

At the heart of this vicious persecution is the nationwide guiltwashing -- or the cover-up of authoritarian state policies through the pretense of addressing Germany’s historical guilt for the Holocaust.
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"We have a form of anti-Semitism that is not even addressed as anti-Semitism, and it is the collective silencing of Jewish voices that do not abide by the dominant discourse in Germany," Emilia Roig, a Jewish French scholar and writer, said at a December event in Berlin.

According to Jewish writer and researcher Emily Dische-Becker, a third of those who have been 'cancelled' in Germany for alleged anti-Semitism (i.e. expressing solidarity with the Palestinians) have been Jews, including descendents of Holocaust survivors.

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