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Freelance journalist and political commentator based in Berlin, Germany
Amazon, like other tech giants, is selectively banning and deplatforming pro-Palestine content on its Merch on Demand platform, while racist and inflammatory merchandise continue to be sold.
The proverbial football gods have once again dispensed their poetic justice in favour of a multipolar sporting world and against one of its strongest opponents: Germany.
The German media, so mortified of offending the offender that is "Israel", even today with its most fascist and vicious government in power, is not interested in such inconvenient blotches to the halo of their 1990s nostalgia.
The German state’s escalating war on pro-Palestine advocacy under the flimsy pretext of fighting Jew-hatred is steadily eroding civil rights in my country. But the movement is not backing down anytime soon.
The twisted priorities of German news coverage entail wilfully overlooking those who expose Western war crimes while glorifying those who commit them: that is why the media in my country deprioritised the “daughter of Palestine” and fanboyed over a genocidaire like Henry Kissinger.
This May, Palestine solidarity in the German capital was once again made to feel the full force of the pro-Zionist police state.
Sadly, this year’s Liberation Day has shown that the blanket Russophobia in my country is leading to self-induced historical memory loss.
Ursula von der Leyen’s Nakba denialism video was no unfortunate incident: her unapologetic reaction to justified condemnations has laid bare the white supremacist mindset lurking under the friendly veneer of liberal democracy.
If the official trailer is any indication, “mistakes” of the past regarding the depiction of other cultures (Euro-Western supremacy’s gaffes are all too often by design) will be repeated.
In the light of all-out violence against Palestinians by the IOF and Jewish settlers, Germany’s mendacious media are doubling down on their pro-Zionist damage control.
