cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/15368324
The frontman of British punk rap band Bob Vylan was denied entry to Germany, detained at the Berlin airport, and ultimately deported to the United Kingdom last month due to his pro-Palestine statements.
German federal police justified deporting the band’s vocalist on June 15, referencing a performance at the Glastonbury Festival in England in 2025 where Bob Vylan led a chant of “Death, death to the IDF,” or the Israel Defense Forces.
A police file on Robinson-Foster obtained by The Intercept alleges that he disseminated antisemitic narratives and Hamas propaganda that could “radicalise certain segments of the [German] population” and serve as “ideological justification” for terrorist groups or individuals. It also says that Robinson-Foster poses a threat to Germany’s public security and public order. Allowing him into the country would cause “considerable reputational damage” by creating the impression that Germany was making “no effort to prevent the spread of the propagated antisemitism and the associated calls to violence.”
To our defense: we grew up with being afraid to even use the word “Jew”. So after decades of shaming us, we can’t just go with “Jews bad, free Palestine” so we just shut the fuck up to be safe. It’s a reflex.
Me, personally, I just don’t care. Because before the Jews, noone cared about the treatment of women, girls and LGBTQs in Palestine. Many probably didn’t even know where or what Palestine is.
Correct, you should NOT say that for fucks sake.
“Israel bad, free Palestine” is what you should say.
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Israel is a Jewish state, but that isn’t the same things as Jews as a whole. Most Jews do not live in Israel and do not agree with what Israel is doing. Most Jews are not bad.
Isreal =/= Jews
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What’s important is that you’ve found a way to maintain a simplistic world view.
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Maybe the fucks you give would be better spent on trying to stop your shit hole country from facilitating yet another genocide, no? Maybe you should have some emotion about your stock portfolio being spent on murdering women and children. Maybe we’d all be better off if you followed funny moustache man’s lead?
Stupid and proud. What a catch!
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No shit!
Shutting the fuck up when there’s a genocide ongoing is how you go back to your nazi days. It’s all excuses, the german government is fine with the gaza genocide the same way all other governments and leaders are.
I’m not the government but I just don’t care. Oppressors vs oppressors. Not that my opinion would matter at all. But all those big words thrown here (not just by you) but also no action. Yeah, be against that genocide or not. They don’t care.
How are a people that have been getting genocided for the past 80 years oppressors?
https://archivegenocide.com/
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Seems like Germans “shutting the fuck up to be safe” is exactly what permitted the genocide of Germans, too
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No, not really. Would you like to explain how it’s flawed?
Germans and their logic. Pffff!
Imho it sounds like excuse for complicity and the wrong lesson to learn.
If you get prosecuted for shooting your neighbor and shamed about it, what kind of leap is it to think the neighbors gets free pass on shooting others?
Why should I get an excuse? I just don’t care.
But it’s not “Jews bad”. Nobody is saying that except the Nazis trying to sneak in to pro-Palestine discussions.
It’s absolutley shameful. Even German language communities on this site like [email protected] just remove German public media stories on Israel if posted there.
Oh, I absolutely get where it’s coming from. But at some point we have to realise that Netanyahu is maybe playing the antisemitism card a little more often than would be warranted.
Makes me think of a younger sibling going “if you don’t do what I want I’ll tell mommy you hit me, then you’ll get in trouble.”
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Germany is the second largest supplier of weapons to Israel.
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Ew, lol. The world will be a better place once you leave it.
Well the community just got better, at least.