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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> seeks to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deport</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a> </p><p>Submitted by webadmin on 9 April, 2025</p><p> "The German state has issued deportation orders for three <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EUCitizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EUCitizens</span></a> and one <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> who have attended <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestinian</span></a> protests.</p><p>"Berlin immigration authorities issued the orders on 31 March, demanding that the four individuals leave Germany within one month or else face deportation. Their orders cite a protest in October 2024 in which masked individuals caused 'significant property damage, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/graffiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graffiti</span></a>', as well as resisting arrest and calling a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> officer a '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a>'.</p><p>"Unusually, three of the four orders also invoke the German principle of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Staatsr%C3%A4son" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Staatsräson</span></a>, (“<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StateReason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateReason</span></a>”). This term originates from a speech <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AngelaMerkel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AngelaMerkel</span></a> gave to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliKnesset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliKnesset</span></a> in 2008, asserting that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> security was fundamental to the purpose of the German state.</p><p>"Staatsräson is not an officially defined term or codified anywhere in the German constitution or by German courts. At least two of the protestors are appealing the decision, with their lawyer telling Al-Monitor that it is a 'political concept, not a legal concept, and therefore unlawful'.</p><p>"In any case, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protesting</span></a> should be opposed.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Khalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Khalil</span></a></p><p>"The activists’ lawyer has drawn parallels to the case of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> in the US. 'I see similarities… It is weaponization of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ImmigrationLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImmigrationLaw</span></a> as a tool to silence <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliticalDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalDissent</span></a>'. Khalil’s case may also lead to a debate on interpretations of the US constitution’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a>.</p><p>"Back in February, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berlin</span></a> police broke up a protest, citing a ban on '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArabicChanting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArabicChanting</span></a>', the playing of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArabicMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArabicMusic</span></a>, or giving a speech in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arabic</span></a>. In October 2024, police raided the homes of five men, four of whom were being investigated over 'authorship of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitic</span></a> social media posts'.</p><p>Clapping</p><p>"And after the joint Israeli-Palestinian documentary <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoOtherLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoOtherLand</span></a> won an Academy Award, German culture minister Claudia Roth insisted that she was only clapping for Israeli director Yuval Abraham, not Palestinian director <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BaselAdra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BaselAdra</span></a>. Several politicians, including the mayor of Berlin, called for her resignation. A torrent of public criticism was aimed at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuvalAbraham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YuvalAbraham</span></a> for his acceptance speech, to which he responded: 'To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire — and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger.'</p><p>"Israeli politicians cited German politicians when attacking the filmmakers themselves, and only weeks later, co-director <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HamdanBallal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HamdanBallal</span></a> was attacked by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliSettlers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliSettlers</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WestBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WestBank</span></a>, and removed from an ambulance by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IDF</span></a> soldiers.</p><p>"German Staatsräson is less about assuring Israel’s right to exist, and more about giving a free hand to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/repressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repressive</span></a> policies of the Israeli right." </p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-04-09/germany-seeks-deport-protesters" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">workersliberty.org/story/2025-</span><span class="invisible">04-09/germany-seeks-deport-protesters</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestineActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestineActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingProtest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiProtestLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiProtestLaws</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GermanyPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GermanyPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GermanAntiProtestLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GermanAntiProtestLaws</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightWing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtesters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zionism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BibiIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BibiIsAWarCriminal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Enablers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enablers</span></a></p>
DqTube<p>A brief introduction to the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russian</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/repressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repressive</span></a> industry. What it means and how it <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvoz_3xMXMk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=zvoz_3xMXM</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p>Twenty Lessons On Tyranny From the Twentieth Century<br>1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/repressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repressive</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do....<a href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-on-tyranny" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-l</span><span class="invisible">essons-on-tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/civilliberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilliberties</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WomensHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHealthcare</span></a></p>
libramoon<p><a href="https://danielpinchbeck.substack.com/p/israeli-genocide-and-the-us-election" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">danielpinchbeck.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/israeli-genocide-and-the-us-election</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USElection</span></a><br>For <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a>, Israel provides a model for a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/repressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repressive</span></a>, religious <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethno</span></a>-state</p><p>..." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sabotaged cease-fire talks with both Hamas and Hezbollah while recklessly escalating the conflict instead of reaching an agreement that could achieve many of Israel’s stated war aims, including the release of Israeli hostages.<br>...<br>It is clear that, both in Gaza and Lebanon, Israel has."...</p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"the organic organizing among women that surged in the wake of Trump’s defeat of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HillaryClinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HillaryClinton</span></a> in 2016. The networks of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a>, the organizations they created, the entry into <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> of a new generation of women politicians and the muscle memory for grass-roots activity remain, now invigorated by the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harris</span></a> campaign. A <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> ticket even more <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/misogynistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogynistic</span></a>, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/repressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repressive</span></a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/hateful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hateful</span></a> than its 2016 version has lit a fire under these women."<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/29/turmp-vance-women-misogyny/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/opinions/20</span><span class="invisible">24/07/29/turmp-vance-women-misogyny/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Sexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sexism</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>