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‘We Jews are just arrested; Palestinians are beaten’: Protesters in Germany
(www.aljazeera.com)
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I believe in giving people many second chances, and obviously I'm talking primarily about the German government, not about all individual Germans- many are absolutely against Israel's actions.
But Germany as a State has had more than "many" chances to wrestle with their unquestioning support for Israel, and has always doubled-down on it, or even made it less legal to even raise the question. And it is a reflection of the dominant mindset there, whether I like it or not.
Not even just vicariously, they're getting in on the action themselves:
There is so much more in that article, but suffice it to say that oppression of people based on a specific religio-ethnic background is making a comeback in Germany.