Grief is a route to a silenced truth.
The video shows a father who has family in Gaza.
German police encroaching on him rendered him unconscious.
He seemed to go in and out of consciousness until being fully conscious.
In the video police are not appropriately giving the needed medical procedures to him, according to Palästina Spricht.
I don’t blame the police officer reanimating him for being potentially given inadequate training.
Police first responder training clearly needs to be better.
I filmed the incident too and informed the two Polizeiführer of him being unconscious, asking him to call an emergency doctor.
Both of which the police leaders seemed to deny.
An ambulance came 20 minutes later as Palestine Speaks documented.
At each demo peaceful activists anticipate another choking arrest almost methodically rendering one of them unconscious on an almost weekly basis.
Seizures due to police violence are now an almost monthly occurence too in Berlin.
At the demo I spoke to one of the Grieving Doves.
She was wearing dove wings like an angel.
We agreed how sometimes the presence of the Grieving Doves allows people to find an access to no longer screen out the genocide.
The Grieving Doves bring us ways to feel ready to talk about Gaza when we were too afraid.
Grief is a first route for many to a silenced truth.
Grief through others can be a crucial opening for oneself to one’s own held-down emotions about Gaza.
Without collective ways of grieving, many find it too hard to look at Gaza.
Does Gaza reveal Germans as strangers to their grief & past?
Germany’s victims in Gaza have no moment to grieve.
And Germans are blocking their own grief about the Nazi past & about Gaza.
We don’t have to be afraid of the collective, of unity and collective grief.
We don’t have to be afraid of how the past is not past.
Germany's past is not past: we separate our German past from ourselves.
Grieving what our grandparents did to others and in turn themselves becomes impossible when we close ourselves off.
We Germans often try to find ourselves, yet we largely deny another genocide despite our memory culture.
Making everything about us reveals our need for therapy.
Our genocide denialism reveals our need for therapy.
What we would learn about ourselves if we no longer want to be strangers to ourselves is maybe that what we fear we need not to fear. We fear to live with the past:
Needing the past to be resolved makes us strangers to ourselves.
Being strangers to ourselves we are strangers to our past.
We can discover that we are more free than something in us thinks we are:
We don’t have to make ourselves strangers to the past, needing the past to be resolved.
Looking at Gaza can help Germans unblock their own grief about the Nazi past.
Needing the past to be resolved puts us under its spell.
We can escape the spell of the past.
Footnotes:
Needing things resolved makes us strangers to ourselves. And unable to leave our past.
Published at enjoyments.substack.com under the heading:
BREAKING THE SPELL OF THE PAST: Looking at Gaza can help Germans unblock their own grief about the past. Needing the Nazi past to be resolved puts us under its spell. We can escape the spell of the past.
In mixing activism & grieving, people in Germany are less & less afraid to speak up about Gaza. Needin things resolved makes us strangers to ourselves. And unable to leave our past.
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