We don't cope but we are not stuck, we are making history.

The police almost killed me, but like a cat with seven lives I was given a new life with its very own freedom.

We are vulnerable but not divided.

We don't know how to cope:

While growing emotionally & collectively in order to not be silenced into submission.

A whole child population is being eradicated.

The feeling after surviving a close call is a strange gratitude.

Feeling less sticking to sticky things.

Feeling maybe rightfully optimistic:

I sometimes had a hunch that we humans are losing some irrational inhibitions if we are plunged into this great freedom:

I enjoy a second life chance in which we don't owe people who we have to be to people and are ready to flourish.

If you know you are decent to people, you less fear those trying to mark you.

The state rejects its people, both with and without migration legacies.

And the people reject the state in response sometimes.

But this is what systemic injustice wants.

It plays groups against each other.

Only a proper state with rights for all can undo this.

State reason is setting itself above the law on the back of Palestinians.

I condemn attacks against civilians, no matter by whom they are done.

Containing in our hearts two pains at once is love's work of occupying the place of contradiction.

Facing up to occupation with universal rights for all from every river to every sea.

This isn't even an activist chant to me: equal rights most people agree to.

Rights for all stops society from turning into its dangerous twin.

"They weren't just silent. They were busy betraying their profession".

"they threw their fellow journalists under the bus," writes Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus.

It's absurd to live in a place, where if you demonstrate against something every international court deems to be wrong you get beaten up by police so badly you go unconscious, just for the police to then refuse medics, writes Dotan-Dreyfus.

And "not a single piece about it in the press and people".

And people "saying very general things at events, like "it's difficult", "polarized", "dialogue", but never with concrete examples, never actually uttering any critique of the state," writes Dotan-Dreyfus after the events of November 25 2024 in Berlin.

Dotan-Dreyfus makes roughly the following argument:

Many German leaders now have a problem because they are looking a bit too pro-Israel, a bit too extremist than is good for the optics. They used to think that politics was administration, not moral decision making. Now politicians are forced to make a moral decision and act accordingly, he argues.

"Many ...stood with Israel because they are bureaucrats who were told "this is how it's done". They just wanted to do a good job. Be good citizens. Without comparing the content of these two cases, just the form - this is... the state of mind that enabled the Eichmannian banality of evil," he writes at ig on November 22rd.

When Zizek says Palestinians are often elevated as the Jews of the Arabs, he is not trying to offend Jewish or Arabic people.

He points to a fetish anywhere in the world that ends with extermination fantasies against which he warns.

He says anti-Semitism anywhere can harbor an elevating fetish:

"The proper answer to anti-Semitism is not ‘Jews are really not like that’ but 'the anti-Semitic idea of the Jew has nothing to do with Jews,'" writes Zizek.

The elevation of ethnicized groups into something neither they nor anyone else is, serves to paint people into the cause of our troubles.

So that we don't have to fight the real fights but can persecute our way into an imagined harmony:

The anti-Semitic ideological idea "of a Jew is a way to stitch up the inconsistency of our own ideological system," writes Zizek.

The return of the fascists in the mask of democracy takes place today in the very people who only point at the AfD but not at themselves, if we pay attention to Jawabreh:

The real anti-Semites with their conspiracy ideologies are posing as fighters against anti-Semitism; ... I am not afraid of the return of the fascists in the mask of fascists, but of the return of the fascists in the mask of democracy, argues Jawabreh.

"If there was just one decent thing Germans could actually do for Jews, it's probably to just... leave them be" l; "That is, don't dictate to Jews what they can or cannot say, how they can say it, where and when... just don't!," writes Jon Peaceman.

"And if you as a non- Jew want to accuse a Jew of anti-Semitism, you better have a bulletproof case to make. Them not speaking about Israel in a way you feel comfortable with, having anti-Zionist positions, associating with the wrong crowd... is not enough for that," writes Jon Peaceman.

"Israel's impunity is infectious. The Berlin police can beat up demonstrators to unconsciousness and block medical treatment because they also enjoy impunity now," writes Dotan-Dreyfus.

"Politicians can call on Germany to break international law, which is *binding* in this country, because they enjoy impunity. This lawlessness will haunt us long after Gaza will be over. This lawlessness is the new world: laws are for these we disagree with only," writes Dotan-Dreyfus.

To quite a few people, Habeck is the hardest to make sense of as he denies genocide while coming across non-extremist.

At least Baerbock is more obvious in her extremism.

The German chancellor is a bit too obvious. Dishonesty compromises even where one intends to not be compromised. Lies have a way of tripping you over.

The German chancellor jokes his way out of his lies by finding it funny that he can't remember.

Our leaders seem to escape into violence and chaos.

"They are radicalizing people who are actually relatively quiet," says one voice who was brutally arrested without evidence or a chance to call a lawyer while being beaten inside a police van for trying to catch his falling fone on Nov 25 in Berlin.

Some Germans will never forgive the Palestinians for the Holocaust, writes Ferydoni on German socialization as an upbringing of silence around perpetrator guilt.

Under its main parties, Germany looks set to be the last country to try to jump the US-led ship. Jumping turns out impossible which is awkward to watch and ends with a crash.

What if their hidden logic is: You must be a good kind of jew, muslim, etc, so that I am a good German for being good to you.

Freezing the past into something we have dealt with for good freezes memory culture, blocking our ability to act.

But we can escape this need to be good that makes us mean and obedient.

BY NOT LOOKING AT ISRAEL'S ACTIONS, GERMAN LEADERS ARE IN NO HURRY TO CHECK IF CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS TREATED TOO HARSHLY.

A friend risked his life by going to demos against Assad in Syria a long time ago.

He asked me, why like him, I take risks reporting, when the police can now do whatever they want.

We agreed that we both take risks because the future is even darker.

Illegal arrests without reason or judge are what Berlin judges are very clear about: The police can simply not do it.

There is tension between judges & politicians after police interfered or intimidated judges in Berlin for not signing more preventive arrests, it is reported.

Summer in Berlin:

I am at the glass wall at a cafe at Rathaus Steglitz, filming likely police crimes while an otherwise professional LKA officer is trying to discourage me from my work.

If I talk to LKA, I ask the questions, not them.

They are accountable to us.

Press freedom is actually extremely protected.

Don't let the police destroy this good with their sheer force.

Use your rights.

Later I gave my footage to the victims.

"This is just out of hand. Their resistance to justice will fail. Remember the police are the resistance force," writes one voice in response to my videos.

Police create reactions to justify harming or charging you.

Their testimony counts more in court than ours.

They can't kidnap you, but they can take you if they "talk" to you first.

They can't just grab you & take you, but they can if they talk to you first.

It is in effect official policy even if it feels like secret police behaviour.

This makes talking to police risky on many levels.

CALLING OUT POLICE CRIMES IS WHAT AUTHORITIES NOW PAINT AS RADICALIZING.

But dissenting voices are changing the consensus massively.

We don't know how to cope but we are not stuck, we are making history.

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