Germany has recently taken a chilling new step, signalling its willingness to use political views as grounds to curb migration. Authorities are now moving to deport foreign nationals for participating in pro-Palestine actions. As I reported this week in the Intercept, four people in Berlin – three EU citizens and one US citizen – are set to be deported over their involvement in demonstrations against Israel’s war on Gaza. None of the four have been convicted of a crime, and yet the authorities are seeking to simply throw them out of the country.

The accusations against them include aggravated breach of the peace and obstruction of a police arrest. Reports from last year suggest that one of the actions they were alleged to have been involved in included breaking into a university building and threatening people with objects that could have been used as potential weapons.

But the deportation orders go further. They cite a broader list of alleged behaviours: chanting slogans such as “Free Gaza” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, joining road blockades (a tactic frequently used by climate activists), and calling a police officer a “fascist”. Read closely, the real charge appears to be something more basic: protest itself.

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      Bro defends a terrorist organisation that wants to eradicate an entire religion and thinks he’s on the right side.

      I fucking can’t lmao.

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          Hamas has zero tanks, zero airplanes, zero competence. I’m pretty sure they’d lose a war to a number of New World Cartels. That’s not really a real comparison.

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        You defend a genocidal state that is carpet bombing civilians and commiting war crime everyday God makes and you think you’re on the right side?

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        Yeah fr these four dudes were not “Pro-Palestine Protestors” they were threatening people with axes, calling police fascists, and chanting “from the river to the sea”. That was terrorism, and they’re bejng let off incredibly lightly.

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          “From the river to the sea” is very naughty. It means they want to kick out our favorite ethnostate and then where would we ship all the bombs we get from subsidising our weapons industry.

          We really have to deport those terrorists. They remind me I’m funding a genocide and I feel bad about myself now. Horrible people, really.

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              Anyway a two state solution can be envision as long as israel isn’t one of them. Country who commited genocide don’t have the right to exist. We could do palestine-jordan for example, or gaza-jerusalem.

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              Every two-state solution is aimed at perpetuating at least one ethnostate. It’s basically segregation. Were you also in favor of having two states in south africa? One black and one white? How does that sound?