you are right. during the covid pandemic several constitutional rights were thrown overboard, unthinkable restrictions were implemented. i remember already back then that certain people and groups warned that this would set a precedent. and i remember as well that these people were demonized, ridiculed and portrayed as fascists. but they were right, as we can see now.
"The judiciary hostile to fundamental rights, as we know it from the Berlin Administrative Court in the case of Palestine demonstrations, we owe to the era of Corona. Back then, the foundation was laid for lowering the threshold for banning demonstrations. Many people, due to justified uncertainty about the virus, thought it was correct that fundamental rights had to be restricted. Those who still demonstrated were broadly denigrated as "deniers" or conspiracy theorists. Hardly anyone stood up to protect these people, to say, "Hey, they also have fundamental rights." Currently, I see similar tendencies: Solidarity with Palestine is branded as "hateful antisemitism." The restriction and denial of fundamental rights are shrugged off or even celebrated. "Antifa means deportation," I recently read somewhere, accompanied by a picture of a Palestine demonstration." https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/473789.autoritärer-staatsumbau-palästina-ist-der-lackmustest-für-die-bürgerlichen-freiheiten.html
What, students refusing to do any work? Isn't that already a mass movement?do you guys think what's taking place in the usa could grow into a mass movement?
In sum, then, every dead Palestinian child is the fault of Western protesters who are demanding that Israel stop killing them, and not of the Israelis who are killing them.The more friends Palestine appears to Israel to have, the harder Israel will want to squash it; just as you hit a big bloke harder than you hit a small bloke, especially because you don't want an angry big bloke getting up again.
all of that is true yes but one thing has always been possible and that was to organize demonstrations and protests. not during the pandemic though, which saw the right of assembly forbidden and implemented by crisis laws, which were later overruled in court. now i do believe that crossing a red line like that for the very first time since probably war times will lower the treshold of doing it a second time, and a third time, etc.This is kinda absurd. The police in Germany (and most other Western countries) were kicking the shit out of left wing protestors for decades before covid, constitutional protections or no. In Germany, specifically, pro-Palestinian activism was repeatedly targeted prior to covid, as was climate activism and anti-capitalist action. In fact the lockdown period was marked by one strange occurrence: mass, often violent right wing anti-lockdown protestors were mostly treated with kid-gloves in stark contrast to how the left are normally treated.
all of that is true yes but one thing has always been possible and that was to organize demonstrations and protests. not during the pandemic though, which saw the right of assembly forbidden and implemented by crisis laws, which were later overruled in court. now i do believe that crossing a red line like that for the very first time since probably war times will lower the treshold of doing it a second time, and a third time, etc.
This is kinda absurd. The police in Germany (and most other Western countries) were kicking the shit out of left wing protestors for decades before covid, constitutional protections or no. In Germany, specifically, pro-Palestinian activism was repeatedly targeted prior to covid, as was climate activism and anti-capitalist action. In fact the lockdown period was marked by one strange occurrence: mass, often violent right wing anti-lockdown protestors were mostly treated with kid-gloves in stark contrast to how the left are normally treated.
Not every one, just some of them. Have the protesters even done a risk assessment for their interventions along these lines?In sum, then, every dead Palestinian child is the fault of Western protesters who are demanding that Israel stop killing them, and not of the Israelis who are killing them.
If the protesters want to reduce Israeli aggression they need to make it seem as if Palestine will be kept in hand by the international community...how do you do this?: protest in favour of Israel because that makes Israel feel stronger in comparison to Palestine rather than weaker, and if it's stronger it doesn't need to be as much of a bully to suppress Palestine. Israel is worried about a threat so you need to minimise rather than maximise the threat.
These popular protests typically fail in their objectives so it's not much of a stretch that they can also be counter-productive.Kinda wild that you’re more deluded about the actual effect of the protests on the conflict than many of the protesters themselves
If you've got to look more than half a century ago for the last win...