Merz and his cronies stand firmly with Israel, just like their MAGA buddies demand.
How much Germans actually stand with Israel (or anything else the screaming idiots at the helm propose) is probably better represented by polls about the Merz-led government… which is barely still in the double-digits.
What an utter disgrace. I despise having to pay for those accomplices to a genocide, and being made an accomplice, too, through my taxes funding this shit.
Are there protests or viable pushback?
All I see is the same as everywhere, either turn toward the right or be complacent with spineless left.
Those protests are highly criminalised, of course, and you run the risk of being prosecuted under laws meant for the prosecution of Nazis, if you dare to publically call that genocide a genocide, and condemn it as such.
It’s quite ironic that all this is happening in the name of “never again”.
Germany learned from the holocaust. But not enough!
it learned quite a bit. For example, that you can largely get away with a genocide, if you keep a low profile.
With all those holocaust memorials in Germany, the country is doing the exact opposite of keeping a low profile. You‘re probably thinking of Belgium, USA, Canada, Russia, Japan or the Ottoman Empire. Like, there are so many countries that committed genocides and trying to sweep it under the rug but that‘s simply not true for Germany. Germany has a guilt culture that some say is also problematic for different reasons.
Most of the perpetrators got away with it, though, by keeping a low profile. (Of course, they were all “properly denazified”, with official, rubber stamped and signed paperwork to “prove” it) The performative collective remembrance is merely an empty shell, and goes hand in hand with a justice system that has systematically and purposefully dragged its feet when it came to prosecute them. Only in the recent few years, a handful surviving accomplices were dragged to court, if they even were still able to stand trial.
Merz can go to the place reserved for him in hell
