Karim Makdisi sur X :
#Habeck’s shocking disregard for Palestinian lives in #Gaza derives from a long Western history of racial hierarchy, colonialism + orientalism. But German Greens’ dehumanization + genocide-enabling position must be read in context of Germany’s particular history of genocide.
▻https://twitter.com/KarimMakdisi/status/1720384342319391209
Jonathan Hopkin sur X :
▻https://twitter.com/jrhopkin/status/1720347594210021582
I’ve now watched this 10 minute speech twice, and I can still barely believe my ears. You could write a PhD thesis on it, and I wish someone would. It takes literally 7 minutes to express any view on the killing of civilians in Gaza, and even then does little more than grudgingly concede that ‘every dead child is a dead child too many’.
It insists that to ‘relativise’ the suffering of Israelis is an outrage and practically in the same breath relativises the suffering of Palestinians. It equates the Palestinian cause almost entirely with Hamas, yet says literally nothing, in the whole 9 minutes 40 seconds, about the rabid racist and at times openly genocidal language of the Israeli right.
It shows contempt for the views of Muslims in Germany, whilst showing close to zero empathy with a defenceless population currently being crushed by the country with the strongest military in the whole region.
It shows how easily you can tie yourself in moral knots and not see the reality around you.
This is a crass perversion of Germany’s admirable commitment to preserving the memory of the horror of Nazism.
▻https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1720129537361481728/vid/avc1/720x720/JZucu3OjKXmu-lkm.mp4?tag=16