theacharnian

I'm sure there are civil engineers out there who can figure this out. Not worth sacrificing anyone's rights or safety for it.

However, the known record of German institutions cracking down on dissident Jewish voices(*) is a very good indicator of what's going on here. Now, I'm not saying that any of these people are little saints, or that they did nothing questionable, but that there is a systemic bias in Germany against pro-Palestinian activism. Which is the more burning point than counting pennies of the particularities of each individual legal case.

(*) such as Masha Gessen, Nancy Fraser, Yuval Abraham, Omri Boehm and others.

Shame on you.

That's not the logistical nightmare you make it out to be.

I don't want people being attacked in bathrooms period. Men's bathrooms are not supposed to be lawless dens of brutal violence, just places to fucking pee, poop and wash hands.

This is just vandalism.

How do we protect the welfare state from these vandals? It's like terrorism at this point, we need to be beating them every time but just need to win once to cause catastrophic damage.

Surely there is a way to moderate the capacity of any one government to massively undo the work of decades of building up.

Are you asking me to play the role of a search engine for you? 😏

Imagine if the NYT treated Palestinian lives with as much concern.

#notallmen vibes

Can't read German. Is the article about how the group they were allegedly with did things? Because the article I linked to says they were targeted by association.

It really blows my mind. Masha Gessen, Nancy Fraser, Yuval Abraham, Omri Boehm, and also others not mentioned in the article. Who the fuck gave Germany the right to decide who is a good pro-Israel Jew and who is a bad anti-Israel Jew? Germany of all countries, being in the business of labelling Jewish people as acceptable and unacceptable. The fucking nerve on these people.

The author of the article links to their own earlier article in the Intercept that goes in detail: https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/germany-gaza-protesters-deport/

The only event that tied the four cases together was the allegation that the protesters participated in the university occupation, which involved property damage, and alleged obstruction of an arrest — a so-called de-arrest aimed at blocking a fellow protesters’ detention. None of the protesters are accused of any particular acts of vandalism or the de-arrest at the university. Instead, the deportation order cites the suspicion that they took part in a coordinated group action. (The Free University told The Intercept it had no knowledge of the deportation orders.)

Some of the allegations are minor. Two, for example, are accused of calling a police officer “fascist” — insulting an officer, which is a crime. Three are accused of demonstrating with groups chanting slogans like “From the river to the sea, Palestine Will be Free” — which was outlawed last year in Germany — and “free Palestine.” Authorities also claim all four shouted antisemitic or anti-Israel slogans, though none are specified.

Two are accused of grabbing an officers’ or another protesters’ arm in an attempt to stop arrests at the train station sit-in.

O’Brien, one of the Irish citizens, is the only one of the four whose deportation order included a charge – the accusation that he called a police officer a “fascist” – that has been brought before a criminal court in Berlin, where he was acquitted.

All four are accused, without evidence, of supporting Hamas, a group Germany has designated as a terrorist organization.