• spider@lemmy.nz
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    8 months ago

    The irony is that they’re able to relive their troubled past vicariously through the actions of the Israeli government.

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      8 months ago

      Not even just vicariously, they’re getting in on the action themselves:

      Abed, the lawyer who is also representing Michael, says the police “chased people through the streets of Neukölln, rounding up anyone wearing a Palestinian headscarf (keffiyeh), holding a flag or displaying any symbol related to Palestine.”

      There is so much more in that article, but suffice it to say that oppression of people based on a specific religio-ethnic background is making a comeback in Germany.