Germany hast lost the plot.
Maybe read what he wrote first.
I did. Big fan of him. He’s anti genocide, that’s the problem Germany has with him and all the other critics.
Never again for Germany means never again genociding Jews. That’s the lesson they’ve learned. They did not draw any universal learnings from the atrocities their grandparents committed.
It’s insane how the country is backing Istael when they’re committing a genocide and how they go full fascist even against Jewish people speaking out against the genocide. And having the audacity to say they do that „to protect Jews“.
Germany is completely lost. The public will go out on the streets to protest against the AFD, but they’re literally backing up a genocidal ethno supremacist apartheid state. The only line that AFD seems to cross is that they’re also against leftist white Germans and that they’re antisemites. Brown people do not seem to fit into that equation.
Yanis Varoufakis is a performance actor who desperately tries to stay relevant by clumsily inserting himself into whatever is going on in the world. That’s all there is to him. He’s chasing the public spotlight like a dodgy personal injury lawyer is chasing ambulances.
I’m also starting to get really tired of this baseless genocide slander that is being repeated as if it was a religious mantra. The whole idea behind accusing Israel of it is twofold: It’s meant to hurt Jews (who were victims of an actual genocide) and it’s meant to distract from the genocidal ambitions of Israel’s enemies.
I’m sorry did you just try to apply the roman expanding defense to what does and doesn’t define a genocide?
I’m sure all those Gauls Caesar tried this logic on will come to agree with you any second now!
Yeah that comment is full of shit. 30000+ dead Gazans, aid convoys being destroyed, Gaza in a state of famine, but let’s talk about the genocide that we think Israel’s enemies might want to carry out, as opposed to what Israel has already started doing.
Yeah, what ‘did’ he write to get this reaction? Was it just asking for human rights for Palestinians?
Among other things, he wrote that Jews weren’t forced out of their homes by force. Imagine writing this after October 7.
Germany didn’t do shit, the police made it up: https://diem25.org/chronicle-of-the-betatigungsverbot-against-yanis-varoufakis/
Are there other sources on this? It sounds outrageous but would be nice to have an independent confirmation.
It’s confusing the taz asked the responsible authorities. The important part is the update at the end:
An earlier version stated that the BMI [Federal Ministry for Interior] and the Berlin police had confirmed the ban to the taz. The police had initially referred the taz to the BMI, the BMI to the Berlin Senate Department of the Interior. However, neither had initially denied that Varoufakis had been banned. A spokeswoman for the Berlin Interior Administration responded to a corresponding query on Saturday evening, stating that a ban on Mr. Varoufakis had not been issued by the LEA (State Office for Immigration) as a subordinate authority of the Senate Department for Interior and Sport. (Translated with deepl.)
Thank you for this.
Nothing outrageous about banning a liar and propagandist from spreading lies and propaganda in our country.
Ffs… he even published the speech he was going to give there and it was hard to swallow so much bullshit. On the plus side, he basically answered questions about Hamas atrocities and their threat to Israel with (paraphrasing) “I condemn atrocities in general but here I celebrate the people that attacked Israel” and “What threat? Israel is only afraid because of rampant anti-semitism in Europe and America”.
So we know were he stands and if you ask me he can go get fucked with the Hamas buddies he supports.
Hasn’t Germany had a beef with him since he pointed out their economic bullying as Greece’s finance minister?
Define “Germany” - we had different governments over the years with different stances towards him
Fair point and my apologies. The Merkel government seemed to have issues with him. And he had issues with her.
Germany and this guy never had a particularly good relationship, to be honest. If you’re not a Krauti, there’s english subtitles available.