Israel’s Architecture of Occupation: Eyal Weizman on Gaza & Targeting of Jewish Pro-Palestinian Voices | Democracy Now!
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The father of Goebbels was actually the first governor of German colonial South West Africa. There’s very good cases to say you need to look at the Holocaust in relation to colonial crime. If you say something like that, it’s almost like it’s sacrilegious.
To a certain extent, the Holocaust has become a religious faith, that is uncomparable, that is ahistorical, and that its lesson is completely monovalented. There’s one lesson from it. And that is the protection of Israel as the Staatsräson, as the reason for existing of the German state. The right of being of the German state is understood as the protection of Israel. And the protection of Israel means the protection and support of every Israeli policy. And therefore, you see German arming the Israeli genocidal machine in Gaza now as a reparation for their genocide.
And Germany silencing Jewish voices — of course, not only Jewish voices, Palestinian, people from the Global South, intellectuals, like my friend, Achille Mbembe, who was one of the first people to be targeted. But right now a third of the people that have been canceled and deplatformed in Germany are progressive Jews. That is a campaign that is — this is why I’m saying, being now in Germany, it is one of the darkest periods to be a German Jewish intellectual in Germany today.