La famiglia del dublinese detenuto per l’irruzione in una fabbrica di armi israeliana critica il trattamento riservato dalla Germania

Germany is facing a legal case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza by supplying weapons to Israel

Germany’s arms sales to Israel, which totalled $326.5m last year – a tenfold increase on 2022 – make it complicit in Israel’s alleged war crimes.

Germany has disgraced itself with its backing of Israel, and Berlin and other regional power centres have gone even further in treating people who protest for palestinian rights differently to people who protest for other causes.

If these people broke the law in Germany then they can be tried and sentenced. But their treatment should be equal to any other cases, and the German system should be blind to their cause. It isn’t. Germany puts its support for Israel above its own justice system’s health. And they are very loud and proud about it.

I can sympathise with him on a personal level (and more pertinently, his family) but if you break the law in another country you will place yourself directly at the mercy of that country’s legal system. The German legal system is not notorious for emotional reasoning, but is generally viewed as a bit bureaucratic and petty.

Cue the pro-genocide boot lickers.

Isn’t this the crowd that broke a female police officers ribs with a sledgehammer? Not much sympathy for whatever treatment they’re getting