DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> seeks to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deport</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a> </p><p>Submitted by webadmin on 9 April, 2025</p><p> "The German state has issued deportation orders for three <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EUCitizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EUCitizens</span></a> and one <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> who have attended <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestinian</span></a> protests.</p><p>"Berlin immigration authorities issued the orders on 31 March, demanding that the four individuals leave Germany within one month or else face deportation. Their orders cite a protest in October 2024 in which masked individuals caused 'significant property damage, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/graffiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>graffiti</span></a>', as well as resisting arrest and calling a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> officer a '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a>'.</p><p>"Unusually, three of the four orders also invoke the German principle of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Staatsr%C3%A4son" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Staatsräson</span></a>, (“<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StateReason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateReason</span></a>”). This term originates from a speech <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AngelaMerkel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AngelaMerkel</span></a> gave to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliKnesset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliKnesset</span></a> in 2008, asserting that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> security was fundamental to the purpose of the German state.</p><p>"Staatsräson is not an officially defined term or codified anywhere in the German constitution or by German courts. At least two of the protestors are appealing the decision, with their lawyer telling Al-Monitor that it is a 'political concept, not a legal concept, and therefore unlawful'.</p><p>"In any case, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protesting</span></a> should be opposed.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Khalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Khalil</span></a></p><p>"The activists’ lawyer has drawn parallels to the case of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> in the US. 'I see similarities… It is weaponization of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ImmigrationLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImmigrationLaw</span></a> as a tool to silence <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliticalDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalDissent</span></a>'. Khalil’s case may also lead to a debate on interpretations of the US constitution’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a>.</p><p>"Back in February, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Berlin</span></a> police broke up a protest, citing a ban on '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArabicChanting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArabicChanting</span></a>', the playing of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArabicMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArabicMusic</span></a>, or giving a speech in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arabic</span></a>. In October 2024, police raided the homes of five men, four of whom were being investigated over 'authorship of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitic</span></a> social media posts'.</p><p>Clapping</p><p>"And after the joint Israeli-Palestinian documentary <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoOtherLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoOtherLand</span></a> won an Academy Award, German culture minister Claudia Roth insisted that she was only clapping for Israeli director Yuval Abraham, not Palestinian director <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BaselAdra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BaselAdra</span></a>. Several politicians, including the mayor of Berlin, called for her resignation. A torrent of public criticism was aimed at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuvalAbraham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuvalAbraham</span></a> for his acceptance speech, to which he responded: 'To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire — and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger.'</p><p>"Israeli politicians cited German politicians when attacking the filmmakers themselves, and only weeks later, co-director <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HamdanBallal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HamdanBallal</span></a> was attacked by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliSettlers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliSettlers</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WestBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestBank</span></a>, and removed from an ambulance by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IDF</span></a> soldiers.</p><p>"German Staatsräson is less about assuring Israel’s right to exist, and more about giving a free hand to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/repressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repressive</span></a> policies of the Israeli right." </p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-04-09/germany-seeks-deport-protesters" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">workersliberty.org/story/2025-</span><span class="invisible">04-09/germany-seeks-deport-protesters</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestineActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestineActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingProtest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiProtestLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiProtestLaws</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GermanyPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GermanyPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GermanAntiProtestLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GermanAntiProtestLaws</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightWing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtesters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zionism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BibiIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BibiIsAWarCriminal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Enablers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enablers</span></a></p>