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Congratulations, tell that to the people who want to burn down synagogues.

You seem to have misunderstood me: Right-wing politicians utilise various strategies to “identify” anti-semitic arab migrants (with very large quotation marks) by equating support for Palestina to anti-semitism. Is it stupid? Yes of course. Does that mean that all of Germany is practicing an arab-scare? Fuck no. Besides: it is not about “using force”. Regulations dictate that you have to previously register or at least announce any type of public assembly, especially demonstrations. It is not a huge crime if you don’t, but you will face a fine and it WILL be dissolved. That also holds for actually anti-semitic demonstrations, demonstrations organised by the AfD or other national-populistic parties, demos against vaccines etc. You have a right to demonstrate, but you have to follow certain guidelines. In this case you argue that it was not a demonstration as it was only one individual and I believe you are correct here. The whole thing could have probably been avoided by a) registering a proper demo and b) living in a nicer part of Germany (as stupid as that sounds, but some countries are definitely more strict and shitty than others when it comes to foreign-looking people). This way, all we did was provide a nice headline for people to get angry about. Well done.

We definitely have issues with police and politicians cracking down on unwanted protests. However, this specific case seems blown out of proportion. You very much can criticise Israel in Germany, some right-wingers however use that as a honeypot-strategy to predominantly draw out arab migrants (“see, they are anti-semitic!”). It really doesn’t help when people actually ARE anti-semitic beyond criticising Israel.

Well, thank you for your correction then. I hope you have also learned from this conversation.

I do not, but the Ukraine most certainly has as well as people who know more about the topic than I do.

Probably similar, if a large portion of the populace would be unable to vote due to occupation by a foreign (former super-)power.