UNREST RADIO

In Münster, Germany, while the university canceled a film screening on the topic of Palestine, a few students aimed to organize a concert in response to imperialist repression and to raise humanitarian awareness—a minimal response to genocide.

They booked Leo 16, a self-proclaimed left-leaning bar in the city, as the venue. However, mirroring the right, the left stream canceled the event amid ongoing genocide, leading to a humanitarian disaster—a famine.

Timeline of booking and cancelation:

'My sister, our land has a throbbing heart,

it doesn't cease to beat, and it endures

the unendurable. It keeps the secrets

of hills and wombs. This land sprouting

with spikes and palms is also the land

that gives birth to a freedom-fighter.

This land, my sister, is a woman.' — Fadwa Tuqan

While a genocide happening, the silence of German leaders regarding the plight of women in Palestine signals a failure of moral leadership and contradicts Germany's professed values of justice, equality, and human rights.

The silence of white German feminists on the repression of Palestine solidarity activists contrasts sharply with the broader feminist movement's commitment to intersectionality and solidarity. 

In this episode six women from diverse communities in Germany shared their experiences and insights on German political repression in Palestine solidarity.

The scene resembled something out of a Hollywood movie, with LWL Museum surrounded by police cars. Who was inside? Let's tune in to hear the inside story.

Don't forget to share your opinion with us. Interact with poll on spotify.

Further reference:

https://youtu.be/4aw343PM6tM

On February 5th, 2024, a film screening of 'Roadmap to Apartheid' organized by the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Münster was cancelled by the authorities. On January 22, 2024, the same film was postponed.

Since past few months Germany's repression on Palestine solidarity voices are significantly brutal, and now censoring academic freedom is another escalation towards the dark avenue.

In this episode, students and the audiences of the cancelled film shared their concern regarding the censorship of academic freedom in Germany!

Credit:

Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram interview. [Democracy Now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU4g0GEqaRY]

References:

Germany's manufactured guilt and weaponization of antisemitism aim to justify a settler colonial state, apartheid regime, and Israeli state terrorism, responsible for the deaths of over 20,000 civilians, with over 40% being children.

In the German police state, oppression towards those raising their voices against genocide is brutally silencing. From police custody to house raids and police presence in university seminar rooms leading to the arrest of students, these are horrific signs of fascism. The state is proactively suppressing free speech, sending it to the morgue.

We discussed all these dehumanizing concerns with Adam Broomberg and Shahidul Alam. They outspokenly reflect on their experiences with the current German state.

Discussion moderated by Ionuț, Saad / unrest radio.

About guest speakers:

- Adam Broomberg (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Broomberg)

- Shahidul Alam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahidul_Alam)

References:

- https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cwph98KuIyb/?igsh=aHFwdzA0ZTR4ZGJ5

- https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0jx3wxoOop/?igsh=MWZ2NmVuZ2N2YWJtcw%3D%3D

- https://www.newarab.com/analysis/how-pro-palestine-jews-are-resisting-germanys-mccarthyism?amp

- https://www.1854.photography/2023/12/biennale-aktuelle-fotografie-cancelled/

Credits:

- Ehsas-e-Jurm (Guilt), song by Multinational Corporations (2012-2017) a political metal band from Lahore, Pakistan.

- Metal (Dark Matter) track by AlexGrohl.

In authoritarian Germany (which has a clear symptom of being a police state), we have been witnessing the state using police to silence, criminalizing Palestinian voices. Banning demonstrations, censoring freedom of expression, and racial police profiling are significantly on the rise. Not only that, German Police raided the house of a 'Hanau Attack' survivor, just because of criticizing Israel online!

In German society, instead of confronting this horror show, the duality significantly exposed and co-existing within the German left and right. This hypocrisy is strongly visible amongst academia, industries like those who deal with human rights and other social classes.

We received this letter from Usama — a resident living in Münster (NRW) Germany, through the letter he expressed an observational reflection directed at pseudo theoretical intellectuals, the bourgeoisie and students regardless of race or ethnicity in society and who are supporting a genocidal, settler colonial, fascist right wing, apartheid regime...

How antisemitism has been instrumentalized by political power to oppress unheard voices in Germany? How did Israel become part of Germany? How do Germans speak like they are jews?

Ms. Iris Hefets, psychoanalyst and member of Jewish Voice for Peace, Germany discussed with Unrest Radio [interview conducted by Ionuț and Saad] about Germany's fragile past and present that created a dogmatic obstacles to have a dialogue about Israel and Palestine in Germany! Currently which are illegally dictating by the German Police - what to say, what shouldn't!

Acknowledgement:

Intro poem - 'What must be said' by Günter Grass, recited by @Snordster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux79j1r9hvE)

Through this episode we want to introduce our listener to an authoritarian regime which more often bluffs us in the name of democracy.

End of October and the beginning of November we talked with several people, and they shared their experiences. 

Hebh Jamal, a Palestinian journalist currently based in Berlin, talked to us about current German oppression on the Palestine issue.

Also we will listen to three suffocating realities that clearly indicate the gradual extinction of freedom of expression in Germany!

Listen how a student has faced racial police profiling and violence in Germany. 

In Germany migrants, refugees, and people of color are often disproportionately affected by police brutality. Police brutality has been a serious problem here, but many cases stay unreported and not properly investigated.

Also listen to our another guest from KOP Berlin (https://kop-berlin.de/) who discussed in depth and wider perspective of this severe socio-political problem.

Dear listeners, you can also share your experience by writing in Q&A section below in the episode description, also you can take part by voting in the poll.

“The path of least resistance is always to accept the distribution of power as it exists, to ratify and support it either by doing nothing or by lending one’s talents to the implementation of policies that are not questioned or challenged. The cost of this passivity will be borne by the victims of power—but they are far away, often of another colour and culture, and powerless to strike back at us."

– Noam Chomsky

Gasping for Air is an op-ed documented by Ionuț, audio version narrated by Usama, Jazz.

[ Note: few words of this audio version has mistake, so we corrected with voice over. Read the text version by following that link - https://ms-alternativ.de/index.php/artikel/op-ed-gasping-air-what-can-you-do-when-last-shreds-freedom-expression-go-right-out-window ]

Resources:

Responsibility by Noam Chomsky, Delivered at March 4, 1969 Protests at MIT: https://mitpress.mit.edu/responsibility-by-noam-chomsky-delivered-at-march-4-1969-protests-at-mit/

Malgré leur interdiction, des rassemblements pro-Palestine organisés en France: https://www.lejdd.fr/societe/malgre-leur-interdiction-des-rassemblements-pro-palestine-organises-en-france-138901

France has banned pro-Palestinian protests and vowed to protect Jews from resurgent antisemitism: 

https://apnews.com/article/france-israel-palestinians-war-protests-banned-5626bafec480b32226dcb97d0c92a553

Street marchers back both Israel and the Palestinians in European cities:

https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/14/street-marchers-back-both-israel-and-the-palestinians-in-european-cities

Germany will ban all Hamas-linked activities, Scholz says:

https://www.politico.eu/article/olaf-scholz-germany-will-ban-all-hamas-linked-activities-israel-palestine/

Germany bans Kurdish PKK publishing houses:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-bans-kurdish-pkk-publishing-houses/a-47473308

Böllerwürfe in Neukölln: Polizei und pro-palästinensische Demonstranten geraten aneinander:

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/boellerwuerfe-in-neukoelln-polizei-und-pro-palaestinensische-demonstranten-geraten-aneinander-li.2149348

Kop Statement and joint statements:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CycoPOFs1Sh/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=3

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyaUz58Md3H/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

Polizei Berlin post: https://twitter.com/polizeiberlin/status/1712898237890224389

20,000 join anti-war protest: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/13/afghanistan.terrorism5

Proteste gegen Afghanistan-Krieg und Globalisierung in vielen Städten: https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article486730/Proteste-gegen-Afghanistan-Krieg-und-Globalisierung-in-vielen-Staedten.html

Tausende demonstrieren gegen den Krieg:

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/europa-tausende-demonstrieren-gegen-den-krieg-a-161449.html

German Leader Reiterates Solidarity with U.S.:

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011009-13.html

Black Lives Matter in Europe:

https://www.rassismusmonitor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/NaDiRa/Pdfs/DeZIM_Research_Notes__06_-_Black_Lives_Matter_in_Europe.pdf

Trump Called BLM Protesters ‘Thugs’ But Capitol-Storming Supporters ‘Very Special’:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/01/06/trump-called-blm-protesters-thugs-but-capitol-storming-supporters-very-special/

Besondere Verantwortung für das jüdische Volk? Die Deutschen sind gespalten:

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article245315650/Israel-Besondere-Verantwortung-fuer-das-juedische-Volk-Deutschen-gespalten.html

Merz nennt Klimaaktivisten „kriminelle Straftäter“:

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/merz-nennt-klimaaktivisten-kriminelle-straftaeter-18490178.html