I did Nazi that coming.
I don’t what it is about opposing the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine that brings out the worst in Western governments and security apparatuses
I would like to provide some context to this video. It was filmed in Berlin, at an Pro-Palestine / anti-Israel demonstration.
Multiple journalists have been attacked during the demonstration. Levi Salomon, a journalist active in the JFDA e.V (Jewish Forum for Democracy and against Antisemitism) has been attacked by a woman who poured hot tea over him. Multiple policemen attempted to arrest this woman, but she was protected by other demonstrants. This video has been filmed directly after this incident. It shows heavy police violence that cannot be apologized, however I find this context very important.
According to the German Journalist Union (duj), more than 100 attacks on journalists during pro-palestine demonstrations have been reported in 2024. There are also police investigations running about an “enemy list” with journalists names and their private addresses.
You can read this source here, unfortunately it is in German.
I gave my best to report this in a neutral way, but if you are angry, you can of course down vote.
Germany was wrong the first time and here we are they are wrong again lol
Perfect optics. Exactly the outcome the protesters were looking for.
ACAB forever.
Those cops punch like I do in my dreams. Throwin hay makers and not landing a single shot. Pathetic
That’s on purpose. The protestors made a human chain and the cops are trying to break it up. The punches are aimed so it encourages to let go of the neighbor.
They are not using the batons they also carry with them.
Were they actually breaking any law or did the government just decide it wanted to give them a beating?
Pretty sure nowadays in germany the palestanian flag basically counts as promoting a terrorist organization. So yeah they broke the law but the law is bullshit and still shouldnt allow the officers to exert physical violence.
You can fly the Palestinian flag just in Germany. Some slogans are typically illegal at protests like „from the river to the sea“ and a bunch of other stuff. Every protest gets its own extra rules, if deemed necessary. For example chants in Arabic might be forbidden because of incitement or hate speech in Arabic at related previous protests.
“They are being investigated for particularly serious breach of the peace, liberation of prisoners, resisting law enforcement officers and using symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organizations.”[…]
“Seven officers were injured, but were able to continue their duties. Journalists were also attacked. 28 people were reportedly arrested.” […] “Participants also used umbrellas to block the view of a pro-Palestinian block. Some police officers were attacked with bottles, kicks and punches. Officers then “repeatedly used physical force”, it was reported.”
Maybe a hot take but if you are breaking the law, you should still not receive a beating.
Before police attacks a crowd like that, they give a warning to stop whatever illegal activity the protesters are doing.
Agreed otherwise. Force should only be used if absolutely necessary.
The German state is incredibly repressive against solidarity for Palestine.
Very fake as most of the pro-palestinian propaganda here and in other websites.
Being in favor of having a Palestinian state implies that:
- no Hamas or any terrorist organization can be in power
- stop teaching children to hate Jews (very common in Muslim countries by the way)
- stop repressing liberal movement (“we want to live” movement for example, weird that nobody talked about it uh?)
Israel needs to stop the hostilities but it is absurd that “pro-palestinian” are more and more blind and justify easily the atrocities that the radical Muslims do to their own people. Why do people not have critical thinking?
This is not a war to obtain the legal status of the State and being recognized by Israel, the place was owned and managed by Egypt, the same that has tunnels connected to Palestine, the same that did not accept any refugees, the same countries around Palestine that did not accept them, even Lebanon where Hezbollah is. This is a war that a terrorist group decided to do because of foreign investments from Muslims that are ideologically against any Jew to be alive, this is why they repressed all the protestors in Palestine ALL THE TIME.
Do you want to criticize Israel for their behavior? Be my guest, I agree and I am totally against any cruelty or anything that resembles oppression but if you think Hamas or any of them do it for freedom you have absolutely no idea what you are saying and you are naive.
Mohammad Tawhidi, Mosab Hassan Yousef and hundred of people said exactly this but westerns think they know Islam better than an Imam in Dubai or Saudi Arabia that says exactly how dangerous they are.
Israel needs to stop the hostilities
Call it by what it really is, genocide. Radical islam is empowered by genocidal maniacs that go and destroy people’s families and livelihoods.
No one has mentioned solidarity for Hamas. You’re the one who brought it up.
The above guy must be on some payroll. He appears in all of the posts defending genocide by Israel.
Lol you’re a fucking joke, try harder hasbara
We will maybe break up with usa but never with israel. Fucking shameful what germany of all places is endorsing.
As a state, it’s easier to support Israel than to actually take some fucking responsibility.
Loving the irony of that fully armored Nazi police fuck pushing and punching an unarmed old woman on her face, front-and-center of this video.
are those flags for women’s rights movement?
Should women be allowed to speak up about something they care about on women’s day? Thats the real discussion
No those are palestinian flags
“Ah shit this is the wrong spot! The Palestine meetup is over there!”
Well, someone wasn’t at a protest today. /s
No, very much the opposite.
The civilized Western world is ramming some sense into these crazy women holding Palestinian flags where the most women are killed worldwide by the West.
Truly this is peak civilization.
I can only imagine the comments if this was Iran instead of Germany.
Those are Palestinian flags, buddy.
Indeed. Palestinian women are the most oppressed women in the world. They are being oppressed by the Western hegemony and Israel.
I wanted to make a funny joke, but honestly this is just fucking disrespecful. I am sure you know 100% how women in gaza are treated. To not aknowledge this, ESPECIALLY when you’re using women’s rights as a bait in your title is just utterly disrespectful.
It is disrespectful to all the women suffering and it is underminig and deminishing the women’s rights movement.
Though maybe that’s what you want, the way you defend (deliberately not talk about) islamists mistreating women.
When your racism surpasses literal genocide.
- If you think respecting women has anything to do with race, maybe yoi’re the racist one
- By calling everything you don’t like “racism”, you weaken the term. The next time I see you call someone a “racist” I will think they’re actually a feminist like me. If ebough people do this enough times, the term “racism” will lose all its meaning and its bad chonotation
More than 13.000 women mass murdered, many more injured, around a million women and girls actively starved and psychologically tortured.
Worlds most oppressed are oppressed by Secularism and Liberalism. Not “islamism”.
If you knew anything about Gaza except racism, you would know women in Gaza are not even obliged to wear headscarves and one of the Emmy winning journalists from Gaza (Wizard Bisan) does not.
… on top of being oppressed by Islamists
No Israel is the only party mass murdering and starving Palestinian women.
Your imaginary racism has nothing to do with real oppression.
Yea, gonna need a source on this one. Not buying it otherwise
I really appreciate the link to a story on this because I hate out of context video. But I really wish they had used a different outlet like Mastodon or Bluesky, I hate giving any traffic to Xwitter.
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Are you being malicious or just stupid?
for real, who watches this video and thinks “nah, riot police would never do that - I demand a source” 🤦♀️
EDIT: reading TingoTenga’s comment history, I wonder if they were intending to be sarcastic or humorous? Or maybe they are just responding to the title of the post and not the video?
With how pervasive AI generated video is now, you can’t imagine doubting the veracity of this vid?
It would be different if people started floating away or growing extra arms, it’s not hard to find real footage of cops being assholes
Plus the other side is palestinian protestors.
The only way it would be more believable is if it was in the US and a labor strike with sanitation workers after MLK did his “at the mountain top” speech.
even if AI generated videos are increasingly common, there was nothing about this video that required suspension of disbelief or made me think it might be fake
Even when a source is consistent with your world views, I can respect some healthy skepticism and desire for context. Otherwise your world views may be exploitable somehow.
skepticism is likewise exploitable, and useful for ignoring evidence - the fact that the video does not seem to be produced by AI is not a conclusion reached from a world view or bias, but unwillingness to believe it’s real might be
Which city? BE is Berlin?
Berlin today. Source https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1898481083424890942
Authorities have banned Arabic chants and speeches at demonstrations
Has anyone taken this to court yet? Surely it would be unconstitutional?
You’re underestimating how much freedom of speech is repressed in Germany when it comes to speech that critizises Israel.
Anyone care too explain why Germany is so pro-Israel?
Zionists are few in number but have become insiders in many governments.
It’s a way to launder Germany’s reputation after the holocaust while also profiting from the settler-colonialist project of Israel.
WW2
Auf Bullenschweine wirft man Steine
Dann dürfen die ja auch zuschlagen oder?
Flying flags of an Arab country on a day dedicated to women’s rights is insulting.
Western countries complicit in genocide on Arab women, daring to open their mouths about women’s rights as an authority is insolent.
I’m not part of a western government, I’m part of a western society that sees women as more than birthing and child rearing machines
Unless they are brown, then you are fine with literal genocide on women apparently.
it’s a signal that if they wanna protest for Palestine, they can do it in their homeland but not in EU
Seriously, why ruin International Woman’s Day by mixing it with Palestine conflict 🫤
Nothing says “pro women” like dictating what they can or cannot say on women’s day.
Also its racist to think these are just immigrants and not european citizens.
Because the EU and especially Germany is mass murdering and oppressing women in Palestine.
Liberals barging in here like the shining beacon of racism they are is truly disgusting. But examplary of its ideology. “Equality for all who are white.”
You high or something? You realize that it’s Women’s Day right?
You realize almost 50% of those killed in Palestine are women right?
Cool. So let’s make Women’s Day all about the Gaza war then.
You don’t care about Women’s Day. You don’t care one bit. You’re just taking every opportunity to post your agenda. 70% of posts on this sub are about Palestinian support. Give me a break.
You don’t care about Women. You don’t care one bit.
Right. How many posts on your profile are about Women? One. And that happens to be this one. Besides this one I can see dozents of posts about Israel and Palestinians. You’re making it VERY clear.
I don’t know why are you shifting the topic on something else, but the conflict in Palestine was there since ages and now you’re all looking to point some fingers at someone ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Germany is providing 30% of the weapons for the genocide in Palestine, being heavily complicit in the mass murder of women and girls.
The only person doing topic shifting is you by proclaiming you do not only lack morals but also historical knowledge.
I’m sorry, I want to be peace everywhere around the globe but greed gets into humans and this why we’re here 😔
Then you should support people protesting against the German government, which is spreading corruption against women around the globe.
