Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 24.02.2025
The financial reports of Mercedes, one of the most important industries in Germany, creates a panic in Germany and may be in other euro-imperialist states. According to the reports, the company is expected to suffer a 30 percent drop in profits compared to 2024, which was a bad year for the company.
This report is going to influence the federal election in Germany, taking place yesterday(Sunday) and it is possible that the far right, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), will become the strongest party in Germany, a very strong pro Zionist state.
The German Social democracy party maintains a staunchly pro-Zionist attitude. Scholz has steered Germany away from the prevalent European calls for an arms embargo against Israel. In defiance of the order by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Scholz is one of the few European heads of government who has publicly declared that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested by authorities if he sets foot in Germany. Still more surprising, Scholz’s position is virtually unchallenged in the Bundestag. This helps the AfD.
The AfD is not only pro Zionist but rides on the pro Zionism to attack immigrants from Muslim states to increase its influence.
“According to a report by Drop Site News An event featuring Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, at the so-called Free University of Berlin had been cancelled after the German capital’s mayor called her appearance “a disgrace”; the Israeli ambassador to Berlin is reported to have requested the cancellation because of Albanese’s critical comments about Israel. A re-scheduled event at Junge Welt was only permitted with the presence of police” [i]
“Talking about Israeli violations of Palestinian rights has always been sensitive in Germany. But the problem has escalated to the point that it is really, really scary,” Albanese told the press before her talk. Germany’s support for Israel, known as the Staatsräson, has become a major domestic political issue in recent years and especially since the Israel-Gaza conflict escalated after the Hamas attack on October 7 2023, with the country using harsh laws intended to combat neo-Nazis against Palestinian activists. “After a while it really gets under your skin,” Albanese added. “There has been a crackdown on freedom of expression, of freedom of assembly” [ii]
The German mainstream’s rejection of international law and civil liberties and the rise of its far right are intrinsically linked. Germany’s far-right party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), has played a key role in Staatsräson for its own purposes – using the topic as an issue to demonize migrants from Muslim countries as well as left-wing activists.
Almost all German political parties, media, police, citizenship authorities, and even universities and cultural institutions are working together to suppress activists, scholars, and even the UN’s special rapporteur.
“I was really shocked by the political pressure on the universities and the anti-Palestinian racism, and I intend to write a report about it,” Albanese, , told Drop Site after the event. “It’s clear that there is racism against the Palestinians here, negating their identity.”[iii]
Under the mayor Kai Wegner of the Christian Democrats Berlin Known for his denial of the genocide in Gaza has become a city of prosecuting pro-Palestinian speech, with protesters regularly brutalized, including Jewish students at a university occupation and women at marches protesting violence against women, as well as at a memorial for people killed by a right-wing terrorist.
The AfD has also get explicit support from Elon Musk—who, according to the Washington Post, has used X to amplify AfD, tweeted multiple times that “only AfD can save Germany,” and invited its candidate for chancellor Alice Weidel to a discussion on X.
“It appears that Israel’s government and Germany’s far right share an interest in portraying Palestinians as today’s Nazis with global or Israeli leftists as their collaborators” [iv]
At the end of 2024, the AfD became the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazis. In 2025, a post-war political taboo – known as the “firewall” – against collaboration with the far-right was loudly broken with the conservative Christian Democrat opposition working with them to a resolution about restricting the right to asylum. Liberal Germans were outraged, with hundreds of thousands going out on the streets to protest.
“Though openly embracing Nazism is effectively illegal, the party’s co-founder Alexander Gauland notoriously downplayed the Nazi dictatorship as a mere “birdshit” in one thousand proud years of German history—allowing the party to flirt with Nazi rhetoric and advance a xenophobic nationalist politics. Firebrand state leader Björn Höcke has been convicted twice under anti-Nazi laws for using the Nazi paramilitary slogan, “Alles für Deutschland” (everything for Germany) and at a party conference recently delegates celebrated their candidate Alice Weidel’s speech with “Alice für Deutschland.” [v]
“Under the comparative stability of former, longterm chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany was often internationally celebrated as a liberal country that had admirably faced the weight of its dark history. Welcoming refugees, ruling out cooperating with the far right, and repenting for the crimes of the Nazis made the erstwhile homeland of National Socialism appeared to Europe’s liberal classes to be a powerful bulwark against the rise of the far right.
But it was also Merkel who coined the Staatsräson that made German support of Israel a “reason of state” for the country, a key part of national interest and identity, from the stage of the Israeli Knesset in 2008. Almost all German political parties, alongside local authorities and even cultural institutions have joined together in an alliance reaching from right and far-right through the center and the SPD to defend the “Reason of State” and crack down on migration from supposedly antisemitic countries, citizenship for foreigners, and civil liberties such as freedom of speech and assembly and academic freedom” [vi]
“In November 2024 a resolution provocatively titled “Never Again is Now” applying the disputed IHRA definition of antisemitism—which clearly limits criticism of Israel. This time the AfD voted with almost all the other parties.When the law was passed, senior AfD politician and granddaughter of Hitler’s finance minister Beatrix von Storch celebrated the motion, claiming in a speech to the Bundestag that its “suggested solutions go in our direction.” The law promises to “exhaust repressive possibilities, especially in criminal and citizenship law” to fight antisemitism, which von Storch translated into “put Muslim Antisemites on the plane and, bye, back home.” [vii]
Down with the pro-Nazis!
Down with Zionism!
For Palestine, red and free from the river to the sea!
Endnotes:
[i] https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/germany-election-afd-israel-palestine-free-speech
[ii] Ibid
[iii] Ibid
[iv] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2025-01-27/ty-article/.highlight/germanys-far-right-is-rewriting-the-holocaust-will-netanyahu-let-it-slide/00000194-a8d2-dbc9-a59f-acfbb5f50000
[v] https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgzQZTMRcbmRLswZwgftJmnvBvDfr
[vi] Ibid
[vii] Ibid