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   Elia Ayoub (he/him) (ayoub@spore.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 20:34:09 JST Elia Ayoub (he/him)

   If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better.

   🧵 below and also https://www.hauntologies.net/p/germany-wants-to-rewrite-its-holocaust

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     Elia Ayoub (he/him) (ayoub@spore.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 20:34:06 JST Elia Ayoub (he/him)

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     Add to that the redefining of antisemitism as opposing Israel's actions and you get a German state that is fine with prosecuting Jews and non-Jews alike in the name of 'fighting antisemitism.' The most mundane of pro-Palestine events are thus turned into an existential crisis for the state.

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     Elia Ayoub (he/him) (ayoub@spore.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 20:34:07 JST Elia Ayoub (he/him)

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     Germany is invested in the notion that *because* they are responsible for the Holocaust, they are also *best suited* to understand what antisemitism is. The idea that antisemitism is 'our' problem is inconceivable to German politics today. It is much easier to scapegoat foreigners instead.

     Håkan Geijer repeated this.
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     Elia Ayoub (he/him) (ayoub@spore.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 20:34:08 JST Elia Ayoub (he/him)

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     The overwhelming majority of antisemitic attacks on German soil are from the Far Right, but these are rendered illegible because it does not fit with the White supremacy that continues to define a lot of German politics.