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My heart also to the white-haired German grandma who covered herself in text-heavy signs and flags and stuff and also took a silent stand, sandwitched in a grass patch between the Zionists and the general demo who asked her to stay out because of "no national flags". I tried to invite her to come with our AG but with my bad German she must have misunderstood my practical concerns, because she responded in a high register: "I stand here because I am a human being, and as a human being I cannot stay silent. If I oppose the Nazis I must oppose all oppression..." Her resolve was unshakable. If you keep an eye open you find people like this everywhere, in Germany too. Not everyone is willing to maintain wilful denial or prioritise narrative over basic humanity.

I wish more people in the anti-Nazi demo were explicitly connecting Jewish liberation to Palestinian liberation (including me who prepared no signs, this is self-criticism). Elsewhere in Germany the Jewish dissident community remains combative and vocal, despite their recently increased criminalisation as self-hating anti-semities by gentile German politicians, and they protested the cooptation of Nov 9 remembrance; I'm confident Jews will never let pass the instrumentalisation of Jewish history for Israeli propaganda purposes.