| 00:01 | | On Thursday at noon, a demonstration against Israel took place in front of the premises |
| 00:06 | | of the Free University of Berlin in Dahlem. Cloaked as a criticism of the university |
| 00:09 | | and organized by the Palestine Committee of the Free University of Berlin, |
| 00:14 | | Palestine supporters, communists, Trotskyites to be precise, |
| 00:19 | | and other leftists met to protest against the only Jewish state |
| 00:22 | | and to criticize the university administration for alleged discrimination. |
| 00:25 | | “The repression of the university against pro-Palestinian students has reached a new level.” |
| 00:31 | | At the beginning of the event, the conditions were announced. |
| 00:34 | | “In addition, statements are forbidden that promote the destruction |
| 00:38 | | of the State of Israel and/or its inhabitants |
| 00:41 | | or are otherwise suitable for conveying a willingness to use violence.” |
| 00:45 | | These requirements do not come out of nowhere. |
| 00:48 | | A few days earlier, a Jewish student of the Free University of Berlin |
| 00:51 | | was brutally beaten by a pro-Palestinian student. |
| 00:54 | | The Jewish student, who suffered facial fractures, had to be operated on in a hospital. |
| 00:59 | | Not even a week later, an anti-Jewish demonstration took place at this same university. |
| 01:04 | | NiUS confronted a speaker at the demonstration about the violent incident. |
| 01:08 | | “We stand together in solidarity against any violence that stems from discrimination, |
| 01:14 | | be it anti-Semitism, be it Islamophobia, be it racism.” |
| 01:18 | | Empty words. Not five meters away, demonstrators were holding signs with calls for intifada, |
| 01:24 | | that is, a wave of terrorist attacks that have mostly hit civilians in the past. |
| 01:29 | | In addition to unfounded accusations of apartheid, genocide and fascism, |
| 01:34 | | the now forbidden slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” was spoken |
| 01:40 | | through the microphone. “We fight for a free Palestine, where everyone has the same rights |
| 01:46 | | and access to a full and dignified life, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. |
| 01:52 | | And you girlies in the back can criminalize that as much as you want.” [Applause] |
| 01:56 | | The slogan implies the destruction of Israel and thus the dissolution of the Jewish safe haven. |
| 02:01 | | A safe haven surrounded by enemies who have failed countless times to destroy the state since |
| 02:05 | | its founding in 1948. “We have to stand here. If there is no Israel, then there will be no us. |
| 02:13 | | And that’s why we have to stand here hand in hand, even though the Hajj to the Piranou |
| 02:17 | | is just the beginning, against such fascism, against anti-Zionism, and that *is* anti-Semitism.” |
| 02:24 | | A small, courageous group organized a contrasting program a few meters away. |
| 02:29 | | “Am Israel Chai! Am Israel Chai! Am Israel Chai! Am Israel Chai!” [Israel lives] |
| 02:37 | | In the anti-Israel rally, hatred for the German state and the German police |
| 02:41 | | was conspicuously expressed. Typical of leftist demos. |
| 02:44 | | “All of Berlin hates the police! All of Berlin hates the police!” |
| 02:50 | | Nor did the leftist activists shy away from relativizing the Nazi regime. |
| 02:54 | | “Every day in Nazi Germany 2024!” |
| 03:00 | | As with countless other demonstrations of this kind, |
| 03:03 | | one could see the convergence of pro-Palestinian activists and left extremists. |
| 03:07 | | While some were shouting anti-Israel slogans, others were selling communist newspapers. |
| 03:12 | | Together, the demonstrators were calling for a revolution, |
| 03:15 | | a violent overthrow of the ruling order. |
| 03:18 | | A merger of extremely politicized youths, |
| 03:22 | | united in a hatred for Israel, the German state and the West. |
| 03:26 | | “No justice, no peace!”
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