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Who’s going to tell Germany that commiting genocide isn’t a fundamental European value? (I can see why they’re confused, of course.)

Deutschebags.

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#germany #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #BoycottEurovision #Eurovision #EurovisionSongContest #GenocideVision #deutschebags


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Germany, a major Eurovision backer, had signalled it would not take part if Israel was barred. Germany's culture minister Wolfram Weimer told the Bild newspaper he welcomed the decision."Israel belongs to the Eurovision Song Contest like Germany belongs to Europe," he said.


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in reply to Aral Balkan

committing genocide isn't a European value *officially*, but then there is the actual European history..
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in reply to Aral Balkan

Apologies, I spelled Deutschebag wrong earlier. Now fixed.

#germany #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine

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in reply to Aral Balkan

It only took Germans a century to acknowledge what they did in Namibia. Belgium has kinda-acknowledged what they did in Congo but not fully. Neither have made the sort of restitution that would indicate genuine remorse. Britain has not begun to discuss what they did in Kenya; there were rumours years ago of British security agents planning a coup on the off-chance that a government was elected which did begin to discuss it.

Honestly, genocide does feel like a fairly core European value.

in reply to Passenger

@passenger and more than a hundred years on Turkey still hasn't acknowledged the Armenian genocide and prosecutes anyone who describes it as such.
in reply to Aral Balkan

@passenger I read a great depressing book once a while ago that catalogued genocides, which communicated a shocking sense of genocide as something that has long been a core part of the human story. I suppose it's a mark of progress that we are now to some extent going "that's not great".