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Germany has recently taken a chilling new step, signalling its willingness to use political views as grounds to curb migration. Authorities are now moving to deport foreign nationals for participating in pro-Palestine actions. As I reported this week in the Intercept, four people in Berlin – three EU citizens and one US citizen – are set to be deported over their involvement in demonstrations against Israel’s war on Gaza. None of the four have been convicted of a crime, and yet the authorities are seeking to simply throw them out of the country.

The accusations against them include aggravated breach of the peace and obstruction of a police arrest. Reports from last year suggest that one of the actions they were alleged to have been involved in included breaking into a university building and threatening people with objects that could have been used as potential weapons.

But the deportation orders go further. They cite a broader list of alleged behaviours: chanting slogans such as “Free Gaza” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, joining road blockades (a tactic frequently used by climate activists), and calling a police officer a “fascist”. Read closely, the real charge appears to be something more basic: protest itself.

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[–] GreyAlien@lemm.ee 5 points 51 minutes ago

Zionists on the post 4 days ago were less quirky than on this one.

Beautiful display of this brainrot ideology, if you can’t deny it, it’s antisemitism…

If a Genocide wasn’t being conducted against Palestinians, it would be comical how detached these people are.

[–] crazyhotpasta@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago

So, once a nazi, always a nazi, it seems. Carved Hakenkreuzes in foreheads for all of them.

[–] BookSnob@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Germany… forever pro-genocide cvnts

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Name a more dynamic duo: German 🤝 being on the wrong side of history

[–] smol_beans@lemmy.world 53 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

How can Germany "deport" an EU citizen? Is there any way for them to block an EU citizen from coming back into Germany?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

How can Germany “deport” an EU citizen?

Have a half-dozen men with guns grab the person, shove them into the back of a squad car, drive them to a jail, make them wait in the jail until transport can be arranged, drag them to a plane, force them onto the plane, fly the plane to an Israeli-occupied territory, kick the person out of the plane into the hands of some genocidal Israeli lunatics, and leave.

Is there any way for them to block an EU citizen from coming back into Germany?

Tear up their travel documents, for starters. Sending them to a country where they are at extreme risk of permanent arrest, torture, and execution also works.

[–] smol_beans@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago

Ok so just like in America

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 45 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It can't, municipalities and states can, and the EU law allowing for this requires showing they're a threat to public safety (which is why it's not a federal matter the federation doesn't do public safety). The Berlin state government wants to expel some people, so far no other state has made similar moves, and it's very questionable whether Berlin courts will let them do it. And then there's federal courts. And then the ECJ.

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[–] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 15 points 19 hours ago

I'm EU citizen, I go into Germany if I so please. I'll do it and I'll do it again.

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