Focus on the worst offenders and create pressure to stop them from being complicit in such crimes.

See https://bdsmovement.net/bds-guidelines/bds-guide-strategic-campaigning-palestinian-rights for the way to do targeted boycotts and their impact.

I think she had prepared things before and moved quickly. I am amazed by her braveness and dedication and hope to improve by her example. I hope i can honor her commitment a tiny bit by working to further reduce my microsoft usage.

I think more interesting than the contractor itself in both cases is the authority who gave the permits but also then who oversaw the implementation. I would expect skyscrapers and train station buildings to be under more scrutiny than your go to three story apartment or office building.

The only thing i would care about is that you could get a new one issued easily in whichever EU state you are, rather than having to go back to where you first got it. I am surprised that stuff isn’t standardized yet, because to me my license looks as standardized as my ID-card

It was a facade.

In the 90s after Germany became one big Germany again other European countries felt threatened. So Germany created the image of “memory culture” to claim it has adorned for its past and is not a threat anymore. However this was only superficial. At the same time there were the “baseball-bat years” in which skinhead Neonazis roamed especially in eastern Germany and beat up, lynched and sometimes murdered foreigners and leftists.

Fast forward to today. The mantra of “never again” as a result of the German history is only applied to a tokenized idea of Jewish life in the form of the state of Israel, rather than to apply it to all humans universally. So now that the token Israel is the source of grave crimes against humanity, instead of focusing on defending values, the token is defended. And anyone who is in the way of that token faces repressions, cynically targeting dissenting Jews in academia and culture disproportionately more than they are part of German society as a whole or part of academia and culture itself.

Finally the “memory culture” is perverted into abolishing German responsibility for Antisemitism and Racism and expanding Racism again Muslim people, or people perceived as Muslims based on their skin color. It is perverted into shifting the blame and created means of repression that will greatly help the fascists to establish their rule once again.

Germany has never pushed out far-right extremism. It put it onto a low burner, but it is deeply rooted in the German society and is blossoming again now, last but not least because people who proclaim to be progressive, such as the Greens and Social Democrats have deep seated right and reactionary convictions they now feel comfortable to show as the notion of “far”-right has been pushed further by the AfD fascists.

Schrödingers patient. They would gladly give all their data to for profit businesses to then sell an expensive cure when not asked, but they would not be willing to give consent when asked…

Especially in the case of medical data it is relatively easy to break anonymization. If you make the data sellable the first to buy will be insurance companies so that they can begin pushing for coverage to not be universal, but rather based on how healthy you are and maybe even denying coverage for your lung cancer at 60 because you used to smoke in your 20s…

And the people who have the kind of diseases that would benefit greatly from research on it, will be first to be hung to dry in such a system.

So the criminal president of FU Ziegler made allegations, which were happily taken on by the racist Berlin CDU, who like Ziegler, have a strong ideological conviction in embracing support for Israeli crimes and suppressing peaceful protests with violence, which then leads to escalation.

Neither of them is a trustworthy source on this. Until there is a proper court proceeding, where proper evidence is provided and evaluated by a court of law, these claims should not be assumed to be true or false. This is specifically because the people making these claims are evidently not neutral and created the conditions for a counter-escalation to happen, so it is reasonable to assume this counter-escalation and the narrative about it to be part of their strategy too.

Property damage is evident, but a very different category than people being threatened with weapons or dangerous tools. For this claim there needs to be proper court proceedings.

FU Berlin is cooperating with Israeli Universities and by this cooperation making itself willfully complicit in Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity For instance the FU Berlin funnels exchange students to participate in land stealing by an exchange program with the “Hebrew University”, who then houses these students in illegal settlements. Furthermore Israeli Universities are not merely educating people or providing research. They also directly run logistics and computer systems for the IDF, which makes them direct participants in war crimes such as the murder of women and children.

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-complicity-of-israeli-academia
https://bds-fu.de/de/report/#strategic-partnership-with-hebrew-university-of-jerusalem

As such pushing for an end of FU complicity in Israeli crimes is similar to demanding sanctions against military research cooperation with Russia. FU Berlin and other German universities are complicit and in support of Israel crimes. A full boycott would be in accordance with their obligations under international law, as was reaffirmed by the ICJ in The Hague with their “Advisory opinion” regarding the illegal occupation and subjugation of Palestinians by Israel.

If you see someone murdering another person and you would have the means to stop it, would it not be your duty to try? Instead you are condemning the people that fought back against the supporters of mass murder, after the supporters of mass murder started beating them up when they tried to raise their concerns peacefully. Maybe it helps to replace Israel with Trump or with Russia in thinking about these situations. Would you accept disruptive protests if FU or any other German university would send exchange students to a Russian University built in occupied Ukraine?

The mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, has demanded that police should release the names of minors, who were suspected of criminal activity around new years eve 2023, so that people could determine by their names, whether they are “real Germans” as in German by blood, or whether they are “merely” German citizens.

As for mysogony:

https://novaramedia.com/2024/11/28/berlin-police-brutalise-women-at-anti-violence-demonstration/
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/25/punched-choked-kicked-german-police-crack-down-on-student-protests
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/08/25/pro-palestinian-marchers-tell-of-arbitrary-violence-by-berlin-police/
https://hyphenonline.com/2024/10/04/ava-moayeri-germany-pro-palestine-protest-free-speech-police-arrest-violence/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Vr8rBtWOc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Txy6MnoEDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRIsj73QUQ
https://gewerkschaftliche-linke-berlin.de/erklaerung-zur-polizeigewalt-am-8-maerz-auf-der-demonstration-until-total-liberation-in-berlin/

All of this violence is protected and supported by the government of Berlin.

And this is how Trump could sell his tariffs as a win, because somewhere a few new jobs are generated in the US.

I wonder how the EU could react to this through export tariffs on parts/IP that then would be brought to the US.

There were previous peaceful protest camps on the campus grounds, which are public space. Those got violently evicted.

Then months later people escalated to more destructive occupations as a response to the initial violent escalation by the University and Police.

Somebody pointed out that in Berlin the third University TU, did not face such escalations, as the University Director chose to talk with people rather than have them beaten up by police. Students even came to defend her, when the racist and mysogynist government of Berlin pushed for her to be fired for having liked a post that criticized Israels conduct from a legally sound perspective.

For instance partaking in seating blockades on the routes of Nazi demonstrations is considered left wing “extremism” and could be charged as crime ranging from “coercion” to “breach of public peace / rioting”. Now whether it is convicted as such is a different topic, but for instance many climate activists have been convicted with prison times for glueing themselves to the streets. Many courts consider this to be violent coercion. So making yourself vulnerable and unable to act, but in the way of some car, this is violent extremism in Germany.

The fact that the Fascist Netanyahu government is embracing the antisemitic fascists and far-right in Europe should be the last wake up call, after ignoring all prior ones, for countries like Germany, France, UK, Netherlands that still heavily support Israel.

Israel is a danger to Jewish life and prosperity in Europe and that is one of their goals. They want and need Jews to be unsafe everywhere in the world, so they can justify their atrocities as necessary to create a “safe haven” for Jews, despite Israels government being one of the most violent entities towards Jews, once they disagree with said government.

It can also be initiated by the federal government. Something that both the past and the likely upcoming government have rejected, because they are happy with the Fascists from the AfD moving the country to the far-right, so they can get their own right wing positions in better.

In that sense the article calling the current SPD center-left is already out of touch with the current time. In many positions the current SPD is right to where the CDU was under Merkel. The CDU and their Bavarian partner CSU have embraced a heavy far right populist position, with the CSU befriending Trumps republicans, Orban and other far right/authoritarian leaders. The CDU ran on a platform of racism and dismantling human rights. The SPD has a hard on for authoritarianism and wants to dismantle many civil rights, such as privacy, protection of the flat, freedom of sciences and arts, freedom of opinion, right to asylum…

Think of it like washing your laundry. Yes, you can and should be careful to not get it dirty in the first place. Yes, if you wrestle in the mud, your clothes will be muddy. Either way you will need to wash them from time to time. Now whether that time is often or only rarely is something you can influence, but the washing itself remains necessary.

The claims of Uni staff being threatened came from a parliamentary inquiry of the racist Berlin CDU to the racist government of Berlin, lead by the völkisch-nationalist mayor Kai Wegner (There is German citizens and there is real Germans, who have German names). The parliamentary inquiry was initially reported on by the Axel-Springer outlet “B.Z.”. Axel-Springer operates businesses who partake in selling stolen land in the Westbank and is extremely Zionist, including attacking in particular Jewish and LGBT activists who oppose Israels actions. Tagesspiegel for the most part has been heavily dramatizing and uncritically repeating claims by Berlins police and political government. In particular the radical Zionist journalist Sebastian Leber has been heavily involved in spreading Zionist propaganda in the Tagesspiegel.
The FU president Ziegler has been eager to get peaceful and non-interruptive protest camps violently removed by Police and he doubled down on cooperation with Israeli universities who are known to do research for and operate systems for the IDF such as the “Gospel” and “Daddys home” AI target selection systems.

Why am i saying all of this? Long-story short, there is a strong entanglement between racist, antisemitic, anti-LGBT political and media forces in Berlin, who are in strong support of Zionism and use the current situation in particular to expand their attacks on legal and civil institutions of human rights and international law, science, education, arts, freedom of opinion, freedom of protest, freedom of religion…

Until there has been a proper court proceeding, where legal proof of the claims of FU employees being threatened with tools or weapons is established, these claims should not be readily accepted as true. Specifically the people making these claims, and the people sensationalizing these claims have a strong ideological motivation to do so in order to legitimize the erosion of fundamentals of a democratic state of law that acts in accordance with civil and human rights and international law. These people cannot justify their motivations and behavior through rational arguments, so they rely on spreading sensationalized claims and propaganda lies.

The term natural gas stems from the fact that it is already gas when it is excavated. This is different from the initially prevalent Coal gas or “Town gas” that was processed from coal and also distributed in pipelines for lighting purposes. Coal gas mostly is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide and as such quite different from the methane-propane mix that is natural gas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas

You know that occupations of universities have a long history in Germany and are both reveered in hindsight and usually tolerated at their time, like the previous occupation of HU in 2017 for Andrej Holm. https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachrichten/archiv/nr1701/nr_170131_00

Back then nobody was threatened with deportation.

This is not normal, also not for Germany. Again there is no specific criminal convictions of the people threatened now.

The slogan “From the river to the Sea” was “outlawed” by a decree from the interior ministry designating it as a symbol of Hamas. Think of this act like Trump banning DEI. There is no legal consensus on it and various courts have upheld the slogan to be a legitimate expression und the constitutionally protected freedom of speech in Germany.

This is executive order authoritarian style action and entirely different from democratic proceedings, where the parliament passes a law in accordance with the constitution, which then is interpreted by courts and finally enforced by the executive.

Here the legislative and judiciary are cut out.

A court striking down an illegal order after months, maybe years of court processes does change that the victims are put under immense pressure, blocked from pursuing an education or work while in Limbo, unable to travel and on top of that have high legal costs to upfront.

Meanwhile the perpetraitors on the government side face no repercussions even if the courts strike down the order.

It is an effective extrajudicial punishment and the victims can loose years of their life.

Also due process in Germany evaporates into a barely visible steam when it comes to police violence, where even brutal attacks by police officers rarely yield a sentence that would prevent them from continuing working as police.