Political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein talks about Germany’s moral guilt over the Holocaust, which serves as major reasons for supporting Israel during its war on Gaza.
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The irony that their past genocidal crimes is making it difficult to not support a genocide BECAUSE they are trying to right a past wrong is just too rich. Ah yes the histor(ectom)y of the world
Long Live Palestine 🇵🇸
Zionists own all the nations that support them usa uk Aust Canada Nz Spain ?
What is Wrong here is? Everyone knows it is wrong and no one is doing anything to stop it, How brave will it be if anyone intervened save life . What a Holy Hero they will be😭😓😥
As a German I am proud that my country supports Israel. 🇮🇱♥️🇩🇪
Na..#..is su..pp..@..rt na..$..is ✋✋
Norman vi ha deto sufficciente,se avete cervelo , di poter’ capirlo 🤗.
P u n t o !!!
Very true, thanks ❤️
Jewish free world !❤
Please please please stop Genocide in Palestine 😭😭😭
Follow the smell of money
The SS did not disappear, they just had a change of administration.
Morals are for the common folk to keep us from getting unruly. The only thing that matters to those in charge are their interests.
Well said 👍
They don’t know it’s wrong. Most are arrogant and believe they are always right
German complicit in Genocide on Africans in Namibia, on Jews in Germany, and now Palestinians in Israel just in the last 100 years… Shameless.
This is nothing about historical standards of Germany. My observation is all politicians have taken donations from Zionist people for their election campaign. And they cannot have any independent stand against Israeli genocide.
ISRAEL SHOULD BE IN GERMANY!
Omg someone said it.above^ yep
Germany you need to stand against Israel. You cannot be complicit to a war crime because of WW2. You have to be a leader not a follower.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
I like this quote, but I am skeptical of Germany’s ruling establishment feeling guilty.
Mr Finkelstein! 🤘🙌👏🤘
Germany falls victim to holocaust terrorism like no other country but most countries do at some point.
Oh Germany, always on the wrong side of history. 😂😂
Das Volk Israel lebt!
None among them is smart or they just proved they were never sorry or remorseful of what happened and are ready to do it again but on a different people or country.
Stop supporting Israel
Well said ✅
Very wisely spoken
It is called cheap popularity. Trying to console yourself for the wrongs you did
Free Palestine! 🍉🍉🍉 no justice, no peace!
They should address the past and take back the zionists😂
Well Said.
It’s called arrogance
I am German, I live in Germany and I am ashamed of the ground for the German government! it is the worst and most inept government we have not had in a very long time! The economy is doing very badly! migration policy is a disaster and a disaster in foreign policy!! We Germans are counting down the days until the elections
In all that you didn’t once mention Israel or Palestine but referred only to Germany’s current internal problems. Apart from the Holocaust guilt and Germany’s crazed support for Israel, it is also Europe’s hegemonic power and behaves like a vassal state in relation to the US. As a major power in the EU, a fundamentally undemocratic institution, it is paradoxically undoing all that binds the EU together. The behaviour of the Western powers vis-a-vis Ukraine, Gaza and NATO has stirred people like I haven’t seen in along time. Not even the war in Iraq had this effect.
@@Touchlineteaser I have referred to the fact that Germany has even increased its arms supply to Israel since 7.10! My English is not so good to express all this!
Hey Germany!
*Two wrong don’t make it right.*
nono, you dont get nothing! i wish my government wouldnt hang its support for israel on its history, but because its the right thing to do. you like hamas better, thats your position for whatever reason. i like a prospering democratic state with the same undeniable rights for every citizen regardless of race, religion, gender or anything else better than an islamic terror regime, but hey, people are different.
They should SHUT UP indeed! Thanks, Professor!
EU position is the same as US and what Germany is saying now. They just need to shut up and say nothing
Is this the Islamic version of the ” View ” where stupidity is considered enlightening?
Respectfully no Germany is not in a morally difficult position. This is why: because when you derive a principle like never again it applies to everyone not just one group.
Palestinians are paying for Germany’s crime, i still don’t understand why half of Germany’s land wasn’t given to Zionist.
Germany is proud of Israel for following in their footsteps
Stop pretending that you care for Palestinians. What a laugh.
@@pigtailsandteddybears Stop pretending you don’t. Only the sick minds don’t.
@@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism I support Palestinian children but their parents? Never. The casualties of children would be WAY lower if the Palestinians cared for their children.
Deutschland verachtet und missachtet Menschenrechte, es denkt nur kapitalistisch!!!
Pure Heuchelei Politik!!!
Germany is a zionist state
Germany isn’t supporting Israel because of guilt. They are supporting them because Germany hasn’t changed at all. They just switched targets.
Having lived in Europe for many years, I do not believe that it is mere “guilt” by the German government. It’s cheap to say that and not accurate. It’s very easy to say this to undermine Germanys decision to support Israel. No other country knows the intricacies of antisemitism and the myriad forms it takes, it’s happening now the world over and nobody sees it nor understands the nuance and the consequences if they don’t get actively involved. This channel only perpetuates blood libel. I am an atheist I care not about religion- but have European and Persian heritage (for generations my family lived in the Middle East and Europe so we are first witness of what goes on) and know very very well how deeply anti-Jew sentiment is entrenched in European society and in Arab/Muslim societies are. Everyone is so deep in it nothing is questioned it’s just easy to blame the eternal scapegoat for everything.
Disagree.
Germany should have been the first to criticize and take action against Israeli holocaust of Palestinians if Germany regretted its holocaust of Jews.
But Germany chose to support another holocaust. Looks like it’s their creed.
💔😢.
We are living bad times.
All our values are being scrapt .
I am done as a human being, I don’t have more energy.
Europe can no longer talk about “morality” because of Germany… but more shameful is what they are doing with the Palestine supporters!
Eloquently put, as expected from Mr. Finklestein.
Al Jazeera is more wrong.
But it’s really not difficult bcuz a remorseful GER should be 1st in line to denounce another Genocide. GER can’t wash the blood of the 40s off its hands w/ the blood of Palestinian people in 2024… Silence on historical baggage is Zero logic – it’s complicit
Saxons of Germany vs Anglo Saxons of England have internal inferior complexes imposed forcefully on nonwhite nonwestern nonjewish Muslim races.
Anglo Saxon British Queen Victoria & Saxons of Germany, the German Emperor split up Africa in 2 for best beneficial solutions. African Continent nations people minorities ethnicities Tribes were never involved but enforced to obey. Nothing new. Nothing has changed last few hundred years.
It is NOT about the History or the Past. It is about the present MURDER that is happening in Palestine.
Germany has actually “shut up” for a long time. Their war also killed tens of millions of Russians and Ukrainians. So they should carry on building bridges and makings cars and leave international politics to everyone else. Why ruin this perfectly neutral position?
I think its more about profit and less about guilty feelings, that and Germany basically did everything American asked them
They should have turned part of Germany to a new country in order to accommodate Jews after ww 2. Jews got played like children 😢
He’s the men I would like to take some coffee and talk. It would be nice to have this coffee in Free Land where Jews and Palestinians lives in peace – no zionists no hamas, just PEOPLE
Palestinian is islam, Christian and Judaism. Israelies is just coloniz branch from Europe
Well this just shows that had a reason back then
If a criminal (Germany) robs a member of a dysfunctional family, then go help criminals from within the family he robbed to rob other families, makes Germany a habitual Criminal.
Agreed!
Germany didn’t learn from past mistakes. Shameful
There in the best position to criticize Israel
Germany trying tp make up for its past but in this manner.
You are obviously not alright go to hospital and get treatment first.
Germans are basically as racist as they were in the 1940s. they’ve learn to accept and embrace racist jewish people but they’re still racist.
Germany detaining Ghassan Abu Sittah and Israel arresting Nadera Shalloub-Kevorkian, and congressional leaders wanting firing of Joseph Massad, and Columbia arresting students, is only emboldening more protests across America. How many people can they arrest and still hope to win elections?
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They did it again
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Germany has always been on the wrong side of the history
Pride
Dr. Finkelstein is plainly brilliant.
Germany cannot afford morality…. Germany is a ”vassal state ” of the US empire.
And Germany ‘s derrière is owned by Israel.
Germany’s genocide of the Jews (and lots of others) is in the past. The sons and grandchildren of those they murdered usurped land, displaced, unlawfully imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately killed people. If the offspring of victims commit such acts, they are no longer victims, they are perpetrators and have to be treated as such.
Genocide no matter who does it is wrong but so is over playing the victim
I love how he speaks at a normal speed when talking to a friend. But when he’s in a debate he slows down to half speed, as a totally pathetic tactic of disarming by way of stalling and droning on. He knows what he’s doing and it’s delusional through and through.
For Germany to white wash it’s butcherous record, they should give a portion of Germany to Jews and let them build and Israel there.
But shameless Germany is always on the wrong side of morality.
Shame on them
Germany could also take a more neutral stance by not exporting arms to Israel.
Thank you for saying it❤
This political scientist knows the truth but is just driven by some personal issues with Israel and democracy so that is why he is so ignorant
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Start with you: Shut up.
Germany is trying to cope.
Drugged dude. Crazy Frankinstein .
I have to disagree. ALL of humanity, needs to ALWAYS take the stance against genocide. There is NO other moral position. If humanity is allowed to take ANY other position, other than condemning genocide…. Then humanity has failed.
Sacrificing Palestinians for Germany’s crimes needs to stop.
They are controlled by IsraHell and now being involved in another genocide
Non of ur business
2 wrongs does not make a right. Germany is doing it again to another people
Germany is Israel’s beetch….it’s obvious…they also the US beetch esp. after that pipeline damage…They going along out of fear but choosing the wrong side again…They just hoping they backed the winning side this time…the might get in trouble..again…
Germany is always on the wrong side of history
Turkey should apologise for killing 1.5 million Christians .
I love that man…. very well said…
They want to be at least in the second place😏,it is simple to understand, from now on they can say we are nazis and we are not worse than israel 😶😶😶
Exactly!!! If you dont feel comfortable helding israel accountable because of your own wrongdoing then just shut up
Grey headed robot.
I would say that I would be the easiest for Germans to condemn a genocide. Given their history of genocides.
Germany…on the wrong side of history…twice.
But it’s ok for them to criticize Russia, why? Because of censorship as i see. Everyone in modern Germany has nothing to do with past, you’re brave people, you should criticize everything you’d like to including your government if it doesn’t represent your interests❤
Germany feels honour bound to support Isreal come what may, because of their historical baggage. My question is – When will Germany feel they have paid in full the price of their commitment? When Isreal have killed 2, 3, 5, 6 million Palastinian/Arabs?
This man is so clear, logical, sound, fair, right, and true