A Year in German Culture: Gaza and censorship. (Thomas Meaney | Sidecar, 2024-12-15)

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/a-year-in-german-culture
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A good (and trist) collection of unbearable denialism among German public discourse about Palestine, throughout the year 2024.

[An excerpt, from 3 June]
"The images from Gaza are not real. So, in as many words, says Herta Müller in the FAZ. An expert on totalitarianism, having grown up in Communist Romania, she knows it when she sees it. ‘Hamas controls the selection of images and orchestrates our emotions’, she writes. ‘Our feelings are their strongest weapon against Israel’. In order to counteract this mass manipulation of feeling, she counsels keeping faith with the Israeli military forces, and renewed scepticism toward images of burning people, pulverized buildings, starving children, whether or not they are staged by Hamas’s Hollywood division..."

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