Fascism now banned for everyone in Germany

It was not a media hype when - in the forefront the Schroeder-Fischer government - the population was called upon to "speak out" and resist against right-wing extremism.It is a serious demand for the racist and anti-Semitic attacks gradually prove to become a crucial barrier for (foreign) investment. Especially inconvenient as the government together with German industry has just settled the compensation issue for NS-forced labour and by doing so has managed to protect German trade and war criminals. The successors of the former bosses in the industry of the Third Reich do not even hesitate to demand "Berufsverbot" for neonazis whereas the ministers of internal affairs of the federal states ostentatiously want the ban of the Nazi party NPD. Not only groups near to the German Communist Party (DKP) demanded this for years, so did the radical left time and again. This demand is now taken over by the government , however what was discussed lately - beginning with face and haircut controls up to ideological controls in schools and enterprises - has in itself more than an affinity to the ideas of those who are to be banned. This is quite inevitably so if it is true that racism stems from the "decent centre" as they call themselves now. The one brings forth what it actually wants to prohibit. Therefore it was only consistent that the Jewish communist Peter Gingold demanded at a rally in Munich on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fascist bomb attack on the "Oktoberfest" a "ban on fascism for everyone". Since what is virulent in this country cannot be healed by creating "useful aliens" who are to disguise Germany´s xenophobic image. The policy in asylum and social affairs is security policy.
Therefore the authoritative formation from above and the racist violence from below do not only threaten migrants and refugees but also all those who are considered "pariahs" of their supposedly "own" society. That the majority of those who were murdered by Nazis and boneheads in the past 10 years were homeless, pensioneers and welfare receivers with a German passport does fit just as well into the political and social mainstream; however in the public discussion this fact does not play any significant role.

Self-complacent up to racist is the attitude of some German left-wing newspapers with regard to the conflict in Palestine. Whether the monthly magazine "konkret" or the weekly periodical "Jungle World" - they agree that a "rioting, islamic mob" only needed the spark which Sharon delivered with his provocation on the Temple Mountain to ravage amongst the Jews. Far more than 100 dead Palestinians in only a few weeks - that is the fault of the Palestinians themselves. Since a right to resist have only those whose oppression is not simultaneously legitimized by Germany. The legitimisation of Israel´s expansionist policy - the Holocaust - makes the Palestinians to canon fodder in the fight for a clean slate of the German left. Any decency vanishes - for them it is not even possible to recognise the occupation and expulsion continuing for 50 years now as the result of German crimes. Might be that an obligation grows out of this. Instead they swap to racist arrogance and conjuration theories - according to them the Palestinians together with the German media - which do not cover up completely the dead Palestinians this time - and the US threaten to sacrifice the home of the Jews. Here any means are legitimised. At least manipulating and suppressing news -Sharon´s visit is minimised to a private visit only to be found outraging by religious zealots. In fact Scharon was "accompanied" by1,200 soldiers and policemen. And it was the same attitude as in 1982 before Beirut when the commander Sharon allowed the brutal murder of 1,500 Palestinian civilians in the camps Sabra and Schatila in only one night under the floodlights of the Zahal-army. At that time the Jewish poet Erich Fried considered Scharon to be a "mass murderer" - today the "desecretion of the Joseph-grave" is the proof for the fundamental anti-Semitism of the Palestinian Arabs. As a matter of fact the attack was primarily directed against a Jewish settlers´outpost which Jewish clerics declared to the "Joseph-grave", occupied and built up to a military enclave - all this without Israel´s official recognition . The lynching of two Israeli reservists justified bombs on Palestinian cities and villages. On the eve of Yom Kippur in some cities of the occupied territories - but also within Israel - pogroms against Palestinians and Palestinian Israelis took place. In the pogrom five people were murdered. Imagine the Syrian Air Force would have bombarded Tel Aviv as a result. After the meeting of Sharm El-Shaikh they write about a "cease-fire" demanded by Barak and not to be pushed through by Arafat. A cease-fire is the agreement between two armies - between an occupying force and the population of an occupied territory a cease-fire is inconceivable.

A German left not existing as a forceful factor for a long time by now does not want to know anything about that anymore. They keep silent, relativise the facts or defend unscrupulously Israeli snipers and marauding Jewish settlers. That is exactly the point - if the supposed enemies of nationalist ideas become friends of those who defend their fatherland, then the denied "national question" is just as instrumental as the question of "human rights". As it is necessary. And it is possible as long others and not they themselves have to bear the consequences. The result of such a logic is to return to apologise the government and oppression structures - considering Israel to be the latest victim of the New World Order (konkret) and the rebellion of the oppressed a "ravaging mob" (Jungle World). And at such a mob one can only shoot at - with sharp ammunition, of course. Then the shot children are not any longer victims of the Israeli state terrorism but a "highly desired corpus delicti proving the viciousness of Israel" (Gremliza)- such a shameless arrogance of the left against human beings was rare . In 1891 Achad Haam - one of the founding fathers of the cultural Zionism- visited Palestine. About the European settlers he wrote under the title "The Truth from Palestine": "Slaves they used to be in the Diaspora,all of a sudden they found themselves free and this change evoked their tendency to despotism. They treat Arabs with hostility and cruelty, they deprive them from their rights, offend them without reason and do evenboast with it. And nobody of us stands up against this contemptuous and dangerous situation." There is nothing to add from our side.

Has this editorial something to do with the activities of Libertad! Yes,since it shows the limits of our activities and influence, shows how near we are to helpless commentaries - even if we are still outraged. Yes since it is difficult in view of these facts not to become cynical. Nevertheless we want to emphasise our solidarity with this new Palestinian Intifada. The solidarity does not include the consent to all aims of the resistance groups, but defends the fundamental right to revolt against any kind of forced dominance as the starting point of social emancipation. In Palestine and Israel, too. Because only then solidarity is not only tactical and justified criticism can become concrete. Everthing else belongs to the ideology of identity respectively its justification.

The Editors