“Now You Are Part of It. Our German Guilt. Our Memory”
A Lebanese scholar in Berlin on carrying war in your body through a city that cannot hear it, and being ...
Tag: Germany
Palestine on Berlin’s Walls: Street Art, Censorship, and the Politics of Solidarity in Germany
From erased graffiti to banned symbols, Germany’s crackdown on Palestinian street art exposes how aesthetics become acts of resistance, memory, ...
A Journey through a Swiss-German Family Archive: From Colonial Palestine to Today’s Repression of Solidarity
Through letters, photos, and memoirs, a Swiss-German artist unravels their family’s colonial legacies in Palestine and how Germany’s unprocessed guilt ...
Legally Speaking: Inside Germany’s Trials Against Palestine Solidarity
From Rosa Luxemburg’s century-old defense against militarism to Berlin’s student trials on Palestine, Germany’s judiciary still insists it is “handling ...
We Will Not Stop, We Will Not Rest: Repression and Resistance from Berlin to New York
Facing arrests, bans, and brutal crackdowns, organizers in Berlin and New York persist in their fight for Palestine, exposing the ...
The story of a young woman on the right side of history, in a country that keeps taking the wrong one
M. held a sign asking if Germany learned from the Holocaust. She now faces criminal charges for it.
Syrian detainees play their forgotten music in Berlin
The tragedy of musicians in detention, forced to create their own instruments from the simplest materials to endure the endless ...
Scene from a solidarity protest: A short comic
*This short comic was originally published on the author's instagram account @gadzooks_bazooka. It has been resized and republished with permission.
Heavy baggage: A German reckoning with guilt, hypocrisy and responsibility
We Germans remember the Shoah with guilt, but refuse to confront our complicity in a present-day genocide. What does 'never ...
An asylum system designed to silence: How documenting dehumanization becomes a crime
Asylum seekers in Bavaria face more than just borders—they navigate a system where attempts to expose wrongdoing are punished by ...
Immigrant punks are challenging the whiteness of Germany’s subcultures
Singing in Urdu, Punjabi, and Farsi, a punk band is creating a space for migrants in the country’s alternative music ...
On Berlin’s cultural industry: Exploitation and selective inclusion
The city’s cultural policies commodify artistic expression and manipulate diversity, perpetuating power imbalances and constrains genuine cultural innovation.
That was tomorrow. A conversation about Arab imaginaries in Berlin
Syrian writer Rasha Abbas and Palestinian artist Muhammad Jabali, in conversation with Diana Abbani, discuss the evolving dynamics and narratives ...
We need to talk about the hypocrisy of Germany’s environmental movement
There is a mutually reinforcing link between racist, colonial, and fascist tendencies at the core of much of Western environmentalism.
“Our destinies are intertwined”. A speech for a demo that never happened
Let’s turn a moment of potential despair into an exercise of love. What many white queer feminists lack in solidarity ...
A long, unwieldy history of Palestine refracted in cinema at Berlin’s Arab Film Festival
Palestinian lives and cause are spotlighted at Berlin's AlFilm Festival amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza and unprecedented censorship in ...
No country for Palestinians: a chronicle of suppression and resistance in Germany
The increasing repression of Palestinian solidarity since 7 October in Germany is not new. It is part of a historical ...
SAOT Festival, beyond and in between
A space for music and discussion, SAOT Festival in Berlin is the sound and voice of Palestinians and people from ...
