Germany

Nicaragua Takes Germany To The World Court For Facilitating Genocide

April 14, 2024 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Educate! Genocide, Germany, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Nicaragua, Palestine

As Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza — which has killed more than 33,000 Gazans — enters its seventh month, Nicaragua sued Germany in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) for facilitating genocide. Nicaragua charged that, “Germany has provided political, financial and military support to Israel fully aware at the time of authorization that the military equipment would be used in the commission of great breaches of international law,” adding, “The military equipment provided by Germany enabling Israel to perpetrate genocidal acts and other atrocities, included supplies to the front line and warehouses, and assurances of future supplies such as ammunition, technology and diverse components necessary for the Israeli military.”

German Police Shut Down Pro-Palestine Conference

April 13, 2024 People's Dispatch. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Germany, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, police repression

On April 12, in another round of repression against Palestine solidarity organizers, German police shut down the Palestine Congress in Berlin, arresting several attendees and ordering delegates to leave immediately. German officials also prohibited scheduled speaker Ghassan Abu Sitta, Palestinian-British surgeon and the rector of Glasgow University, from even entering the country. The Congress aimed to raise awareness about Germany’s charges of complicity in Israeli genocide in the International Court of Justice, which have been raised by Nicaragua.

Nicaragua Closes Embassy In Berlin After Suing Germany Over Genocide

April 13, 2024 Press TV, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! arms sales, Diplomacy, Gaza, Genocide, Germany, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Nicaragua

Nicaragua announced the closure of its diplomatic mission in Berlin on Wednesday, noting that the Central American state’s consular tasks and official businesses in Germany will now be handled by the embassy in Austria. Managua recently announced the accreditation of its ambassador in Vienna, Sabra Amari Murillo Centeno, as a concurrent representative in Germany. Earlier this week, hearings opened in the ICJ, with Nicaragua saying Germany is violating the 1948 Genocide Convention by providing Israel with military and financial aid, as well as suspending funding to the main UN humanitarian agency in Gaza, UNRWA.

Protests At German Diplomatic Missions: Stop Arming Genocide

April 10, 2024 Marcy Winograd, CODEPINK. Resist! Embassies, Genocide, Germany, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, weapons

On the first day of ICJ proceedings, April 8, 2024, in Nicaragua v. Germany, pickets and letter deliveries took place in DC, NYC, LA, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Houston, Miami and Seattle. Demonstrators echoed Nicaragua’s requests of the World Court to order Germany and the United States to stop supplying weapons to Israel. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the US supplies 69% of Israel’s arsenal; Germany supplies 30% of the weaponry. Benjamin Alvarez Gruber, US correspondent for Deutsche Welle (DW), state-owned German state-television, covered the story at the DC German embassy, where CODEPINK organizers Medea Benjamin, Julia Norman and Palestinian American Moataz Salim led the delegation.

Bus Drivers Strike With Climate Activists In 57 German Cities

April 9, 2024 Berit Ehmke and Yanira Wolf, Labor Notes. Resist! Buses, Climate Justice, Germany, Strike, Transit, Worker Rights

Public transit workers across Germany have broken new ground by coordinating our contracts—nearly all of them nationwide have expired over the last four months—and shutting down bus systems with strikes in 57 cities. To add to the pressure, we’ve done something new for our union and for Germany: we’ve formed an alliance between local transport workers and climate activists, including the students who have been leading massive school walkouts. The devastating effects of climate change are already rocking Germany: major heat waves, flooding, and water shortages.

Nicaragua To ICJ: End Germany’s Support Of Israeli ‘Genocide’ In Gaza

April 8, 2024 Al Jazeera. Resist! Gaza, Genocide, Germany, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Nicaragua, Palestine

Germany is facing charges at the top United Nations court for allegedly “facilitating the commission of genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza in coordination with its military and political ally, Israel. Nicaragua presented its case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday, demanding judges impose emergency measures to stop Berlin from providing Israel with weapons and other assistance. In his opening statement, Carlos Jose Francisco Arguello Gomez, Nicaraguan Ambassador to The Netherlands and the lead of Nicaragua’s delegation said “serious breaches of international humanitarian law…including genocide, are taking place in Palestine” and are “being committed openly”.

Meet Centuria, Ukraine’s Western-Trained Neo-Nazi Army

April 8, 2024 Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone. Educate! Azov Battalion, Centuria, Germany, NATO, Neo-Nazis, Russia–Ukraine war, Ukraine, Ukraine aid, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism, Yaroviv

Centuria, an ultra-violent Ukrainian Neo-Nazi faction, has cemented itself in six cities across Germany, and is seeking to expand its local presence. According to Junge Welt, a Berlin-based Marxist daily, the Nazi organization’s growth has been “unhindered by local security services.” Junge Welt traces Centuria’s origins to an August 2020 Neo-Nazi summit “at the edge of a forest near Kiev.” There, an ultranationalist named Igor “Tcherkas” Mikhailenko demanded the “hundreds of mostly masked vigilante fighters present,” who were members Kiev’s fascistic National Militia, “make sacrifices for the idea of ‘Greater Ukraine.’”

April 8 Rallies Outside German Mission, Embassy, And Consulates

April 7, 2024 Melissa Garriga, CODEPINK - Women for Peace. Resist! CODEPINK, Genocide, Germany, Israel, Nicaragua, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, South Africa

On Monday, CODEPINK peace and human rights activists will gather outside the German consulate German Mission, Embassy, and Consulates across America to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine, Nicaragua and South Africa, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) commences proceedings on Nicaragua’s case against Germany for allegedly aiding and abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. "We are answering the call for solidarity with Palestinian-Germans who risk beatings and arrest when they protest Germany's complicity in Israel's slaughter in Gaza.

No More German Contribution To The Genocide In Gaza!

April 5, 2024 German Coordination Group Palestine Israel, Popular Resistance. Resist! Accountability, Gaza, Genocide, Germany, World Court

Let's raise our protest, loud and clear, during the Hearings of the Nicaragua (April 8, 2024) and Germany (April 9, 2024) cases before the ICJ in The Hague against Germany's complicity and assistance in Israel's genocide. On these two days, rallies and vigils will be organized in front of the International Court of Justice in The Hague and in front of many embassies and consulates of the Federal Republic of Germany abroad. This background to the proceedings before the International Court of Justice can and will also be highlighted in the days and weeks before and after the planned Palestine Solidarity events - particularly in Germany but also internationally.

Court Prohibits Eurowings Greenwashing Advertisements

April 2, 2024 Mira Kapfinger, Stay Grounded. Resist! Airlines, Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Germany, greenwashing

Berlin – On March 28th, “Deutsche Umwelthilfe” (DUH) achieved a success against misleading sustainability advertising by the airline Eurowings. The Cologne Regional Court in Germany fully upheld the complaint brought by the environmental and consumer protection organisation. The court prohibited the airline from advertising flights whose emissions are offset with a few euros as “CO2-neutral” in the form in which they were advertised at the time the lawsuit was filed. The court found that the forest protection projects used for the alleged offsetting of emissions are not suitable for achieving actual compensation.

What’s Really Behind Germany’s Unshakeable Support Of Israel?

March 28, 2024 Matthew Read, People's Dispatch. Educate! Germany, History, Israel, Palestine

The extent of the German government’s support for Israel during its ongoing offensive in Gaza has taken many by surprise. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been even more restrained in his criticisms of Tel Aviv than US President Joe Biden. A central point of reference for German politicians is the notion of Staatsräson (“state reason”). This was a term first coined in an essay by Germany’s former ambassador to Israel, Rudolf Dreßler, in the early 2000s and repeated by Angela Merkel in a speech before the Knesset in 2008.

Extinction Rebellion Protested Around The Entire North Sea

March 18, 2024 The Canary. Resist! Denmark, Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Fuels, Germany, North Sea, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom (UK)

In an unprecedented act of coordinated international climate protest, Extinction Rebellion activists from the UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands protested in solidarity with each other against new North Sea fossil fuels extraction. Under the campaign North Sea Fossil Free acts of civil disobedience happened all around the North Sea. The governments of these six countries are permitting new fossil extraction infrastructure, harming not only the North Sea ecosystem, but also committing the whole world to dangerous levels of warming.

ICJ To Hold Nicaragua Case Against Berlin On Facilitating Genocide

March 16, 2024 Al Mayadeen English. Resist! Genocide, Germany, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Nicaragua, Palestine

The International Court of Justice will hold hearings in Nicaragua's case, accusing Germany of complicity in the Gaza genocide starting next month. Nicaragua accused Germany two weeks ago of enabling genocide in Gaza in a lawsuit brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for supporting "Israel" and blocking financing for the UN Palestinian refugee agency. The Central American country officially filed a case at the ICJ against Germany for supporting "Israel" financially and militarily.

US Activist Gets Prison Term In German Campaign To Oust US Nuclear Bombs

March 11, 2024 David Swanson, World Beyond War. Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Germany, Nuclear Weapons, US Imperialism, weapons

Susan Crane, of the Redwood City, California Catholic Worker, has been sentenced to 229 days in prison in Germany for daring to interfere with the U.S. nuclear weapons stationed at Germany’s Büchel Air Force base, southeast of Cologne. Crane participated in six nonviolent go-in actions, confronting the air force system on base which routinely trains to drop the U.S. H-bombs on targets in Russia,[1] most provocatively this winter in operation “Steadfast Defender 24” — which was launched in the midst of NATO’s war in Ukraine.

The Russians In Ukraine

March 7, 2024 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. Educate! Britain, Emmanuel Macron, Europe, France, Germany, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism, Western imperialism

You may have read or heard about the freakout that ensued after Emmanuel Macron convened a summit of European leaders in Paris last week. At a press briefing afterward, the French president allowed that NATO may at some point send troops to Ukraine to join the fight against Russian military forces. Before I go further, let me suggest a couple of thoughts readers can tuck somewhere in the corners of their minds for later consideration. One, Russia’s intervention in Ukraine two years ago last month was unprovoked. Two, all the Kremlin’s talk about the threat of NATO hard by its southwestern border is nothing more than the distortion and paranoia of “Putin’s Russia,” as we must now refer to the Russian Federation.

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