someone is really posting a real long text about how they were in a pro palestinian demonstration and where fished by nazis only to go on how you have to be careful as anyone is vulnerable towards propaganda and that antisemitism is wrong while at the same time literaly writing:
"They started talking about "Zionist" propaganda in the US, about how it was deeply entrenched in capitalism. Things that, on the surface, seemed reasonable but it set off alarm bells in my head."
Excuse me, but if you are talking about Zionist "propaganda" in connection with capitalism and say that it sounds reasonable, than you are in fact antisemitic. Point blank. It is just picking up the old antisemitic trope of "jews and money" while connecting it with the "jews control the world/media" trope.
You can be left all you want and believe in how good of a person you are and that you are against all hate, but you are proving with your very own words that you are not that pure of a person as you would like to be. You know that antisemitism is bad so you of course claim to be not antisemitic. But your words prove the opposite.
(It's just the same with all the racists who hate to be called racists, but have no probl3m qith acting racist.)
Many leftists are sadly very antisemitic, you just don't realise it. While far right wing people are rather open about their antisemitism the far left is hiding it behind words like capitalism and establishment - which ironically many people in the right have adopted today. So of course you are open to being fished by literal nazis and of course it takes you hours to realise it. Simply because so many of your views agree with each other. You simply believe that it is about israel, while the right know that it is about jews.
Now if you don't want to be antisemitic you really have to think hard about all your views regarding not only jews but also capitalism, the media, "powerful" people in politics and also israel. Because many people use those points to hide their antisemitism. It is possible that those people have teached amd shown you stuff regarding these matters that sounded reasonable. It is okay that you believed them. But check all of that regarding antisemitism. Really analyze them. It can be that if you deny any connection with antisemitism right of the bat or start to feel uncomfortable once you take a closer look while inforning yourself on the many forms of antisemitism, that this reactions/feelings could be an indicator for actual antisemitism.
While you are at it please inform yourself what words like genocide and appartheit mean, how the israeli army takes care of making escape routes safe and hamas doesn't and think about what other state informs the people hours if not days before in various ways where they are going to attack because someone started to shot bombs at them from there, and how you would want and expect the country you live in to react to an attack like on october 7th. If 240 people of your country - even children - would have been abducted. What would you want your country to do? And if you are asking for a ceasefire, who are you asking? Only one side or both? And if you only ask one side, why are you asking the side that got shot at first? Why not ask the side that started shooting rockets? And can it still be called a ceasefire if only one side stops shooting rockets?
And isn't it weird that apparently only Israel is commiting a genocide on the people of gaza, even though they inform them when they are gonna bomb which buildings and are making sure that the escape routes are safe, while hamas doesn''t give a fuck about their own people. How can you claim that hamas doesn't want to and tries to commit a genocide on the jewish people after even admitting it themself and constantly shooting rockets at Israel, and made all those horrible crimes on october 7th and say that they will never stop and even tell every palestinian in the whole world to take a knife and grab a jew?
Hamas doesn't care about their people. What is happening to the people in gaza is horrible. I cry with and for all the innocent people there. But hamas isn't innocent. What is happening right now happens because of hamas. That is why they attacked israel, that is why they took hostages. Because they knew that no country in the world that cared for it's own people could let it slide.
They did it so that Israel would have to defend itself - and that so called leftist would be stupid enough to go on the streets and protect hamas and spread antisemitism.
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PART 6
of the dfk 2023 audiobook translation
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Martina: „…Can I borrow your phone really quick?“
Jo (confused): „Hm?“
Martina: „Mine’s broken.“
Narrator (audiobook):
Doctor’s daughter? If Jo knew…
Martina borrowed the phone to make a call. I wonder who she’s calling?
Oskar: „Thaler?“
Narrator (audiobook):
Exactly! Martina is calling her brother, who is at the moment clumsily trying to make himself fried eggs.
Martina: „It’s me!“
Oskar: „Martina?!“
Martina: „How are you?“
Oskar: „Good…“
Oskar is putting the frying pan with the messed up eggs into the sink and letting water run into it.
Martina: „Are you sure? Can you manage?“
Oskar: „Yeah… It’s just boring without you.“
Narrator (audiobook):
The burnt eggs in the pan, which he douses with water, say something else.
Martina: „Are you alone?“
Oskar: „Yeah, Mama is on late shift again…“
Oskar is stepping out onto the balcony.
Oskar: „And? How is it on that giggle mountain?“
[Note: He says „Kicherberg“ here, which is a wordplay that I can’t translate. The words „Kicher“ and „Kirche“ sound similar. „Kicher“ means „giggle“ and „Kirche“ means „church“. „Berg“ is the mountain]
Martina: (laughs) „You mean Kirchberg. Well, it’s all very different from back where we live. It’s nice there too, but it’s just more rural here. Small houses…“
Oskar: „Since when do you like where we live?“
Narrator (audiobook):
Jo steps out of the room into the corridor.
Martina (hastily): „I need to go now, Oskar, bye, love you!“
She hands the phone back to Jo.
Jo: „You need a phone here. That’s our only connection to civilization.“
SCENE CHANGE. We now see Matze and Uli’s room.
Narrator (audiobook):
Matze and Uli share a room. Uli is in the process of creating a map of the old city wall of Kirchberg, with the title;
Uli (whispers): „The legend of Kirchberg!“
Matze, angestrengt schnaufend: „…19! …20!“ (pants)
Narrator (audiobook):
…while the strong Matze is busy doing his fitness exercises on the floor.
Uli: „Now?“
Matze (panting): „Can you help me with the Sit-Ups really quick?“
Uli: „Yes.“
Matze: (breathes out deeply)
Narrator (audiobook):
Uli gets up from his desk and holds down Matze’s feet while he does his stomach exercises, pulling himself up to his knees with the power of his torso.
Uli: „One. Two. Three. Four…“
Matze: „I’m gonna train until I’m invincible as a boxer! Fast like Ali, elegant like Maske, effective like the Klitschkos!“
Matze lets himself fall on his back with a huff.
Uli: „Invincible. Can you teach me that too?“
Matze: „What?“
Uli: „Well, how to defend myself.“
Matze: (sighs) „Uli, I’m taking care of you! Okay?“
Uli: „Yeah… There’s really just nothing I’m good at. Except studying.“
Matze: „I wish I was as smart as you.“
Uli: „And I wish I was as strong as you.“
Matze smiles.
Matze: „…By the way… what are you doing in the holidays, you don’t… happen to be here?“
Uli: „Nah. That’s pretty soon! My grandparents invited us to Sylt. Um. And I thought you’d be in your father’s boxing camp?“
Matze: „Yeah… I don’t really know if that’s for me yet. They’re all just amateurs…“
Matze stands up and walks over to the wall where his training plan hangs.
Narrator (audiobook):
Matze studies the training plan hanging on his wall. Maybe he’s taken on a little too much?
As the night falls, Justus Bökh goes around to check wether all students are in their rooms. He starts with Matze and Uli.
Knocking. Door opens.
Bökh: „Good evening, you rascals… Everything alright here?“
Narrator (audiobook):
The two mumble an answer.
Bökh: „Full sentences, please.“
Matze: „Everything alright…“
Uli: „…Herr Bökh.“
Bökh: „Exactly. Herr Bökh.“ (takes a breath) „Good.“
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