Samidoun strongly slams German raids on pro-Palestinian supporters

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network has condemned “in the strongest terms” the German raids that targeted pro-Palestinian supporters in several parts of the European country.

On Thursday, German police searched 15 properties linked to alleged members of the Hamas resistance movement, supporters, and sympathizers in the capital Berlin, and other states, including Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Schleswig-Holstein.

 “We express our deepest solidarity with all of those subjected to these raids today,” Samidoun said in a statement issued on Thursday.

“The images of hundreds of masked and heavily armed police invading the apartments of Palestinian students, workers and refugees in Germany today appears as an imitation of the daily invasions of the Israeli occupation forces in Palestinian homes in occupied Palestine, as well as a disturbing echo of Germany’s own Nazi fascist history.”

The group described the raids as “a clear attempt by the German state to terrorize the Palestinian, Arab and Muslim communities in Germany and, more broadly, the popular sentiment in support of Palestinian liberation” and “an attempt to advance” Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.

“Whether the repression is taking place in Germany, France, Britain, Canada or the United States, it is clear that these attacks on strugglers for justice in Palestine reflects only the desperation of the imperialist powers to defend their illegitimate Zionist settler colonial project planted in the heart of the Arab region by all means, including tearing apart all of their proclamations and pledges of democracy, human rights, freedom of expression and freedom of association.”

Samidoun also slammed Germany for increasing its military support and arms sales to Israel after the eruption of the brutal aggression on Gaza in October, stressing that the European country should have instead “sanctioned the Israeli occupation regime, expelled its ambassador and invoked the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians” if it had really learned its lessons from Germany’s role as a perpetrator of Nazi genocide.

The group emphasized that German attacks will fail in the attempt to silence pro-Palestine voices, and vowed to “challenge the ban and these attacks by all legal means.”

Earlier this month, Germany officially banned any activity by or in support of Hamas, dissolved Samidoun, and also intensified its crackdown on what it calls antisemitism in the country.

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