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The author of the article links to their own earlier article in the Intercept that goes in detail: https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/germany-gaza-protesters-deport/

The only event that tied the four cases together was the allegation that the protesters participated in the university occupation, which involved property damage, and alleged obstruction of an arrest — a so-called de-arrest aimed at blocking a fellow protesters’ detention. None of the protesters are accused of any particular acts of vandalism or the de-arrest at the university. Instead, the deportation order cites the suspicion that they took part in a coordinated group action. (The Free University told The Intercept it had no knowledge of the deportation orders.)

Some of the allegations are minor. Two, for example, are accused of calling a police officer “fascist” — insulting an officer, which is a crime. Three are accused of demonstrating with groups chanting slogans like “From the river to the sea, Palestine Will be Free” — which was outlawed last year in Germany — and “free Palestine.” Authorities also claim all four shouted antisemitic or anti-Israel slogans, though none are specified.

Two are accused of grabbing an officers’ or another protesters’ arm in an attempt to stop arrests at the train station sit-in.

O’Brien, one of the Irish citizens, is the only one of the four whose deportation order included a charge – the accusation that he called a police officer a “fascist” – that has been brought before a criminal court in Berlin, where he was acquitted.

All four are accused, without evidence, of supporting Hamas, a group Germany has designated as a terrorist organization.

It's really really cute to see Germans/Europeans/Westerners pretending that antisemitism is an imported problem.

Netanyahu, the wanted by the ICC, is visiting Orban, who for his favour is ripping up Hungary's participation to the treaty of Rome. Israel is aligned with the USA, and now with Hungary and therefore Russia. Even if we ignored that it is itself an apartheid state, accused of genocide at the Hague, Canada has no business with the friends of our enemies.

Vlad Vexler makes the point that the point of is not at all economics but that it does have a basis in logic: it is about asserting that he can do this, that his political power is above economic rationality. It is a political move, not an economic play.

It's not that obvious to most people. I only came to realize it recently, from Gary Stevenson's explanations.

You know what, let's not let patriotism get in the way of common sense politics. We shouldn't be targeting them just because they back Trump.

We should be targeting them because they are billionaires. That's enough, regardless of who they support.

To quote Bill Burr: ‘These fucking billionaires. They need to be put down. You know, like fucking rabid dogs. They’re rabid with fucking greed and just going out and just dividing everybody.’

Make billionaires millionnaires again.

I approve the weakening of the US armed forces. That way when you fuck heads start invading Greenland, Panama, Mexico or Canada at least some of your morale and effectiveness will have been sucked away.

But their shills in the West will make sure that if you raise your voice, depending on your legal status, you will be slandered, roughed up by police, have your degree revoked, snatched up from your family or in the middle of the street, and deported.

And they will use the charge of antisemitism as a cudgel, all the while playing into all the worst antisemitic tropes and preparing the ground for the next round of actual antisemitic violence.

Zionism hurts Palestinians first, people who stand up for humanity second, all Jews third. It's a shit ideology.

Our housing crisis is not just un-influencable conditions, it is a policy failure.

So basically, the same reason as the housing crisis.

The eggs are all in Greenland.

What about the rest of the Democrats? Cool with it?

Spineless preemptively compliant cowards.

We do not forgive, we will not forget. It may take a while but Israeli war criminals WILL pay for their crimes.

Disgusting. This is Canada, we strive for equity, cherish diversity and value inclusion.

To clarify, do you think I'm Gale Uhlmann?

I viscerally despise this kind of meek sterile attitude. But then again, I come from Europe where sports arenas are still public spaces, in the millenia old Roman tradition of the Hippodrome.

The might go to Bernier.

I think the point of such an article is to point out that if we want to really protect our democracy against fascism, we have to also be delivering to such justified single issue voters.

There are good reasons anyone would mistrust self identified ICE agents: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-20/ice-impersonators-scams-target-immigrants-tips-to-protect-yourself

Fuck ICE