After two years of genocide in Palestine, the official discourse begins to crack. Between the truth in the mainstream media and institutions in Germany and the political and economic practices of the so-called ‘democratic’ state, there is now an intolerable gap. A gap between the civilising narrative of Western human rights and the reality of Gaza, the West Bank and the wider Middle East region. We know the pictures. We know the figures. We know those who send the weapons, who design the drones and who open fire on hungry children, executing them as they search for water and food. There is no doubt about what reality is.
The opportunistic shift of the narrative to a ‘humanitarian crisis’ stems from the need of colonisers’ societies to maintain their moral superiority over peripheral countries. But behind this lie the most terrible crimes against humanity. Now they need to calm public opinion from “the North”, to reset the Western ‘civilising’ discourse. Right-thinking citizens and elites can wash their hands of guilt while continuing to benefit from genocide and supremacist domination. However, the cloak of complicity is beginning to fall away.
The root cause of every genocide lies in the voracious pursuit of profit and control over a territory’s resources. The genocide of our generation is driven by the agreement between Western governments and the arms industry.
Katherina Reiche of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz – BMWK), claims the arms industry is not only a matter of national security policy, but also a window of opportunity for the economy and innovation. Both show a total decline in Western values. Today, Germany is the second largest exporter of arms to Israel after the United States.
The proposed solution to the crisis in Europe’s economic model is to transform car factories into arms factories. Thus, the “Keynesianism of war” establishes itself as the economic model to follow. Economic and political leaders know how to produce nothing but death in pursuit of their interests.
Death is financed with our taxes, through cuts in social benefits and social and cultural infrastructure, all to ensure the exorbitant profits of the global bourgeoisie. Including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, billionaire of MAGA, to Moritz Döpfner, son of media entrepreneur Axel Springer, to name but a few.
All this shows that the protection of the Jewish people has nothing to do with the current situation, but with the greed of the bourgeoisie. Germany has a historical responsibility to the Jewish people – Just as it does to the Herero and Nama peoples, the Slavic peoples, the Roma and Sinti, the LGTBIQ+ community and the countless socialists and communists, political opponents murdered by this state in concentration camps and in gas chambers. Just as it now has to the Palestinian people.
Our role as the popular Left
In October 2024, as Bloque Latinoamericano, we spoke out about the need to create new fronts. These must engage broader sectors of society to break the media siege surrounding the genocide and normalised repression of the Palestinian and migrant communities. We also called for the transformation of social and labour spaces into places of dispute.
We therefore welcome the alliance and joint mobilisation within the framework of ‘Zusammen für Gaza’ on 27 September 2025. This call offers a tool to transform more spaces into territories of dispute such as our work, our football club, our family gatherings, etc. Specifically, we call on everyone to spread the word about this call, to discuss and promote mobilisation in the different spaces we inhabit.
Since October 2023, the massacre in Palestine has led hundreds of thousands of people to become interested in politics and criticise the status quo. For the younger generations, their introduction to politics is closely linked to Palestinian liberation.
That is why we from the Left must do ensure that this crisis of Western common sense makes way to a heroic and revolutionary stage of creation, where genocide is not part of the elite’s arsenal of options.
We also know, as a revolutionary political organisation, that the opportunistic political shift of some does not aim at the complete liberation of Palestine and its people, nor at their inalienable right to return to their land. That is why we demand that full solidarity during the march with the people who are repressed: the Palestinian communities from here and everywhere.
You, elected politicians, do not represent the will of the migrants living here, and with each passing day you lose the support of the popular majority. Each one of you, by voting and signing to send one more single weapon, one more piece of ammunition, one more tank, is a war criminal, an accomplice to genocide, and will be condemned in one way or another. We will not forget.
Those who do not take now to the streets to denounce the genocide will go down in history as accomplices. You cannot ethically distance yourself from those who “did not know” where the full trains were going; to and had not asked themselves what was burning in the steppes of the USSR. Western moral superiority is not only a weapon of colonisers and oppressors, but also an excuse for not facing reality. Those who do not fight do not feel their chains.
Enough with neutrality, we must end the immobility and fear of raising our voices. There is no such thing as fair colonisation, there is no right to massacre and starve a people. There is no forgiveness for slavery, plunder, dispossession, genocide, imperialist war, nor for the destruction of the social system to finance the industry of death and private property for the 1% of the world.
As long as there is no justice for the Palestinian people, there will be popular struggle and resistance.
When Palestine is free, we all will be freer.
This is a translation of an article in Spanish from The Bloque Latinoamericano website. A German version of the article is also available. Translation: Ana Ferreira. Reproduced with permission.
