Hawzah News Agency- ‘Democracy has become a shame and we need to protest for Palestine in order to save our own democratic rights in Europe,’ says Varoufakis- ‘If this was in 1938, we would all have one duty: to go out in defense of Jews, defending them from the Nazis. Today, we have one duty to defend the Palestinians from the Israeli apartheid state and the genocide,’ says Varoufakis.
According to Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister and a staunch critic of Israel's genocide in Gaze, the crackdown on Palestinian solidarity in Europ has laid bare the erosion of fundamental democratic rights across the continent.
“There is no freedom of expression in Europe,” Varoufakis told Anadolu in an interview, arguing that citizens are being punished not for violent acts, but for refusing to support Israel’s harrowing crimes against Palestinians.
Last year, German authorities imposed an entry ban on Varoufakis and barred him from engaging in any political activity in the country, after police forcibly shut down a Palestine Congress event in Berlin, where he was scheduled to speak.
More recently, Germany issued deportation orders to three EU citizens and one American in March for participating in pro-Palestine protests, giving them six weeks to leave the country.
“When the German state violates all its own principles and rules in order to defend the right of the Zionist apartheid state to eradicate Palestinian life in Palestine, then you know that there’s no democracy,” said Varoufakis.
For him, standing with Palestine is not only a matter of solidarity but a litmus test for Europe’s democratic values.
“Democracy has become a sham and we need to protest for Palestine in order to save our own democratic rights in Europe.”
Drawing a stark comparison, Varoufakis said that just as people had a moral duty in the 1930s to defend Jews from the Nazis, today the same obligation applies in defending Palestinians from the actions of the Israeli state.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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