A German leftist MP called out during chancellor’s speech “it’s a genocide”.
#Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz gave his first government statement on 14 May. As he referred to “the war in Gaza”, there was an interrupting call from among the Left Party faction: “It’s not a war, it’s a genocide (Es gibt keinen Krieg, es gibt einen Genozid)”.
Soon after the speech was finished the president of the Bundestag Julia Klöckner rushed to reprove it as “a relativization of Holocaust” and not to be allowed, without identifying the caller.
cf. [in German]
Julia Klöckner rügt Linke für »Genozid«-Zwischenruf - Der Spiegel (2025-05-15)
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/julia-kloeckner-bundestagspraesidentin-ruegt-linke-fuer-genozid-zwischenruf-a-5437d0fe-d283-4ca4-8e45-14af9a9e1e62
Later Mirze Edis declared his deed:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191363.krieg-in-gaza-mirze-edis-es-bleibt-ein-genozid.html [interview in German]
#StopGenocide #NameGenocideGenocide #MirzeEdis #relativizationOfHolocaust
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
Not so fun fact about Julia Klöckner. When she was minister for agriculture and nutrition she advertised Nestlé by saying on video during a meeting with the head of the company in Germany that she’d like to thank the food processing industry for making the food “the people like to eat”.
If you think a bar is low, prepare for the German CDU to limbo below it with ease.
That’s a pretty thin criticism.
