Germany has already evacuated at least four times as many donkeys as human beings from Gaza.

Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than animals.Just when it seems impossible for German policy on Palestine to become more absurd, the country manages to prove otherwise. Last week, reports emerged that at least eight donkeys from Gaza had been “rescued” and flown to Germany. While the operation can be seen as part of an Israeli campaign to deprive people in Gaza of an essential means of transportation, the real outrage lies elsewhere: Germany has already evacuated at least four times as many donkeys as human beings from Gaza.“They have left behind hunger and misery, beatings and exploitation.” This is how a German newspaper opens its story about the donkeys’ “rescue” – without a single word explaining who is responsible for their suffering. Worse still, German media have not used such empathetic language for Palestinians in more than two years. Only far-left outlets still describe what is happening in Gaza as “genocide.” In the mainstream, the word is treated as a “scandal“ in itself. Reports of systematic torture of Palestinians by the Israeli army – most recently documented by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – barely reach German audiences, and there is certainly no public outcry.

Further down, the article cheerfully notes that the donkeys, “considering all the terrible things they have experienced, are amazingly trusting” and have already “blossomed a little.” Reading similar descriptions of the psychological state of Gaza’s people in a German newspaper today would be nothing short of “revolutionary.”Further down, the article cheerfully notes that the donkeys, “considering all the terrible things they have experienced, are amazingly trusting” and have already “blossomed a little.” Reading similar descriptions of the psychological state of Gaza’s people in a German newspaper today would be nothing short of “revolutionary.”For international observers – and for South Africa’s genocide case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – one of the clearest indicators that Israel is committing genocide is the repeated dehumanization of Palestinians by Israeli government and army spokespeople, who routinely liken them to animals. Regarding Germany, one can now say this much: after two years of genocide, Ghazawis have been so thoroughly dehumanized that, in the hierarchy of “valuable” life, they rank below animals.

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