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Linke (The Left) party expelled with immediate effect Palestinian-German member and activist Ramsis Kilani for his vocal opposition to "Israel’s" ongoing genocide in Gaza. In doing so, it followed in the footsteps of the only other mainstream leftist party in the country, the Greens, in exhibiting the infamous Palestine exception to progressive politics.

Kilani, a self-described Marxist, called his expulsion "a sad commentary on a leftist, internationalist party", left-wing daily junge Welt (jw) reported. The decision made by the Landesschiedskommission, the party’s state-level arbitration body was damaging "to all of us who fight for universal human rights", the activist wrote on Instagram.

Katina Schubert, one of two members from the party’s right-wing who had brought forward the motion to expel Kilani denied that his Palestine solidarity activism had anything to do with the decision, saying that it was based on his "relativisation of Hamas terror, selective criticism of violence against women as a weapon of war and denial of "Israel’s" right to exist", the jw report went on to say.

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You would have said there are "progressive forces on both sides" of the Holocaust.

[–] Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There were communists in Nazi Germany fighting Tue Nazis so yes, there where progressive forces in Germany but not in the Nazi party.

There are progressive forces in Israel and Palestine, but not withing nethanyaus party or the hamas

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

So yes, you would have "both sides"ed the Holocaust. In fact, you do.