r/europe • u/Dazzling_Lobster3656 • 1d ago

Irish protester ‘repeatedly punched in the face by police’ during Gaza protest in Berlin

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/irish-protester-repeatedly-punched-in-the-face-by-police-during-gaza-protest-in-berlin/a249856773.html
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u/Artistic-Bass3477 1d ago

What the fuck are irish protestors doing in germany lmao

This seems weirdly organized

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u/EcstaticYesterday605 Ireland 1d ago

Irish living in Germany, Germans live in Ireland. Is it really difficult to get in a time where EU citizens have freedom of movement?

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u/shiokuo 1d ago

No its not, but why then they protest? If you against it then go to your country, wtf is Germany doing against Palestine? Eu has problems they can't handle already. And also palestine is terrorist country was, and will be.

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u/Rare_Opportunity2419 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, don't they know they're just supposed to shut up and keep their heads down and do as they're told? After all Germany's a free country and a democracy, they should know better than to dissent like that.

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u/EcstaticYesterday605 Ireland 1d ago

Just because you live in a country doesn't mean you agree with everything they do. I

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u/justadubliner Ireland 1d ago edited 1d ago

Do you really not know that Germany is only second to the US in providing Israel the means to commit genocide? In any case, even in Ireland, where the government is totally against the genocide we still have regular massive street protests. Just as we did against the Iraq War.

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u/DontWakeTheInsomniac Ireland 1d ago

People tend to protest in the cities that they live in. Perhaps she lives in Berlin.

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u/rapaxus Hesse (Germany) 1d ago

Should he take a whole plane back to protest against Israel in Ireland, even if he is living in Germany for various reasons?

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u/ValeteAria 1d ago

Uh Germany sells Israel weapons lmao. That seems like a pretty big thing.

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u/justadubliner Ireland 1d ago

Israel is the terrorist country BTW. A country of colonialist supremacists that stole from the Palestinians. A cesspit of a place.

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u/Detozi Ireland 1d ago

Tell me you dont understand how the EU works with out telling me. Fuck me, the idiocracy in these comments is hilarious.

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u/Dazzling_Lobster3656 1d ago

EU citizen

Freedom of movement to work/live travel....

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u/Artistic-Bass3477 1d ago

I understand HOW they are allowed to be there. I am surprised they went there for some protest

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u/Dazzling_Lobster3656 1d ago

Thy might live and work there

Or maybe because the arms shipments come from there

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u/_Hiugans_ 1d ago

As an EU citizen I can move, work, and yes, protest in any EU country of my choosing so long as I follow any applicable laws.

Many EU citizens live and work in countries other than the one where they were born hence it is also true that those citizens can protest in other countries.

It’s not weird or out of place, it’s perfectly natural and requires no actual organization other than the protest’s organization to comply with local laws.

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u/_Druss_ Ireland 1d ago

Why are polish people living in other European countries?? 🫏

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u/Artistic-Bass3477 1d ago

Living and working. Definitely not protesting lmao

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u/_Druss_ Ireland 1d ago

This is what living looks like, I suppose some have no issue bending over.... 

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u/esnolaukiem 1d ago

polish people must be actual bootlickers, because i see no polish protests in berlin

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u/_Druss_ Ireland 1d ago

I know a lot of polish people and they are great craic, you have to have sympathy for them, they've been conquered more times that bonnie blue

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u/esnolaukiem 1d ago

so why don't they support palestine in berlin?

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u/Artistic-Bass3477 1d ago

Lmao Irish just bend over for a different group 

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u/BlackBaron44 1d ago

Standing for their rights with the occasional left thrown in for good measure.

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u/lasttimechdckngths Europe 1d ago

What the fuck are irish protestors doing in germany lmao

Aside from the EU itself allowing it for long decades by now, as German logistics, money, arms, and outright support is out there for the war crimes and cleansing & colonisation by the State of Israel, it's more than expected.

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u/cionn 1d ago

Both countries are in the EU and therefore have feedom of movement. Another example is when German people attend Palestine marches because they live in Ireland

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u/Kunjunk Ireland Spain 1d ago

Just a little reminder that both countries are in the EU, as is Poland, and that hundreds of thousands of Poles were welcomed with open arms in Ireland in the early 2010's.