Living in Germany truly has felt surreal this past week. I guess I just never had to know how propaganda felt. Of course, there always were apparent biases or dominant media narratives. But I always thought "at least it's not as bad as fox news". I'm not so sure anymore. Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but I didn't experience the "falling in line" to be that complete. And that includes all the prominent dissenting voices, totally in line now.
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Yes, it started with the palestine situation in general, that palestinians are mainly responsible for the conflict and all violence is mainstream opinion here.
Although the official police statistics show that antisemitic hate crimes are mainly perpetrated by neo-nazis, it is an acceptable point of view to hold that modern antisemitism is mainly an imported problem from palestinian and syrian refugees.
Anti maskers have been holding rallies wearing a yellow star, and compared themselves to Anne Frank or the Scholl siblings. Their demonstrations have often ignored hygene guidelines or violated general rules, but the police discovered their soft, non-confrontational side.
Allegedly, there was an anti masker event this week, where they played a Hitler speech from loudspeakers, while waving Israeli flags and later declared their solidarity with the state of Israel, while the police watched.
The pro-palestinian march on the otherhand got to experience the "full extend of the rule of law".