Why Germany is cracking down on free speech | The Big Picture

“The violence has seeped into the metropolis”
Anthropologist Ghassan Hage explains why countries like Germany, who enshrined freedom of expression into law, are violently cracking down on pro-Palestinian voices.
On Friday, German police raided a Palestinian conference, arrested a number of activists. They also barred British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah from entering the country to speak, allegedly threatening him with prosecution if he speaks publicly.
Hage is currently in a legal battle with the Max Planck Society, after they fired him following a media campaign accusing him of ‘antisemitism’.
He says it's part of a wider trend in western nations which are feeling threatened by their immigrant populations and attempting to regain control.
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