Here is what Nathan Thrall had to say about the unfriendly reception of a nonfiction work in Germany
that gives insight into the structural and practical violence Palestinians have to deal with living under Israeli occupation.
"In Germany I had an event that was to take place on Tuesday in Frankfurt that was cancelled at the very last minute by the Union International Club.
None of the people who cancelled the event had read the book or knew a thing about it and none of them provided any substantive reason for the cancellation, and the same thing was happening to me in the United States.
The reason in Germany is everybody is afraid of being accused of #antisemitism
and what they're really being accused of is not antisemitism but criticism of #Israel that is described as antisemitism.
Israel and his allies have spent years in the United States and in Germany putting forward a definition of antisemitism that includes entirely legitimate
criticism of Israel and trying to get around our basic democratic commitment to #freespeech by describing speech that is entirely legitimate as antisemitic.
Who of course is the close ally of Israel, the most pro-Israel force here in Germany? It's the far-right party as we see elsewhere. Ethnonationalists love Israel as a model for the kind of place they want to become - an ethnonationalist state that will dominate over people who are not like them."