Against hate: There’s no more fighting against hate

It says you shall

never lose your sense of humor, no matter what

The circumstances are bad or life-threatening.

Because it is our only weapon against hatred.

Because if we lose him

Hatred will eat us away too

who is the strongest weapon of the others

whose heart is occupied by nothing but hate.

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There are six million reasons

not to forget my German humor

and since October 7, 23

there are (again) many more reasons.

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I understand that it is important

not to lose him.

But I think it’s difficult.

You can’t force it, you can’t download it

don’t train, don’t buy, don’t steal.

And I don’t pray anymore.

I can only try and hope

to find a trace of it.

Because just no hate, I understand that.

I’ll try it – and play music:

Denn fight for your right to party

should not be forgotten either.

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The Hamas killers (I think “killers” is not one

Hate word, but versatile in pop culture)

The Hamas killers have 23 on this October 7th

(brave as they are) no military installations

but also (and particularly symbolically powerful)

Visitors to a music festival

attacked: more than 200 murdered

raped, burned, filmed

and taken hostage

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and received a lot of applause for it

from music fans from all over the world

especially from the connections

DJs for Palestine and

DJs against apartheid and

Berlin Nightlife Workers Against Apartheid.

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I think there’s some humor buried in there somewhere:

I think these DJs are now being booked for Hamas parties

and as support acts at women’s executions in Iran

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and probably that’s why the applause for the Hamas killers

also from the Alliance of Internationalist Feminists:

This alliance has the rapes of the brave

Hamas killer described as propaganda claim

with the (as they call it) fascist

Israeli regime its genocidal

and trying to justify apartheid policies.

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What does Pnina Tamano-Shata say about apartheid in Israel?

The Ethiopian Jew as a child

fled to Israel with her family

Minister for Immigration and Integration from 2020 to 22

today chairwoman of the Israeli parliamentary committee

for the promotion of the status of women

and gender equality – what

As we all know, it’s nothing special!

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These are posts in the states

who want to bomb Israel off the map

have long been occupied by women

who is also not so white and

Upper class people are like Judith Butler

the good friend of the Hamas killers, she

(pop culturally effective) calls freedom fighters.

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Hello?: I think it’s not totally bad…

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I ask myself: what could you do?

Advise these DJ and women connections?

Then why not go over?

But that would be too much hate:

They wouldn’t survive that.

You dont know what you are doing

but they should live.

There is more to that

than six million good reasons.

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And I ask myself the old question once again:

Who betrayed us? Now also leftists!

I think it’s not that bad…

Although not entirely true – I correct:

Now also and even more alleged leftists.

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I’m sorry – there’s nothing more.

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I correct: I’m not sorry

that there is no more in it.

Franz Dobler is a writer who lives in Augsburg, where he recited this poem in the spring at an event organized by the “Artists Against Antisemtism Augsburg” initiative. Franz Dobler’s new novel “A Son of Two Mothers” was also published by Tropen in the spring.