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On 21 April, Germany will deport me – an EU citizen convicted of no crime – for standing with Palestine | Kasia Wlaszczyk

IIn the first week of January, I received a message from the Immigration Office in Berlin, and informed me that I lost the right to move in GermanyBecause of allegations about my participation in the pro -effective movement. Since I am a Polish citizen who lives in Berlin, I knew that the deportation of the European Union citizens from another country from the European Union state is practically impossible. I called a lawyer, given that there is no major legal reason behind the matter, we filed a lawsuit against her, and then I did not think about it.

I later discovered that three other people are active in the Palestine movement in Berlin, Roberta Murray, Shane Operen and Cooper LongbotumReceive the same letters. Murray and Operen of Irish nationals, American Longbottom. We understood this as a tactic intimidation of the state, and it is also Violent pent -up protests They arrested the activists, and expected a long and gloomy operation, but not at all an urgent operation to fight our deportation orders.

Then, at the beginning of March, each of our lawyers received on behalf of another speech, declaring that we will be granted until April 21 to leave the country voluntarily Or it will be removed by force.

The messages are cited on the charge of our involvement in the protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. None of the charges has yet to a hearing of the court, but the deportation letters conclude that we are a threat to public order and national security. There was no legal process for this decision, and none of us had a criminal record. The logic in messages continues with mysterious and unfounded accusations of “anti -Semitism” and supporting “terrorist organizations” – in reference to Hamas – as well as “supposed front organizations in Germany and Europe.”

This is not the first case of the immigration law in Germany. Since October 2023The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees illegally freezed all asylum seekers from Gaza. On April 16, 2025, a federal administrative court in Germany According to what was reported, he will decide the case This can put a precedent for the German state to deport Palestinian refugees.

These extremist measures are not a sudden transformation or just a marginal right. They are the result of a campaign more than a year by the Liberal Ambille Alliance-the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens-and German media, calling for mass deportations, which are widely seen as a response to the pro-Palestinian movement,, Mostly, it targets the Arab and Muslim German population.

In Novek From the decision Entitled “Never Never Green” now: Protecting, preserving and promoting Jewish life in Germany, which was formulated by the Christian Democratic Union in Germany/the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CDU/CSU), SPD, FDP and the Greens Party. She claimed that the new anti -Semitism decision It draws its content From her party’s position.

The decision, which adopts the controversial international Holocaust Alliance (IHRA) Definition of anti -SemitismIt defines migration from the Middle East and North Africa, and the “anti -imperialist left” as two of the main sources of anti -Semitism in Germany. Without new legislation, it directs public institutions and public institutions to be maximum to the executive authorities, which leads to a huge campaign on all forms of speech and work supporters of the Palestinians. Among the proposed methods is the strong audit of all cultural and academic financing, the examination of all candidates to fill university teaching jobs, and unprecedented expansion in disciplinary measures throughout universities and last, not least, the use of the Immigration Law.

Put the proven von Stores words, “to send anti -Muslim curses home on a plane. Tschüss Und Nicht Auf Wiedersehen! [Goodbye and never see you again!]”

My deportation order, as well as in the style of other citizens in the European Union, publicly cited Staatsräson in Germany (the idea that Israel’s security is part of the cause of the German state or the cause of its existence) as a basis for our deportation, at one time, in the past, it ever – ever – there is nothing in the past – anything that sacrifices them ever. So that the currents are tolerated within federal lands. “Staatsräson has never a real attempt to atone for Germany’s past, but it is a strategy for reunification of the nation first, and it is currently a way to justify the unlimited suspension of rights based on rights and the practice of unrestricted executive force.

Murray, O’Brien, Longbottom and I Our cases have been announced In order to fight this intimidation. Both lawyers filed a lawsuit against our deportation, and we are now submitting a suggestion of temporary relief against the deadline on April 21. Since our deportation orders are a test to know the amount of repression from which the state can escape, it is difficult to know the ruling that we can expect.

What we know is that we are right, yet Germany decides to act now, we hope to hope With the international community to our side – it will act and fight accordingly. Standing against continuous genocide and calling for Palestine is free is the most important thing for people outside Palestine now. The ordeal and struggle of the Palestinians in order to self -determination must be sufficient for a reason that we stand with them in solidarity. I reject the idea that solidarity depends on the fear of a similar thing that happens to us one day.

Although a previous risk has been appointed, these procedures have been appointed, we cannot and will not allow them to distract us and ask others not to frustrate. Israel’s genocide is escalating in Gaza daily. Four of Berlin stand in an indelible solidarity with the Palestinian people and their battles for liberation.

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