Open Letter to the DGB Göttingen
regarding the incidents on May 1, 2025
Statement
Under the influence of the pseudoleft current of the “Anti-Germans,” the DGB in Göttingen has once again embarrassed itself and once again failed to banish the Palestinian cause from the public eye on May 1. Last year, the chairwoman tried physically to obscure the view of the banner “Stop the Genocide.”
This year, a document called “Consensus” was supposed to ensure that the genocide in Gaza would not be mentioned. Three-quarters of this “Consensus” is dedicated to us and the Palestinian cause and how to make it disappear. We thwarted this intention and made sure that this issue was visible and loud at the demonstration. We received great support from the demonstrators and many of the stewards.
The “Consensus” is syntactically and grammatically a complete disaster. We won’t go into that. The statements of the “Consensus” are also politically a disaster and border on anti-unionism.
On May 1, 2025, the year in which the German government, NATO, and the EU are making unprecedented war preparations since 1945, the DGB Göttingen declares the labor movement incompetent and powerless: “We will not solve the world’s wars here on May 1.”
A week before the 80th anniversary of Germany’s liberation from National Socialism by the Allies, the DGB Göttingen writes in its “Consensus”: “Wars know no winners for us.” So, World War II ended in a draw, 0-0. There’s nothing more to say about that.
It continues in the style of Israeli propaganda: “We will not tolerate statements that depict the extermination of the only Jewish state in the world.” Although Israel is not a Jewish state, since Palestinians and Jews live in equal numbers in the territories it controls, it is precisely this state that is meant.
And this reveals how the entire German hypocrisy extends into the trade unions. This sentence is a betrayal by Germany and the trade unions of human rights and international law, as these two groups do not exist side by side in Israel, but in an apartheid system where one group dominates the other and threatens to destroy it.
The philosemitic hypocrisy of this sentence is repulsive. Jews live everywhere in the world, more than in Israel. That they can do so should be a concern for Germany by enforcing human rights and international law.
But Germany does not care about people, it cares about a state in a geopolitically important region. In concern for this state, Germany and the DGB Göttingen betray international law and its institutions, the UN, and international courts.
The DGB Göttingen becomes a tool of German foreign policy by only allowing the warring parties to show their flags, whose wars are supported by Germany: the flags of Ukraine and Israel: “We expect everyone to […] refrain from displaying any national flags or secondary symbols.” This applied to us, the Palestinian flag and the keffiyeh, a “secondary” national symbol. Of course, the flag of Ukraine was displayed at the Help Ukraine stand. At the stand of the German-Israeli Society (DIG), the Star of David and blue stripes on a white background were the defining motif – it was essential to associate it with the Israeli flag. What was the DIG doing there? The DIG is a para-state, Zionist front organization of the state in civil society, funded with eight million euros from the federal budget to spread Zionist views and the corrupt notion of Israel-related antisemitism. The same can be said about the Amadeu Antonio Foundation mentioned in the “Consensus.”
One could fill pages with the treachery of the “Consensus” and its application. We will spare the readers that. Only the violent character of the underlying ideology must still be mentioned. It broke through at the rally site when a notoriously Zionist hate preacher, in his capacity as a steward, attacked a woman wearing a headscarf and then photographed her face up close.
This person embodies the unity of Zionism and racism. He works in the DGB and at the highest level of an individual trade union. He is a person without a moral compass, justifying every Israeli crime as well as the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He has been notorious before and has been excluded from some political contexts. When will the DGB take action?
How the DGB plans to stand its ground in the coming struggles as long as it is subjected to such whispers and carried by such people remains a mystery to us.
