Tonight (Thursday) in the Jockel Biergarten, Berlin Queers Against Racism and Colonialism (QuARC) are organising a film screening and talk on the subject Boycott Eurovision. Join us for a screening of John Greyson ’s surrealist camp docu-opera about BDS, pinkwashing, and gay penguins: PHOTO BOOTH. Outraged by the 2021 bombing of Gaza, Palestinian queer activists Hamza (Sam Al Esai) and Walid (Ramzi Zain) recruit novelist Jean Genet (John Gilbert) to sabotage the Eurovision song contest in Jericho. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay penguins… 🎤 We will begin with a short talk about why LGBTQIA+ groups around the world are calling for a boycott of Eurovision. Doors open at 6.30pm. The film starts at 7.

Also this evening, theleftberlin is showing the film about Climate Change, Capitalism and Resistance in India. Join us to watch a short film (~ 20 minutes) that highlights the situation of refugees directly affected by climate change in the Sundarban region of India (and Bangladesh). We will also get to hear from Parimal Bhattacharya, author of the book ‘Field Notes from a Waterborne Land’ followed by a discussion. The film starts at 7pm at Café Karanfil, Weisestraße 3.

On Saturday evening, it’s Palivision, an  an evening of live music, spoken word performances and speeches. Palivision is an evening of culture for people in Berlin who want to observe the Eurovision boycott. Join us at Al Hamra in Prenzlauer Berg to see 12 live acts and 6 speakers from organisations working for solidarity with Palestine. Doors open at 6pm – the venue is relatively small, so come early to be sure of a place. The first act will take the stage at 7pm. All money raised at PALIVISION will be donated to the European Legal Support Centre to help their fight against the repression of Palestinians and their supporters in Germany. Palivision is our Campaign of the Week.

If you can’t get in, we are planning to livestream Palivision. More information on the Event page soon.

On Sunday, theleftberlin is organising the world premiers of the walking tour The Red Island in Schöneberg. The Red Island is a 33-hectare triangle in Schöneberg surrounded by train tracks. The steel skeleton of the Gasometer towers above the neighborhood. Once, up to 30,000 people lived here in tenements — today, it’s more like 10,000. “Red” might have once referred to red-brick military barracks next door. But the Island was also a socialist and communist stronghold. The train tracks created something of a fortress, and even after 1933, the Nazis had great difficulties establishing a foothold here. The tour starts at 2pm at Ella-Barowsky-Straße 68, behind the Shell gas station on Sachsendamm (S-Bhf Schöneberg). It will end two hours later near Yorckstraße.

On Sunday, it’s our latest Palestine Reading Group, where we’ll be discussing Emile Habiby’s novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist.  You can find the selected reading here. The Palestine Reading Group takes place every week, on either Friday or Sunday. Check the page of Events we organise for the coming dates and discussion topics. If you’d like to get more involved in the group, you can join our Telegram group and follow the channel Reading group. The Reading Group starts at 7pm, and there is a meeting for Moderators at 6.30pm open to everyone who’s interested.

Finally, a couple of recommendations from the programme of Sinema Transtopia, a transnational space for film culture, art, knowledge and community, creating a bridge between urban space and film as cultural practice. On Tuesday at 7pm, there’s Motoshinkakarannu, a film about the right to memory and autonomy of lands and bodies. And on Wednesday at 8pm you can see Fala da Terra (Voice of the Earth) and Para Onde Voam as Feiticeiras (Southern Sorceress) about communal solidarity in Brazil. Sinema Transtopia takes place in Lindowerstraße 20/22, Haus C in Wedding.

There is much more going on in Berlin this week. To find out what’s happening, go to our Events page. You can also see a shorter, but more detailed list of events in which we are directly involved here.

If you are looking for Resources on Palestine, we have set up a page with useful links. We will be continually updating the page, so if you would like to recommend other links, please contact us on team@theleftberlin.com. You can also find all the reading from our Palestine Reading Groups here. You can also visit the Palestine film evening every Wednesday at 8.30pm in Al Hamra. The title of the film is usually released too late for us to name it in this Newsletter, but you can stay informed by following Al Hamra on Instagram and facebook.

In News from Berlin, Berlin has a new transport secretary, and mayor Kai Wegner pushes for a fence around Görlitzer Park “as soon as possible”.

In News from Germany, suspects for the attack on an SPD politician are identified but not arrested, security errors mean that Bundeswehr meetings were available online, AfD on trial for being a confirmed right-wing extremist organisation, Greens and ver.di push for a €15 minimum wage, and study shows a correlation between racism and the risk of poverty.

Read all about it in this week’s News from Berlin and Germany.

New on theleftberlin we have an Open Letter to support artist Candice Breitz, Maria Kofalka looks at increased repression against Palestine activists in Germany, while Roser Garí Pérez reports on the eviction of the Camp for Gaza outside the Bundestag. Steven Klett in the USA and Florian Marchais in France report on the campus protests for Palestine in their respective countries. Sarah Adler interviews Yerachmiel Sneiderman, Adi Liraz, and Eliana Pliskin about their artistic project tackling historic German antisemitism and reactions to the bombing of Gaza, Ilya Kharkow recollects a nightmare, momo looks at the forthcoming elections in India, and we interview Zohar Chamberlain Regev, one of the organisers of the Freedom Flotilla which is currently headed for Gaza.

This week’s Video of the Week is a new video from Macklemore which references the current protests for Palestine on US Campuses (see report on theleftberlin this week). Because of the usual YouTube censorship, the age limit for this video is age-limited and we cannot include it in this Newsletter. Follow the link to view it at source.

For a video which is closer to home, here’s some footage of the camp for Gaza at the FU. The University authorities immediately called in the police.

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Keep on fighting,

The Left Berlin Editorial Board

On Thursday at the K19 Café (Kreutziger Straße 19), Udi Raz from the Jüdische Stimme is talking on Green Politics and Racial Supremacy in Palestine. Udi offers a historical contextualization of the perception of the relationship between the categories of “the land” and “the people” in Zionist knowledge production, and shows, through contemporary examples, how Green Politics are being deployed by Zionists in order to maintain Jewish Supremacy between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, through practices of genocide and epistemicide. The meeting starts at 8pm, and will be preceded by a vegan Küfa from 6.30pm.

Friday sees the opening of an exhibition Palestinian Identities in Ulme35 (Ulmenallee 35). Ulme35 and the der Ibn Rushd Fund invite you to spend an evening exploring Palestinian identities. Different artistic positions open perspectives of what these could be. Students and Almuni of Bard College Berlin will show short films and sketches. The evening also sees the opening of the exhibition Eyes of Gaza, a collection of photos young people in Gaza took of their world in 2020. When Eyes of Gaza was last shown in Berlin, we reviewed it in theleftberlin. The exhibition will run until the middle of June.

On Saturday, there’s a demonstration Solidarity with Palestine. Stop the genocide in Gaza! Stop the project of Israeli settler colonialism! Stop the renewed forced displacement of Palestinians! Stop Nakba 2.0! The demonstration starts at 3pm at the corner of Wilmersdorferstraße and Kantstraße.

On Sunday, it’s our latest Palestine Reading Group, where we’ll be discussing Socialist perspectives on Palestinian liberation. You can find the selected reading here. The Palestine Reading Group takes place every week, on either Friday or Sunday. Check the page of Events we organise for the coming dates and discussion topics. If you’d like to get more involved in the group, you can join our Telegram group and follow the channel Reading group. The Reading Group starts at 7pm, and there is a meeting for Moderators at 6.30pm open to everyone who’s interested.

On Monday, at 7pm, there is a Meeting to found a new theleftberlin Group. theleftberlin was initially a journalistic project, responsible for our Website and, later, this Newsletter. Organising meetings and other Events was mainly in the hands of the Berlin LINKE Internationals. At its most recent organising meeting, the Berlin LINKE Internationals decided to restrict their work to Events done in direct contact with die LINKE, and to let theleftberlin organise everything else. If you like what we do, and are interested in getting more involved, or are just curious about our work, please come along. It’s in Ferat Kocak’s office, Schierker Straße 26.

Also on Monday evening, Emily Dische-Becker & Basma al-Sharif will be leading a talk on censorship in Berlin, accompanied by the German premiere of Basma al-Sharif’s short film Capital. Emily Dische-Becker is a writer, organizer, and curator. She’s the German director of Diaspora Alliance. Basma al-Sharif is a Palestinian artist working in cinema and installation. The evening is part of Making Waves – a series of monthly screenings, talks, and lectures, on freedom of speech, art as resistance, Palestine, the German question, and more. Making Waves is organized by Khomasi, who are our Campaign of the Week.

One for your diary. Next Saturday, 11th May, theleftberlin is organising Palivision – an evening of live performance for everyone who wants to observe the boycott of Eurovision 2024. Besides 11 musical acts, there will be speeches by Palestinian lawyer Nadija Samour, Udi Raz from the Jüdische Stimme, plus representatives of the Palestine Campaign, Handala Leipzig, GewerkschafterInnen4Gaza, and KlimafürPalästina. All money raised at PALIVISION will be donated to the European Legal Support Centre to help their fight against the repression of Palestine Solidarity in Germany. The event takes place in AlHamra (Raumer Straße 16). Doors open at 6pm, but be early as places are limited. The first act is on at 7pm. More information in next week’s Newsletter.

There is much more going on in Berlin this week. To find out what’s happening, go to our Events page. You can also see a shorter, but more detailed list of events in which we are directly involved here.

If you are looking for Resources on Palestine, we have set up a page with useful links. We will be continually updating the page, so if you would like to recommend other links, please contact us on team@theleftberlin.com. You can also find all the reading from our Palestine Reading Groups here. You can also visit the Palestine film evening every Wednesday at 8.30pm in Al Hamra. The title of the film is usually released too late for us to name it in this Newsletter, but you can stay informed by following Al Hamra on Instagram and facebook.

In News from Berlin, Berlin police ban speaking Gaelic at the Camp for Gaza, transport senator resigns after alleged plagiarism, and Ferat Koçak attacks the deportation of and adult and a child with mental illness.

In News from Germany, Germany will probably support EU environmental reforms, first trial of the Reichsbürger begins, and following a demonstration in Hamburg against Islamophobia the interior minister calls for “tough intervention”, lastly inflation in Germany starts to level out.

Read all about it in this week’s News from Berlin and Germany.

New on theleftberlin, Dan Weissmann examines the popular German columnist repeating Israeli army propaganda, Helga Baumgarten, professor at the Bir Zeit University looks at the writings of  Constantine Zurayk and Salman Abu Sitta, Isobel Knight looks at the worrying recent case which highlights femicide in Kazakhstan, Ilya Kharkow worries about a murder in Kyiv, Roser Garí Pére condemns Germany’s proud complicity in genocide in Gaza, Alan Fernandes examines the trial following the murder of Brazilian socialist Marielle Franco, and we publish die Linke’s short manifesto for the coming European elections.

This week’s Video of the Week shows the production of the latest merchandise available from theleftberlin. Palestine T-shirts cost €15, or 3 for €40. Tote bags are €10. We also have a limited number of posters and other merch. Merchandise is available at all theleftberlin events, including Palestine reading groups and Palivision (although we sold all of the current batch of tote bags on 1st May). You can contact us beforehand at team@theleftberlin.com to ensure that we will have what you’re after. Profits made from the merch will be shared between improving theleftberlin website and the European Legal Support Centre for its work defending Palestinians and their supporters in Germany.

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Keep on fighting,

The Left Berlin Editorial Board

The Camp for Gaza opposite the Bundestag has decided to stay for another week. You can find out more by joining the Telegram group Besetzung gegen Besatzung / Occupy Against Occupation. Or just bring your tent and join us! The camp is open to everyone with regular workshops and rallies, including a large rally planned for Saturday at 6pm.

The Arab Film Festival started yesterday and will continue until Tuesday. It’s been 15 years since “ALFILM, the Arab Film Festival of Berlin”, has been presenting Arab stories in German cinemas. ALFILM has offered German and non-Arab audiences in Germany the chance to have a different window into the Arab World through genuine storytelling. With its 15th edition, ALFILM is inviting you to reflect on the state of things today, to dare to be critical, to explore the power of your voice, to ensure that you are seen, but also to dream of a better tomorrow. One that will resist being crushed by oppressive forces, whichever and wherever they are.

This evening (Thursday) from 6pm, there will be a meeting: Yemen: From the Arab Spring to International Proxy War. In 2011, a broad coalition of thousands of Yemenis began taking to the streets of Yemeni cities to demand an end to the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had governed the country for more than 30 years, and to advocate for improved living conditions, motivated by the hope-inspiring events of the Arab Spring. The political entanglements arising from these events contributed to the outbreak of a brutal international proxy war involving regional and global powers. Mohamed Al-Thawr, Reem Jarhum, and Feda Alkashi will meet for a discussion in “-r0g” located at Knobelsdorffstraße 22.

Also on Thursday evening at 6pm, there will be an Info and soli event for the Freeedom Flotilla, on the occasion of the departure of their “break the siege” mission. The coming Flotilla promises to be the biggest and most powerful yet, also because of the situation in Gaza. We will screen the documentary “The Truth: Lost at Sea”, about the 2010 Mavi Marmara mission. A guest speaker who participated in that very mission will be present to share his experience. Also we will have a short live stream with the ongoing mission and an open discussion. It’s in the Mozaik Center, located at Grunewaldstr. 87.

Thanks to everyone who attended our Political Walking Tour last week on Riots in Kreuzberg. So many people attended that some people agreed to pull out and join the tour next time it’s available–which, is this Friday. Revolutionary Berlin Tours have agreed to organise an extra tour just for you! It begins at Kottbusser Tor, at the corner of Admiralstraße, in front of Südblock at 17.30, and will finish near Schillingbrücke (next to Ostbahnhof) 2 hours later.

On Sunday, it’s the latest R2CKino film against gerntification. This month, we’ll screen the documentary, “A început ploaia/It started raining”. This film offers a touching testament to the everyday revolution of Roma people who are fighting forced evictions from the centre of Bucharest. The film follows the story of the Vulturilor 50 community, who lived on the street from September 2014 to June 2016 in order to fight against the eviction from their home, which enacted the longest and most visible protest for housing right in the history of contemporary Romania. The Event takes place in Bilgisaray, Oranienstraße 45, and starts at 5.30pm.

Also on Sunday marks the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Italy from Fascism, the Italian Association of Partisans hosts a celebration event. Like every year, there will be food and an afternoon program with music and amenities. Since the global situation has worsened since last year, the association has been one of the few pacifist voices in the Italian political and media landscape, which at the moment is dominated by the belligerent government coalition. Because of this anti-militarist and pacifist vocation, the organisation has been under attack since the start of the Ukraine war. The event starts at 12pm in “Clash”, located in Mehringhof at Gniesenaustraße 2a.

Sunday also sees our latest Palestine Reading Group. This week, we’re back in the Agit offices, Nansenstraße 2, and will be discussing The ICJ ruling and the limitations of international law. You can find the selected reading here. The Palestine Reading Group takes place every week, on either Friday or Sunday. Check the page of Events we organise for the coming dates and discussion topics. If you’d like to get more involved in the group, you can join our Telegram group and follow the channel Reading group. The Reading Group starts at 7pm, and there is a meeting for Moderators at 6.30pm open to everyone who’s interested.

Wednesday is International Workers’ Day, which is a bank holiday in Germany. There will be a trade union demo at 11am, starting at Keithstraße 1, additionally MyGrüni is organising a satirical demo in the Villa Quarter (meeting point: Johannaplatz at 1pm), and the Revolutionary 1st May demo will assemble at Südstern from 4.30pm. Meanwhile, all afternoon and into the evening a political festival will be held at Mariannenplatz in front of the Bethanien building. Visit our stall where you can meet members of the theleftberlin team, learn about our future Events, and buy Palestine-themed T-shirts and tote bags. We’ll be there from midday, with the stall officially opening at 1pm.

There is much more going on in Berlin this week. To find out what’s happening, go to our Events page. You can also see a shorter, but more detailed list of events in which we are directly involved in here.

If you are looking for Resources on Palestine, we have set up a page with useful links. We will be continually updating the page, so if you would like to recommend other links, please contact us on team@theleftberlin.com. You can also find all the reading from our Palestine Reading Groups here. You can also visit the Palestine film evening every Wednesday at 8.30pm in Al Hamra. The title of the film is usually released too late for us to name it in this Newsletter, but you can stay informed by following Al Hamra on Instagram and facebook.

This week’s Campaign of the Week is Gewerkschafter_innen4Gaza  (trade unionists for Gaza). Get involved by signing up on the G4G website! We will launch our first canvassing action on 1 May or International Workers Day. Our campaign and website are freshly launched (and need updating still), so we are excited for any support to help make this a lasting campaign that speaks to a broader trade union audience, both domestically and internationally. On Sunday, 28 April from 11.00-13.00 we have an online Zoom call, if you are interested in participating, sign up on the website.

In News from Berlin, Berlin rents have increased by nearly 20% in the last year, and Tesla plans layoffs in Grünheide.

In News from Germany, AfD festival in Thüringen as the party moves further to the right, increase in right-wing extremism in schools, more Germans are for a speed limit, cannabis to be banned at railway stations, and Björn Höcke uses Nazi phrases in his election speeches.

Read all about it in this week’s News from Berlin and Germany.

New on theleftberlin, we interview Jara Nassar about the Camp for Gaza opposite the Bundestag, and Anna Younes about the erasure of Palestinian voices from Germany, Emily O’Sullivan accuses Germany of complicity in the destruction of Gaza, we publish a statement from the Frieda Frauenzentrum about 2 girls* centres closed because of private Instagram posts, Ilya Kharkow looks at the relevance today of the novels of Alan Sillitoe, we interview Zohar Chamberlain Regev, organiser of the new Freedom Flotilla, David P. Carroll wrote a poem for Gaza, Nathaniel Flakin looks at the ban on speaking and singing in Irish at the Camp for Gaza, and Noa Paul argues that new asylum laws will make life for refugees even worse.

This week’s Video of the Week is the panel discussion on state repression and cancellations of pro-palestinian voices in Berlin/Germany with Ghayath Almadhoun Udi Raz, and Nicky Böhm. The discussion was held in the Spore Initiative last week.

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Keep on fighting,

The Left Berlin Editorial Board

The Camp for Gaza opposite the Bundestag is still active. You can find out more by joining the Telegram group Besetzung gegen Besatzung / Occupy Against Occupation. Or just bring your tent and join us! “The camp is open to everyone with regular workshops and rallies. The participants would welcome your support, so please visit them and bring food and drink, and anything else which could support them. Press requests should be sent to Besetzunggegenbesatzung@systemli.org. We will be publishing an interview with camp organiser Jara Nassar on theleftberlin soon.

This evening (Thursday) at 7pm, there is a public meeting Why Palestinian Liberation is a Climate Justice Issue. The meeting offers a (hybrid) space to connect, discuss, and to get informed. Why is the decades long struggle for Palestinian liberation deeply connected to climate justice? Why is it crucial for the German climate justice movement to understand those systemic links in order to take meaningful action in solidarity with Palestine and other anti-colonial struggles? The meeting takes place in the Jerusalem Kulturforum e.V – Mozaik Zentrum, Grunewaldstraße 87. Meeting organisers, Klima4Palästina are our Campaign of the Week.

Also tonight (Thursday), there is the book presentation in the Hopscotch Reading Rooms which we wrongly included in last week’s Newsletter (sorry for any confusion). John Merrick will be introducing the new book Workshop of the World: Essays in People’s History, which he has edited. “’Workshop of the World’ reveals how Raphael Samuel dived into the nineteenth century to find just how onions were pickled or the temperature of cheese tested, extending far and wide from the rough sleepers in Willesden to Roman Catholic missionaries in Wallasey. The meeting starts at 7pm at Gerichtstraße 45.

On Saturday evening, the Spore Initiative and the Jüdische Stimme will be screening H2: The Occupation Lab. Legally segregated, highly surveilled, heavily filmed and intensely guarded, H2: THE OCCUPATION LAB uncovers the way a one-kilometer long street in Hebron fuels the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict: past, present, and future. There will be 2 screenings – one at 5pm, the other at 7pm. The second screening of the film will be followed by Q&A with Noam Sheizaf, one of the film’s directors. It all takes place in the Spore Initiative, Hermannstraße 86.

Also on Saturday evening at 7pm, we are screening the film While We Watched in Karl Liebknecht Haus on Rosa Luxemburg Platz. Declining freedom of press is a hallmark of authoritarianism, and India, clearly headed down that path under the Modi government, is no exception. Over the past decade, conditions for journalists have gone from bad to worse. While We Watched is a documentary that chronicles the tragic saga of Ravish Kumar, a journalist at NDTV: a left-liberal news platform critical of the BJP government. The screening will be followed by a discussion on press freedom under capitalism.

On Sunday, it’s the latest monthly Political Walking Tour, now under the management of theleftberlin. This month’s tour will be looking at Riots in Kreuzberg. Every year since 1987, Kreuzberg has seen protests on May 1. “Revolutionary May Day” combines Germany’s knack for organization with Berlin’s predisposition for nihilism. This is our very first tour, which we started in 2009 and have been updating ever since. Our tour will be meeting at Kottbusser Tor, at the corner of Admiralstraße, in front of Südblock. We will meet at 14:00 and leave by 14:10. The tour will end two hours later next to the Schillingbrücke. We will not be using public transportation — the tour will be entirely outside. People who register will receive an e-mail with more information on Saturday.

Our next Palestine Reading Group is on Sunday at 7pm. Last week, we spent our time discussing the cancellation of the Palestine Conference and what it meant for us. This means that this week we will be talking about Feminist Perspectives on the Occupation of Palestine, which we had planned to discuss last week. You can find the selected reading here. The Palestine Reading Group takes place every week, on either Friday or Sunday. Check the page of Events we organise for the coming dates and discussion topics. If you’d like to get more involved in the group, you can join our Telegram group and follow the channel Reading group.

Note that this week’s Reading Group will not be at the usual venue. Instead, we’ll be meeting in the Gaza camp, opposite the Bundestag. Although we’re starting at 7pm, there will probably be a rally at the Camp at 5pm, so please come early to take part in that as well.

The Arab film festival starts in Berlin on Wednesday evening. More information about the festival in next week’s Newsletter.

Finally, once more many thanks to Al Hamra who let us use their rooms to livestream and discuss the Palestine Congress last week-end. Al Hamra have a weekly Palestine film evening every Wednesday at 8.30pm. The title of the film is usually released too late for us to name it in this Newsletter, but you can stay informed by following Al Hamra on Instagram and facebook

There is much more going on in Berlin this week. To find out what’s happening, go to our Events page. You can also see a shorter, but more detailed list of events in which we are directly involved in here.

If you are looking for Resources on Palestine, we have set up a page with useful links. We will be continually updating the page, so if you would like to recommend other links, please contact us on team@theleftberlin.com. You can also find all the reading from our Palestine Reading Groups here.

In News from Berlin, police break up Palestine Congress, widow of refugee shot by police sues the state of Berlin, and U-Bahn driver reported for racism.

In News from Germany, Yannis Varoufakis banned from Germany, nearly half of AfD funding comes from the state, law passed which will make changing gender entry easier, over 80% of Germans support decriminalising abortion, and Tesla threatens job cuts.

Read all about it in this week’s News from Berlin and Germany.

New on theleftberlin, both Nina Frey from the Nicaragua solidarity movement, and Spanish activist Roser Garí Pérez look at Nicaragua’s case against Germany in the International Court of Justice, Nathaniel Flakin interviews one of the few Jews allowed into a meeting about antisemitism, we interview Zoë Claire Miller from the Visual Artists’ Union Berlin about the German Art Scene and Palestine, Ukrainian poet Ilya Kharkow argues that supporting a country and supporting its people are not always the same thing, Roser Garí Pérez looks at the ban of the Palestine Congress, Marijam Sariaslani suggests how we can stop the AfD, and we published a statement by the activists a banner drop to protest the complicity of the Berliner Philharmonie and Deutsche Bank in supporting Israeli apartheid.

This week’s Video of the Week, shows the start of Hebh Jamal’s speech at the Palestine Conference last weekend before it got shut down by the police.

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Keep on fighting,

The Left Berlin Editorial Board

This week. Nicaragua took Germany to the International Court of Justice for aiding and abetting Israeli genocide. As a response, a Camp for Gaza has been set up opposite the Bundestag where it plans to stay all week. You can find out more by joining the Telegram group Besetzung gegen Besatzung / Occupy Against Occupation. Or just bring your tent and join us! “The camp is open to everyone – since Monday, more and more people heard about the camp and joined spontaneously. There will be regular workshops and rallies. The participants would welcome your support, so please visit them and bring food and drink, and anything else which could support them. Press requests should be sent to Besetzunggegenbesatzung@systemli.org.

Tonight (Thursday), at Hopscotch Reading Rooms, John Merrick will be introducing the new book Workshop of the World: Essays in People’s History, which he has edited. “Workshop of the World reveals how Raphael Samuel dived into the nineteenth century to find just how onions were pickled or the temperature of cheese tested, extending far and wide from the rough sleepers in Willesden to Roman Catholic missionaries in Wallasey. John Merrick’s collection of Samuel’s essay provides the reader with an invaluable introduction to the political and cultural background which inspired this insightful and exploratory radical historian.” – Sheila Rowbotham. The meeting starts at 7pm at Gerichtstraße 45.

Tomorrow, and all weekend, it’s the Palestine Congress. If you have a ticket, well done. The congress sold out weeks ago. You will soon be receiving a message from the organisers about the venue. If you don’t have a ticket, don’t worry, you can watch the main meetings on a livestream, which will be posted on the Congress homepage. On Saturday and Sunday, theleftberlin is organising a communal livestream, where you can watch with other people. Doors open at Al-Hamra, Raumerstraße 16, each day at 9.30am. On Saturday afternoon there will be a Networking meeting to coordinate existing activities and plan for the future.

On Saturday at 3pm, there’s a demonstration against Transphobia. On 13th November there was a brutal attack against a Trans woman in Weißensee. Four men attacked her on her way home. Transphobic violence has many faces. And we should stand up against all these forms. Do not look away from anti-queer attacks, and show solidarity with one another! Come at 3pm to Antonplatz to take to the streets together and show that no-one is alone. If someone in our district is the victim of anti-queer attacks, we will answer together and make sure that that was the last attack! Be active in everyday life and on the streets! Come to the demonstration! Weißensee remains queer and antifascist!

On Sunday from 1pm, there will be a Rave Rally – Save our Tuntenhaus in front of Kastanienallee 86, Berlin. Time is running out! – We only have 4 weeks left! Take to the streets against displacement and for the preservation of a queer Berlin! RAVE rally for and with the Tuntenhaus! Support our demand to the Berlin Senate: Enable the purchase & restoration of the Tuntenhaus by a co-operative through funding! We still want an experimental, subcultural and avant-garde Berlin! We want its creative potential to be nourished by enabling and affirming difference! Dance, sing and cheerlead with us on the streets! Together we RAVE and SAVE Tuntenhaus! Tuntenhaus Bleibt! is our Campaign of the Week.

Our next Palestine Reading Group is on Sunday and back to the normal starting time of 7pm. This week we’ll be discussing “Feminist Perspectives on the Occupation of Palestine”. You can find the selected reading here. The Palestine Reading Group takes place every week, on either Friday or Sunday. Check the page of Events we organise for the coming dates and discussion topics. If you’d like to get more involved in the group, you can join our Telegram group and follow the channel Reading group. Meetings are in the Agit offices, Nansenstraße 2. There is a meeting for moderators (open to anyone who’s interested) half an hour before the meeting starts.

There is much more going on in Berlin this week. To find out what’s happening, go to our Events page. You can also see a shorter, but more detailed list of events in which we are directly involved in here.

If you are looking for Resources on Palestine, we have set up a page with useful links. We will be continually updating the page, so if you would like to recommend other links, please contact us on team@theleftberlin.com. You can also find all the reading from our Palestine Reading Groups here.

In News from Berlin, campaign launched to make registration easier for everyone, and protests against the Amazon tower.

In News from Germany, 1,500 extreme right wingers in Germany have arms licenses, payment cards for refugees issued, meat consumption in Germany drops, Nancy Fraser uninvited by the University of Cologne for signing a statement by Philosophers for Palestine, increase in Germans eating in Imbisse, and Nicaragua takes Germany to court.

Read all about it in this week’s News from Berlin and Germany.

New on theleftberlin, Phil Butland looks at another left-wing centre in Berlin which is banning people who support Palestine, Nathaniel Flakin looks at the Israeli who is being fined for being attacked by the Berlin police, Jara Nassar looks at the items banned from Gaza and calls on you to support the protest Camp outside the Bundestag, Ukrainian poet Ilka Kharkow looks at Art after Auschwitz, Judy Cox argues at the Cambridge Union for Marxism in the 21st Century, the organisers of the Palestine Congress explain why their conference must go on, and Nathaniel Flakin argues that the new megatower in Berlin shows that gentrifiers and property developers are now just laughing at us.

This week’s Video of the Week, shows Nicaragua’s case against Germany in this week’s hearings at the International Court of Justice.

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