On 18th October, US president Joe Biden is expected in Berlin on a state visit. Genocide Joe wanted to come last Friday, but climate change does not respect the travel plans of imperialist geopolitics. Because of Hurricane “Milton”, the biggest supporter of the genocide in Gaza had to cancel his trip.
Despite this, hundreds took to the streets of Berlin behind the slogan “Not Welcome: Genocide Joe” to show their rejection of the US politics of war in the Middle East and Ukraine. They were repeatedly and brutally attacked by the Berlin police and many people were arrested,
Now, “Genocide Joe”, as he is lovingly called by family and friends, will paralyse our city on Friday with an oversized state visit. We will gather once more on Berlin’s streets and show the main sponsor of Israel’s genocidal vendetta how welcome war criminals and mass murderers are in Berlin: that is, not at all!
It is fully clear: without the support of the USA, the Israeli army’s devastating campaign of destruction and retribution against the Palestinian and now the Lebanese people would be unthinkable.
Under the pretext of fighting terrorism, the USA is allowing the pariah state Israel to implement the restructuring of a whole world region, which will kill hundreds of thousands and end with the expulsion of millions of people.
We can already see the consequences: over 50,000 dead in Palestine within the last 12 months at the hands of Israel. Hundreds of thousands mutilated and injured. People, whose whole families have been wiped out. Children, who have lost their parents. Parents, who must busy their children. Devastated cities. Misery. Grief.
And in Lebanon the same. Thousands of civilians now dead. Innumerable injured and traumatised. A country is being systematically destabilised. A society destroyed with the explicit support of the USA.
It is not just Joe Biden who is standing firmly on the side of Israel’s murderous politics. Last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz once more confirmed that he would carry on supporting Israel’s genocide by delivering weapons. While a majority of UN members are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, Biden and Scholz want more weapons, more bombs, more war.
For this meeting of warmongers in Berlin the whole city will once more be put into a state of emergency. Snipers on the roofs, manhole covers welded shut, and rush hour traffic will be so efficiently blocked that Last Generation will be jealous. Working people will be saddled with paying millions of Euros, although the majority of the population do not want anything to do with the World Order wars of the USA, which they condemn.
We will not accept this madness so simply. In solidarity with the people of Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, in solidarity with all victims of US politics, we are calling a demonstration against US imperialism’s warlike politics on Friday 18th October 2024, at 5pm at Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Take to the streets! Be a spanner in the works of the imperialist madness and tell the US president what you think of him: Genocide Joe not welcome!
