"The crackdown has not only targeted movements in support of Palestine but has also served to test a broader transformation towards authoritarianism..Measures tested on the Palestinian solidarity movement may well be extended to other dissenting groups from environmentalists to anti-militarists." 3/

"Germany is not merely absorbing this violence, but is refining,
institutionalising, and exporting it. The country has become a laboratory for the criminalisation of solidarity with Palestine, testing how far it can go in suppressing free speech, banning
protest..." 2/

Arguing that people who live in the South are inherently racist, violent, and dumb has long been a way to avoid examining the problems of "progressive" policing because "we aren't like that."