Artificial intelligence unleashes terror in killing fields of Gaza
In its latest episode, The Listening Post explores how Israel’s killing campaign of Palestinians has relied on artificial intelligence to choose its targets. A dystopian nightmare serves as a marketing campaign for technology flawed by design and deepens the global digital divide.
‘Two genocides do not make one right’
As we previously reported, German police have shut down a pro-Palestine conference in Berlin.
Yanis Varoufakis, an economist and former Greek finance minister who was also scheduled to speak at the event, told Al Jazeera the official explanation was that “a crime may be committed during these proceedings”.
“This is minority report, science fiction. They are not stopping it because of some crime that had been committed but because they think that if they don’t … then a crime might be committed,” Varoufakis said. “I have to say that the German authorities seem to have lost their mind, they are completely out of control.”
Varoufakis warned that Germany is increasingly being drawn into a “trap” set by the Israeli prime minister. “The German government supposedly claims the two-state solution is its preferred solution outcome and yet they are fully behind a Netanyahu government which is doing its utmost to murder any chance of a two-state solution,” he said.
“I am very fearful that my German friends, the people of Germany, are being drawn into this trap whereby they are going to have another complicity to genocide on their collective consciousness. “My message to them, is how much Palestinian bloods needs to be spilled before you give up on the idea that Palestinian blood is going to wash away the sense of guilt that you carry over the Holocaust,” Varoufakis added.
“Two genocides do not make one right.”
Germany trying to ‘silence’ witnesses, says Palestinian doctor banned from entry
As we’ve reported, German police in Berlin cancelled a pro-Palestine conference on Friday and barred a British-Palestinian plastic surgeon, Ghassan Abu Sittah, from entering the country and participating.
Abu Sittah told Al Jazeera that he was held by German officials for “three and a half hours” and questioned about his time working in Gaza and his testimony to the International Criminal Court as part of South Africa’s case against Israel.
“I was told that even if I participated [in the conference] once back in the UK by Zoom or by sending a recorded video that would make me in violation of German law. The ludicrous excuse was that they could not ensure the safety of participants of that conference and that’s why they were shutting the conference down,” he said.
“[It’s] as if Germany wants to prove the Nicaraguan case that it is an accomplice to the genocide in Gaza; Germany is trying to silence the witnesses and that’s what accomplices do, they bury the evidence.”
Germany issues Varoufakis with political activity ban
Germany has issued a political activity ban on former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, preventing him from visiting the country or participating via Zoom in a three-day conference in Berlin to discuss the war on Gaza.
He was expected to participate in a three-day conference in Berlin on Friday to discuss Palestine and the Middle East, but the conference was interrupted by authorities before the scheduled address.
Varoufakis has shared excerpts of his address for the conference before it was cancelled by authorities on his website, where he condemned the actions of both Israeli forces and Palestinian groups.
“Sadly, the whole of the German political system has decided not to allow this,” he said.
“I say to them: You want to silence us. To ban us. To demonise us. To accuse us. You, therefore, leave us with no choice but to meet your ridiculous accusations with our own rational accusations. You chose this. Not us.”
Gaza death toll rises
At least 33,686 Palestinians have been killed and 76,309 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, its Health Ministry says. The ministry added that 52 people were killed and 95 injured in the past 24 hours.
