Around 50 pro-Palestinian and anti-imperialist activists launched an offensive, temporarily occupying the Rote Flora building in Hamburg, Germany. Rote Flora is notorious for having become a pro-Zionist and pro-US “leftist” hub of the so-called Anti-Deutsche movement.
The Anti-Deutsche movement is a pro-Zionist and US racist movement, purportedly of the left, but in actuality a far right current in modern European politics.
For a short time, the building was occupied, and pro-Palestine banners were dropped from the top of the building saying “Good Night White Flora,” referring to the fact that the space is mainly frequented by white activists who support Western imperialism in many different facets.
In a pre-recorded video, the activists announced their plans to reclaim Rote Flora, an occupied building that is a base for German Zionists who identify as “anti-fascists,” while aligning with Euro-American fascism.
Even though the Anti-Deutsche developed out of Marxist circles and claims to be anti-fascist, it is violently pro-Zionist and pro-US imperialism, and has been agitating in favor of Germany’s extreme crackdown on Palestine solidarity since October 7 last year.
The pro-Palestine activists demanded that anti-imperialists occupy pro-Zionist and pro-US spaces that claim to be hubs for left-wing organizing as a means of liberating them from the Zionist movement.
The offensive by pro-Palestine activists aims to restore Rote Flora to its internationalist roots, as it was when initially occupied in 1989.
European and American “anti-fascists” have been struggling and flirting with far right currents as the Western imperialist system has come under unprecedented strain. From supporting Ukrainian fascism and reactionary statism, to pro-Zionism and and Americanism, or in the US context, there’s been a notable liberalization, or right wing turn, in popular segments of the anarchist and anti-fascist movements.