# Left Party MP on Joining the Parliamentary Group and Israel-Palestine - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2111066432674935213 - Source account: [@RashadAlhindi](https://x.com/RashadAlhindi) - Source language: German - Target language: English - Duration: 2:59 - Published: 2026-11-07 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/de/linken-abgeordnete-%C3%BCber-fraktionsaufnahme-und-israel-pal%C3%A4stina-politik.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine) In recent weeks, as some of you may have noticed, I involuntarily became the protagonist of a tawdry spectacle staged by the SPD and the Greens in cahoots with the major media companies. [0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=11) That I was made a bargaining chip in exploratory talks, is, to put it mildly, a democratic scandal. [0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=19) And I think it needs to be investigated. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=21) That parliamentary politics can be dirty, I think we all know that. [0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=25) But that it got so dirty so quickly, that shocked me too, to be honest. [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=30) And that is deliberate, and it is a tactic. [0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=32) That I was accepted into the caucus yesterday should really have been a matter of course, as a directly elected member of parliament for Die Linke. [0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=41) But that wasn't all. That's why the fact that, in the end, I was admitted to the parliamentary group after all, is a small gain in the struggle against the raison d'état. [0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=50) But what the day also showed is, we need to be even better prepared, because our raison d'état friends— and this will probably come as a huge surprise to you all now— don't exactly play fair. [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=60) Okay, what happened? As representatives of Die Linke, we had all already committed during the campaign to abide by the resolutions, namely, all the resolutions of the party. [1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=70) We did so by signing what is called a parliamentary mandate agreement. [1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=74) The so-called joint declaration, which was a prerequisite for being admitted to the parliamentary group, essentially reaffirmed our parliamentary mandate agreement. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=84) But now comes the fine print. As examples of the resolutions, she cites only selected resolutions, and even then, just fragments of those resolutions. [1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=94) For example, she does not mention the resolution on the JDA, nor the resolution in which we call the genocide of Palestinian women what it is. [1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=106) A few months ago, I posted a video in which I paraphrased an international- law no- brainer, namely: States have no right to exist. [1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=115) People have a right to exist. I also said that the demand for a democratic, one-state solution with equal rights for all people, regardless of their religious or ethnic affiliation, is legitimate. [2:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=129) So, I stand by what I said, and I won't take back a single one of these statements. [2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=134) And I won't let myself be deterred by media smear campaigns or by threats of expulsion from the caucus, and I won't be deterred by bureaucratic tricks either. [2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=145) And while in other European cities mass protests against capitalist madness are breaking out right now, we are busy getting the losing side to accept, as a coalition gift, our caucus members' oath of allegiance to Israel's right to exist and to the two-state solution. [2:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=159) And while we're doing that, Israel is using all its might to destroy the foundations that could make a two- state solution possible at all. [2:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=166) Gaza lies in ruins and that's why the workers in Italy are calling for another major general strike on October 30. [2:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=173) I think we should take this as an example. [2:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/S5DvZ85S1vEx/en/left-party-mp-on-joining-the-parliamentary-group-and-israel-palestine?t=175) No faction without action. Freedom for Palestine.