# Reichstag Flag Incident and Criticism of Germany’s Gaza Policy

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121882475227975950
- Source account: [@NurderK](https://x.com/NurderK)
- Source language: German
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:03
- Published: 2026-11-15
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/de/flaggen-am-reichstag-und-gaza-kritik-an-deutschlands-politik.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy) We had a situation two days ago, where the German unity flag uh, in front of, in front of the Reichstag, was torn down or removed by a— the Palestinian flag.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=9) And the Palestinian flag was then, uh, raised instead.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=12) It was despicable. That was, uh, really a mockery of the German symbol.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=18) That also marks the end of a common ground in this society, when many people then applauded it.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=24) To me, that's a scandal. But there was another scandal, too.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=27) For example, the Israeli flag was raised on government buildings everywhere, while 21,000 children were killed in Gaza, in part with the support of German policy and German weapons.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=38) Where was the moral outrage about that? Why did people in this country— Where were the intellectuals of this country?

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=46) Where were the CDU politicians? Where were all the politicians who also took a clear stance and said, and said: “That is deceitful, and that is doubly deceitful,” when, on the one hand, you speak of values and say immigrants should adopt our values,

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=63) but at the same time you support a government that is currently committing war crimes and has killed many children in Gaza.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=70) As we speak, children in Gaza are sleeping in their tents, surrounded by water, as the tents are now being overwhelmed by rainfall, and they still lack medicine, they lack food and water.

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=81) And I saw no such outrage. And on top of that, Mr. M..., Mr. Merz, while an arrest warrant was out for Netanyahu, he says, more or less, “Arrest warrant or not, we have to find a way for the Israeli prime minister to come to Germany.”

[1:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=97) That’s what international law means. We don’t give a damn about it.

[1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=100) We have no values. We only have interests.

[1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=103) Even the Americans have realized by now that so much support for Israel without moral backing, without being able to properly stop them when they make mistakes, that also harms American— American policy.

[1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jKFd0BqfjbiT/en/reichstag-flag-incident-and-criticism-of-germany-s-gaza-policy?t=116) And in Germany, I’ve long been waiting for politicians and intellectuals to show a clear moral stance.