In a New Year’s Eve tweet, the journalist Taylor Hudak noted that “As 2023 comes a close, one of the biggest victories this year was the acquittal of Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi”. This was a victory, and it would be a reason to be cheerful, except for the fact Bhakdi is in fact still being prosecuted in Germany for “incitement to hatred”, namely against Jews, and “trivialisation of the Holocaust”.
Last May, as covered by Hudak and others, Bhakdi was acquitted of these charges by a local court in the small town of Plön. But this victory was short-lived. For defendants in Germany do not enjoy double jeopardy protection in the Anglo-Saxon sense, and just two months later, the public prosecutor appealed the acquittal. Indeed, just days after the original judgment, the public prosecutor’s office had already announced that it would appeal the acquittal in some form – a fact which somehow escaped the notice of Bhakdi’s international admirers.
Bhakdi is now to be tried again on exactly the same charges in the district court of Kiel. A date for the trial has not yet been set.
The charges refer to bitter and somewhat abstruse remarks which Bhakdi made in an April 2021 online interview about what he described as “forced” mass COVID-19 vaccination in Israel. Israel was at the time famously serving as the world’s mRNA vaccination ‘laboratory’ and had introduced a ‘green pass’ system to enforce compliance from the population.
Bhakdi, a retired Professor of Microbiology, rose to prominence as a fierce critic of the mRNA vaccine platform, which he predicted would give rise to widespread harm by making the body’s immune system attack its own cells and whose use under emergency authorisation, in Israel and elsewhere, he denounced as illegal “human experimentation”.
“I admired this people, the Israelis, more than any other people in the world. I was an admirer of the Jews,” Bhakdi said in the interview.
But, after talking at length about his “veneration” of Jewish artists and musicians, he then went on to say, in the words targeted by the indictment:
The people that fled from this country [Germany], this country where there was absolute evil, and founded their own country, have now transformed their country into something that is even worse than Germany was.
Shortly before making these remarks, Bhakdi had told the interviewer that Israelis could not even flee, that “the country is shut”, which perhaps helps to explain the otherwise puzzling remark that Israel had become something “even worse than Germany was”.
Giving vent to his frustration and disappointment, Bhakdi called the developments in Israel “inconceivable”. And then he continued:
This is the bad thing about the Jews. They learn well. There is no people that learns better than they do. But they have learned evil and are putting it into practice. And that’s why Israel is a living hell.
The full interview, which has rarely been cited in the German media, apart from the supposedly “incriminating” passages, is available here.
Bhakdi made no explicit mention of the Holocaust in his remarks. This is perhaps why the prosecution also included a second citation in its indictment. This one comes from a speech which Bhakdi made at a campaign event in September 2021. He was at the time a candidate for the Basis Party in the German Bundestag elections. The party had been formed in 2020 on a platform of opposition to COVID-19 measures.
This second citation has nothing whatsoever to do with Israel or Jews, but refers rather to the standard full (as opposed to merely emergency) authorisation of mRNA vaccines, which had just taken place. It reads as follows:
It is clear to everyone who is knowledgeable about it that with the formal authorisation of the vaccines, the first milestone of the agenda has been reached and the race to reach the final goal [Endziel] has begun. This final goal is the creation of a new reality and involves nothing less than the second Holocaust. The abolition of humanity in its current form.
Much has been made in the German media of Bhakdi’s use of the expression “final goal”, as if this were somehow an allusion to the “final solution [Endlösung] of the Jewish problem” sought by the Nazi regime. mRNA vaccine critics would appear to be so suspect in Germany that even their mere use of the adjective “final” is suspicious.
Translations from the German by the author.
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ROFL. This deliberate misinterpretation of abstracted phrases and perversion of “law” makes a complete mockery of any legal system. It’s just standard totalitarian state playbook.
We know who the bad guys are, and Bhakdi is not among them.
Exactly. Prof Bhakdi is a flipping saint as far as I’m concerned. What on earth can be construed as ”antisemitic” about anything that he’s said? Especially when we take account of the current climate, where legit antisemitism appears to be rife and goes unpunished, quickly becoming the norm. It would appear that ”free speech” is only a thing when it suits whoever holds the power, as we know already. No matter the context, I’m not reading anything positive associated with Germany these days, and instead of our Prof Bhakdi being forever persecuted and put through this perpetual witch hunt I think the Germans should count themselves damn fortunate and feel proud to have someone of such a high calibre and excellent character as him for a German citizen. Germany has gone to the dogs.
And the same goes for Reiner Fullmich who is also in German jail last time I heard. The horrors of 1930s Germany are at the last stages of living memory, poised to repeat. Since the Berlin Wall came down just over 30 years ago, it seems the old eastern block countries are alert to the Globalist fascism that Western Nations are not.
‘this country where there was absolute evil, and founded their own country, have now transformed their country into something that is even worse than Germany was….”
From the perspective of a Palestinian, that rings pretty true.
Yes and it’s interesting how this view is accepted in this context rather than being enthusiastically dismissed as anti-Semitic.
Meanwhile in Israel:
“The Influential Rabbi Who Wants to Turn Israel Into an Iran-style Fundamentalist State”
A Rabbi whose ideology has previously been referred to as “Jewish Nazism”.
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/theocratic-fundamentalism-trumps-reason-and-diplomatic-compromise/
Most of us kmow why the good Prof. is being prosecuted (again) and it’s nothing to do with “antisemetism”.
Cue Andrew Bridgen…
Professor Sucharit Bhakdi was one of the experts I found about 4 years ago. One of the first to spell out the toxic nature of the jabs. A very sincere, kind and intellifent human being with an illustrious career.
So, he and others of his ilk have to be silenced – as we know.
In some ways the publicity around this may well help our cause. I just hope the “trial” isn’t too stressful for him – and that he gets the right result.
Compassionate and sincere and brilliant at expressing his true horror of the mRNA tech.
Indeed. Carbon copy of the totalitarian tactics that were used to try and silence the courageous Andrew Bridgen.MP. Only they failed to silence him.
I recommend this powerful speech in a parliamentary debate, surprisingly still available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ej5Se4gMRA
We know the process is the punishment. The regime has 4/5 go to tactics against dissidents, rapist, homophobe, nazi or climate denier. These are weaponised to ensure the person telling the truth is removed from public discourse. Racist/Rapist wouldn’t fly against Bhakti so they went with their only other smear, call him a nazi.
As always, you know you are over the target when you are smeared like this. Things are bleak but some days I am optimistic because these bastards know they can only win by dirty tactics, not by winning the argument fair and square. This may be their undoing.
We can but hope.
I think the TPTB are going to cook up one hell of distraction. I’ve said before something big is on the horizon.
So if there ever is another attempted mass murder at the scale or bigger than the holocaust it will be impossible to denounce because whoever does will be accused of anti-semitism.
That’s convenient for the people perpetrating the crime.
Sort of. Getting western political ‘discourse’ out of the
1) Denounce you political opponent as Nazis at the very top of your lungs.
2) goto 1
endless loop would be a good thing. I realize that’s difficult for many people because they had Nazis!!1 continously stuffed into their minds basically from birth onwards, but it needs to be done nevertheless. Obsessing over an increasingly distant past is not a suitable way of dealing with future problems.
“Today Israel announced that the number of kids with autism has gone up sharply. The number of kids with autism aged 2-3 went up by more than 4 times. We are in January 2024. In December 2020, just over 3 years ago, Israel decided to reduce its people into medical Guinea pigs: the entire nation was vaccinated with an untested substance. The young autistic kids aged 2-3 years old are, obviously, those who were born just after that reckless experiment.”
Gilad Atzmon
https://www.ynet.co.il/health/article/yokra13781461
I don’t know about Israel, but the German State is pretty good at covering itself in shame, even today. One of several countries I no longer desire to visit, although I speak the language and have friends there. Such awful totalitarian and fascistic traits are most upsetting. My prayers for Professor Bhakdi and his wife.Could anyone post about Reiner Fullmilch? I would have expected to have seen something in the DS….