The repression of Palestine solidarity in Europe has exposed the erosion of fundamental democratic rights across the continent, according to Yanis Varoufakis, a former Greek finance minister and vocal critic of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

“There is no freedom of expression in Europe,” Varoufakis told Anadolu in an interview, arguing that citizens are being punished not for violent acts, but for refusing to support Israel’s harrowing crimes against Palestinians.

When you have people being imprisoned for not supporting genocide – in Berlin and in Britain – then we no longer have the right to talk about freedom of expression. It is a freedom we must fight for, as if it never existed

Last year, German authorities imposed an entry ban on Varoufakis and barred him from engaging in any political activity in the country, after police forcibly shut down a Palestine Congress event in Berlin, where he was scheduled to speak.

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More recently, Germany issued deportation orders to three EU citizens and one American in March for participating in pro-Palestine........

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