To openly say that the genocide of the Palestinian people has to stop is sometimes rewarded with cynical allusions hinting to the genocide of Europe’s Jewish population during World War II.
As a German musician, as a profound believer in the Charter of Human Rights, as a person that has read about, heard about - from first hand narrations by fathers and grandfathers -, and fully understood the inhumane horrors that the German people, in their blind madness, have brought to the Jewish population of Europe, I say the following:
It is possible to be acutely aware of the endless pain and suffering the German people inflicted on the European Jews during the fascist regime - and it is possible to condemn the endless pain and suffering that are now, in this moment of our history, inflicted on the Palestinian people.  
When reading about, and discussing the history of the Jewish genocide committed by the Germans  I often ask myself: how was it possible that so many German people were blinded by the propaganda, were silenced by the regime of fear meticulously installed by the German government? 
The circumstance that I have, by pure chance, been born in Germany, and that this circumstance comports  a certain degree of identification with the place of my birth, its language, culture and its history does not free me from the obligation to learn from history and to continue to believe in the articles laid out in the Charter of Human Rights - it also does not free me from the obligation to speak out when I see that these human rights are currently violated against - independantly of history, religion or nationality.

I would like to share this statement by a dear colleague, oud player Anouar Brahem, that he has recently posted on Instagram and Facebook.