AMAZON TARGETED FOR COMPLICITY IN ISRAEL’S GAZA GENOCIDE, TELEKOM FOR
COOPERATION WITH THE GERMAN MILITARY AND ELON MUSK’S STARLINK—COMMUNIQÉ
~ Juju Alerta ~
An anti-militarist group has claimed responsibility for two arson attacks on
commercial vehicles from Amazon and Deutsche Telekom in the early hours of
Tuesday. The Amazon vans were torched on a site on Koppelweg, in the south of
the German capital, while Telekom parking was situated in Lichtenberg in
Berlin’s east, reported German media. No people were hurt.
In a communiqé, the un-named group said it was “celebrating” the opening of the
new Amazon Tower in Berlin, citing disgust with the company’s lending its
computing power to the Israeli military (along with Google and Microsoft). “The
destruction and starvation in Gaza unfolding before our eyes, the planned
complete relocation of the population, and the AI-based massacre and mutilation
of hundreds of thousands of people, including many children, are being
calculated and stored on Amazon Web Services’ servers”, said the group. It also
named Amazon as a key contractor for the American military and a “generous
sponsor of King Trump’s military parade … State and capital in lockstep toward
fascism”.
Telekom was targeted due to its “support for the Bundeswehr” and as a “supplier
of IT to border authorities, police, and intelligence services”, said the
communiqué. The activists also cited T-Systems, which works in collaboration
with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network. Citing Amazon’s competing Project
Kuiper, the text said that “Musk and Bezos, with their corporate networks, are
thus technocrats who not only profit from wars but can now influence their
course”.
“Demanding life against militarism and technologies of death is right, just as
it is right to claim and defend antimilitarism against nationalism”, concluded
the commuiqué, “It is right to liberate life from all militarism and war, from
the state and patriarchy”.
Amazon condemned the act, a spokesperson told Reuters, while Deutsche Telekom
said it could not comment on pending investigations. These attacks are not
unusual, noted observers. In 2020 and 2021 more than 400 cars were set alight in
Berlin. In 2021, the total number of cars, including those that caught fire when
vehicles in the vicinity were torched, surpassed 700.
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