Please enjoy this alternative perspective on our World courtesy of the team at Jacobin: The speech that got Yanis Varoufakis banned from Germany On April 13, Germany’s interior ministry issued a “betätigungsverbot” against Yanis Varoufakis, a ban on any political activity — not just a ban from visiting Germany but also from participation in Zoom events hosted in the country. Below is an excerpt of the plea for humanity and justice in Palestine that got him banned. You can read the full version in Jacobin here. Congratulations and heartfelt thanks for being here — despite the threats, despite the ironclad police outside this venue, despite the panoply of the German press, despite the German state, despite the German political system that demonizes you for being here. “Why a Palestinian congress, Mr Varoufakis?” a German journalist asked me recently. Because, as Hanan Ashrawi once said, “we cannot rely on the silenced to tell us about their suffering.” Today, Ashrawi’s reason has gr