
There’s a difference between dissent and betrayal. Between protest and open allegiance to a group like Hamas.
There’s something quietly revolutionary about paperwork. It rarely makes headlines or history books. But every so often, a bureaucratic act reveals a moral frontier.
That’s what happened last week in Berlin, when the German government revoked the citizenship of a man named Abdallah A., a naturalized Palestinian-German who used his new German identity to glorify Hamas’s October 7 atrocities , the deadliest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust. His Instagram stories praised the attacks as heroic, sanctified the gunmen as martyrs, and circulated celebratory footage of the carnage. The message was clear: if you celebrate the slaughter of civilians in the name of jihad, you don’t get to carry our passport.