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New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 5 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/europe@feddit.de

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Applicants for German citizenship will be required to explicitly affirm Israel's right to exist under a new citizenship law which came into effect on Tuesday.

The new law shortened the number of years that a person must have lived in Germany in order to obtain a passport, from eight to five years. It will also allow first-generation migrants to be dual citizens.

As part of the shake-up, new questions were added to the country's citizenship test, including about Judaism and Israel's right to exist.

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[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 months ago (10 children)

While I don't doubt that more Germans are becoming more antisemitic, promoting zionism does not combat antisemitism. Lord Balfor (of the Balfor Declaration), was extremely antisemitic. He was very explicit about how removing jews from Britain and getting a shiny new colony were both positives.

But also that statistic is useless because a significant number people arrested in Germany for antisemitism since Oct 7 were Jews protesting against Israel.

[+] gigachad@sh.itjust.works -9 points 5 months ago (9 children)

That article you linked does not contain anything controversial. No shit, "from the river to the sea" is forbidden in Germany and attending a forbidden demonstration where crimes are conducted has the risk of being detained.

She was released shortly afterwards but says: “I didn’t think I would get detained for that – I was naive it turns out.”

Don't act like people end up in prison here for criticizing the state of Israel. People get detained for a couple of hours in the context of demonstrations all the time. Stop derailing, the article from the Qatari news agency you linked does not add anything here.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago (7 children)

no shit, “from the river to the sea” is forbidden in Germany

You understand why this is fucked up right? Is it also forbidden to say "Hawaii will be free" or "Free Tibet"?

[–] Mrkawfee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Germans are clowns.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not every german.

But it's depressing every time I talk politics with one and it turns out they're a "leftist" who's actually a liberal, or an "anarchist" who's a zionist, or a "green" who supported ending all nuclear power (which restarted their coal industry), an "anti-imperialist" who only opposes Germany's enemies.

I expect this level of ignorance from American liberals who've literally never had a thought outside bourgeois democracy, half of Germany was communist until 30 years ago, they don't have an excuse.

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