Their Rule 4:
No bigotry, sexism, racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, dehumanization of minorities, or glorification of National Socialism. We follow German law; don’t question the statehood of Israel.
Europe@feddit.org removed my comment for de-tangling the conflation of antisemitism and anti-zionism. A dangerous conflation that is genuinely antisemitic and fuels antisemitic hate as it conflates the actions of Israel and Zionism to all Jewish people and Judaism.
This prioritization of the German definition, the adopted IHRA definition, is promoting antisemtitism and is diametrically opposed to the ‘No antisemitism’ aspect of the rule. The definition has been condemned by the writer of the definition, a multitude of human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch (HRW), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), B’Tselem, Peace Now, and Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), and over 120 leading scholars of anti-semitism.
Germany Is Trying to Combat Antisemitism. Experts Warn a New Resolution May Do the Opposite
Fifteen Israeli nongovernmental organizations, including the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, B’Tselem and Peace Now, issued an open letter in September stating their concern that the resolution, especially the IHRA definition, could be weaponized to “silence public dissent.”
This could also affect Jewish voices speaking out for Palestinian rights and opposing the occupation, they added. “Paradoxically, the resolution may therefore undermine, not protect, the diversity of Jewish life in Germany,” the letter argued.
Rights groups urge UN not to adopt IHRA anti-Semitism definition
"The IHRA definition has often been used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as antisemitic, and thus chill and sometimes suppress, non-violent protest, activism and speech critical of Israel and/or Zionism, including in the US and Europe,” the letter said.
US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Israeli rights group B’Tselem, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) were among the signatories
The letter is the latest attempt by human rights advocates to urge the UN not to adopt the IHRA definition. In November, more than 120 scholars called on the world body to reject the definition, due to its “divisive and polarising” effect.
128 scholars ask UN not to adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
In a statement published on Thursday, the 128 scholars, who include leading Jewish academics at Israeli, European, United Kingdom and United States universities, said the definition has been “hijacked” to protect the Israeli government from international criticism
Why the man who drafted the IHRA definition condemns its use
The drafter of what later became popularly known as the EUMC or IHRA definition of antisemitism,including its associated examples, was the U.S. attorney Kenneth S. Stern. However, in written evidence submitted to the US Congress last year, Stern charged that his original definition had been used for an entirely different purpose to that for which it had been designed. According to Stern it had originally been designed as a ”working definition” for the purpose of trying to standardise data collection about the incidence of antisemitic hate crime in different countries. It had never been intended that it be used as legal or regulatory device to curb academic or political free speech. Yet that is how it has now come to be used. In the same document Stern specifically condemns as inappropriate the use of the definition for such purposes, mentioning in particular the curbing of free speech in UK universities, and referencing Manchester and Bristol universities as examples. Here is what he writes:
The EUMC “working definition” was recently adopted in the United Kingdom, and applied to campus. An “Israel Apartheid Week” event was cancelled as violating the definition. A Holocaust survivor was required to change the title of a campus talk, and the university [Manchester] mandated it be recorded, after an Israeli diplomat [ambassador Regev] complained that the title violated the definition.[See here]. Perhaps most egregious, an off-campus group citing the definition called on a university to conduct an inquiry of a professor (who received her PhD from Columbia) for antisemitism, based on an article she had written years before. The university [Bristol] then conducted the inquiry. And while it ultimately found no basis to discipline the professor, the exercise itself was chilling and McCarthy-like. [square brackets added – GW]
This seems like PTB for sure. I do not support what Israel is doing and it is without a doubt a genocide. I’ve had people gaslight me and say I’m antisemitic for believing Palestinians have the right to not be murdered and that Israel as a country probably shouldn’t exist. And you know what. Fuck those people. Fuck people who try to accuse others of being Antisemitic because they disagree and want to shut down your criticism. People like this need to be put in their place and confronted, not yielded to.
that Israel as a country probably shouldn’t exist.
Ok, then please explain what you think would happen with all the Jewish people that were born and live there in such a case?
And please be realistic, because everyone lives happily ever after is an extremely unlikely scenario.
I am not saying that you are antisemitic, but please think these things through before saying stuff that can very well be interpreted as such.
It’s wild that, as Israel’s genocide becomes more publicly exposed and people/countries are distancing from Israel, Germany is doubling down on their relationship with Israel.
Clearly, de-nazification did not work as intended post WW2.
German people are majority against it/dont care.
Its the government that does it. Plus isreal always plays the “REMEMBER THE NAZIS! YOU KILLED JEWS SO DO AS YOU’RE TOLD”
It was the same with the Jewish population 80 years ago, where it was mainly just the far right extremists and the government that hated Jews. How’d that work out?
Our government wants to buy Israels Arrow 3 missile defense to protect against Russia since the Ikraine invasion and because US support is shaky. I can imagine that stops any official statements against Israel, that and the wierd feeling of guild the older generations have (even though they were born after WW2).
Your last line is just moronic though.
If Germany stops working with the US and NATO to continually escalate, and stops backing the far-right extremists in Ukraine, they won’t need to buy weapons from Israeli fascists.
Your last line is just moronic though.
Why?
Old habits die hard for the Germans it seems. The EU deserves so much better from Germany here.
They learned the wrong lessons. They thought the issue was targeting Jews, and not the genocide part. So now they’ve moved to taking Arab lives, which they believe to be less valuable.
We have the most generous asylum and immigration laws, even just slightly restricting them is a deeply divisive topic in German politics. But sure we hate Arabs in general.
Calling an entire countries population racist is just a dumb statement that shows how little you know
Well when the far-right leadership were the main ones that hated Jews 80 years ago, it didn’t seem to stop that minority. So I don’t see how ‘not all Germans’ is supposed to be reassuring.
We dont hate arabs. But ca 35% do atleast slightly. And 30% hates everything that isnt white white white white.
Germany would revolt if Döner were only done by Germans. The new Generation of Döner Shop owner is trying to squeez out as much money from it as possible but german döner owners are the worst. Cucumber, mustard, pickles and other things in a Döner
My heart breaks when ever i see it
Anyone who is against Israeli statehood, reply to this comment so I can block you. (I am no fan of Netanyahu and am against the war, but it seems most of you dont give a shit about it.)
Block me you whiny Zionist troll, you’re doing everyone a favor by using the Lemmy backend to disengage because you can’t do so yourself. Don’t expect the downvotes or callouts to stop though. This isn’t Reddit and blocking doesn’t prevent people from downvoting or calling out your shitty Zionist takes and making you look like an ass.
Edit: Lol you got your ass banned. Seems your Zionism finally caught up to you.
oh please block me
Block them, you antisemite:
Im all for Israel becoming a city state of Palestine.
We cool?
Why not two state solution or a binational state like Bosnia-Herzegowina?
Why not having one state with equal rights for everyone living there and right to return for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants?
Wouldn’t be Zionist enough for their taste.
Thanks for doing our instance a service 😊 Sorry you got scratched easily. Anyways, it’ll be pretty hard to block an entire instance. I wish you the best in it.
If Lemmy Instance block actually blocked all users of one instance, .ml would be the first to go for me.
I don’t have as many qualms with db0 users, but this is a deffo nope for me.
If Lemmy Instance block actually blocked all users of one instance, .ml would be the first to go for me.
I opened an issue on the lemmy issue tracker, it’ll be in 1.0/1.1. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5578
I don’t have as many qualms with db0 users, but this is a deffo nope for me.
You claimed we support Hamas. No, we don’t? No admins support them here (afaik, users too.). But what we hate more, is the IDF. They’re committing an unrestrained genocide, with the OK/backing of other countries. So far, in my couple of comments i’ve been accused twice (by feddit.org users, no less) of supporting Hamas. Really? I didn’t even bring them up before it. Conflating jews with israel/IDF and palestinians with hamas is wrong.
Depends on what you said. I haven’t accused you of anything yet. However there are some users here who either play down Hamas or just use antisemitic dog whistles.
Hey I support both the existence of a Palestinian state and an Israeli one. Of course the Netanyahu government sucks and the killing and war crimes need to be stopped.
But I am not going to compromise on the statehood question.
Got it, so you support the occupation and Colonization of Palestine. Here’s an idea. If you think Israel needs to exist so badly, why not just give them Germany? If anything you owe them that, not some small arab country who didn’t have any part in the atrocities. That’s why people are against Israel, having your homeland taken from you by someone else to make a home for an ethic group that, arguably does not need their own country isn’t cool, it’s even less cool when they start killing your people, including women and children.
You’re not going to get any sympathy for this crap outside of Zionist-friendly spaces. Which I’m not going to help create and it doesn’t seem like anyone else here is going to help create either.
Fuck the IHRA definition of antisemitism and fuck the Zionists who prop it up.
Later. I will give it a couple hours for people who arent OP to reply and then you can have a position on the list.
But yes, I am aware or Betselem and I don’t deny the human rights violations of Israel. It just means that it needs a different government and needs to be held accountable for violations. But that doesn’t mean there should be no Israeli statehood. It just means Palestine needs to be also recognized as a state.
The main issue here is that Israel is an Apartheid Settler Colonialist State. The German law prevents even mentioning the reality of Israel as an Apartheid or as a Settler Colonialist Entity, both of which are critical to the understanding of the current situation and the resolution.
Controversially, the German government officially classifies the following as antisemitic: the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, the accusation that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, and the depiction of Israel as a colonial or settler-colonial entity. Many of those arrested and cancelled in Germany over allegations of antisemitism have been Jews critical of Israel’s policies.[4]
Due to the Settler Colonialism that have atomized the West Bank into hundreds of isolated Bantustans, it’s already a one-state reality. I’ll quote Avi Schlaim and Ilan Pappe below as they explain the situation quite comprehensivly.
An Apartheid State has no right to exist. This was the same for Apartheid South Africa. The state was abolished and replaced with one that has equal rights. It did not mean the expulsion of all Afrikaners, it meant the creation of a new state with the integration of equal rights and reparations for the oppressed. It’s the same situation with the current state of Israel, and the way forward also requires the right of return for all Palestinians.
Settlements and the One-State Reality
The reality of the settlements on-the-ground has been the cause of violent resistance and a significant obstacle to peace, as it has been for decades.
This type of settlement, where the native population gets ‘Transferred’ to make room for the settlers, is a long standing practice. See: The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948, the Transfer Committee, and the JNF which led to Forced Displacement of 100,000 Palestinians throughout the mandate, before the mass ethnic cleansing campaign of 1948: Plan Dalet, Declassified Massacres of 1948, and Details of Plan C (May 1946) and Plan D (March 1948) . Further, declassified Israeli documents show that the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip were deliberately planned before being executed in 1967: Haaretz, Forward; while the peace process was exploited to continue de-facto annexation of the West Bank via Settlements (Oslo Accord Sources: MEE, NYT, Haaretz, AJ). The settlements are maintained through a violent apartheid that routinely employs violence towards Palestinians and denies human rights like water access, civil rights, etc. This kind of control gives rise to violent resistance to the Apartheid occupation, jeopardizing the safety of Israeli civilians.
The settlements represent land-grabbing, and land-grabbing and peace-making don’t go together, it is one or the other. By its actions, if not always in its rhetoric, Israel has opted for land-grabbing and as we speak Israel is expanding settlements. So, Israel has been systematically destroying the basis for a viable Palestinian state and this is the declared objective of the Likud and Netanyahu who used to pretend to accept a two-state solution. In the lead up to the last election, he said there will be no Palestinian state on his watch. The expansion of settlements and the wall mean that there cannot be a viable Palestinian state with territorial contiguity. The most that the Palestinians can hope for is Bantustans, a series of enclaves surrounded by Israeli settlements and Israeli military bases.
"Its support – and this includes what is even called the ‘peace camp’ in Israel – for a two-state solution is an idea that says that you do not have to directly control every part of historical Palestine in order to establish your dominance and hegemony between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean. So, if you can squeeze the Palestinians into small Bantustans and allow them to have a flag and a semblance of a government, there are quite a few Israelis who do not mind at all, so long as this will be the last and final kind of settlement for the Palestine question. Which means no real political rights for the Palestinians, no right of return for the refugees, and keeping all Palestinians in different parts of historical Palestine, at best as second-rate citizens, at worst, as subjects in an apartheid state.
State violence – official and otherwise – is part and parcel of Israel’s apartheid regime, which aims to create a Jewish-only space between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The regime treats land as a resource designed to serve the Jewish public, and accordingly uses it almost exclusively to develop and expand existing Jewish residential communities and to build new ones. At the same time, the regime fragments Palestinian space, dispossesses Palestinians of their land and relegates them to living in small, over-populated enclaves.
The apartheid regime is based on organized, systemic violence against Palestinians, which is carried out by numerous agents: the government, the military, the Civil Administration, the Supreme Court, the Israel Police, the Israel Security Agency, the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, and others. Settlers are another item on this list, and the state incorporates their violence into its own official acts of violence. Settler violence sometimes precedes instances of official violence by Israeli authorities, and at other times is incorporated into them. Like state violence, settler violence is organized, institutionalized, well-equipped and implemented in order to achieve a defined strategic goal.
I am on feddit.org. I run a
subredditcommunity dedicated to the Middle East /c/nahost@feddit.org and post mostly the Palestinian perspective. I argue for the rights of Palestinians, against Zionism, against the German instrumentalization of the fight against Antisemitism for repression and the like all the time both in /c/europe@feddit.org and other communities.I never had any problems with the mods or admins and the claim they would be pro-Zionist is absurd.
That’s why I said the problem is the Mods of !europe@feddit.org, or rather an anonymous mod there who is acting out of their own biases for Zionism or against Zionist criticism. It’s not some attempt to stay legal in the eyes of the instance admins there or “gERmAn lAw” it’s personal and unprofessional mod conduct in the community.
YDI. Feddit.org is based in Germany and has to adhere to German laws. Some of the stuff you say can land you a fine or in repeat cases even a short jail sentence in Germany.
Oh, well by all means,…
Free Palestine. Free Gaza, then.
Yeah I do support Palestinian statehood, but in a two state solution with the 1949 to 1967 border and no Israeli settlements in Palestine.
Of course you do, sweetheart 🙄
From the River to the Sea, Fuck Germany.
Accepting the IHRA definition is not law, it’s policy. Die Linke rejects it in favor of the Jerusalem declaration, for instance. Likewise, advocating for a secular one state solution or a two state solution are both perfectly legal. Calling for an end of material support, also legal. The only part that could, by a wide stretch of the imagination, be against German law is listing Nazi Germany in the list of comparisons. But since this is not saying “Israel is exactly like Nazi Germany”, even that would be on very shaky grounds.
Stop pretending this is about German law. This is about political opinions, and these opinions are Zionism
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/urteil-israel-karikatur-nazivergleich-meinungsfreiheit-1.5683671 It is punishable in Germany.
They got charged for showing swastikas outside of what the court deemed educational context. Not relevant, read your own article:
Das Gericht verweist auf das Hakenkreuz, das in der Karikatur verwendet wird. Das Hakenkreuz ist grundsätzlich ein verbotenes Symbol nach Paragraf 86a des Strafgesetzbuchs. Es ist nur legal, dieses Symbol zu zeigen, wenn man damit einen legitimen politischen Zweck verfolgt - zum Beispiel historische Aufklärung, oder etwa Warnung vor Neonazis.
You should read further. That wasn’t the only reason. Another reason was “Verharmlosung des Shoah”
And you should read yet further, the thing they got charged for was the swastika:
Das Argument der Richter lautet, kurz gesagt: Wer eine solche Karikatur postet, der scheint mit den Verbrechen der Nazis eher keine Probleme zu haben. Dann aber darf er nicht ungestraft das Hakenkreuz verwenden.
This court ruling was in Bavaria and quite controversial at the time, btw. But even in it’s most generous reading it does not say what you claim it does.
This is about German law though, whether you like it or not.
Which law? Which law applies here? The article you posted is not relevant to the comment at hand
Volksverhetzung
A simple comparison between a state and Nazi Germany does not fall under that. Or else, how many people have been charged for comparing Russia to the Nazis since they invaded Ukraine? This is only applicable if you hold the position that Israel and the Jewish people are synonymous, which is not true, it is anchored nowhere in German law, and is the very point this post addresses: the IHRA working definition is wholly unsuited for political or judicial dealings.
It can though. It’s not like calling Netanyahu or the IDF nazis which probably would be allowed despite being controversial.
Okay, then answer me this: if I say “Russia is acting like Nazi Germany”, is it Volksverhetzung? Would it get removed on feddit.org citing German law?
If not, why? Where in law does Israel get special treatment? Or is it policy after all?
American donkeys think their right of free speech applies throughout the world. Pathetic.
Not an american. Still PTB. Get your head out of your ass.
PS, what the fuck does this have to do with anything, even? Nobody brought up america.
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Baseless accusation, completely off topic. You’re not helping the allegations that feddit.org is full of Zionists
Oh fuck off. I have many criticisms about hamas but they don’t even come close to the evil that is the IDF.
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Sounds like the typical queerphobic genocide apologia I’ve seen where Zionists try and frame the Queer people pushing back against the Israeli
DefenseOccupation Force’s genocide of Palestinian citizens as being akin to Chickens for KFC. Trying to say it’s dumb, invalid, or hypocritical for us to stand up for these innocent people who are being murdered@fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com What is this person still doing here? Isn’t this a blatant violation of server rules? IMO they probably should’ve been booted.
Banned. I’m tired of all of this bullshit. Honestly I expected better from feddit, but really?
They think we’re criticizing them for not calling for a genocide against Jews. Fuck no, Zionism is an objectively evil ideology. It doesn’t matter if it were arabs, Jews etc; it’s still fucking evil.
Sadly, they’ve seemed to double down locally on their instance. :/
Agreed it’s really disgusting. Zionism is absolutely atrocious and has no justification and instead of trying to realize and understand that they just try and frame or accuse us of being antisemitic. I think I’m blocking Feddit.
No, they just murder babies and hide the corpses in mass graves, while dropping bombs on gay Palestinians and indiscriminately murdering them along with the babies, women, elderly.
Or they threaten to out gay Palestinians if they don’t spy for Israel.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/gay-palestinians-are-being-blackmailed-into-working-as-informants/
The IDF almost make Hamas look like the good guys, that’s how far down they are in comparison.
Feddit.org idiot can’t distinguish an argument about what the legal limits on free speech are from an argument about what the moral limits of free speech should be. Demented.
Nah, i don’t think so.
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PTB, This reeks of pro-Zionist bias from the mods and blatant attempts to censor criticism of Israel.
Let’s remember. Judaism is a religious minority comprising many different people with many different views. Zionism is a political nationalist movement supported by specific people. They are not the same thing. For one, it is not supported by all Jewish people, nor are all of its supporters even Jewish. So if someone tells you that you’re being Antisemitic for criticizing Zionism or Israel, tell them to fuck off. It’s clear they aren’t acting in good faith, just like those dipshits arguing that Greta Thunberg is antisemitic.
For decades The strongest supporters of Zionism have been American protestants
For all the people saying it’s the instance trying to cover themselves, No. This is a mod account which is not an admin nor appears to be affiliated with the Admins. This is very clearly a person trying to frame criticism of Zionism as antisemitic to attempt to suppress criticism of Israel and their actions. PTB.
I disagree. I see political comments from two of the mods all the time and they don’t take pro Zionist stances. One of the mods regularly bans people from slrpnk.net for being Zionists.
The mods and the admins are roughly affiliated though. A lot of us community mods are in the same matrix chat groups as the admins.
Note: I am not a Europe mod. I mod other groups on feddit.org though
feddit.org is crap. when feddit.de died they forgot the benefits of a decentralized network just slapped ALL subs with german language on there.absolute idiots there.
“Rules are important! I’m a good boy, I follow the rules.” -German soldier in the 1940s
One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”
- Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham Jail 1963
They removed a comment of mine today because it denied the statehood of Israel. What a joke.
Well it is one of the rules to not deny Israeli statehood. You shouldn’t post somewhere if you aren’t going to follow the rules.
“I was just following
ordersrules”The rule itself is a joke. Idgaf, I posted anyway. Fuck Israel.
“I oppose genocide. Unless it’s a group I dislike.”
@fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com Found another genocide denying troll spewing Zionist whataboutism
I’m not denying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. I think that suggesting that the answer to genocide should be more genocide is absolutely vile.
Your behavior and sentiment in this thread has said otherwise. Also no one here is encouraging genocide against the Jewish people, this is a disgusting lie and you and the rest of Feddit.org should be ashamed of yourselves for suggesting we are or claiming that we’re “antisemites”. Fuck off Zionist troll.
Right, because the extremely unlikely event that Israel is someone dissolved, and the “savages” take their retribution will happen. Or, there is an active genocide being perpetrated right now, that Israel has the power to stop at a moments notice. “Never again”, my ass.
Well duh. Abolishing Israel would cause the largest genocide in human history. If you support that then getting your comments deleted is the least you deserve.
Abolishing Israel would cause the largest genocide in human history
you can’t prove this
Yeah ok there buddy. Fuck the Zionists. I hope they all get what they deserve. They are committing genocide RIGHT NOW in Gaza.
Edit: From your comment history, it appears that you too are a Zionist. Fuck off. If there is a god, then he will judge you harshly for your support of the killing of women, children, the elderly, teachers and medics. Not to mention the thousands of starving children. Fuck you and everyone like you 😘
Supporting Israel statehood doesn’t equate to support Netanyahu or denying Palestinian statehood.
Supporting Rhodesian statehood doesn’t equate to support for White Supremacism or denying Zimbabwean statehood.
^ That’s what you sound like.
I looked it up. IMHO, I don’t really think you did in the text.
What a punch of genocide apologizing, spineless dorks. 🙄
Spineless indeed.
Those losers don’t even have it in them to comment here, they’re just silently downvoting comments in the thread.
FYI we can see you, your votes are publicly viewable through activitypub.
A mod messaged me, since it was a PM, I won’t share it here. But suffice to say we do not agree. Apparently some of the mods do actually browse this community.
Wdym about the votes? I don’t care who sees that stuff.
Wdym about the votes? I don’t care who sees that stuff.
I was referring to the two spineless trolls from feddit.org going through the thread and downvoting all PTB comments. Not you. Also not the mods there, they haven’t been commenting or voting here. It’s nice to see though that they do browse here.
PTB. There is no reason to blindly adopt the IHRA definition.
The reason to blindly adopt is to ban antifascists from public discourse.
There is no reason to blindly adopt the IHRA definition
There’s no reason, unless you want your instance to be a safe place for the Jewish people
There’s no reason, unless you want your instance to be a safe place for
the Jewish peopleZionistsFixed it for you.
Why do you think that Jews don’t deserve to have a home? Why does every other race and religion in the world get a home but Jews don’t?
See, people here don’t appreciate Zionist apologia. Go back to Reddit idiot.
Why do you think that Jews don’t deserve to have a home?
Because there is no need for one.
Why does every other race and religion in the world get a home but Jews don’t?
Do you think the people of each ethnicity looked at a map and said “Yup, that’s where we’re gonna settle”? Ethnicities (there are no human races) develop naturally within a region, for the most part at least. And why do religions need a home, let alone deserve one?
In what way is conflating zionism and judaism leading to “a safe space for the Jewish people”?
- Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.
This is literally part of the IHRA definition, and I’m not the one doing it, but if you’ll look at the comment sections under a lot of Israel-related or Jewish-related news on there, you’ll quickly understand why people on Lemmy don’t want to accept the common definition of antisemitism…
Great. You picked the one reasonable bit from the definition. /s
Too bad the rest of the definition tries to equate judaism and antisemitism again.
if you’ll look at the comment sections under a lot of Israel-related or Jewish-related news on there, you’ll quickly understand why people on Lemmy don’t want to accept the common definition of antisemitism…
Would you mind pointing me to these comments and stating what you mean by “common definition of antisemitism”? I don’t really get it.
Would you mind pointing me to these comments
This is one of the first ones if you search “Jews” and sort by latest
https://lemmy.ml/comment/18546783 https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/14356684 I would search more, but I’m pretty busy right now
what you mean by “common definition of antisemitism”?
By common definition I mean the IHRA definition, it’s the definition used by pretty much all Jewish institutions and in Jewish online spaces, and by some countries (Like Germany)
Where is antisemitism in the comment you linked?
I’m not seeing it, that person seems to be a Zionist troll and is labeling things which criticize Israel or zionism as a whole to be antisemitic.
Sorry, I still don’t see the antisemitism.
The IHRA definition is severely flawed and basically only accepted by Germany. The Jerusalem declaration is the more in line with “common sense”.
Look at the comment above that one.
It claims that the genocide we’re seeing right now is one in a long line of genocides perpetrated by Jews and that this proves that Israel is genocidal not because of Zionism, but that Zionism exists because Jews have always been genocidal. That’s pretty blatant antisemitism.
It continues with “The Romans knew what to do.” They sacked Jerusalem and murdered or enslaved it’s inhabitants. This comment got 10 upvotes.
Say what now? Jewish people are perfectly safe. Apologists and supporters of Israel racism and genocide should expect their abhorrent views to be challenged.
Remember the attempted murders of suspected Palestinians in the US by Zionists?
3 months ago someone stabbed a Spanish Tourist near the Holocaust memorial in Berlin because they thought they ware a Jew.
Attacks on Jewish People, not Zionists are on the rise. And Israel is doing them no favors, not disputing that. But there is actual antisemitism out there, not just the “Challenging Zionists and Genociders” kind, but also the “Death to Jews” kind.
What the fuck are you even talking about? How is idiotic, moronic definition defending genocide actually related to that?
Jewish people are perfectly safe They aren’t. That moronic definition will not help, but pretending like nothing is happening is dumb.
Jewish people are perfectly safe They aren’t.
But they are, sweetie. It is Palestinians who are being butchered daily. Around 100 people every day, murdered by Israeli criminals.
Going nuh uh and conflating Israelis and Jews doesn’t help your case, buddy.
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Germany not be a fucking nazi challenge impossible
They’re Nazi by not questioning the statehood of Israel?
The internet was a mistake
I suspect the last sentence violates German law. Equating Israel with Nazi Germany is illegal under German law as it is considered to downplay the Holocaust because the latter has killed several magnitudes more people than Israel. From a quick search, this has been confirmed at least once by a higher regional court where a cartoonist was fined one monthly income.
Advocating for a secular one-state solution has thus far never been considered illegal by any court. The IHRA definition is not German law and will likely never be.
Since the instance is hosted in Germany, comments must abide by German law even if you disagree with said law. The instance admins are personally liable if they do not remove potentially illegal comments so I don’t see why there is an issue.
You can create another Europe community on an instance which isn’t hosted in Germany where such comments are legal.
The law is an ass if you can’t even make a comment to clarify the difference between anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Why even host it in a country that has such restrictions?
Because its a German focussed instance???
Yes you can…
You can make this statement, only the last sentence in the comment in question is at the very best in a legal gray area.
It is perfectly legal to be opposed to zionism, even in Germany. You may need to adjust your wording, since anti-zionism can and has been considered antisemitic if antisemetic rhetoric is repeated. The statement “All zionists are pigs” would be illegal for example since the Judensau is an antisemitic symbol.
And the servers are hosted where the administrators live (note: they are hosted in Austria, their laws are nearly identical to Germany though). It wouldn’t make much of a difference - German (& Austrian) admins can be prosecuted for any content accessible in Germany (or Austria), regardless of where the content hosted. Besides, it would only take a single court order to identify the admins, see Impressumspflicht.
Impressumspflicht is usually for commercial websites though. If feddit.org doesn’t sell anything or doesn’t demand money, then the imprint isn’t necessary.
According to §18 Medienstaatsvertrag only private websites are exempt from Impressumspflicht. A full name and address are required.
The statement “All zionists are pigs” would be illegal for example since the Judensau is an antisemitic symbol.
How did you move from comparison of Israeli policies to these of Nazis to pigs?
As a comparison this is extremely daft. There are no antisemitic tropes here - being against Israel commiting genocide is a sign of humanity, not antisemitism.
As a comparison this is extremely daft. There are no antisemitic tropes here - being against Israel commiting genocide is a sign of humanity, not antisemitism.
German politicians and courts disagree, since supporting Israel is withing Germany’s national interest.
This has nothing to do with moral standing. It is merely the simplest way for the german government to disavow the Shoa while still pursuing it’s economical interest.
Supporting genocide is in Germany’s national interest now? 🙄
Yeah, kinda. At least the stated national interest.
I’m not a fan of it myself, but I’m not a big fan of states in general.
Notice the
for example
The commenter didn’t say anything about pigs obviously. I was providing an example where antizionism would be considered antisemitism by German courts.
Now read my comment again.
Equating Israel with Nazi Germany is illegal under German law as it is considered to downplay the Holocaust
Debatable. The comment doesn’t claim that the Shoa and Gaza are comparable. Just that sanctions are justified, just like in <insert horriple example>.
Also: apparently, it’s hosted in Austria.
It is not debatable. Equating Israelis to Nazis and equating genocide in Gaza to the holocaust are definitely illegal in Germany and Austria. You can criticize Israel all you want and be against the settler policies, just don’t call them nazis.
In most court cases it also depends on context too.
It’s debatable whether or not that comment actually is equating the genocide in Gaza to the Shoa.
The mods aren’t lawyers tho, so I can understand erring on the side of caution
The comment doesn’t claim that the Shoa and Gaza are comparable
Warsaw Ghetto uprising and Gaza are clearly comparable - Marek Edelman, one of the leaders of Ghetto uprising drawn parallels between the two. I somehow don’t believe Germany would prosecute him.
You’re right, though I don’t know whether a court will see it the same. It could maybe be argued there is an implicit connection in the comment.
Also, Austria has similar enough laws. In mid 2024 someone was sentenced to 7 months on probation for equating zionists with nazis:
In that case Austria and Germany would also find Albert Einstein, Hannah Ardent, and many more to be antisemitic for their letter to the NYT
https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948
Maybe? Never did I argue about the morality of these laws. They exist and must be abided to avoid negative consequences.
Ensuring the existence of the instance has higher priority than free speech about Israel. As such I don’t see any issue on the admin’s side for removing potentially illegal comments.
Discussion about Israel’s genocide is still possible under German law. Just don’t mention nazis or the Holocaust and you are probably fine.
