
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.
::: spoiler 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.
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::: spoiler 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.
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::: spoiler 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
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::: spoiler 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]
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226 Comments
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 1y
"Rules are important! I'm a good boy, I follow the rules." -German soldier in the 1940s
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · -1 pts · 1y
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
That is an unhelpful generalisation.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 1 pts · 1y
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · -15 pts · 1y
Yeah let's burden them with faults they now have nothing do do with anymore. Let's shame them for their past they are in no way partaking in anymore.
It worked in WW1, wanna try again?
superniceperson@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 1y
A) Germany is specifically and explicitly helping to carry out at least one internationally recognized genocide at this moment
B) everyone is criticizing them for their current actions, that happen to be an even less justifiable repeat of their previous actions.
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · -19 pts · 1y
A) Source for The Hague verdict that calls it an UN recognized genocide? Like the ethnic cleansing in Srebrenica?
B) So a comment about WW2 Germans about "just following orders" followed by "Germans in a nutshell" is all about their current actions?
So Russia invading Ukraine is and systematically erasing Ukraine cultural heritage by reeducation of children kidnapped to Russia is "Russians in a nutshell" because that happens to be an even less justifiable repeat of their previous actions?
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y
So you specifically need a court to tell you what is and isn't a genocide? Too stupid to think for 3 seconds and come to a conclusion on your own?
Ah, you are too stupid
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · -16 pts · 1y
There are definitions for genocide, look them up. If you scaled up ie. Srebrenica to the deaths of the israeli-gaza conflict, and you compare the methodology they are planets apart
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Wow, I did not expect the need to provide the overwhelming evidence that Israel is doing a genocide in this thread, but here.
::: spoiler Israel's Genocide on Occupied Palestine
Others: AP News, Time, Reuters, Vox, CBC
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Deceptichum@quokk.au · 7 pts · 1y
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 6 pts · 1y
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 49 pts · 1y
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.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 19 pts · 1y
Saleh@feddit.org · -4 pts · 1y
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.
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -11 pts · 1y
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
M137@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 1y
"which does not an admin"
Words hard, apparently.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
The fact that some people are attacking typos and grammar instead of trying to argue with me on my merit means I'm on the right track.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 7 pts · 1y
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 6 pts · 1y
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 46 pts · 1y
PTB. There is no reason to blindly adopt the IHRA definition.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y
The reason to blindly adopt is to ban antifascists from public discourse.
Fitik@fedia.io · -34 pts · 1y
There's no reason, unless you want your instance to be a safe place for the Jewish people
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 32 pts · 1y
In what way is conflating zionism and judaism leading to "a safe space for the Jewish people"?
Fitik@fedia.io · -18 pts · 1y
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..
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 26 pts · 1y
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.
Would you mind pointing me to these comments and stating what you mean by "common definition of antisemitism"? I don't really get it.
Fitik@fedia.io · -18 pts · 1y
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
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)
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 21 pts · 1y
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".
belastend@slrpnk.net · -1 pts · 1y
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.
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Where is antisemitism in the comment you linked?
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y
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.
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
Say what now? Jewish people are perfectly safe. Apologists and supporters of Israel racism and genocide should expect their abhorrent views to be challenged.
belastend@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
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.
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
@fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com This does seem like some of that "both-sides" Zionist apologia crap
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
belastend@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y
Not a chance in hell I'm trying to defend Israel here.
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 1y
It seemed like that's what they were doing due to the context of the comment they were responding to, like they're trying to both-sides the argument about the Israel genocide.
belastend@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y
At no point did I argue about this genocide, merely about the notion that Jews are "perfectly safe".
belastend@slrpnk.net · -1 pts · 1y
Do you mean my comment?
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
What the fuck are you even talking about? How is idiotic, moronic definition defending genocide actually related to that?
belastend@slrpnk.net · -4 pts · 1y
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
But they are, sweetie. It is Palestinians who are being butchered daily. Around 100 people every day, murdered by Israeli criminals.
Mem@discuss.tchncs.de · -2 pts · 1y
belastend@slrpnk.net · -3 pts · 1y
Going nuh uh and conflating Israelis and Jews doesn't help your case, buddy.
MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee · -7 pts · 1y
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y
Fixed it for you.
MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee · -15 pts · 1y
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?
Spectrism@feddit.org · 11 pts · 1y
Because there is no need for one.
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?
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
See, people here don't appreciate Zionist apologia. Go back to Reddit idiot.
Saleh@feddit.org · 39 pts · 1y
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.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
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.
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 1y
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.
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
For decades The strongest supporters of Zionism have been American protestants
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 6 pts · 1y
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · -12 pts · 1y
The vast majority of Jews are Zionists (i.e. support the existence of Israel. Half of the world‘s Jews live in Israel.
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y
Are you trying to say that anti-Zionism is equivalent to antisemitism? Because that's the only reason I can think of for why you'd try and make such an argument. To try and contrast or disagree with my statement that Zionism and Judaism are in fact different things. I maintain the fact that they are different and that calling out Zionism and Zionist apologia is not only acceptable but should be encouaged. People who call such people "Antisemitic" are Zionist trolls who should not be listened to and instead should be named and shamed, and ultimately banned from common spaces.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 1y
They removed a comment of mine today because it denied the statehood of Israel. What a joke.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 1y
I looked it up. IMHO, I don't really think you did in the text.
What a punch of genocide apologizing, spineless dorks. 🙄
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y
Spineless indeed.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
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.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y
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.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
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.
Mem@discuss.tchncs.de · -6 pts · 1y
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -6 pts · 1y
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.
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y
The rule itself is a joke. Idgaf, I posted anyway. Fuck Israel.
ahornsirup@feddit.org · -9 pts · 1y
"I oppose genocide. Unless it's a group I dislike."
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y
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.
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
@fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com Found another genocide denying troll spewing Zionist whataboutism
ahornsirup@feddit.org · -9 pts · 1y
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.
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y
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.
TRAHR@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1y
"I was just following
ordersrules"MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee · -11 pts · 1y
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.
nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org · 9 pts · 1y
you can't prove this
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y
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 😘
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · 0 pts · 1y
Supporting Israel statehood doesn't equate to support Netanyahu or denying Palestinian statehood.
TRAHR@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
Supporting Rhodesian statehood doesn't equate to support for White Supremacism or denying Zimbabwean statehood.
^ That's what you sound like.
Mem@discuss.tchncs.de · -3 pts · 1y
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 21 pts · 1y
Yeah, I saw some of this nonsense in the modlog. PTB, I don't know what the hell they are thinking.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 1y
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.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 1y
Debatable. The comment doesn't claim that the Shoa and Gaza are comparable. Just that sanctions are justified, just like in .
Also: apparently, it's hosted in Austria.
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y
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.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · -1 pts · 1y
It's debatable whether or not that comment actually is equating the genocide in Gaza to the Shoa.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y
The mods aren't lawyers tho, so I can understand erring on the side of caution
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
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.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1y
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:
https://salzburg.orf.at/stories/3267915/
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
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.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 0 pts · 1y
Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y
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?
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y
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.
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
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.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 1y
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.
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Supporting genocide is in Germany’s national interest now? 🙄
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 1y
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.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · -2 pts · 1y
Notice the
The commenter didn't say anything about pigs obviously. I was providing an example where antizionism would be considered antisemitism by German courts.
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
Now read my comment again.
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -1 pts · 1y
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.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1y
According to §18 Medienstaatsvertrag only private websites are exempt from Impressumspflicht. A full name and address are required.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 5 pts · 1y
I would go a step further: The law is an ass if the police are getting themselves involved in any respect in what comments you can and can't make.
Whether the viewpoint or argument is or isn't reasonable, or where they choose to draw the line about what's a perfectly fair thing to say, just doesn't factor into it.
Fully agree. If this is anything other than a stupid excuse, they and everyone else should make sure not to host in Germany (if this didn't tip you off already.)
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 3 pts · 1y
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Because its a German focussed instance????????
DmMacniel@feddit.org · -1 pts · 1y
Yes you can...
surph_ninja@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
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.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y
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"
surph_ninja@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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?
TRAHR@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
Old habits die hard for the Germans it seems. The EU deserves so much better from Germany here.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · -4 pts · 1y
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
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y
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
surph_ninja@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
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.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y
Zwiebel@feddit.org · -3 pts · 1y
Reading comprehension. I don't support my governments stance on Israel.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
Zwiebel@feddit.org · -4 pts · 1y
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.
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Why?
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 9 pts · 1y
surph_ninja@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 1y
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.
yournamehere@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y
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.
FermionWrangler@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y
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.
poVoq@slrpnk.net · -5 pts · 1y
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.
Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
Same as the White South Africans, stay or leave.
I don't think you've thought this through yourself.
poVoq@slrpnk.net · -5 pts · 1y
I asked to be realistic. That ship has sailed in regards to Israel a long time ago.
Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
Once again South Africa shows how the world can bring down these hate regimes. It's never too late.
If you'd said Irish rule had sailed a long time ago and consigned us to England, I'd have some words for you.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 5 pts · 1y
poVoq@slrpnk.net · -6 pts · 1y
The ANC is not comparable to Hamas or Hezbollah, and these kind of "funny" remarks about how there will be a free for all with Jewish lives "once the US support stops" is exactly why people consider such remarks as antisemitic.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 7 pts · 1y
poVoq@slrpnk.net · -7 pts · 1y
I don't even disagree with you, but I find your suggestion to be extremely naive.
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
Makes sense, they seemed iffy.
AEGIS2317@feddit.org · 0 pts · 1y
catloaf@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 1y
Looks more like they're trying to comply with local law.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y
Still protected under free speech. Feddit.org probably doesn't get federal grants, which could get denied for "antisemitism".
lime@feddit.nu · 10 pts · 1y
germanaustrian acceptable speech law too?Lazycog@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 1y
Not sure if it makes a difference, just want to dump info here:
Feddit.org is owned by an austrian non-profit, so I assume it's the Austrian law that they have to follow.
fediverse.foundation is their page.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 8 pts · 1y
lime@feddit.nu · 0 pts · 1y
i mean yeah, it is censorship. literally. most countries do not have a notion of free speech. if the instance breaks the law of the country it's in then it can't operate there anymore.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 4 pts · 1y
lime@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 1y
i was not saying that a law is being broken. i was asking if there is such a law in austria, and saying that if that's the case then the mods of the instance are just doing CYA policy. i am not against you here.
i am not a good german speaker, and i do not know their laws, but if any country would be quick to take israel's side considering even recent history, it would be austria.
from a cursory google there are laws against "disparagement of religious doctrines", which is article 188 of the austrian criminal code. there's also talk about a law for quelling online hate speech which critics worried were being "passed through by way of a hot needle" and numerous articles on austria-israel relations, including one where either the chancellor for austria or the ambassador for israel says un a meeting that "antisemitism and antizionism are two sides of the same coin" (can't find the article i read it at again).
this was not what i wanted to do just before going to bed.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 0 pts · 1y
arifinhiding@feddit.org · -1 pts · 1y
Supposing that the mod is using the "german definition", there is still the issue of hosting an incredibly popular instance. In online places where a huge influx of non-german users live, I'd argue that it should be treated like a public place where free speech is granted. How am i supposed to understand the cultural realities of Germany if I live thousands of miles away from it? Am I supposed to tone down my right to free speech just because they've treated their subjective experience as a universal law?
But I like that on Lemmy, I'm seeing diverse discussion on German/Austrian law. I don't get to see that on other prominent platforms, which tend to favor wikipedia-type discourse that often ends with american pop history/culture inferences.
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y
What is free speech? There is no globally defined free speech. So it comes to national law of the location where the instance is hosted in.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 3 pts · 1y
arifinhiding@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
Moderation rulings are subjective. There are legitimate interests in free speech, even if the idea itself has no distinct and clear impressions. At best, he's only applying an inference. At worst, he's suppressing free speech that he doesn't like hearing.
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
The instance has rules and the server is German. Usually when you visit another country, you do your research about the dos and dont so that you don't look like an ass.
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Hosting in Germany means complying with German laws. They are enforcing that. Its not up to them but the state.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 3 pts · 1y
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 1y
The domain is registered at a German GmbH, the contact info is Austrian.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 6 pts · 1y
flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -8 pts · 1y
YDI.
But let me be clear because some folks seem to not understand this in the past, good. Their rules clearly indicate that you're breaking them, so for that, you 'deserved' the mod action. But this is an action worth deserving. Fuck them. Fuck them right in the ass.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 3 pts · 1y
arakhis_@feddit.org · -8 pts · 1y
aaaand unfollowed the community europe @ feeditUK here I come!
on that note: Since my account is on the same instance, how do they relate to the community? Like is the reputation of the instance untouched by this or no, if how?
EDIT: DAMN! The uk sub is about the product boycott transition, not about european news.
We need a new instance for that! Guys Europe stands and falls on values. If theres no other eu community or the current one doesnt adapt/make sufficient statements here, that would seriously harm the reputation and take away from one of the biggest current incentives to use lemmy - european exchange
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
Question, why is your account on our instance when you don't interact with it to know how this encounter with that communities strict rules relates to the instance as a whole?
Also a bit of a knee jerk reaction, no?
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Enlighten me, what is not a knee jetk reaction to a mod defending a nazi-like regime using anti nazi laws as an excuse?
arakhis_@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
I asked first
DmMacniel@feddit.org · -7 pts · 1y
Okay I don't know, now to my questions?
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -14 pts · 1y
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.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub · 21 pts · 1y
Oh, well by all means,...
Free Palestine. Free Gaza, then.
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -2 pts · 1y
Yeah I do support Palestinian statehood, but in a two state solution with the 1949 to 1967 border and no Israeli settlements in Palestine.
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Of course you do, sweetheart 🙄
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 7 pts · 1y
Mem@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y
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itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 1y
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
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -4 pts · 1y
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/urteil-israel-karikatur-nazivergleich-meinungsfreiheit-1.5683671 It is punishable in Germany.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 1y
They got charged for showing swastikas outside of what the court deemed educational context. Not relevant, read your own article:
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -4 pts · 1y
You should read further. That wasn't the only reason. Another reason was "Verharmlosung des Shoah"
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 1y
And you should read yet further, the thing they got charged for was the swastika:
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.
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -7 pts · 1y
This is about German law though, whether you like it or not.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 1y
Which law? Which law applies here? The article you posted is not relevant to the comment at hand
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -6 pts · 1y
Volksverhetzung
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 1y
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.
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -6 pts · 1y
It can though. It's not like calling Netanyahu or the IDF nazis which probably would be allowed despite being controversial.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1y
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?
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 4 pts · 1y
TRAHR@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
From the River to the Sea, Fuck Germany.
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -17 pts · 1y
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.)
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Block them, you antisemite:
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
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.
0x0@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 1y
Im all for Israel becoming a city state of Palestine.
We cool?
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -6 pts · 1y
Why not two state solution or a binational state like Bosnia-Herzegowina?
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Why not having one state with equal rights for everyone living there and right to return for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants?
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y
Wouldn't be Zionist enough for their taste.
0x0@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 1y
Because Israel has shown zero ability to manage a humanitarian state so far, even with all their added support from big daddy.
Giving Palestine the same chance before trying a two state solution would only be fair. Now if that doesnt work out, we can go for your idea, but not before Palestine gets the same option as Israel do to shoah or not.
Itll be fun, come on.
Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Because one state is a genocidal terror state. Would you ask Poland to give up half their country for the Nazi's to keep living in after the war?
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -5 pts · 1y
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.
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 5 pts · 1y
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -7 pts · 1y
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.
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
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.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 1y
oh please block me
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
https://www.btselem.org/publications
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -4 pts · 1y
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.
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
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.
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.
::: spoiler 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.
:::
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 10 pts · 1y
Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
With honour.
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -23 pts · 1y
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25859076
Let's-a go!
EDIT:
Why would anyone be enraged by users defending Jews?
Fotzenfritz@feddit.org · -25 pts · 1y
American donkeys think their right of free speech applies throughout the world. Pathetic.
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 1y
Fotzenfritz@feddit.org · -23 pts · 1y
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 1y
Baseless accusation, completely off topic. You're not helping the allegations that feddit.org is full of Zionists
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 1y
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org · -15 pts · 1y
TRAHR@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1y
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.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 6 pts · 1y
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
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.
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
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.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1y
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.
Fotzenfritz@feddit.org · -15 pts · 1y
Nah, i don't think so.