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It was illegal to deny holocaust. Fuck Israhell
No, antisemitism (or really any kind of discriminatory sentiment) is / has been punishable by law already. Among other things, there is precedence that denying Israels right to exist can count as such. While German law is not based on precedence, it shows that it was de facto illegal to do so.
What is legal is to criticise Israel and call out their crimes against humanity, but the political bubble has somehow been convinced it's not that bad and they are the good ones.
I don't see Germany making laws about other state's rights to exist. And also, states don't have rights to exist.
Don't be a dumb dumb protecting stupid laws.
Don't be a dumb dumb and read stating a plain fact about law as defense of a new law that seems to be mostly symbolic. Or an expression of my take on states for that matter, because neither has happened here.
Then I apologize on both counts. I understood your matter of fact tone as normalizing the overzealous and biased enforcement of anti-hate laws.
I don’t read this as defending it, just explaining the German government’s view of antisemitism.
I’ll go further and note that this broad definition adopted by the government led to multiple instances of Jews being arrested for antisemitism for peacefully protesting the apartheid. I’m not defending the law at all, just lamenting that it’s sadly not new, as far as I can tell.
So I guess I also want to know if anything changed or if they just wanted to pat themselves on the back for formally codifying it.
That was my bad if they weren't defending the law (see my comment to their response).
And yes, I'm aware of the irony that German Jewish people were arrested for their stance against the Palestinian genocide.