Germany’s Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, backed a bill to criminalize the denial of Israel’s right to exist on Friday, a motion that constitutional experts said could jeopardize freedom of expression.
According to the bill, anyone denying Israel’s right to exist or calling for its abolition would be punished with a prison sentence of up to five years under the regulation. The bill will be examined by the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, after its summer recess.
Good.
Now lets see one that also criminalises denial of the right for Palestine to exist.
Then Palestine has a right to exist too.
The Germans really love genocide.
This whole shit about “Right to exist” is extremely absurd.
Never before, anywhere else on the planet, no other country was ever questioned to have the right to exist.
Fuck these genocidal colonialists, trying to smooth ambiguous sentences with acceptance for their genocide.
Never before, anywhere else on the planet, no other country was ever questioned to have the right to exist.
Even right now Russia questions Ukraine’s right to exist, US questions Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba and Greenland’s right to exist. Britain has in living memory questioned Ireland’s right to exist.
Israel absolutely has a right to exist and it’s fine that’s put to law.
Palestine ALSO has a right to exist and it should also be put to law.
exactly. does Genovia have a right to exist? that’s the fictional European kingdom from The Princess Diaries. it’s doesn’t exist. but does it have a right to?
Can we first know what “right to exist” means for the context of a nation state? Surely, Nazi Germany didn’t have a “right to exist”. So, surely it’s not a universal right like a person’s right to exist? This means there are things a state can do that revoke it’s “right to exist”? So, what does it actually mean?
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All states (even Nazi Germany) have a “right to exist” and it cannot be revoked.
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No states have a “right to exist”.
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All states have a right to exist until some defined violation that revokes that right.
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It’s a meaningless phrase that is only used in the context of defending a genocidal apartheid state.
I’m leaning towards thinking they are using the last definition.
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That’s some Zionist bullshit. I guarantee that any criticism of Israel would end up being lumped in.
Lmao there is a huge difference between “existing” and “actively deliberately genociding a people and culture they believe are inferior”
I do not recognize terrorist states. Free Palestine. And fuck you Germany. You never changed.
What about Palestine’s right to exist? They going to pass a similar law about that?..no?.. Didn’t think so.
That has been illegal already afaik, so what changed?
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.
Fuck ze germans and fuck Israel
