Title says it all. In combination with the recent post about somebody getting banned from the same comm, there’s a trend starting to emerge.

Edit: Sad but unsurprising that this immediately got downvoted by a German user

Edit 2: Looks like this was just one of many such posts that got locked without any reason given. Notice a pattern in the topics locked?

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      284·
      1 day ago

      I mean just read rule 4 of that comm. It says “don’t question the statehood of Israel” in the rule banning hate speech, ostensibly to comply with German law. Germany has no such law (yet). They’re at the very least running defense for Zionists. I got warned by the mods to delete or edit parts of my side of an argument where I argued for a one-state solution over there the other day.

      • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 hours ago

        According the the German Law they uphold, any mention of the reality that Israel is Settler Colonialist, an Apartheid, acknowledging that Israel is comitting genocide, any criticism of Zionism, and any Palestinian emancipatory slogans are all considered antisemitic.

        Meaning according to German Law: BT’Selem, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Court of Justice, the United Nations, Euro-Med Monitor, Save the Children, Jewish Voice for Peace, Jewish Voice for Labor, Ilan Pappe, Avi Schlaim, Norman Finkelstein, and historical figures such as Albert Einstein and Hannah Ardent are all antisemitic for their (correct) views on Israel and Zionism.

        Depending on how devout the mods and admins of that comm are, all of the above are considered antisemitic based on rule 4 and warrant comment/post removals if not outright bans.

        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]

        According to Australian historian A. Dirk Moses, German anti-antisemitism has involved the infusion of new tropes into German public discourse, with a focus on “post-colonial antisemitism”, “Israel-related antisemitism” and “hatred of Israel”, creating a link between antisemitism—hatred of Jews—and anti-Zionism. It is used to imply that solidarity with Palestinians, which is particularly widespread in the global south, is due to hatred of Jews rather than the expression of a legitimate political view of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the aim of this being to prevent postcolonial academics as well as the German art and museum scenes from fostering the spread of such views

        Habermas defines anti-Semitism as a set of “sentiments and convictions” that, while normally “cultivated” (?) in the privacy of people’s living rooms, may come to the fore, in the form of condemnations of the Israeli mass killings in Gaza suggesting that such killings might turn into, or might in fact already constitute, genocide.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
          3·
          3 hours ago

          According the the German Law they uphold, any mention of the reality that Israel is Settler Colonialist, an Apartheid, acknowledging that Israel is comitting genocide, any criticism of Zionism, and any Palestinian emancipatory slogans are all considered antisemitic.

          I mean yeah, but being an “antisemite” isn’t illegal in Germany, and neither is hosting antisemitic content. Hate speech is one thing, but even Germany isn’t that far gone (yet, anyway), so the mods are banning “questioning the statehood of Israel” on their own pejorative, not to avoid legal consequences.