German Interior Minster Alexander Dobrindt on Tuesday said that the number of politically motivated crimes in Germany – ranging from hate speech to acts of physical violence – reached a record high of…
  • LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    This is meaningless as Germany mislabels many forms of Pro-Palestine activism/criticism of Israel as “antisemitic” crimes.

    • Mystic Mushroom [Ze/Zir]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
      41·
      2 days ago

      Yeah they blew their credibility in my book when they started using “antisemitism” laws to attack antifascists and activists. Seems more like Germany uses those laws to cover up their Nazi past and defend Israel (“the jews”) than to actually stop antisemitism. If they actually cared about stopping antisemitism they wouldn’t prop up Zionism and pro-Zionist ideology.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      No, it’s not meaningless, since what they call “antisemitic” crimes are tracked explicitly. No matter what your position on that is, it still points to a worrying increase in far-right violence.