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.
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.
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.
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
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]
“Rules are important! I’m a good boy, I follow the rules.” -German soldier in the 1940s
One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”
- Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham Jail 1963
Germans for ya…
That is an unhelpful generalisation.
You ain’t wrong but I have yet to see a German on here acknowledge the genocide in Gaza
So I really don’t give two fucks. I am sure they exist but just like as with ww2, they don’t see anything and they are following the law 🤡
Us regime is also funding the genocide but at least we will come out and say fuck these regime whores and their owners.
Germans are still in denial who rules them…
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?
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.
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?
Source for The Hague verdict that calls it an UN recognized genocide? Like the ethnic cleansing in Srebrenica?
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?
So a comment about WW2 Germans about “just following orders” followed b
Ah, you are too stupid
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
Wow, I did not expect the need to provide the overwhelming evidence that Israel is doing a genocide in this thread, but here.
Israel's Genocide on Occupied Palestine
- De-Gaza: A Year of Israel’s Genocide and the Collapse of World Order - Euro-Med Monitor Report see Chapter 2 and 3
Our first-hand observations of the medical and humanitarian catastrophe inflicted on Gaza are consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza.
- Doctors Without Borders: Life in the death trap that is Gaza
It examines the killing of civilians, damage to and destruction of civilian infrastructure, forcible displacement, the obstruction or denial of life-saving goods and humanitarian aid, and the restriction of power supplies. It analyses Israel’s intent through this pattern of conduct and statements by Israeli decision-makers. It concludes that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
- Amnesty: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis Video and Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Report
On 26 January 2024, the ICJ said that it was plausible that Israel had breached the Genocide Convention. As an emergency measure, it ordered Israel ensure that its army refrained from genocidal acts against Palestinians.
The ICJ reported, as part of its decisions in March and May, that the situation in Gaza had deteriorated and that Israel had failed to abide by its order in January.
So, when we look at the actions taken, the dropping of thousands and thousands of bombs in a couple of days, including phosphorus bombs, as we heard, on one of the most densely populated areas around the world, together with these proclamations of intent, this indeed constitutes genocidal killing, which is the first act, according to the convention, of genocide. And Israel, I must say, is also perpetrating act number two and three — that is, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and creating condition designed to bring about the destruction of the group by cutting off water, food, supply of energy, bombing hospitals, ordering the fast evictions of hospitals, which the World Health Organization has declared to be, quote, “a death sentence.” So, we’re seeing the combination of genocidal acts with special intent. This is indeed a textbook case of genocide.
More than 800 scholars of international law and genocide have signed a public statement arguing that the Israeli military may be committing genocidal acts against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as the total siege and relentless airstrikes continue to inflict devastation on the occupied territory.
An independent United Nations expert warned Monday that “Israel’s genocidal violence risks leaking out of Gaza and into the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole” as Western governments, corporations, and other institutions keep up their support for the Israeli military, which stands accused of grave war crimes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Our documentation encompasses over 500 incitements of violence and genocidal incitement, appearing in the forms of social media posts, television interviews, and official statements from Israeli politicians, army personnel, journalists, and other influential personalities.
I, Lee Mordechai, a historian by profession and an Israeli citizen, bear witness in this document to the situation in Gaza as events are unfolding. The enormous amount of evidence I have seen, much of it referenced later in this document, has been enough for me to believe that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza. I explain why I chose to use the term below. Israel’s campaign is ostensibly its reaction to the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, in which war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed within the context of the longstanding conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that can be dated back to 1917 or 1948 (or other dates). In all cases, historical grievances and atrocities do not justify additional atrocities in the present. Therefore, I consider Israel’s response to Hamas’ actions on Oct. 7 utterly disproportionate and criminal.
We are attacking them for exactly what they are doing today?
Idiots still don’t get it
JFC how dense are these people
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.
Nice catch. So this sounds like the same story as lemmy.world and Luigi. Idiot “mod” doing content censorship due to its own political bias…
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.
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
“which does not an admin”
Words hard, apparently.
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.
in vidiya games, if you are seeing npcs… it means you are going the right way ;)
ohh we also got grammer nazis coming out of the woods now too haha
u got him, champ!
PTB. There is no reason to blindly adopt the IHRA definition.
The reason to blindly adopt is to ban antifascists from public discourse.
There is no reason to blindly adopt the IHRA definition
There’s no reason, unless you want your instance to be a safe place for the Jewish people
In what way is conflating zionism and judaism leading to “a safe space for the Jewish people”?
- Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.
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…
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.
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…
Would you mind pointing me to these comments and stating what you mean by “common definition of antisemitism”? I don’t really get it.
Would you mind pointing me to these comments
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
what you mean by “common definition of antisemitism”?
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)
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”.
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.
Where is antisemitism in the comment you linked?
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.
Say what now? Jewish people are perfectly safe. Apologists and supporters of Israel racism and genocide should expect their abhorrent views to be challenged.
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.
@fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com This does seem like some of that “both-sides” Zionist apologia crap
From a glance doesn’t seem to be. Anti-semitism, and anti-arab racism are unfortunately very common phenomenas; especially after october 7th.
If they used this to defend israel? Ban-worthy yeah. Seemingly though, they’re addressing anti-semitism directly.
Not a chance in hell I’m trying to defend Israel here.
I believe you. After last night i think i got too mad with some users, i should probably double check the modlog and see if i went too hard on some people anyway.
Also, lots of accusatory bullshit coming from feddit anyway. Probably good to address it somehow later.
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.
At no point did I argue about this genocide, merely about the notion that Jews are “perfectly safe”.
Do you mean my comment?
What the fuck are you even talking about? How is idiotic, moronic definition defending genocide actually related to that?
Jewish people are perfectly safe They aren’t. That moronic definition will not help, but pretending like nothing is happening is dumb.
Jewish people are perfectly safe They aren’t.
But they are, sweetie. It is Palestinians who are being butchered daily. Around 100 people every day, murdered by Israeli criminals.
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Going nuh uh and conflating Israelis and Jews doesn’t help your case, buddy.
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There’s no reason, unless you want your instance to be a safe place for
the Jewish peopleZionistsFixed it for you.
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?
Why do you think that Jews don’t deserve to have a home?
Because there is no need for one.
Why does every other race and religion in the world get a home but Jews don’t?
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?
See, people here don’t appreciate Zionist apologia. Go back to Reddit idiot.
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.
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.
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.
For decades The strongest supporters of Zionism have been American protestants
This is a pretty recent development tbh
AIPAC played their hand well and now we have solid 50 million american mouth breathers enabling this genocide while rest of us are relegated to doing these online circle jerks since you can’t criticize israel in any formal capacity if you want to keep your job lol
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The vast majority of Jews are Zionists (i.e. support the existence of Israel. Half of the world‘s Jews live in Israel.
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.
They removed a comment of mine today because it denied the statehood of Israel. What a joke.
I looked it up. IMHO, I don’t really think you did in the text.
What a punch of genocide apologizing, spineless dorks. 🙄
Spineless indeed.
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.
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.
Wdym about the votes? I don’t care who sees that stuff.
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.
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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.
The rule itself is a joke. Idgaf, I posted anyway. Fuck Israel.
“I oppose genocide. Unless it’s a group I dislike.”
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.
@fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com Found another genocide denying troll spewing Zionist whataboutism
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.
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.
“I was just following
ordersrules”
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.
Abolishing Israel would cause the largest genocide in human history
you can’t prove this
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 😘
Supporting Israel statehood doesn’t equate to support Netanyahu or denying Palestinian statehood.
Supporting Rhodesian statehood doesn’t equate to support for White Supremacism or denying Zimbabwean statehood.
^ That’s what you sound like.
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Yeah, I saw some of this nonsense in the modlog. PTB, I don’t know what the hell they are thinking.
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.
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”
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?
Old habits die hard for the Germans it seems. The EU deserves so much better from Germany here.
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.
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
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
nah, the entire country isn’t racist.
just the people in charge, you bootlicker.
Reading comprehension. I don’t support my governments stance on Israel.
You’re right, I thought I was replying to the other guy. My bad, I should pay better attention.
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.
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.
Your last line is just moronic though.
Why?
Because Germans are super sensitive about these issues. Hence why they go balls deep for Israel.
They act as if Germany only attempted to exterminate the jews in Eastern Europe so if they just make it right with Israel they will redeem themselves.
Current situation, really putting pressure on that approach.
With that being said, why all this focus on European jews… What about poles and belarusians? Is there some sort of pecking order here that only the jews count as “deserving” victims, the rest go what they deserved?
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.
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.
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.
Equating Israel with Nazi Germany is illegal under German law as it is considered to downplay the Holocaust
Debatable. The comment doesn’t claim that the Shoa and Gaza are comparable. Just that sanctions are justified, just like in <insert horriple example>.
Also: apparently, it’s hosted in Austria.
The comment doesn’t claim that the Shoa and Gaza are comparable
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.
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.
It’s debatable whether or not that comment actually is equating the genocide in Gaza to the Shoa.
The mods aren’t lawyers tho, so I can understand erring on the side of caution
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:
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
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.
You are gonna talk about this issue how regime tells you to talk about it or you won’t talk about at all
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?
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.
The statement “All zionists are pigs” would be illegal for example since the Judensau is an antisemitic symbol.
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.
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.
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.
Supporting genocide is in Germany’s national interest now? 🙄
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.
Notice the
for example
The commenter didn’t say anything about pigs obviously. I was providing an example where antizionism would be considered antisemitism by German courts.
Now read my comment again.
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.
According to §18 Medienstaatsvertrag only private websites are exempt from Impressumspflicht. A full name and address are required.
The law is an ass if you can’t even make a comment to clarify the difference between anti-zionism and anti-semitism.
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.
Why even host it in a country that has such restrictions?
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.)
“Online trolls”
“Hate speech”
Because its a German focussed instance???
Yes you can…
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.
that Israel as a country probably shouldn’t exist.
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.
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He seems fine. So long as someone isn’t spewing out IDF apologism and bothsiding stuff, they’re allowed.
Makes sense, they seemed iffy.
Same as the White South Africans, stay or leave.
I don’t think you’ve thought this through yourself.
I asked to be realistic. That ship has sailed in regards to Israel a long time ago.
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.
Not once US support stops 🐸
Kinda like what happened with south afrika
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.
I am sorry that you can’t see a multi cultural Palestinian state as a viable alternative to the genocide Israel
That’s a you problem. That’s what should have happened from the start but the Israeli project was always a genocide exercise. We just now finally got confirmation for it.
Also, the “antisemitism” is such tired bullshit tactic, let it go. Nobody is buying it. Israeli jews are doing a genocide. Get a clue
I don’t even disagree with you, but I find your suggestion to be extremely naive.
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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.
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.
This is the internet. And modding decision acting like a crime was a committed… And bootlickers are fine with it.
Fedi community as a whole don’t appear to be amused and the arguments so far are even more telling than the original censorship action lol
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.
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.
Hosting in Germany means complying with German laws. They are enforcing that. Its not up to them but the state.
It is hosted in Austria, consider reading entire comment chain. You might learn something
The domain is registered at a German GmbH, the contact info is Austrian.
Hosting is tied to server location, not domain registarar?
Down comment it was explained it is being operated by Austrian entity and hosted in Austria.
Now sure if that is true but that’s what the comment section is going off.
With that being said, another person pointed out that this was a “mod” action, not admin action too
Looks more like they’re trying to comply with local law.
Still protected under free speech. Feddit.org probably doesn’t get federal grants, which could get denied for “antisemitism”.
germanaustrian acceptable speech law too?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.
We already went through this bullshit with lemmy.world and Luigi.
“The law” was used as pretext there and looks that’s what is happening here
Modlog is really good at keep them accountable though. So that’s a W for free speech enjoyers
This is another example content censorship IMHO
It amazing how these modding decisions always revolve around regime talking points. Makes ya wonder
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.
Can you pin point which law was broke?
If there is a law fine, but I have gone through this exercise several times and nobody can bring any receipts ever
So my conclusion that it ain’t about the law until I see something tangible.
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.
Appreciate you doing basic googling
But how wpuld disparagement of religion laws apply here.
The original comment discusses israel as sovereign state committing crimes similar to Germany and south Africa.
I don’t see a religious angle in the comment.
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
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?
Enlighten me, what is not a knee jetk reaction to a mod defending a nazi-like regime using anti nazi laws as an excuse?
I asked first
Okay I don’t know, now to my questions?
