Fears for ‘security of Jews worldwide’ in wake of Elon Musk AfD speech

[samus12345@lemm.ee]

The flag is clearly autistic.

[samus12345@lemm.ee]

It seems that

Based on what, ADL? What Musk claimed? He's literally the most biased source you can have.

[shepherdpie@midwest.social]

I was. The quoted part is an actual quote from a different article on the topic

[saleh@feddit.org]

AfD are openly very strong supporters of Israel and pushed for resolutions against BDS in 2019 and now supported an "anti antisemitism" resolution in the German parliament, which is designed in a way that shifts the blame for antisemitism away from German Nazis and onto Muslims and Leftists critical of Israel.

The BDS resolution was already used to silence critics of Israel, disproportionately affecting Jews critical of Israel. Now the new resolution suggests having the interior intelligence screen scientists and artists to make sure they are "without a doubt" not antisemitic, aka they most not have voiced any criticism of Israel. The most cynical aspect of it is that it does mention last years Berlinale as an example for antisemitisim because a Jewish documentary director called Israel an Apartheid state. Meanwhile the resolution does not refer to a terror attack by a Neonazi, who tried murdering Jews in a synagogue in Halle a few years back.

Unfortunately the Social Democrats, Greens, Liberals and Conservatives were all in on it.

The AfD is only displaying the most extreme form of a sentiment prevalent in German politics. Downplay German fascism and antisemitism by the right and center and blame it all on people crirical of Israel.

There is a great podcast about the insanity of Germanys way of dealing with it, interviewing Emily Dische-Becker, who is one of the writers of the Jerusalem definition of antisemitism. The Jerusalem definition is an alternative definition to the IHRA definition with the goal to properly seperate between antisemitism and criticism of Israel.

https://thedigradio.com/podcast/the-german-question-w-emily-dische-becker/

[crapwittyname@lemm.ee]

I'm autistic, so it's hard for me to map those cartoons onto a real face. They all kind of look like captain Barnacle to me to be honest. It's probably better if I don't know, I suppose.
Bottom line though is of course that nobody should be judged on their appearance because that's blatantly stupid. Further, I think, when you break it down, judging someone because their appearance conforms loosely to your idea of the appearance of a population which is most concentrated in a country whose government's military is committing atrocities against a country whose population's appearance conforms to one to which you think you belong... is beyond stupidity and can be nothing short of outright malicious. Fuck that you have to deal with that. Especially since you've been outspoken in your opposition to the crimes of that government.

[mrkawfee@lemmy.world]

That's a really good episode. Honestly, watching how fanatically pro Israel and anti Palestinians the Germans have been during this genocide you'd think deNazification never happened.

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

It's okay though because Musk and his husband support the right of Israel to do their own holocaust, so they can't be antisemites. It's the anti-holocaust people who are antisemitic! /s

[stellarextract@lemm.ee]

So do you have an alternative in mind, or are you just arguing that we shouldn't read?

[roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world]

Hello I'm German and I would like you to stop grouping all of us together. The debate about Israel and Palestine in combination with the AFD caused huge rift in our society and comments like this just stokes the flames for fascist like the AFD.

Many Germans are aware about whats happening in Palestine and are in open protest.

So please stop.

[ogmios@sh.itjust.works]

Read as much as you like, so long as you don't mistake the words on a page for an accurate representation of the real world.

[mrkawfee@lemmy.world]

Ok I am sorry if I upset you and I know it's wrong to generalize given that there are many Germans opposed to what's going on but your government, police, media and cultural institutions have been so brazen in how they are white washing genocide, oppressing protests and dissent while dehumanising Palestinians. Seeing Germany's official support for Israel in the ICJ while sending them weapons to kill civilians is disgusting.

[werefreeatlast@lemmy.world]

The photo has got to be a Pulitzer winner. Talk about being at the right place and the right time...or should I say rhight? You know, how do you spell the word associated with Nazis again?