Fresh new German antisemitism resolution!

[u/dustydancers]

I may be deported soon I guess lol. Things here haven’t really changed since the 30’s ..

[u/allneonunlike]

Aren’t something like 30% of the people being arrested for antisemitism in Germany antizionist Jews? Gabor Maté is Hungarian, but are probably a handful of elderly German child survivors like him who could have been stripped of their citizenship in 1935, renaturalized in 2021 under the Holocaust right to return laws, and then expelled again in 2024.

[u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ → u/allneonunlike]

Yep, Peter Beinart tweeted out that statistic, which comes from Emily Dishe-Becker during her interview with The Dig, Jacobin's podcast.

She estimates that 30% of German institutional cancellations have been against German Jews for alleged antisemitism.

We can see a similar phenomena in England within the Labour party. British progressive/leftist Jews were disproportionately targeted by party leadership for antisemitism accusations/disciplinary action.

• Jewish Currents - The Jews Expelled from Labour over Antisemitism

The various news articles on this new resolution have reported that critics find it unconstitutional (ie violating civil liberties).

From a legal perspective, the resolution is a great disappointment. Earlier drafts were criticized severely by lawyers as most likely unconstitutional. In view of these criticisms, it is puzzling to see that the final version of the text is mostly unchanged," says Ralf Michaels, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Michaels is one of several experts who have offered an alternative proposal.

• DW - Germany passes controversial antisemitism resolution

[u/koi88 → u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_]

Jewish voices are the most dangerous for the narrative, as they cannot easily be depicted as antisemitic (it is still done, but not very credible). The opposite is a person with an Arabic sounding name: There is no need to listen, as they must be antisemitic. That happened to Adania Shibli. She is even Palestinian. She won a literary prize, but the committee was then afraid what she may talk about in her speech, so the award ceremony was cancelled.

Recently cancelled Jewish thinkers include Nancy Fraser, Candice Breitz, but also Eyal Weizman (who won the alternative Nobel Prize with his organization "Forensic Architecture").

[u/dustydancers → u/allneonunlike]

I have dual citizenship, German Israeli. This is beyond, almost comical to me. My grandma had to flee, my mom returned, I get expelled. Full circle moment for three generations of jewish women 👍

[u/koi88 → u/dustydancers]

It's ridiculous.

However – I don't think anybody will be expelled because of that resolution as it's very likely unconstitutional (I mean, how can it not be?). The Bundesverfassungsgericht (constitutional court) will probably declare the whole thing as not valid.

Besides, a Jewish person would be the very, very last to get expelled.
Expelling a Jew would endanger the narrative that it's mostly Muslims that cause the trouble. It may make some people think.

And who wants that?