r/JewsOfConscience Sephardic Nov 07 '24

News Fresh new German antisemitism resolution!

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

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u/Thisisme8719 Arab Jew Nov 08 '24

Hopefully this won't pass. Not that countries care that much about international law, but they can't even maintain the slightest pretense to care if they strip away people's citizenship. If they don't have another nationality, it would violate international treaties, including the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
Sure, that doesn't apply to Israel which does revoke citizenship. But they look at international law as a dare to brazenly violate.

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u/openstandards Non-Jewish Agnostic Ally Nov 08 '24

Too late, It's already passed.

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u/Thisisme8719 Arab Jew Nov 08 '24

I checked several outlets and I'm not seeing anything about stripping people of their citizenship passing.

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u/openstandards Non-Jewish Agnostic Ally Nov 08 '24 edited Nov 08 '24

The two keywords, dual citizenship.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-825689, <-- This article talks about revoking but they would have to make an amendment, this was pointed out by Thisisme8719 so take it with a pinch of salt.

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u/Thisisme8719 Arab Jew Nov 08 '24

That doesn't say it passed. It says that the revocation of citizenship was a proposed amendment to a law that was passed a few months ago. That law was for denying applicants for citizenship, not revoking citizenship from people who got it (which doesn't count if it's done through fraud etc).
It's still a terrible thing and inexcusable to deny people citizenship because of that kind of speech, but stripping away citizenship is a whole other can of worms. Even with people who have other nationalities (which I mentioned), there were controversies when European countries did that to citizens who joined ISIS since applying a law to only one class of people (with two or more nationalities) can be challenged as discriminatory.

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u/openstandards Non-Jewish Agnostic Ally Nov 08 '24

Re-reading it, it seems like you're indeed right.

Thank you for highlighting that, it's a key element, I didn't pick up before.

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u/Thisisme8719 Arab Jew Nov 08 '24

No prob. It's a terribly, terribly, terribly written article