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Germany moves to criminalize denial of Israel's existence | The Jerusalem Post (web.archive.org)

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Under the proposal, anyone who publicly or at a gathering denies the right of the State of Israel to exist, or calls for its elimination, would face punishment.

archive: https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-902237

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

King Abdulaziz Al Saud, who opposed the partition of Palestine in 1947 and questioned why the Jews should be allowed to take someone else's land, said the most insightful thing ever said about it:

"Give them and their descendants the choicest lands and homes of the Germans who had oppressed them."

Maybe that's why Germany is so keen on enforcing Israel's right to exist: the logical alternative would be to give the Jews Germany instead.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

100% agree on this. Israel should've been made in some part of former germany after ww2. But the occupiers probably didn't like giving away their newfound land, and I also do kinda understand why jews in germany might've wanted to be geographically far away. Still, that's the one country that had it coming and if some people were displaced at the time, then no one would complain now.

But if we were to do it now you're again displacing people that did nothing wrong. Not to mention that regardless of how many of them seem to support the genocide, most israelis also didn't choose to be there, they were born there (though at this point fuck them tbh, I'd only really feel for the ones actively opposed to all this).