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Comparing Israel to Nazi regime is not a criminal offense, German court rules
(www.middleeastmonitor.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2026
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What is this misinformation in the comments? You see how this post you commented under was not removed? On feddit.org there are really many people who stand openly against the genocide. We even have some communitys here that have written in the ruleset that "Antigermans" are not welcome. Antigermans is a subgroup of german "lefties" that are Pro Israel. I don't see them as Left. Free Palestine and stop spreading such misinformation. I never had problems with this opinion here and pretty much everyone I know here is against the Genocide. Even the Admins. I personally talked to two of them about it. The post you shared is crazy, I hope these Women at some point will get in prison for that.
You are right, I remembered it wrong, as there’s in fact no such rule for the instance itself. However, it is a rule in feddit‘s largest and most active comm !europe@feddit.org (11,4K/5,45K), namely Rule #4, which states:
Not even denying, but questioning.
I‘ll repeat my original argument about a German instance infested with Zionist supporting policies, edited to not spread „misinformation“ and after that I’ll expand on the blanked deletion rules of the other comms:
There is no such thing as a right to exist for nation states. Yet, feddit.org‘s largest community has a rule that sanctions even only questioning the non-existing right for that state — not denying, questioning. That‘s quite the Zionist take (and if anyone by now is still confused by this, Ill be happy to explain). So it’s very clearly a rule in defense of the political ideology that is currently genociding and lebensrauming. Which has been a thing since its inception, because it‘s what Zionism does.
Also, there is no German law that penalizes „questioning the statehood of Israel“.
But that’s not all.
It‘s also a rule on feddit‘s second largest, third monthly active comm !dach@feddit.org (5,46K/2,28K), as well as the very first rule on feddit‘s rather small, but fifth active comm !deutschland@feddit.org (2,67K/723), which states, translated:
Which is ridiculous, as politics are allowed and Germany is complicit, so it would be on topic and should be talked about vehemently. Even more clearly visible, as Germany just blocked sanctions against Israel from the EU.
The not mentioned second largest community is ich_iel, a freaking meme comm. All other comms on this instance have only marginal relevance.
From the Top 5 communities of this instance, 3 have Zionist supporting policies, 1 is a meme comm.
If we remove the meme comm, we’re left with europe, dach, germany and deutschland, and out of this group, which all have a national identity focus, which I find kind of weird, around 91,45 % have policies repressing anti-zionist voices with flimsy reasoning, or repress voices in support of Palestine altogether, by completely blocking out the broader topic, which by nature of the conflict, supports the oppressor and makes the victim of the genocide invisible.
You could have corrected me, but you chose to split hairs on a technicality. Most of the most active comms in this instance are actively repressing support for the oppressed or even accept it as a topic.
These communities chose the wrong side of history. Most of the main comms of the instance. The perception shown in the above post (now deleted) certainly is not unfounded, you might just be blind towards it.
To me it reads like the OC is trying to have a "gotcha"-moment.
They're posting in a thread that's discussing a verdict of a German court. Only going by the headline (which is not painting the whole picture - who could have guessed) one could assume that it's now officially decided, that comparing Israel to the Nazi regime would be ok and no longer counted as a criminal offence.
Looking back at the problems of db0 and feddit.org that had their peak a few months ago - the main point was that some people from db0 and other instances were really quick to label everyone who did not 100% agree to their take on everything to do with Israel/Palastine "Nazi" (and other things). Whenever feddit.org mods or admins deleted comments and posts or banned someone for being uncivil, not following nettiquette or they feared actual laws might have been broken there were comments and posts declaring the whole feddit.org instance to be a stronghold of "Nazis", "facists", and a bunch of other not so nice things.
Now it seems they feel that the verdict proves their point when it comes to a certain flavour of discussion. Feddit.org mods "getting the memo" (nice wordplay btw - the linked "news" post is from Middle East MOnitor or MEMO) is their way of saying "see, we were right all along".
There is no such thing as a right to exist for nation states. Yet, feddit.org has a rule that grants that non-existent right to Israel explicitely and sanctions denial of the non-existing right for that state only. That‘s quite the Zionist take. So a rule in defense of the political ideology that is currently genociding and lebensrauming. Which it has done since its inception, because it‘s what Zionism does.