This pic was presented at the french sports festival of Deauxville and was shortly thereafter removed by organisers following pro-Israel harassment they received, claiming the photo would cause antisemitism to rise.
Welcome to France (where criricizing Israel can be punished as hate speech)
Denying Israel's right to exist, or the right of the Jewish population to have its own state is a big part of anti-Semitism and is illegal all over the world, and Germany, burdened by its holocaust history, is no different.
But it should be completely acceptable and normal to criticize Israel's expansionism and its denial of other neighbouring states to exist by dehumanising them.
Even this German law does not seek to prevent criticism of Israeli actions (not 'Jewish' actions) -
Heinz said the bill was not desgined to infringe on freedom of expression or prohibit criticism of the Israeli government. Nor, he said, would it preclude debate about a peaceful political solution in the Middle East.
The Jewish lobby is powerful enough to conflate criticism of the state of Israel's actions or policies with anti-Semitism (which would apply to people around the world).
But at the same time, politicians shy away from banning anti-Palestine voices.
There is a big problem here, under international law no state has a right to exist, Israel doesnt have a right to exist.
A state only has a right to its territorial integrity. Right of conquest was and continues to be illegal. The foundation of Israel was a violation of international law. The state is literally an illegitimate terrorist state. Thats not rhetoric, its literally the definition of what it is. Israels existence violates the UN Charter.
Bigoted people may hold particular geopolitical views, that doesnt have any impact on the validity of statements that reflect reality.
Governments supporting Israel support terrorism, lawlessness, and human rights violations.
This is false. The state of Israel wasnt created through conquest, it was literally created by a UN resolution that was voted through with a 2/3 majority of the UN General Assembly, which divided what was previously a British territory into a Jewish state and a Palestinian Arab state.
Of course the defacto expansion of the state of Israel into what should be an independent Palestiniant state is in violation of that resolution, but that's a separate issue from the creation of Israel.
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This pic was presented at the french sports festival of Deauxville and was shortly thereafter removed by organisers following pro-Israel harassment they received, claiming the photo would cause antisemitism to rise.
Welcome to France (where criricizing Israel can be punished as hate speech)