Their Rule 4:
No bigotry, sexism, racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, dehumanization of minorities, or glorification of National Socialism. We follow German law; don’t question the statehood of Israel.
Europe@feddit.org removed my comment for de-tangling the conflation of antisemitism and anti-zionism. A dangerous conflation that is genuinely antisemitic and fuels antisemitic hate as it conflates the actions of Israel and Zionism to all Jewish people and Judaism.
This prioritization of the German definition, the adopted IHRA definition, is promoting antisemtitism and is diametrically opposed to the 'No antisemitism' aspect of the rule. The definition has been condemned by the writer of the definition, a multitude of human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch (HRW), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), B’Tselem, Peace Now, and Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), and over 120 leading scholars of anti-semitism.
Germany Is Trying to Combat Antisemitism. Experts Warn a New Resolution May Do the Opposite
Fifteen Israeli nongovernmental organizations, including the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, B'Tselem and Peace Now, issued an open letter in September stating their concern that the resolution, especially the IHRA definition, could be weaponized to "silence public dissent."
This could also affect Jewish voices speaking out for Palestinian rights and opposing the occupation, they added. "Paradoxically, the resolution may therefore undermine, not protect, the diversity of Jewish life in Germany," the letter argued.
Rights groups urge UN not to adopt IHRA anti-Semitism definition
"The IHRA definition has often been used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as antisemitic, and thus chill and sometimes suppress, non-violent protest, activism and speech critical of Israel and/or Zionism, including in the US and Europe,” the letter said.
US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Israeli rights group B’Tselem, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) were among the signatories
The letter is the latest attempt by human rights advocates to urge the UN not to adopt the IHRA definition. In November, more than 120 scholars called on the world body to reject the definition, due to its “divisive and polarising” effect.
128 scholars ask UN not to adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
In a statement published on Thursday, the 128 scholars, who include leading Jewish academics at Israeli, European, United Kingdom and United States universities, said the definition has been “hijacked” to protect the Israeli government from international criticism
Why the man who drafted the IHRA definition condemns its use
The drafter of what later became popularly known as the EUMC or IHRA definition of antisemitism,including its associated examples, was the U.S. attorney Kenneth S. Stern. However, in written evidence submitted to the US Congress last year, Stern charged that his original definition had been used for an entirely different purpose to that for which it had been designed. According to Stern it had originally been designed as a ”working definition” for the purpose of trying to standardise data collection about the incidence of antisemitic hate crime in different countries. It had never been intended that it be used as legal or regulatory device to curb academic or political free speech. Yet that is how it has now come to be used. In the same document Stern specifically condemns as inappropriate the use of the definition for such purposes, mentioning in particular the curbing of free speech in UK universities, and referencing Manchester and Bristol universities as examples. Here is what he writes:
The EUMC “working definition” was recently adopted in the United Kingdom, and applied to campus. An “Israel Apartheid Week” event was cancelled as violating the definition. A Holocaust survivor was required to change the title of a campus talk, and the university [Manchester] mandated it be recorded, after an Israeli diplomat [ambassador Regev] complained that the title violated the definition.[See here]. Perhaps most egregious, an off-campus group citing the definition called on a university to conduct an inquiry of a professor (who received her PhD from Columbia) for antisemitism, based on an article she had written years before. The university [Bristol] then conducted the inquiry. And while it ultimately found no basis to discipline the professor, the exercise itself was chilling and McCarthy-like. [square brackets added – GW]
"Rules are important! I'm a good boy, I follow the rules." -German soldier in the 1940s
Germans for ya...
That is an unhelpful generalisation.
You ain't wrong but I have yet to see a German on here acknowledge the genocide in Gaza
So I really don't give two fucks. I am sure they exist but just like as with ww2, they don't see anything and they are following the law 🤡
Us regime is also funding the genocide but at least we will come out and say fuck these regime whores and their owners.
Germans are still in denial who rules them...
Yeah let's burden them with faults they now have nothing do do with anymore. Let's shame them for their past they are in no way partaking in anymore.
It worked in WW1, wanna try again?
A) Germany is specifically and explicitly helping to carry out at least one internationally recognized genocide at this moment
B) everyone is criticizing them for their current actions, that happen to be an even less justifiable repeat of their previous actions.
A) Source for The Hague verdict that calls it an UN recognized genocide? Like the ethnic cleansing in Srebrenica?
B) So a comment about WW2 Germans about "just following orders" followed by "Germans in a nutshell" is all about their current actions?
So Russia invading Ukraine is and systematically erasing Ukraine cultural heritage by reeducation of children kidnapped to Russia is "Russians in a nutshell" because that happens to be an even less justifiable repeat of their previous actions?
So you specifically need a court to tell you what is and isn't a genocide? Too stupid to think for 3 seconds and come to a conclusion on your own?
Ah, you are too stupid
There are definitions for genocide, look them up. If you scaled up ie. Srebrenica to the deaths of the israeli-gaza conflict, and you compare the methodology they are planets apart
Wow, I did not expect the need to provide the overwhelming evidence that Israel is doing a genocide in this thread, but here.
Israel's Genocide on Occupied Palestine
Others: AP News, Time, Reuters, Vox, CBC
I wasn't asking for evidence, I'm just saying if you look at both cases srebrenica is a real ethnic cleansing.
This is an ugly war, like Vietnam or Cambodia were
Fuck off Zionist troll
As in, Gaza is not a "real ethnic cleansing"?
Go and fuck yourself.
Ah yes that special type of ethnic cleansing where the target population keeps growing at one of the fastest paces on earth.
Genocide denial, nice.
Doesn't this statement violate server rules?
I really don't give a fuck to censor it since people should see what this person is all about
JFC... Show them colors boy🤡
Dbzer0? Yep. they're banned. Fuck zionists, i have absolutely no patience for genocide deniers.
We are attacking them for exactly what they are doing today?
Idiots still don't get it
JFC how dense are these people