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‘Free speech is a facade’: how Gaza war has deepened divisions in German arts world (www.theguardian.com)

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Less than 10 years ago, Germany, and especially Berlin, was held up as a beacon of openness and inclusivity in a western world rocked by Brexit and Donald Trump. Angela Merkel’s decision to take in thousands of refugees displaced by the war in Syria boosted her country’s reputation in progressive circles, with many international artists and academics choosing to make the German capital their new home.

Yet the conflict in the Middle East is showing Germany in a new light, highlighting fissures in society and the arts world that until now had been easier to ignore.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

With Christians Europe and the Americas.

Oh yeah, tell that to Assyrians from Nineveh plain. Or even NK Armenians.

It’s the only place in the world where the Jewish people are guaranteed protection by a government. So yeah actually protecting Israel and the Jewish people are one and the same.

Sober up a bit, this piece of text doesn't make any sense.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My point is that in a majority Jewish country, the population and the government aren't randomly going to decide to "throw the Jew down the well. But it's happened in many other countries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Eh, why the hell not? They'll just redefine who's a Jew, and will throw down the well those who don't fit.

That central rabbinate of theirs can already decide that for proselytes and even people who've been with some other religion. Cause that's used in Israel's right of return laws, and they don't want Christians of Jewish ancestry getting citizenship, for example.

It's actually interesting how that state decided to implement some kind of judenrat to manage centrally things which in Judaism are not supposed to be managed centrally.