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New German list of symbols conflates anti-genocide advocacy with antisemitism (www.middleeasteye.net)

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The German government last week published a new brochure on what it believes to be antisemitic codes and symbols.

Over 80 pages, the brochure catalogues a list of concepts, terms and images ranging from Nazi-era propaganda to contemporary symbols against Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

Intended audiences for the brochure include teachers, "who can use the booklet as supplementary material in the classroom", and other educational staff, who can use it as a "guideline to help recognise any anti-Semitic remarks in the working environment".

Germany is one of the key supporters of Israel's genocide, despite its own history of committing genocide against Jews, Slavs and Roma during the Second World War, and in Namibia in the early 20th century.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm starting to think the current posture of the German Authorities of unwavering support of Israel, to the point of officially declaring Jewish Voices For Peace an "extremist organization", is pure unadulterated anti-semitism in the very same traditional style as inspired Hitler.

You see, the often given reason/excuse of "making amends for the NAZI actions" is disproven by a number of behaviors of the German Authorities, most notably:

The above mentioned declaring of Jewish Voices For Peace as an extremist organization for its criticism of Israel, which is very much the non-Jewish German Authorities punishing some Jews for not doing what they think Jews are supposed to do when it comes to Jewish affairs.
That other groups which were equally targeted for extermination by the NAZIs in the Holocaust, such as the Roma People or Communists, are in no any way form or shape recipients of the level of support that Israel gets.

You see, I think it's all about supporting the project of an independent land far away from Germany to where all Jews are supposed to move to, not about making amends to the victims of the Holocaust, otherwise there would be no declaring a Jewish organization as "extremist" for criticizing a foreign nation or an entirely different posture towards other groups (including another ethnicity) who were explicitly targeted by the NAZIs for extermination and whose members were victims of the Holocaust in large numbers.

This is all about Jews leaving Germany: NAZI Plan A to "get rid of the Jews" failed, this is Plan B.

Certainly everything the German Authorities are doing seems consistent with supporting "the existence and expansion of a place which all Jews are incentivized to move to" by any and all means (even actively legally singling out and prosecuting as members of an extremist organization Jews who decry what is being done in their name to make that happen), whilst at least some things they do (as well as not do) show clear inconsistency with the claimed motive of "making amends for the Holocaust" and even some with the motive of supporting the Jewish People.

[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A bit of a historical correction. Killing all the Jews was never plan A. It was the final solution they came up with after realizing that all other solutions to the Jewish problem were unworkable.

Those solutions included the Haavara Agreement, which facilitated the migration of around 60,000 Jews from Germany to Palestine between 1933 and 1939.

When that program ended, they started talking about the Madagascar plan, which would relocate Jews ton Madagascar; although that plan never got off the ground.

Construction of the death camps wouldn't begin until 1941, and the Nazis attempted to keep them secret under the guise of being a continuation of the earlier migration programs.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

If I understand it correctly, what you're saying is that what's happening now is a version of Plan A?!