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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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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 48 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"In reality, such links or even collaboration are rare," the brochure continues, "but the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel on 7 October 2023 in particular, highlighted the impact that shared perceptions of the enemy can have: sections of the left-wing to far-left scene expressed solidarity with a supposed 'Palestinian liberation struggle' during protests."

Fucking Nazis defending Nazis.

[–] TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Germany and being on the side of genocide, iconic duo.

[–] 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] treehugger6@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

They outsourced their support for Herrenvolk and lebensraum to "israel"

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

Like most places there are good and bad bits to everywhere. I love Germany almost the same way I love California (I got German ancestors but I haven't lived in Germany, my experience has been a lot of great people, great land and geography, great food, shitty politics)

I've lived a lot of places and traveled a bit. It's hard to hate places and large swaths of people. You have to work at it.

[–] treehugger6@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I used to live in Germany. My experience is that the country never changed.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean my ancestors left but they were religious zealots, criminals, and brewers so wait hold on Prussia wasn't sending their best

[–] treehugger6@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

In not seeing Germany being bad (because he literally says the prosecutor is sticking up for his rights. Good job, prosecutor) I'm seeing acab. Which is like asking salt not to be salty.

[–] Verdorrterpunkt@feddit.org 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I read this trying to see if they are better than portrayed in this post, but they directly equate zionism with israel and with jews, which is antisemitic. This is insane.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

That direct link between the Zionist political movement and Judaism has been used - seemingly more frequently of late - by the former to try and deflect criticism of their political ideology.

The fact that the authorities were beating and jailing Hasidim for protesting in Tel Aviv against the Palestinian conflict is a pretty compelling illustration that there is a stark difference.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Questioning the German government their continued support for the Palestinian genocide is officially antisemitic, see „NIE WIEDER… FÜR WEN?“ on page 60 of the brochure. https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/publikationen/DE/allgemein/2026-05-antisemitische-codes-und-chiffren.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=9

The writers of the brochure also try really really hard to equate criticism of Israel with anti Jewish racism. That page 60 meme is about Germany and Israel, and their explanation tries to make it about Jews. It's jarring.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh so now criticising GERMANY is antisemitic?

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, as someone else already mentioned, this specific case is labeled as ambiguous. It could be interpreted or used as valid criticism, but also as a front for antisemitism.

[–] Verdorrterpunkt@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

The label is pretty weak though, as they very pointedly went into a specific direction in other texts about the picture. It is labled though ofc.

[–] chaitae3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They aren't writing any of that, they explainer box below says

Einordnung: Im Gegensatz zu den anderen Beispielen in dieser Broschüre ist im vorliegenden Fall der Interpretationsspielraum, ob oder inwiefern hier antisemitischer Gehalt vorhanden ist, deutlich größer. Die folgende Analyse zeigt, dass dieses Fallbeispiel aufgrund seiner Bildsprache sowohl als legitime Kritik als auch als antisemitisch verstanden werden kann.

Translation:

Context: Unlike the other examples in this brochure, in this case there is significantly more room for interpretation regarding whether or to what extent anti-Semitic content is present. The following analysis shows that, due to its visual language, this case study can be interpreted as both legitimate criticism and as anti-Semitic.

Also, don't equate the German government to its intelligence service, it's more complicated than that.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And some other excerpts:
Demonization: The portrayal of Israel as a criminal collective directly connects to the antisemitic interpretation of the accusation of systematic child murder.

The image portrays violence against "the Jews" as just "resistance" and a necessary reaction to a supposedly absolute injustice.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I could potentially imagine a world in which the document is a good faith attempt at having an extremely nuanced discussion about the ways that antisemitic tropes might seep into otherwise legitimate pro-palestinian discourse. And that would have been a very useful document indeed. I could bring myself to imagine such a world if the BfV had a similar document that does an equally thorough job at uncovering all the ways anti-Palestinian racism, islamophobia and jewish-supremacist and genocidal language enters the pro-Zionist discourse. But instead, what this document does do, is to always put Palestinian resistance in scare quotes, to always frame pro-Palestinian advocacy as suspect and illegitimate. There is no context in which Palestinian grievances are taken seriously, at face value. Instead we get this document, a monument of BfV's actually extremist anti-Palestinian frame-setting.

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

It's not Germany if it's not fascism & genocide is it?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

German government is always wrong and stupid.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

So they're admitting it's a genocide

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck Germany

[–] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

German here. My country made up for it's gruesome past only in a performative sense, the painful look in the mirror within families never took place. Very few ever confronted their grandparents, touched the real pain from which learning comes. Too "delicate". Most importantly: we have no concept of colonialism. There is awareness of our own bloody colonial history in our populace, like the genocide of the Herero and Nama, and the bloody crackdown during the Maji-Maji uprising (death toll 300'000 people). For the latter, there's a tiny remembrance place in Berlin, while the perpetrator who ordered the crackdown on the East Africans has a big statue on his grave and is not being remembered critically in public (if at all: positively). As a consequence Nazism is never seen as a form of colonialism (in the East), nor is Israel seen as a colonial endeavor. It's a giant blind spot. A blind spot that is deadly. True learning from our sins never happened, even though we took it quite far, yet not far enough. There are hundreds of tv-documentaries about the nazi perpetrators, while the stories of the victims is hardly being told. Eastern Germany did a better job there. But now they're all Neo-Nazis or staunch Israel supporters. (The fuck went wrong there?) Or both. What we Germans have done (are doing!) to Palestinians and to Judaism is shameful.

This piece sums it up perfectly: https://mondoweiss.net/2026/05/how-gaza-is-exposing-germanys-never-again-myth/

[–] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

This conflation is a sham, Germany is sinking...

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

There are anti genocide symbols? I just knew a few anti fasc ones

[–] incompetent@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was curious so I looked it up and it seems there are a few.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

my google just pulled up shit with words, which i would like to argue for the purpose of this is not what we're looking for. stuff that has gained meaning in multiple languages or rather without language, like the three arrows.

how the three arrows have become memetic communication basically over the years? i am not communicating well right now

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