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New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist (www.middleeasteye.net)

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Applicants for German citizenship will be required to explicitly affirm Israel's right to exist under a new citizenship law which came into effect on Tuesday.

The new law shortened the number of years that a person must have lived in Germany in order to obtain a passport, from eight to five years. It will also allow first-generation migrants to be dual citizens.

As part of the shake-up, new questions were added to the country's citizenship test, including about Judaism and Israel's right to exist.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure what you want to imply here. I do not see the benefit in asking the offender why they beat up the Jewish person.

I cited numbers from a study by RIAS (Wiki, German), this is not from a police statistic.

The study distinguishes Isreal-related antisemitism, meaning the incidents were directed against the Jewish state of Israel and denied its legitimacy. This kind of antisemitism was 52%.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Incidence does not mean "beating up" someone. Spray painting "stop the genocide in Gaza" is sometimes counted as an "antisemitic incidence" in Germany.