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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but you’d also expect Germans to speak up against perpetrators of genocide.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You’d expect Jewish people to do the same, and yet here we are…

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are, and they have been going to jail.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-washington-dc

In Germany, though, there is "a new kind of McCarthyism" surrounding opposing genocide and war crimes when the perpetrator is Israel.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-12-17/germany-israel-gaza-antisemitism-holocaust-genocide-palestinians-solidarity

That's the whole point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Some are. Some arent.