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.

      • @[email protected]
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        -198 days ago

        It is by definition the same. And if you think otherwise, you can do so outside of Germany, at best outside of EU.

        • poVoqM
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          188 days ago

          It is not even closely the same by any definition.

          • Zagorath
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            87 days ago

            by any definition

            The IHRA’s definition does, so you can’t say “any”.

            That said, the IHRA definition was pretty specifically created to be zionist and a shield for Israel, and should be rejected on those grounds.

          • @[email protected]
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            7 days ago

            The definition used by German authorities subsumes antizionism, i.e. denying Israel’s right to exist as a special form of antisemitism.

            • poVoqM
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              107 days ago

              It is quite reductive to say anti-zionism is just denying the right of Israel to exist. Yes, the state of Israel is a deeply zionist project but you can accept the reality of this state existing and still be opposed to the idea of zionism in general.

              I am opposed to the idea of colonialism in general but still accept the existence of states with a colonial history.

              • @[email protected]
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                37 days ago

                That’s a good point. I’ve always thought antizionism and denying Israel’s right to exist where somehow identical.

      • sunzu
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        37 days ago

        He has been around…

        At this point he is prolly helping the anti Israel camp the brain dead takes