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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      15 days ago

      No, you’re just inventing a problem where there is none. The existence of a country is completely and utterly unrelated to anything you’re talking about. I don’t know how else to explain it.

      • sunzu
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        5 days ago

        That Israelis colonized Palestine and created a state on top of the British mandate via forced removal of the local population starting in early 20th century and culminating with formation of the state of Israel after what the Germans did during ww2.

        You can start like that :)

        And because of this Germans somehow feel morally absolved of the crimes while also obligated to support this abomination

        • @[email protected]
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          15 days ago

          Borders were set. Borders are there. Borders aren’t changing. History is the past. You just need to accept that. The actions of Israel are a different topic.