Questions added to citizenship test on antisemitism, Israel and Germany's responsibility towards Jewish people

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.

  • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    4 months ago

    All good ideas but what does that actually change? It’s just a signature on a paper.

    • sunzu@kbin.run
      1215·
      4 months ago

      It sends the message that Germany supports the genocide in Palestine

      • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        73·
        4 months ago

        Are you illiterate or simply stupid? How does that logic follow exactly?

        Acknoledge that a country exists -> Approve actions that a country does.

        ???

        • sunzu@kbin.run
          410·
          4 months ago

          Because that country is actively committing war crimes but yet German limp dick boomer leadership thinks its a good time for this charade.

          They tried this guilt charade with Russia too until their allies checked their idiotic historical narrative lol

          German elites are essentially Nazi nepo babies, not surprised they keep blundering.

          Political leadership has no back bone.

          • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            4 months ago

            You need a history lesson and you need to learn what “Nazi” means and meant. Hearing these words from you is a disgrace to millions of people that died from a genocide and ethnic clensing.

            • sunzu@kbin.run
              22·
              4 months ago

              What about people dying in Palestine as we do this circle jerk… What about them?

              • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
                41·
                4 months ago

                This isn’t about them because the qurstion is whether we accept Israel as a country. This is unrelated.

          • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            4 months ago

            But this fact is completely unrelated to OP and to your response aswell.

            I think you came here for one reason only. And that not to add anything useful to the discussion. Instead, you prefer to open entirely new topics to push your agenda about something.

            How about I put all of this in relation to climate change now? Maybe we can discuss this next.

              • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                4 months 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@kbin.run
                  11·
                  4 months 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

                  • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    4 months 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.