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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Some are. Some arent.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Sure, in a hypothetical reality where denazification was successful.