Under German law (ianal), comparing Israel’s actions to the Holocaust may be considered a criminal offence, i.e. Israel-related antisemitism (German explanation). We are trying to follow German law here - the servers are in Austria, the mods are not necessarily though.
It also makes sense to avoid these comparisons for basic common decency and piety reasons.
As such, I’d urge you to steer clear of these comparisons. Thank you. /f
In European democracies, variations of a modernized anti-Semitism remain predominant, using various ciphers and allusions, among other things. Two aspects stand out here: (i) On the one hand, new conspiracy myths stand out alongside forms of subtle Holocaust relativization and trivialization. Ultimately, these almost always identify Jews as the “string-pullers”. This is no coincidence: anti-Semitism is the historical conspiracy narrative of all. One prominent example is the claims that the Jewish patron George Soros is behind either a global “great population exchange” or the coronavirus crisis: Corona crisis is the Jewish patron George Soros - although his Jewish identity is often not explicitly mentioned. (ii) On the other hand, an aggressive hostility towards the Jewish state acts as an important medium for articulating and spreading contemporary anti-Semitism: Israel - the internationally “most important and succinct symbol of Jewish life and survival” (Schwarz-Friesel & Reinharz 2013, 172) - as well as against “the Zionists” (a now almost universally used cipher for “the Jews”). Link has preview pop-upInternal link: Anti-Semitic conspiracy myths and hostility towards Israel often end up appearing together.
I respect the considerations the mods have to be conscious of, but can I ask if this is the stance of feddit.org or just this community? Unfortunately I’ll have to block any group that requires complicity to genocide by ignoring the elephant in the room. Again, nothing personal.
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Unfortunately I’ll have to block any group that requires complicity to genocide by ignoring the elephant in the room.
I don’t know what you regard as the elephant in the room.
You can apply the word “genocide” to the Gaza war here (although so far, legally, we are at “suspected genocide”). You can also call Netanyahu “corrupt” or a “war criminal”. You can call Smotrich a “fascist”.
But if to you, calling out the elephant in the room hinges on saying stuff like “x politician is literally Hitler”, “y city is literally Auschwitz” or “z war action is literally Holocaust”, then it may indeed be best to refrain from posting on this server. Besides legalities, I find all of these examples not helpful in understanding reality, because usually all the details are different. They’re also in bad taste, given the large number of Jewish victims of historical Nazi reign. And I’d question your motivation for saying these things.
Final thing: You may also not question the statehood of Israel. I.e., no discussing “one-state solutions”. But this is not a Mid-East community anyway.
Under German law (ianal), comparing Israel’s actions to the Holocaust may be considered a criminal offence, i.e. Israel-related antisemitism (German explanation). We are trying to follow German law here - the servers are in Austria, the mods are not necessarily though.
It also makes sense to avoid these comparisons for basic common decency and piety reasons.
As such, I’d urge you to steer clear of these comparisons. Thank you. /f
(BPB, DeepL translation)
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I respect the considerations the mods have to be conscious of, but can I ask if this is the stance of feddit.org or just this community? Unfortunately I’ll have to block any group that requires complicity to genocide by ignoring the elephant in the room. Again, nothing personal.
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I don’t know what you regard as the elephant in the room.
You can apply the word “genocide” to the Gaza war here (although so far, legally, we are at “suspected genocide”). You can also call Netanyahu “corrupt” or a “war criminal”. You can call Smotrich a “fascist”.
But if to you, calling out the elephant in the room hinges on saying stuff like “x politician is literally Hitler”, “y city is literally Auschwitz” or “z war action is literally Holocaust”, then it may indeed be best to refrain from posting on this server. Besides legalities, I find all of these examples not helpful in understanding reality, because usually all the details are different. They’re also in bad taste, given the large number of Jewish victims of historical Nazi reign. And I’d question your motivation for saying these things.
Final thing: You may also not question the statehood of Israel. I.e., no discussing “one-state solutions”. But this is not a Mid-East community anyway.
/f
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