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Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again: It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine (novaramedia.com)

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A pro-Palestine Jewish activist group has had its bank account frozen in Germany for the second time in seven years, after the bank requested a full list of its members’ details in what experts believe is a breach of German law. The group suspects the move was triggered by its involvement in a forthcoming pro-Palestine conference that has attracted intense scorn from the German mainstream.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Founded in 2007, Jüdische Stimme is a group of anti-Zionist Jews in Germany that primarily organises pro-Palestine protests, becoming increasingly prominent and expanding its ranks significantly since 7 October.

The bank demanded a list of the names of all of the members of Jüdische Stimme and their addresses, signed by members of the board by April 5 before adding that they were freezing the account immediately “as a precautionary measure.”

Multiple legal experts who spoke to Novara Media believe that the request for members’ data is unlawful in at least two ways: a breach of their contract with the bank, to which they had not consented to give this information, and EU privacy law, specifically general data protection regulation (GDPR).

Many of the group’s members have been arrested at protests, as part of a wider crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism which has included outright blanket bans on demonstrations, the designation of “from the river to the sea” as outright illegal (in some states under the same law which criminalises displays of the swastika), a ban on wearing Palestinian keffiyehs in Berlin schools. Many of the group are middle-aged or elderly Israelis.

Germany of all should know a genocide when it is happening. Watching this all unfold is maddening. It doesn't matter what happened. Oblitering a city off the map and leaving an entire people without a nation is not an acceptable retaliation in our current world and time. Don't anybody come back with "if someone nukes you.. if someone kills your mom...." This is death on a biblical scale, this is what brought Europe together in the 1940s. It doesn't matter if the death camp's walls are Palestine's borders. They are not going to survive without intervention.

[-] Arelin@lemmy.zip 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Germany of all should know a genocide when it is happening.

Oh they know. The problem is west germany just never went through denazification

More Nazis in German justice department after WWII than during Third Reich: study finds.

Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.

Zionism is just the new form. Same goals (getting Jews out of Europe, and imperialism and colonialism; this time in the middle east instead), and similar methods (weaponizing and exacerbating antisemitism). No wonder then that nazis and zionists worked together.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 8 points 7 months ago

west germany just never went through denazification

neither did the east. AfD is strongest there.

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