A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe

Have recently created a new c/Europe community for posting news and discussions relating to Europe. This community allows news and discussions of the Palestine conflict, bear in mind that encouragement or apologia of genocide is not allowed.

If this community seems like something you'd enjoy please feel free to join:
\ !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Oh yes, that's a very famous conflict on the European continent 🤦‍♂️
- If you think it doesn't impact Europe or European politics I think maybe you need to peek through the hand you have over your face in that emoji. Various countries have recognised Palestine, had their Israeli diplomats removed etc.
  
  You're not wrong, but why wouldn't you just post that stuff to global news/politics communities? Wouldn't it make.more sense to focus on what differentiates the Europe lemmy community?
- I got banned from !europe@feddit.org at some point for raising the German response to pro-palestinian protests as a potential democratic problem. Seems European enough to me. 🙃
  (modlog)
  
  You know that you can look up the posts in the Modlog?
  You claimed that protests against Palestine were banned. Which is absolutely not true
- I mean that's a fair concern, but within just the last three days Britain stopped negotiations with Israel over a trade agreement, IDF soldiers shot at/near European diplomats in the West Bank, Britain, France and Canada threatened sanctions, the EU started reviewing its trade agreement with Israel, and before all that you had the Eurovision debacle. I get what you're saying, but Israel just keeps doing shit that would show up in Europe comms, probably against their better judgement.
  
  Ooooo, now do we get to debate whether Britain is in the European continent? In the European Union? Or did they brexit this new community?
  
  It's just pretty obvious that this guy was angry about Feddit.org not allowing Holocaust denial and other antisemitic posts on their platform. Forking c/Europe over it and saying
  bear in mind that encouragement or apologia of genocide is not allowed.
  shows pretty clearly what kind of comments you can expect there and in which direction the wind blows
Thanks for this! I will contribute for sure.
Edit: I would possibly revisit rule #2 though - making the rule more general, such as "no hate speech", and specifying that proponents of any hateful ideologies should be excluded. Right now it's strangely targeted - I guess "no antisemitism" goes under rule 1, but I think rule 2 should be wide enough to also cover "no nazis".
Edit edit: As frustrated as I am by !europe@feddit.org, I think I'll proceed with some hesitation.
- They're separate because at the moment there's a lot of people who are intentionally or unintentionally confusing Anti-Zionist movements with antisemitism. Antisemitism is hate speech and bigotry which is banned under rule 1. Zionism and it's corresponding genocide denial is also hate speech but is separated into its own rule for clarity and to also make it clear that polite or "civil" Zionism isn't welcome either. That's where we get the people arguing that 'you should feel hypocritical for supporting Greta Thunberg because [Something Anti-Zionist she said]'.
  
  Yeah, I understand your point and I think it might be the only way of silencing these trolls. Perhaps making it this explicit is the only way of providing clear enough guidelines, I just feel like it's a bit bombastic as a point 2.
  What left me a bit reluctant was your comment that other communities "are hosted in Germany which is a Zionist police state". I'll be the first to criticize Germany (this is precisely what got banned me from !europe@feddit.org half a year ago, after all), but this seems a bit bombastic especially when paired with rule 2.
  I already got banned for criticizing Germany, I don't want to get banned for defending them as well! ;)

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