German police raid homes of 17 people accused of posting antisemitic hate speech on social media
German police raid homes of 17 people accused of posting antisemitic hate speech on social media
This made me think because raiding peoples homes doesn't seem right, but saying things like this definitely isn't right.
In the end I think a inclusive society should exclude it's exclusive elements.
I feel we just can't agree on this argument online, and it's likely because the line for tolerance differs on so many factors, history being a huge one.
I'm aware German laws exist to ban fascist symbols, likely as an ounce of prevention along the lines, "we won't repeat another Hitler".
It might take the US falling into a fascist state and being liberated to make us adopt such "drastic" measures as raids. Until then 1A has been routinely held up to protect hate speech so for now it's up to us as a society to make a conscious decision what we'll tolerate. We just have to be as vocal about it as the racists/fascists.
The raids were probably because of the threats and not because of antisemitic remarks. The first might get you arrested if you scream it in the streets, but threatening people should get you raided imho
One suspect allegedly sent a sticker in a WhatsApp school class chat with the words “Gas the Jews.” Another person, a German-Turkish dual citizen, allegedly posted on his account that “the Jewish sons” deserved nothing more than to be “exterminated,” dpa reported.
Uh... What are you defending here? This sounds like literal neo-Nazis wanting to commit genocide.
They literally quoted and then clearly stated what they were objecting to. You posting things that aren't remotely "left-wing demonization of Israel" and then asking them to defend things they didn't remotely defend is a bullshit strawman.
You know and they what they’re defending. Your complaint falls on deaf ears here.
There is a line between criticising the Israeli government and real Antisemitism. While the Israeli Government has gone to lengths to muddle the waters here to make any critical word to be considered "Antisemitism", real, Antisemitism still exists.
You are literally being one of the morons muddying the water by defending actual antisemitism right now.
Imagine your dumb fuck of a child sending antisemitic hate shit through his phone and a few days later the police raids your home and takes all your devices. Absolute nightmare.
read the goddamn article before posting hyperbolic and false statements like the one you posted here. None of these people are minors, but they are all advocating for the extermination of an entire race.
There's some pretty questionable comment removals here. What exactly triggered Rule 4 in that comment by /u/Marsupial@quokk.au, anonymous mod?
Good. Get them all. Damn fascists. They act now as if they support palestine but beware if anyone of them comes near them, then they are "knife wielding Madman".....
This is the best summary I could come up with:
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities on Tuesday raided the homes of 17 people in the state of Bavaria accused of spreading antisemitic hate speech and threats targeting Jews online.
According to the Bavarian criminal police, the suspects were 15 men and two women aged between 18 and 62, German news agency dpa reported.
The suspects were said to have celebrated the attacks by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, and were accused of spreading hate speech against Jewish people on social media, using symbols of banned terrorist organizations, dpa reported.
Further searches were carried out in the Bavarian towns of Fuessen and Kaufbeuren as well as in the counties of Passau, Fuerstenfeldbruck, Berchtesgadener Land, Coburg, Aschaffenburg and Hassberge.
“Unfortunately, antisemitism has an impact on the daily life of many Jews in Germany,” Michael Weinzierl, the Bavarian police commissioner against hate crime, told dpa.
For too long, we have allowed a ntisemitism to penetrate into the heart of our society via extreme right-wing circles, radical left-wing demonization of Israel or Islamist fanatics.”
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Someone should remind the German police that if they're busting on antisemitic hate speech online, they've got a great big backlog of people posting that stuff on Xitter and there's that one billionaire that bought it recently that's a prominent participant in that stuff
jawoll!
Nice
Being against antisemitism laws
Nazis 🤝 Palestine supporters
You decide:
One suspect allegedly sent a sticker in a WhatsApp school class chat with the words “Gas the Jews.” Another person, a German-Turkish dual citizen, allegedly posted on his account that “the Jewish sons” deserved nothing more than to be “exterminated,” dpa reported.
and from a German source:
A German-Turkish defendant is said to have posted on his account that "the Jewish sons" deserved nothing more than to be slaughtered "and exterminated".
and
According to the LKA, a Turkish citizen posted a picture of Hitler shortly after October 7, adding: "I could kill all the Jews, but I left some alive to show you why I killed them." Next to it, he posted a Palestinian flag, the caption "Free Palestine" and an emoji with a victory sign.
oh, if only OP had included a link to the article!!!
Read the damn thing for yourself, it isn't long at all.
Good, arrest them all. It’s absolutely horrendous that people use the tragedy of the Palestinian people to be antisemitic.
You'll be arrested next, when it turns out the people arrested were jewish so your comment counts as anti-semitism.
You have clearly no Idea what is going on.
First they came for the antisemites and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't one of them... /s