Berlin state bank freezes Jewish Voice account
Berlin state bank freezes Jewish Voice account
On 25 March 2024, our account with the Berliner Sparkasse was frozen with immediate effect. In a letter, the Sparkasse informed us that it had taken this step as a precautionary measure and that we should submit numerous internal documents by 5 April to update our customer data. As a public corporation, the bank is bound by public law and may therefore not arbitrarily freeze accounts without providing an explanation, which it did not. It is also highly unusual that the required documents include a list of our members with their full names and addresses.
Germany never underwent denazification, and now they're weaponizing anti-holocaust denial laws to protect the genocide in Gaza. If you so much as suggest that what Zionists are doing is an extension of the holocaust, or that the nazis supported Zionism, you're an anti-semite. Meanwhile Zionists are mass murdering Jewish people and Palestinians alike with impunity, both of which are Semites, and you're not allowed even allowed to acknowledge that fact. A lot of the loudest voices are Jewish activists and they're just throwing the book at them.
EDIT: and conflating Judaism and Zionism is also anti-semitism, and if i'm not mistaken German law literally says the opposite.
If you so much as suggest that what Zionists are doing is an extension of the holocaust, or that the nazis supported Zionism, you’re an anti-semite.
yes, because that is clearly antisemitic. Both of these things are factually wrong. And if that isn't plainly obvious to you, antisemitism is at play here.
Anti-semitism is so built into German government and culture that they genuinely think they're good guys for defending Zionism.
I'm sick of having to explain this every single time some German comes along and gets offended that I would imply the links between Zionism and Nazism, but the Nazis literally supported Zionism because to them it was a method of getting Jewish people out of the country.
I guess the Nazis never left.
They're in Feddit de and sh.ithole
Anglo fascism is not a conspiracy theory. That INGSOC phrase used back then had meaning, except it is more like INGFASH.
And I'm 100% sure this is simply a case of KYC or money laundering prevention going a bit wrong and professional victims try to frame this as some sort of conspiracy.
Yes, this sucks for the business, but it's nothing too unusual.
I don't think so. And it's not a business.
Our previous account with the Bank for Social Economy was closed in 2019 because of our support for BDS. This happened after agitation by Israeli journalist Benjamin Weinthal and pressure from the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
And BDS is considered an antisemitic organization by several agencies. I don't agree with that assessment, but that's exactly what KYC is for. Banks don't want to be involved with such organizations and it's not necessarily their job or authority to draw the line. These banks are either AöR or cooperatives, they have an internal ruleset, set by the owners/members. And that ruleset probably has a paragraph about extremism and antisemitism. If the bank now lets this client openly operate with entities that are considered extremist, they are not compliant. Simple as that.
Again, I'm not a fan of the BDS categorization, but acting like the banks are somehow targeting that client specifically is plain wrong.