Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again: It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine
Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again: It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine
On Tuesday, a German Jewish group had its account frozen after the bank demanded a list of its members’ details, in what experts believe is a clear breach of EU law. James Jackson reports from Berlin.
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.
Germany deciding who is a Jew again.
They really have been an embarrassment. They are trying to gain penance for their sins by enabling another genocide. I'm not even sure they know what they think they are doing.
I disagree in your theory of why.
It seems to me they're just racists who have never stopped being racist, hence why their support for Israel is anchored on it being "the Jewish Nation", or in other words they support any and all action of a specific nation because of the etnicity of the people who are the majority there and rule it, which is entirelly abour race and a dictionary definition "racial descriminiation", very much the same kind of judging and acting towards other people as in the "old days".
Humanitarians would've interiorized "Never again" as "never again should genocide be permitted to happen", but instead at least the German elites seem to have chosen for their theatre of "Never again" to the most racist interpretation possible: "never again will our race go against this other specific race, and we should treat them as a good race, not a bad race".
Their way of thinking wasn't changed, what changed was that one specific etnicity went from the list of "untermenschen" to the list of "ubermenschen".
More specifically deciding who is "the right kind of Jew", same as in the old days.
"Germany" = a German bank
"seizing money" = temporarily frozen bank account until a legal dispute is settled"seizing money" = temporarily frozen bank account until a legal dispute is settled
I didn't find this term in the text (ctrl+f). Why do you have it in quotes?
Apart from that nowadays if a bank freezes a person's account, it's really hard to live/survive in many places in this world and Germany is one of them. Unless you use crypto, and not everybody does.
"Germany" = a German bank
Banks often freeze accounts in order to follow governmental policies, often of protesters. Meaning, one way or another this move is backed by the government.
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.
Germany of all should know a genocide when it is happening.
Oh they know. The problem is west germany just never went through denazification
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.
west germany just never went through denazification
neither did the east. AfD is strongest there.
"The biggest insult to the memory of the holocaust is not denying it but using it as an excuse to justify the genocide of the Palestinian people."
- Norman Finkelstein
Hey now it's because it's antisemitic to support Palestine!
To me, the thing that makes this statement particularly ironic is that the dictionary definition of "Semite" includes just about anyone of middle-eastern descent. As such, purely based on the dictionary definition of "Semite", it is Israel who is being antisemitic for conducting a genocide against Palestine.
Granted, the specific definition of "antisemitic" only includes Jews, but imo that's an oversight that should be corrected.
Germany to Israel: "It looks like you're trying to do a genocide. Can I help you with that? I have some experience with that sort of thing."
Israel: Please email us your CV.
Germany was cursed to not once be correct about things pertaining to jewish people and genocides.
MBFC link for Novara.
MBFC link for Times of Israel
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lolWhen covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they usually are objective and cover both sides fairly, such as this: IDF strikes fresh Hamas targets after 2nd rocket fired from Gaza Strip. However, during the conflict of 2023, they were less objective, focusing on the objectives of the Israeli military. In general, the Times of Israel is factual with a slight left-leaning editorial bias.
Lol why is mbfc taken seriously by anyone?
Love how they don't go into any detail on why they have bad sources
I didn't post the link because I have a problem with the source or the story. If I use MBFC to look up a source and the link isn't in the thread, I'll post it. If I use an archive link to read an article and it's not in the thread, I'll post it. Reading their MBFC page, there's not really anything wrong with the source. Aside from having an extraordinarily terrible headline -- probably written by an editor, not the author -- there's nothing really wrong with the article. I upvoted the post.
As much as people whine about whatever thing about MBFC they're weirdly obsessed with, those pages contain a ton of useful information collected in one place. Do you have a good reason why we shouldn't know what country they're based in or press freedom issues in that country? Should we not know who owns the company, their publishing history, or how they're funded? Are we better off not knowing that they haven't failed a fact-check in the last 5 years? I don't think it speaks to their credibility at all, but it was interesting to learn that they're luxury communists and I don't feel worse off for knowing that. Do you have some other way to get all that info in a single click?
The Nazi spirit in Germany never went away, hence why they're both pro-Zionist (who are the modern age Nazis) and anti-Semite.
Shittiest take of the year! Congrats!
Nice... media that openly cheered for Hamas attacks is telling lies again and like the good little sheep most are nowadays people blindly believe it in rant about imaginary German nazis. The brain-rot induced by social media combined with a complete lack of media literacy gets more impressive every day.