Questions added to citizenship test on antisemitism, Israel and Germany's responsibility towards Jewish people

Applicants for German citizenship will be required to explicitly affirm Israel’s right to exist under a new citizenship law which came into effect on Tuesday.

The new law shortened the number of years that a person must have lived in Germany in order to obtain a passport, from eight to five years. It will also allow first-generation migrants to be dual citizens.

As part of the shake-up, new questions were added to the country’s citizenship test, including about Judaism and Israel’s right to exist.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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    6 days ago

    These statistic say little as the German police does not properly distinguish between antisemitism and anti-zionism.

    But regardless, if you are so extreme in your views that you can’t accept the existence of the state of Israel in some shape or form, you are probably not a good fit for German society.

    • gigachad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I’m not sure what you want to imply here. I do not see the benefit in asking the offender why they beat up the Jewish person.

      I cited numbers from a study by RIAS (Wiki, German), this is not from a police statistic.

      The study distinguishes Isreal-related antisemitism, meaning the incidents were directed against the Jewish state of Israel and denied its legitimacy. This kind of antisemitism was 52%.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Incidence does not mean “beating up” someone. Spray painting “stop the genocide in Gaza” is sometimes counted as an “antisemitic incidence” in Germany.