- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
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.
The intention is good I suppose, but it seems unfair to those who don’t believe that nation-states in general have rights that should require our affirmation, even while they have many powers we must respect. Are they also made to affirm the right of Germany to exist? They’ve made a rule which denies would-be citizens the right to espouse anarchism, which seems like a step in the direction of removing human rights.
Why would someone tell a government that they hate the government
You get denied citizenship when you dont shake a womans hand so absolutely fair for us to gatekeep who gets in and is allowed to vote. We already had enough nazis in our history.
You’re being Nazis without even realising it.