Germany’s Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, backed a bill to criminalize the denial of Israel’s right to exist on Friday, a motion that constitutional experts said could jeopardize freedom of expression.

According to the bill, anyone denying Israel’s right to exist or calling for its abolition would be punished with a prison sentence of up to five years under the regulation. The bill will be examined by the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, after its summer recess.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    2 hours ago

    People OK, government bad.

    Israel should exist as a pluralistic society.

    Apartheid Israel needs to undergo some very painful changes, starting with ending their genocide against Palestinians.

    • Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club
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      Israel should exist as a pluralistic society.

      Pissrael is colonial apartheid white supremacist project. It needs to be completely dismantled and destroyed.

      Many many people should be tortured and executed, all the rest can be imprisoned and forced to reconstruct every building destroyed. The sentence ends when Palestine is fully rebuilt.

      Palestine should be the only state and we should mind our own business on how they should govern their land.

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      Israel is a settler colonial project, it fundamentally cannot exist as a pluralistic society.

      Palestine used to be a pluralistic society.