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Under the proposal, anyone who publicly or at a gathering denies the right of the State of Israel to exist, or calls for its elimination, would face punishment.
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That’s historically incorrect. Israel was not created because of the Holocaust.
Not to mention of course that the Israeli apartheid regime is far from any kind of “secure homeland for Jews”.
“closely connected”, not “X was a direct consequence of Y”
Yes, the 1897 First Zionist Congress in Basel predated the Nazi Party by 20+ years. One of Zionist organizer Herzl’s motives was to ensure refuge from European anti-Jewish racism. Same racism that led to the Nazi death camps.
“actually” his goal was to create a capitalist point of presence with major UK/Europe/US backing in a region known to have potential for oil and profit. It was sold under the idea of a Jewish land because that’s how manufactured consent works. But… anyone who has paid any attention to Jewish faith history knows it’s a tribe, not a nation, and certainly not what zionists said it was supposed to be.
Correlation is an even worse legal/political justification for the law. Advances in rail infrastructure and in chemical engineering are also “closely connected to Germany’s responsibility for the Shoah”. WTF are we even talking about?
That’s my point exactly. But there were other Jewish political projects that tried to address the same racism, that were not themselves racist (the founders of the Zionist movement, including Herzl himself, specifically characterized Zionism as a colonial project), such as the Jewish Bund. German pro-zionists today don’t get to play time-travellers and retroactively change what the foundation of Israel was about.