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New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 5 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/europe@feddit.de

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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.

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 89 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Considering the German government will do basically anything to get away from even the slightest hint of antisemitism, I can see exactly why they're doing this.

But it's comical for Germany to be bending over backwards to avoid repeating it's genocidal past whilst turning a complete blind eye to an actual ongoing genocide.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't agree more

[–] sunzu@kbin.run -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As long as German boomers sleep well at night...

[–] Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

i mean... its one way to govern 🤷

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 11 points 5 months ago

It’s tragically comical.

[–] sic_1@feddit.de 7 points 5 months ago

...and at the same time supporting racist and anti-migrant narratives to "fight" the fascist AfD. Which, obviously, just strengthens that narrative and hence the AfD.