A controversial rule restricting speech about Israel was dropped after artists abandoned festival lineups in Germany’s techno mecca.

A controversial rule restricting speech about Israel was dropped after artists abandoned festival lineups in Germany’s techno mecca.

          • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            324·
            8 months ago

            And no i don’t think Israel did nothing wrong, its not apartheid however.

            “Broadly speaking, apartheid was delineated into petty apartheid, which entailed the segregation of public facilities and social events, and grand apartheid, which dictated housing and employment opportunities by race.”

            How is it not apartheid?

            Edit: wait a minute, why am I arguing with two cookie-based accounts that are pro-Israel and less than a week old on this thread…

            • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eeEnglish
              7·
              8 months ago

              As much as I agree, Chomsky is no trustworthy source on what is or isn’t a genocide

              The man has bent himself in so many knots denying what happened in the yugoslav wars that I’m pretty sure Bosnia would actively refuse to prosecute if someone shot the bastard in broad daylight in the middle of Sarajevo.

          • Matombo@feddit.deEnglish
            9·
            8 months ago

            genocide is what some people on both sides want to do and it’s sad that they are influential enough that no resolution of this conflict is in sight in my lifetime -.-

      • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eeEnglish
        252·
        8 months ago

        “Free speech is when you’re not allowed to say mean things about Bibi, it hurts his feelings!”

      • JustMy2c@lemm.eeEnglish
        233·
        8 months ago

        I don’t think you are making anyone more empathetic towards your goal of killing civilians so you cna have even more stolen land.

        Honestly, by now I think YOU can be blamed for anti semitism. By being a literal asswipe of a combo of fake religion, inbreeding and TERROR.

          • Sumpfkraut@kbin.social
            221·
            8 months ago

            Both the wording of the rule and the use of the rule was very clear that this was about all criticism of Israel unless it’s “criticism” like “Israel doesn’t do enough to protect itself”.

            That “guideline” is hate-speech and genocide-apologism in it’s most cynical form because it is disguised as anti-discrimination. The people who proposed and implemented it should be ostracized.

          • iain@feddit.nlEnglish
            82·
            8 months ago

            Being anti-colonialist is forbidden? Is it antisemitism because this time the colonizers claim to do it in the name of Judaism?

      • Maeve@kbin.social
        245·
        8 months ago

        There is a fine line, however, restricting the ability to criticize genocide is not a good thing— unless people consider Palestinians as subhuman, subanimal, which we acknowledge some do.

          • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
            144·
            8 months ago

            40,000 confirmed civilian deaths in 3 months isnt genocide? Israeli’s are openly murdering anyone who looks even vaguely Palestinian in Gaza and the West Bank

          • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eeEnglish
            92·
            8 months ago

            The only reason Gaza isn’t being called a concentration camp with a theoretical government at this point is because the west largely aren’t aware that Israel subjects holocaust survivor families to abject poverty and being called Soap People.

            They were literally caught stealing the reparation payments intended for the victims and their families, so much so that a NGO is now the responsible party for distributing the remaining survivor payments.

            They openly cooperate with neo nazi and neo nazi associated movements in the west because the more hostile westerners are to jews the more settlers they can claim need to he housed by evicting and killing Palestinians.

            These guys sure are doing a fucking lot of nazi shit for how offensive everyone seems to think pointing out they’re doing stuff the Nazis did is.