Namibian President Hage G. Geingob blasted Germany on Saturday for defending Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, pointing to the genocide Germany itself perpetrated on Namibians in the early 1900s.
Namibian President Hage G. Geingob blasted Germany on Saturday for defending Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, pointing to the genocide Germany itself perpetrated on Namibians in the early 1900s.
Pledging loyalty to Israel and recognizing that Israel has a right to exist sound like very different things to me. Don’t get me wrong this change is dangerous but not for the reasons you think. It shows how AFD managed to push right wing ideas into the mainstream.
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The segment of DW above was like a response to this comment:
Since Germany has not even recognized the right to exist of Palestine, having to recognize the right of existence of Israel in order to get a citizenship, seems to me awfully one-sided.
If I understand correctly it is still a debate. A one-sided, one.
Also in relation to your comment:
The way I see it, it’s more “Pledging loyalty to Israel by recognizing that Israel has a right to exist”
That’s all correct and I agree with you on these points. What I’m trying to say is that this change is (I think, not 100% sure because I wasn’t in the room of course) made to combat “imported antisemitism” wich is a different “issue” from the Israel situation entirely. There would not have to be a recognition to the right to exist for Palestine because they are not receiving the type of discrimination by imigrants the Jewish community does.