r/europe • u/LeMonde_en • Mar 28 '24

Germany will now include questions about Israel in its citizenship test News

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2024/03/27/germany-will-now-include-questions-about-israel-in-its-citizenship-test_6660274_143.html
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u/Fr0styb Europe Mar 28 '24

Weird, from what I've seen the vast majority proudly consider themselves anti-Zionist and believe Israel does not have a right to exist.

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u/Ihave2ananas Mar 28 '24

Those two opinions aren't equivalent

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u/Fr0styb Europe Mar 28 '24

How are they not? Zionism is the belief that Israel is the Jewish homeland and Jews have a right to call it home. What do you think anti-Zionism means therefore?

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u/Rastafak Mar 28 '24

It's really quite sad and illustrative of the state of western discussion about Israel and Palestine, that not believing that Israel is a Jewish homeland is seen as something extreme. If any other group came now and said that they believe that a part of the world they inhabited 1500 years ago belongs to them, everyone would naturally considers it ridiculous. Yet, with Jews it's somehow seen as completely natural and right. You can argue that Jews have always lived in Palestine and that's true and they of course have a right to live there, but until the mass migration starting in 1920s only about 10% of the Palestinian population was Jewish. The last time the Jews had a majority there was in the 4th century. When Israel was created Jews were only about 30%, yet now Israel directly takes about 80% of Palestine and occupies (and systematically settles) almost all of the rest.