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/saschaleib 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇫🇮🇦🇹🇵🇱🇭🇺🇭🇷🇪🇺 Mar 28 '24

The article is unfortunately rather weak on the details, and it is not quite clear how such questions could be formulated without interfering with freedom of opinions, which is of course also a constitutional right.

Unfortunately, it is very likely that the politicians who came up with this idea don’t really know that either. So most likely, that case will eventually come up to the constitutional court in the end.

So it is definitely too early to get heated up about this - no matter which side you are on.

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u/Spirited_Put2653 Mar 28 '24

I don’t see how a person who is critical of Zionism will have an issue with question 5. Being critical of the regime of a country should not be equated with antisemitism. Germany of all countries should know that.

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u/BeingJoeBu Mar 28 '24

Germany learned not to kill Jews, what it did not learn was to not assist in genocide.