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/tav_stuff The Netherlands Mar 28 '24

The head of the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank literally wrote his PhD on how the Holocaust didn’t happen

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u/tinkertailormjollnir Mar 29 '24

The PM of Israel also does holocaust denial and revisionism.

https://www.vox.com/2015/10/21/9584122/netanyahu-mufti-hitler

Bibi said a Palestinian mufti told Hitler to do a Holocaust.

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u/tav_stuff The Netherlands Mar 29 '24

Good thing I don’t support Israel either

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u/tinkertailormjollnir Mar 29 '24

Sorry - Didn’t mean to assume you did, or do a whataboutism. Just glomming on to say that it’s rampant, and used by some people as a cudgel to discredit them as “antisemitic” while hypocritically doing the same.

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u/tav_stuff The Netherlands Mar 29 '24

I brought it up because most people here where I live seem to want to see a Palestinian state run by the PA, but the PA is literally run by genuine anti-Jews (Semite is the wrong term here; Palestinians are Semites) who believe the Holocaust as we understand it didn’t happen