In a sweeping move, Berlin’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution outlaws BDS movement, branding it a direct threat to peaceful international order and noting that it crosses a red line into anti-constitutional extremism.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Berlin announced Tuesday that the BDS movement has been classified as “unconstitutional.”

The head of the office, Michael Fischer, explained that the movement’s status in Berlin’s antisemitic and anti-Israel landscape has significantly strengthened over the past year.

Fischer clarified that BDS’s ideology is based on “explicit denial of Israel’s right to exist.” According to him, BDS activity goes beyond boycotting cultural events or Israeli economic products. “The goal is to make the existence of Israel impossible in the international context. It is aimed at its destruction,” Fischer stated.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    BDS of South African apartheid set a precedent that shook white nationalists to their bones.

    We’re watching the modern western liberal consensus on free markets collapse under the weight of a few Palestinian activists saying “Sell your soda stream stock to oppose genocide”. Now it’s going to be illegal to divest from Israeli private business because… Israel exists? Because ethno-nationalism is a natural right?

    The fascist project of national ethnic purity seems to be as alive in Berlin today as it was 70 years ago.