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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    23 hours ago

    In a bi- or pluri-national democratic, free, and equal successor state to the current state of Israel that is not Jewish supremacist, Jews and Israelis can live perfectly safe, fulfilled and free lives, with full and equal rights with citizens of other religions, just like they do in many Western countries and like other ethnic groups

    Zionists reject this on its face and claim a pluralist society of Arabs, Christians, Persians, Africans, and Jews living together would constitute a defacto genocide of “pure” Jewish culture and heritage.

    That’s the nut of the conflict. When you have a population that has bought into the lie that it’s “We have to genocide them before they can genocide us”, you don’t have any diplomatic room for a pluralist society.

    We’re seeing the same shit happening in South Africa, what with Trump pumping up the hysteria around anti-white racism. These are ethnic nationalists. They refuse to believe that an egalitarian society can peacefully exist. Ethnic cohorts must be at conflict with one another, and we will either see this expressed through neighboring homogeneous states at war or as egalitarian states plagued by crime and civil strife.

    So we’ve got a US government that is attempting to purge itself of “illegal” non-white residents. We’ve got a South African state that Trump is demanding self-segregate in order to appease ethnic-European landlords. And we’ve got an Israeli state that is trying to wipe Arabs off their corner of the map.