This is the best summary I could come up with:
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities on Tuesday raided the homes of 17 people in the state of Bavaria accused of spreading antisemitic hate speech and threats targeting Jews online.
According to the Bavarian criminal police, the suspects were 15 men and two women aged between 18 and 62, German news agency dpa reported.
The suspects were said to have celebrated the attacks by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, and were accused of spreading hate speech against Jewish people on social media, using symbols of banned terrorist organizations, dpa reported.
Further searches were carried out in the Bavarian towns of Fuessen and Kaufbeuren as well as in the counties of Passau, Fuerstenfeldbruck, Berchtesgadener Land, Coburg, Aschaffenburg and Hassberge.
“Unfortunately, antisemitism has an impact on the daily life of many Jews in Germany,” Michael Weinzierl, the Bavarian police commissioner against hate crime, told dpa.
For too long, we have allowed a ntisemitism to penetrate into the heart of our society via extreme right-wing circles, radical left-wing demonization of Israel or Islamist fanatics.”
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Good, arrest them all. It’s absolutely horrendous that people use the tragedy of the Palestinian people to be antisemitic.
You’ll be arrested next, when it turns out the people arrested were jewish so your comment counts as anti-semitism.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
One suspect allegedly sent a sticker in a WhatsApp school class chat with the words “Gas the Jews.” Another person, a German-Turkish dual citizen, allegedly posted on his account that “the Jewish sons” deserved nothing more than to be “exterminated,” dpa reported.
Uh… What are you defending here? This sounds like literal neo-Nazis wanting to commit genocide.
They literally quoted and then clearly stated what they were objecting to. You posting things that aren’t remotely “left-wing demonization of Israel” and then asking them to defend things they didn’t remotely defend is a bullshit strawman.
Well, first of all, I wasn’t accusing them of anything. However, the implication of saying ‘Get Fucked Germany’ is that Germany is going after invalid targets. The examples given in the article are inarguably some straight-up Nazi shit though. I was just pointing that out to the person who, judging by the rest of their post, seems opposed to Nazis.
But if you want to get into it, if you think that Nazis aren’t laundering antisemitism through criticism and demonization of Israel, you’re wrong. Nazis have always done that. If the people described in the article are from a leftist movement, you should be offended by that, not defending them because they’re leftist.
I dont think anyone shpuld be arrested for speach. But i can understand germanys reasons to do such things
Did you miss the “threats targeting Jews” part?
Threatening someone’s life isn’t protected by free speech.
They had a warrant from a judge for threats. A judge determined that it was a threat. Threatening someone is illegal.
Nobody was arrested, they were questioned and police took the computers as evidence.
Edit: Nice edit
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