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.

  • neons@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    The problem is that there are anti-semitic people marching with the anti-genocide crowd which doesn’t seem to bother them.

    As the old saying goes “if you don’t have a problem marching with nazis, you’re a nazi”

    If they can’t be bothered tp differentiate themselves from and exclude antisemites, then I can’t differentiate them anymore.