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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • The article is badly researched.

    This “red-green” coalition banned new reactors, announced a shutdown of existing ones by 2022

    The red-green coalition did not announce the 2022 date. They (Greens/SPD) announced a soft phase-out between 2015-2020 in conjunction with building renewables. This planned shift from nuclear to renewables was reverted by Merkel (CDU = conservatives) in 2010. They (CDU) changed their mind one year later in 2011 and announced the 2022 date; but without the emphasis on replacing it with renewables. This back and forth was also quite the expensive mistake by the CDU on multiple levels, because energy corporations were now entitled financial compensation for their old reactors.





  • As a German it’s fully in your right to disagree with the state and with the police (I certainly don’t agree with everything that’s going on). However, this comment of yours is distorting the reality too much, for my taste, to remain silent.

    • “terrifying state repression” = less public funding for some artists, more for others (not getting free money doesn’t mean you’re being “repressed”)
    • “Berlin police has enacted checkpoints in immigrant neighbourhoods” = That did not happen. It is a myth.
    • “Politicians actively singling out activists on social media and redirecting insane amounts of hate their way.” = Politicians responding in kind when you mention them in a tweet. They are humans and they are allowed to respond to you.
    • “to allow universities to exmatriculate students on behavioural grounds (aka political stances).” = Berlin trying to fix a legal loophole that prevents them from exmatriculating one student that physically assaulted a Jew for antisemitic reasons breaking his face bones. Outside of Berlin that would’ve been grounds for immediate exmatriculation within the existing laws.

    I do agree with your general stance, but there is no need to exaggerate/distort the issues we’re facing.





  • I‘m fine with discussion. But I see little value in discussing a text with someone who has not read it. We don’t have to guess their intentions when they already wrote it down quite clearly. Neither do I see a reason to doubt their intentions based on timing. Antisemitism (violence against Jews) in Germany has been sharply on the rise in the last few years and it is the job of the Landeszentrale to debunk some of the myths that foster it.

    The main point of the paper is to correct these five myths about Israel and that is what it does. It is very focused on this and one-sided, obviously. One might think it is bad taste to ignore current events. Maybe. But it does exactly what it says and I found it informative.

    Are we supposed to learn and debate history while a people is exterminated?

    Yes. That might be a good first step. It takes about one hour. There is much one can critique Israel for - let’s stick to the truths.