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New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 4 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/europe@feddit.de

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Applicants for German citizenship will be required to explicitly affirm Israel's right to exist under a new citizenship law which came into effect on Tuesday.

The new law shortened the number of years that a person must have lived in Germany in order to obtain a passport, from eight to five years. It will also allow first-generation migrants to be dual citizens.

As part of the shake-up, new questions were added to the country's citizenship test, including about Judaism and Israel's right to exist.

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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Is it also forbidden to say "Hawaii will be free" or "Free Tibet"?

Of course not. This is something entirely different. /s

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It really isn’t

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I thought this is obvious. I'll mark it with /s now to make sure everyone understands.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah no in the context of a german explaining why rounding up jews and throwing them in jail for protesting Israel is no big deal, you gotta be really, really obvious when you're making a joke since we're already well past poe's law.

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 4 points 4 months ago

My bad. In that case, right on!