<![CDATA[German state plans to criminalize questioning Israel’s right to exist (Anadolu Agency, 2026-04-22)]]>German state plans to criminalize questioning Israel’s right to exist (Anadolu Agency, 2026-04-22)

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/german-state-plans-to-criminalize-questioning-israel-s-right-to-exist/3915231
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>> Denying Israel’s right to exist could soon be punishable by law in the southern German state of Hesse, the Zeit weekly newspaper reported Wednesday.

>> Hesse’s Prime Minister Boris Rhein and his Justice Minister Christian Heinz are planning to present a corresponding bill Thursday.

>> The bill is then scheduled to be introduced in Germany’s upper house, the Bundesrat, on May 8...

>> Critics of the bill say the move is aimed at stifling any kind of criticism of Israel.

>> German law does not criminalize the act of questioning Israel's right to exist. While German authorities have severely restricted pro-Palestinian speech, the courts have recently clarified the limits of the restrictions, ruling that the speech is generally protected by freedom of expression​​​​​​​…


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https://verfassungsblog.de/the-dialectic-of-viewpoint-discrimination/
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>> the Bundesrat today held its first reading of a bill that would criminalise certain statements about Israel under a newly created offence. The initiative, introduced by the Hessian state government, proposes a criminal prohibition of the “denial of Israel’s right to exist”...

>> The Hessian state government is evidently dissatisfied with what is already a far from restrained approach by German courts and prosecutors. In its view, pro-Palestinian activists, outspoken critics of Germany’s complicity in the escalation of violence in Palestine and Lebanon, the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, and even anti-Zionist Jewish groups are still not being prevented firmly enough from assembling, nor punished harshly or consistently enough …


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