Germany: Student Convicted of Chanting “From the River to the Sea”

You can’t just… say words that Jews don’t like.

It’s against the law.

And it’s not because we’re ruled over by Jews (that is also against the law to say, by the way).

It’s because we are so sorry for the Holocaust. To show contrition, we made it illegal to say anything Jews don’t like, forever.

Irish Times:

A 22-year-old Berlin student has been found guilty of incitement and fined €600 for chanting “from the river to the sea” at a pro-Palestinian demonstration last October.

In advance of the closely-watched district court ruling, the protester said she stood by her use of the controversial slogan. It was intended as a show of support for peace in the region, she said, and not as a show of support for Hamas.

Why can’t she support Hamas?

Who cares?

She’s a human being who has freedom of conscience to support whatever she wants.

Tuesday’s ruling was the first time a court imposed a conviction based on a new provision of the criminal code, introduced last November, around the term “from the river to the sea”.

While Palestinian activists describe the refrain as a call for peace and equality after 75 years of Israeli statehood and occupation of Palestinian territory, Israelis hear a call for the elimination of their homeland from between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan river.

The Berlin district court ruled that the woman’s use of the phrase, four days after the Hamas attacks on Israel, could only be understood as an endorsement of the attack and a denial of Israel’s right to exist.

About 100 supporters gathered for the ruling outside the district court in Berlin. Many wore the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh scarf and sang “You are not alone”.

While this is Germany’s first conviction linked to the phrase, not all judges in Germany have taken the same approach as the Berlin court to the new criminal code provision.

In June, a regional court in the southwestern city of Mannheim described the phrase as being of a “general nature”, with a complex history.

You have to wonder what exactly the Germans are thinking about this Jew thing.

It’s not a joke that they are saying “it’s illegal to say things Jews don’t like because we’re really sorry about the Holocaust.”

So then it’s like… does that mean that the Jews as a group are given an eternal ticket to do whatever they want, forever, and never be criticized? How is that sustainable?

The Jews are an especially diabolical group of people. But if you told anyone they could never be criticized for anything, ever, they would probably start behaving very badly.

People have to be subject to complaints and criticism. You can’t make laws saying that you can’t criticize a group ever again forever. I guess you can do that, because the Germans did do that, but it’s not sustainable, and it sure as hell isn’t fair.

What about the Germans? Don’t they have rights? Are they not human beings?

How can you tell Germans they can’t support Palestine because of the Holocaust?

This is literally “insane.”