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And Germany has taken its stance on Gaza to extreme levels, where publicly defending Palestine's right to exist can cause you to lose your visa. So yeah, things
by lopis 2y ago
And Germany has taken its stance on Gaza to extreme levels, where publicly defending Palestine's right to exist can cause you to lose your visa. So yeah, things could be better in the free speech area.
- lm28469 2y agoCompared to the US which didn't do any of this... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrn57340xlo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrn57340xlo https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-authorities-arrest-palestinian-student-protester-columbia-university-students-2025-03-09/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-authorities-arrest-pales... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/foreign-student-visas-pro-palestinian-ai https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/foreign-stud...
- ben_w 2y ago> And Germany has taken its stance on Gaza to extreme levels, where publicly defending Palestine's right to exist can cause you to lose your visa In practice, even on this website, I have great difficulty figuring out how to phrase anything I want to say on Palestine and Israel in a way that's not likely to induce vitriol. Heck, neither could Yitzhak Rabin, in his position as Israel's Prime Minister: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin -- Hmm, I've just noticed something: you say "Germany", but some of the news I've been seeing from the USA is people losing their visas by supporting Palestine…
- disgruntledphd2 2y ago> Hmm, I've just noticed something: you say "Germany", but some of the news I've been seeing from the USA is people losing their visas by supporting Palestine… There was a similar case (though actually had a judge and a court process involved) in Germany recently.