Have recently created a new c/Europe community for posting news and discussions relating to Europe. This community allows news and discussions of the Palestine conflict, bear in mind that encouragement or apologia of genocide is not allowed.

If this community seems like something you’d enjoy please feel free to join:
!europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      If you think it doesn’t impact Europe or European politics I think maybe you need to peek through the hand you have over your face in that emoji. Various countries have recognised Palestine, had their Israeli diplomats removed etc.

      • albert180@piefed.socialEnglish
        45·
        2 days ago

        You know that you can look up the posts in the Modlog?

        You claimed that protests against Palestine were banned. Which is absolutely not true

        • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
          62·
          2 days ago

          Well, the entire thread is still there except my deleted comment reading as follows:

          insufficient avenues for engagement beyond voting.

          Funny what banning protests does to a country.

          So you can see in the thread that I provide sources, such as the New York Times:

          The country’s authorities have banned many protests in the name of fighting antisemitism. Critics say such restrictions are discriminatory.

          To me, this seems relevant in a thread about how German youth feels that their avenues for democratic participation beyond voting are restricted. Besides, I was not banned for alleged misinformation, but for “derailing”.

          Even if I was wrong, which I do not believe I was, I hardly see my comment being worthy of a ban in a reasonably moderated community. Discussion, yes.

          • albert180@piefed.socialEnglish
            55·
            2 days ago

            If you yell slogans of denying Israel’s right to exist, or show support of Hamas your Demo will get banned. Correct.

            But Demos in support of Palestine are allowed. There is one every week in my town

            • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
              52·
              2 days ago

              They don’t have a general rule to ban all protests, but they did ban several of them and cracked down on protests pretty effectively early on. As is reported in plenty of media.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      41·
      3 days ago

      I mean that’s a fair concern, but within just the last three days Britain stopped negotiations with Israel over a trade agreement, IDF soldiers shot at/near European diplomats in the West Bank, Britain, France and Canada threatened sanctions, the EU started reviewing its trade agreement with Israel, and before all that you had the Eurovision debacle. I get what you’re saying, but Israel just keeps doing shit that would show up in Europe comms, probably against their better judgement.

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Ooooo, now do we get to debate whether Britain is in the European continent? In the European Union? Or did they brexit this new community?

      • albert180@piefed.socialEnglish
        25·
        2 days ago

        It’s just pretty obvious that this guy was angry about Feddit.org not allowing Holocaust denial and other antisemitic posts on their platform. Forking c/Europe over it and saying

        bear in mind that encouragement or apologia of genocide is not allowed.

        shows pretty clearly what kind of comments you can expect there and in which direction the wind blows

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
          62·
          2 days ago

          It’s just pretty obvious that this guy was angry about Feddit.org not allowing Holocaust denial and other antisemitic posts on their platform.

          Yeah… no. According to Feddit’s current rules you can’t call for the overthrow of Israel, compare them with Nazi Germany (check this if you think that comparison doesn’t have weight), encourage non-peaceful resistance against their occupation or even say “from the river to the sea”. This is pretty blatant censorship. I got a warning from the mods before for saying that Israel should be overthrown and replaced with one democratic state encompassing all of Palestine.

          shows pretty clearly what kind of comments you can expect there and in which direction the wind blows

          Yeah… also no. That’s so that Zionists don’t think they get to say “yeah the war is bad but Israel has a right to defend itself” or some shit without getting the ban hammer. I have never seen the kind of comments you’re talking about in much more radical communities than c/Europe.