Book Fair 2022: Slavoj Žižek received harsh criticism and was even being boo’d on stage by the mayor of Frankfurt for saying exactly that, even after he literally condemed Hamas. An Antisemitism representive then suggested what Žižek did was essentially hate speech.
April 2024: Germany imposed an entry ban on Greek’s former financial minister Varoufakis for criticising Israel, labeling it, you guessed it, antisemitist hate speech.
There is more but those are two at the top of my head which you can google yourself if you can’t read German or don’t want to translate it. It is not an exaggeration to say humanizing the ‘wrong’ humans can get you in trouble in Germany and that’s really depressing.
Minor exaggeration there, don’t you think? Otherwise, please find a source for that.
Book Fair 2022: Slavoj Žižek received harsh criticism and was even being boo’d on stage by the mayor of Frankfurt for saying exactly that, even after he literally condemed Hamas. An Antisemitism representive then suggested what Žižek did was essentially hate speech.
April 2024: Germany imposed an entry ban on Greek’s former financial minister Varoufakis for criticising Israel, labeling it, you guessed it, antisemitist hate speech.
There is more but those are two at the top of my head which you can google yourself if you can’t read German or don’t want to translate it. It is not an exaggeration to say humanizing the ‘wrong’ humans can get you in trouble in Germany and that’s really depressing.