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I totally agree Trump has largely destroyed US influence (for the moment), but then again Merz is part of the Israeli genocide club, so he's hardly a paragon of leadership himself.

The German government has consistently denied that a genocide is taking place in Gaza. In December 2024, after Amnesty International released a report accusing Israel of genocide, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Sebastian Fischer stated that "genocide presupposes a clear intention to eradicate an ethnic group. I still do not recognize any such clear intention."
In early December 2025, Merz visited Israel and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog. The discussions focused on solidifying German support for Israel, the ongoing Gaza conflict, the peace process, and a major arms deal.
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Another point of contention appears to have eased. While Merz acknowledged that certain Israeli military actions in Gaza put Germany in a "dilemma" and urged Israel to respect international law, he stressed that the decision to suspend arms deliveries was a one-time measure.
Germany suspended the delivery of some arms to Israel in August amid growing concerns over civilian casualties in Gaza. The suspension was lifted in November following the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
Defense cooperation remains a cornerstone of German-Israeli ties despite the war in Gaza, which a UN committee has labeled genocide — a charge rejected by Israel.

Notably, Israel has outright rejected Germany's preferred two-state solution, continues to kill Palestinians at an alarming rate despite the so-called "ceasefire", and continues turn a blind eye to Zionist settlers murdering Palestinians living in the West Bank. But Merz went ahead and lifted his 4-month long arms embargo so that weapons and profit could keep flowing.

1w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

Even if the majority dictates it to me, it is wrong in principle.

Which principle? Seems you are more angry at the Tyranny of the majority than anything else. As a reminder, we've never had a policy of federating with every instance in the fediverse.

An anarchist admin on a power trip.

Seeking broad consensus from our users is power tripping? That's a pretty shitty take tbh.

If you are willing to write up a proposal to withdraw some/all of our defeds then I'm willing to put it up for a vote, but I don't think it'll get much support tbh. See https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/instances for all our blocked instances and you can see for yourself what you are missing out on... stuff like threads, exploding-heads.com, kiwifarms.cc, posting.lolicon.rocks, and skinheads.io. We don't defederate for no reason, or do so often.

I think you are just upset because you like feddit.org, and are lashing out with personal attacks because you want someone to blame for the outcome of the vote. You are right that it is largely a symbolic act - one of solidarity with the Palestinians. Will it annoy some of our German users? Yes, it already has. But if I have to choose between an act of solidarity with our German users over how conveniently they can access a website, vs an act of solidarity with the Palestinian cause, then I'll pick the Palestinians every time. Because they are being killed right now with German weapons, by a German-trained IDF.

You don't seem to realize how out of step the majority of Germans are with the rest of the world on this issue, particularly in leftist communities.

1w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

Just to note, this is a community vote, not me enforcing my opinions on the instance. Sure I have my own opinion on the topic, but in reality I have very little influence over anyone else, and as proof of that not every vote passes. And in fact, our community members asked for this vote, not me. I have very little interest in feddit.org, personally, except when having to moderate their Zionist users.

I want the Fediverse to be as open as possible. People like you are turning it into a walled garden. Isolated, small, and insignificant. Unfortunately, this seems to be an incurable tendency among left-wingers.

I'm gonna quote Ada here, with one small addition []:

An instance that federates with everyone will end up defederated themselves, because they’ll end up full of bigots and trolls [and Zionists]

1w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

So let me get this right... you don't think it's appropriate to call for the overthrow (violent or otherwise) of a "liberal" government currently committing genocide? Do you think because Israelis voted for a corrupt genocidal fascist regime (yet again) that gives them and their government a free pass to commit genocide? Fuck that. Voting has never removed a fascist from power. The only other way the genocide will end is if Israel is forced to do so, or they succeed in the genocide. Those are the only two likely outcomes. You seem to be in favour of doing nothing, which only serves to perpetuate the violence. The people who are happy to ignore or even condone genocide (because they believe Hasbara propaganda that Palestinians/Arabs = terrorists) should be called out for their complicity and colonial mindset.

2w ago

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Welcome to the community :)

2w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

Why are you so focused on that one example? There are plenty of comments removed that don't include such provocative language.

2w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

I get that not all the examples used were being polite, but why should anyone be polite towards people making excuses for Zionism?

2w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

Ok, thanks for the feedback.

2w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

Thanks, don't shoot the messenger though, I'm just the only admin willing to write these governance posts up. We do discuss these things internally in our admin chat before posting them.

2w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

Yes we are butthutt about folks who minimise and excuse Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.

2w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

Yeah sure, the folks opposing genocide are spreading hatred against those who implicitly or explicitly support it. Makes total sense 🤔

2w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

Thanks for the sage advice! I'll definitely take it into account.

2w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

Yes AN users should also vote, as it will apply to AN too. I've just crossposted it there too.

2w ago

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

Well exactly.

2w ago

Israeli court blocks life-saving cancer care for boy, 5, due to his Gaza address

Seems like it.

2w ago

Israeli court blocks life-saving cancer care for boy, 5, due to his Gaza address

Why was this removed? There's nothing antisemitic about it - it's just criticising the genocidal state of Israel.

2w ago

I was banned from Memes even though I hadn't posted anything there for months

Well... now you've got your second badge of "honor" I guess.

2w ago

Banned for pointing out anti-vegan trolls past behaviour

Thanks for the explanation, but if you look at the context, neither of them were employing the disengage rule, the word was just being used in the normal way.

Also I am going to say let’s disengage. We’ve veered terribly far off topic. If you have beef with Feddit, then start a thread elsewhere and maybe one of the other admins can properly explain everything.

[...] I agree, it’s pointless to have this discussion with someone who evades the core point of the criticism with strawmans and false dilemmas What I told @mathemachristian@lemmy.ml still stands, and nothing you say here will change it.
Disengaged.

2w ago

The curse of being right