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Germany is monitoring U.S. detentions of its citizens after three Germans were recently held by immigration authorities.

Two tourists were detained at the Mexico-U.S. border and later deported, while a Green Card holder, Fabian Schmidt, remains in custody in Rhode Island.

The German Foreign Ministry is assessing whether these cases reflect a broader policy shift under President Trump, whose administration has intensified immigration crackdowns.

Germany may adjust its travel advice based on further developments. U.S. officials have not clarified why Schmidt was detained.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

isnt trump administration funding israel and are approving of the current government?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The connection between Israel and the entirety of jewish people is zionist at best and antisemitic itself at worst.

Not all jewish people have a connection, let alone are in favour of Israel, nor has Israel any right to speak for all jewish people. Add to that, that the current far-right israeli government is not supported by or representative of all israeli citizens and maybe you can see why not all criticism of Israel or its current government is antisemitic, although a lot of antisemitism likes to hide behind criticism of Israel and the current israeli government.

In the same way it's absolutely possible to be antisemitic and still support the current israeli government as well as funding Israel.

If the current US government are Nazis or if the more broad term of Fascists should apply is debateable however, imho fascist is the more accurate term, if only because it has broader application for the very broad coalition of far-right authoritarians in the US.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hitler also supported the creation of a Jewish colony to remove them all from Europe. That's why the Holocaust was the "Final Solution", because Hitler tried to solve "the Jewish Question" various ways throughout the 30's.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Oke I feel uncomfortable on this matter.

Thanks for your input, I will look into it when I'm more robust. But Ill keep your inputs in mind

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

And they also regularly engage in antisemitic dogwhistles like claiming Soros is secretly funding things, etc. The nature of modern far-right political movements is that competing prejudices often get switched out based on context. So their antisemitism competes with their islamophobia. And the evangelical Christian zionists in the Trump regime basically believe that Jews in Israel will either convert to Christianity or be wiped out as part of their end-times ideology. So even their support for Israel only really sees the Jewish people of Israel as objects in their dispensationalist ideology.