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Fury over German court's 'anti-Semitic' pro-BDS ruling

(JNS) - The Stuttgart Administrative Court recently ruled that calls to single out the Jewish state for boycott, divestment and sanctions do not violate Germany's laws against hate speech and are protected, sparking outrage from critics that the decision turns anti-Semitism into a socially and politically correct view.

"It is probably the first time in the history of the Federal Republic that a court has expressly declared 'anti-Semitic views' to be a legally protected area of '​​freedom of opinion,'" Henryk M. Broder, a leading expert on German Jew-hatred, wrote in his popular column for the...

 

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