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By German law civil servants have to be neutral both in their job as well as their public communication and as representatives of a public office cannot make public statements that has potential to reduce trust of citizens in the neutrality and equity of treatment of the state and the office they're representing. As a civil servant and a lawyer on top she was well aware of this law. And if she wasn't she's probably not a very good lawyer.
Unless they are the federal commissioner for combating antisemitism. Then they can call for ethnic cleansing.
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1189615.antisemitismus-beauftragter-der-fall-felix-klein-schroedingers-bundesbeauftragter.html
While I think his statements are questionable to say the least, I find them way less crass than those of Schweizer as he simply said Trump's weird ass plans should be taken "into consideration". Either way, even assuming he violated the law and got away with it, that doesn't make the law null and void or legitimize disregarding the law for everyone else.
He said he finds tue plans positive and the time requires "radical, new thinking", and then went on to imply that forced displacement is just a normal thing like moving out of your house for renovacions, clearly downplaying what it actually is.
Schweizer was a candidate in a political election. Which is something that is perfectly legal for "Beamte" government employees. And it is not in contradictiom to the values of the German constitution to call Israels system of occupation racist, apartheid or genocidal. All these qualifyers are backed by human rights organizations, experts on international law and aside from the open question of genocide, also by the highest UN court.
Her being fired is politically motivated with a dubious legal basis, wheras Felix Klein has clearly shown support for severe crimes against humanity and thus that his position is outside the limits of the German constitution.
Is that why all Germans civil workers keep waving around Israeli flags?
They do? All of them?
Oh you are saying none of them do?
How did you go directly from all to none? Are you just trolling?
No idea,must be Germans pretending to be unable to understand what a hyperbole is in order to avoid having to address the argument of their civil servants openly support Israel.
Or maybe all Germans must love and support the beautiful state on the eastern end of the Mediterranean forevermore, no matter what beautiful things its beautiful leaders are up to. Anything else is inconceivable because it would be aNTiSeMiTIc.
This is the only statement I will make on the issue.
YOU said "ALL German civil workers".