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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.
Aa far AS i know there is special protection for federal workers who are part of a party. Her statements were also the view of her party.
https://www.dbb.de/beamtinnen-beamte/status-dienstrecht/beamte-und-politik.html
Federal workers have, as everyone else, the right to be politically active. The condition are, that you can't be part of the parliament or the government and you have to be able to separate between your job and your political career. You are also not allowed to be active in a party that is against the constitution. Someone who is politically active should not face repercussion for this, as long as he remains neutral in his position as federal worker.
Maybe quote the first paragraph too:
Beamte serve the entire people, not a single party. They have to fullfill their duties impartial and just, using their position to the wellbeing of the general public. Beamte have to be loyal to the free and democratic basic order in the sense of the constitution in the entirety of their behaviour and stand in for keeping up that order.
That is what the second Paragraph refers to. Her criticism of Israel are not creating partiality inside Germany, nor are they contradictory to the free and democratic order, which embraces human rights and international laws, clearly violated by Israel. One could even argue, that as a government employed lawyer, she has the duty to the public to point out violations of the basic order, as she is expected to know more about law than other government employees.
Meanwhile Felix Klein loudly opposed the core principals of the german constitution and he did this speaking in his function as government commissioner.
This is a textbook case of political persecution and it is demonstrating the blatant hypocrisy of German politics in this regard once again.
can you link specific ones? Because even the hate articles by the Axel-Springer press only mention that she called Israel genocidal and a racist apartheid state, as well as saying that at Demonstrations in Berlin she didnt hear anyone demanding to murder Jews.
I strongly doubt that she justified the murder of hostages. Also Israel being built on stolen land is a simple fact. If you ethnically cleanse people from their land and claim it as your own, it is stolen land. There is also plenty of evidence that Israeli soldiers rape, murder, pillage, use human shields... And while Germany is not delivering any weapons to Hamas, it is delivering weapons to those very soldiers, which is in contradiction with German and international law. Again as a law educated civil servant, one would see it as her obligation to point these things out.
And for "treated fairly". If a civil servant criticises Trump and his government, or other US crimes, you would think they need to be fired as they might make US citizens feel treated unfairly? This kind of thinking resembles how in Florida it is forbidden to teach about slavery, as it might make the white kids feel uncomfortable.