Applicants for German citizenship will be required to explicitly affirm Israel’s right to exist under a new citizenship law which came into effect on Tuesday.

The new law shortened the number of years that a person must have lived in Germany in order to obtain a passport, from eight to five years. It will also allow first-generation migrants to be dual citizens.

As part of the shake-up, new questions were added to the country’s citizenship test, including about Judaism and Israel’s right to exist.

  • sunzu@kbin.run
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    3 days ago

    What about people dying in Palestine as we do this circle jerk… What about them?

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      3 days ago

      This isn’t about them because the qurstion is whether we accept Israel as a country. This is unrelated.