Overview
- Hesse’s CDU–SPD government has filed a bid in the Bundesrat to add denial of Israel’s existence to Section 130 of Germany’s hate-speech law.
- The draft would also outlaw calls to abolish Israel as a state and make such speech punishable by prison.
- Supporters present the plan as a response to antisemitic slogans and symbols seen at pro‑Palestinian rallies in Germany.
- About 30 law professors have protested the proposal, saying it violates free-speech rights and could criminalize advocacy of a binational one‑state solution.
- An administrative court recently ruled that the group Jüdische Stimme is not extremist despite questioning Israel’s existence, a finding critics say weakens the case for a new offense.