Bill next week
Union wants expulsions for Hamas supporters
November 13, 2023, 3:01 a.m
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The CDU-CSU parliamentary group wants to expel convicted anti-Semites from the country by law. The Union will present the draft to the Bundestag in a few days. The new citizenship law should withdraw the traffic light. After caliphate supporters move, easier naturalization sends the wrong signal.
In the future, according to the wishes of the Union in the Bundestag, an anti-Semitic crime should generally result in the perpetrator being expelled from Germany. According to a report in the “Rheinische Post”, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group wants to introduce a corresponding bill into the Bundestag this week. A conviction for an anti-Semitic crime should lead to “a prison sentence of at least six months and the non-granting or loss of humanitarian protection in Germany,” according to the Union proposal.
Anyone who wants to receive a German passport should have to commit to Israel’s right to exist. According to the Union, “if there are actual, unshakable indications of an anti-Semitic attitude on the part of the applicant,” “naturalization should be expressly excluded.” People with at least one other nationality should also “lose their German citizenship if they are convicted of an anti-Semitic crime and given a prison sentence of at least one year.”
“Dual citizenship sends the wrong signal”
The Union parliamentary group, on the other hand, wants to reject the draft law to reform citizenship law, with which the traffic light coalition wants to make naturalization easier. “Our country is in a serious migration crisis and anti-Semites want to proclaim a caliphate on our streets. Nevertheless, the traffic light wants to distribute the German passport to foreigners much more generously than before. That doesn’t fit together,” said Union parliamentary group vice-president Andrea Lindholz to the newspaper.
“After Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel, the frightening extent of ‘immigrant’ anti-Semitism in our country became apparent on our streets,” said Lindholz. “Anyone who is serious about ‘never again’ cannot want anti-Semites and Hamas supporters to be naturalized. The first thing that helps against this is effective integration, and that takes time. The planned shortening of the naturalization period to up to three years is in view of this a serious mistake. Hardly any integration process is completed in this short time, especially not when it comes to deep-seated resentments such as anti-Semitism,” said the CDU politician.
“Dual citizenship for everyone is also wrong in view of current events. It means more influence for foreign states in Germany, and it inhibits a clear turn towards our values if different values apply in the country of origin,” Lindholz continued to tell the paper. “The traffic light must now withdraw its previous draft law on citizenship law and present a new draft law that has only one goal: no German passport for anti-Jewish people and Hamas supporters.