Schweizer was a civil service lawyer and worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Labour. In this year’s federal election, she ran on the Berlin state list for MERA25 and as a direct candidate in Berlin Mitte. The hate campaign that led to Schweizer’s dismissal was triggered by a December 6 post on X in which she accused the Zionist Malca Goldstein-Wolf of waging a “defamation campaign” because she had called the renowned journalist Georg Restle an antisemite for his criticism of Netanyahu’s war.
Goldstein-Wolf apparently researched Schweizer’s occupation and, when she found out that she worked for the Ministry of Labour, made this known on X and initiated a smear campaign against her. Hundreds of Zionist trolls then spread the most vicious slanders against Schweizer and demanded that she be fired.
The media also immediately joined in the smear campaign. On December 11, the tabloid Bild ran with the headline “Heil shocked! Employee spreads vile hatred of Israel” and went so far as to accuse Schweizer of trivialising the Holocaust.
Schweizer was then invited to a staff meeting, then suspended in January and finally dismissed without notice from her job and stripped of her civil servant status in February. At the same time, in the final days of the federal election campaign, her LinkedIn account was blocked without explanation.
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.
She wasn’t fired from being a candidate in a political election though, she was fired from a job where said rules apply. If she thinks that wasn’t just she can sue against it, she’s a lawyer after all. Equally if you think Klein broke the law go and report it to the police.
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.
No, quite the opposite:
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/beamtstg/__33.html
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.
This law exists to ensure that people can trust that everyone’s treated equally and fairly by public offices and their workers. TBH I’ve never heard about this person before this post but just had a look on her Twitter account where amongst other things she claims Israel is built on stolen land and therefore by implication questions its right to exist, compares Israel to Nazi Germany and belittles or even justifies the murder of Israeli hostages by Hamas and downplays the Hamas murders, rapes and kidnapping on Oct 7 claiming Israel’s forces do the same.
Now, regardless of whether you agree or disagree with any of that, please ask yourself, would you - as a jew or Israeli - feel comfortable going to a public office and trust that you’re treated fairly, equally and without prejudice by a civil servant who made such statements?
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.