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.
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.
Can’t be fucked to go through her feed again, I just did a search “from:herhandle israel” and sorted by “latest”.
She was quoting some other tweet about something Israel did with the comment “Keep this in mind when Hamas returns the hostages as skeletons” or something like that.
And again, whether you agree or disagree with her is completely besides the point. I’m not here to discuss the conflict, I’m just trying to explain the law and why she lost the status as civil servant. And if you’re an American and suspect you’re getting treated unfairly by a civil servant please go and file a complaint.