🧵 Something important to note about Cory Archibald, co-founder of Track AIPAC: she lives in Germany which has strict laws about antisemitic speech, specifically when it comes to Holocaust inversion which is in itself a form of Holocaust denial (1/x)
It appears Cory uses a VPN to look like she's posting in the U.S. perhaps because she's aware of the legal and civil problems she'd potentially run afoul of with Section 130 of the German Criminal code which deals with Volksverhetzung (Incitement to Hatred/Mass Incitement)
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The German government has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and their working definition of antisemitism which says that "drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis" is an example of antisemitism
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German courts also ruled that comparing contemporary political situations to the systematic murder of six million Jews can constitute "grossly downplaying" the Holocaust, which is considered a crime. And here's why that's potentially a huge problem for Cory & Track AIPAC...
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Track AIPAC regularly refers to people as "Nazis" and accuses them of conducting another Holocaust. Here they are targeting @RepDonBacon (6/x)
Here is Track AIPAC accusing @SenSchumer @RosenforNevada @JakeAuch all Jewish members of Congress of conducting a Holocaust: (7/x)
Here is Track AIPAC attacking @RepPettersen whose husband is the grandson of Holocaust survivors, of conducting a Holocaust: (8/x)
In these posts, Track AIPAC is referring to Israeli PM Netanyahu of being a "modern day Hitler": (9/x)
And here is Track AIPAC posting about Israel committing a Holocaust: (10/x)
There are countless other examples on their TL. Now, this is potentially a legal problem for Cory Archibald whether she contributed to these posts directly or materially supported them with with resources in Germany...
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The German government takes this very seriously and they have several open reporting systems that people can use:
respectimnetz.de/en/
report-antisemitism.de/en/
polizei-bw.de/onlinewache/
Oh and all posts have been archived. (END)
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