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A day after his German passport arrived, ‘Abdallah’ posted a picture of Hamas fighters with the caption ‘heroes of Palestine’
A Palestinian man is to be stripped of his newly granted German citizenship after posting a photo showing support for Hamas.
A day after celebrating the arrival of his German passport, the man, referred to only as Abdallah, uploaded a picture to Instagram showing Hamas fighters with the caption “heroes of Palestine”.
Shortly afterwards, he received a letter from Germany’s interior ministry saying his citizenship had been revoked, according to the local Bild newspaper.
Germany has gone further than most European countries to punish support for Hamas and curb pro-Palestinian support out of what it sees as a historic obligation to Israel and to right the wrongs of its Nazi past.
In 2024, it reformed its citizenship laws to require applicants to respect its “free-democratic order and Germany’s special historical responsibility” towards Jewish life.
New questions were also added about Jewish life and Israel’s “right to exist” in the German citizenship test.
Two eastern German states have made applicants explicitly write that they believe in Israel’s “right to exist as a refuge place for all people of Jewish beliefs”.
The man, referred to only as Abdallah, uploaded a picture to Instagram showing Hamas fighters with the caption ‘heroes of Palestine’
At least ten people in the state of Saxony-Anhalt had their applications rejected after failing to fill in that section.
