MERA25 parliamentary candidate Melanie Schweizer was dismissed from her job and stripped of her civil servant status as a result of a political smear campaign.

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.

        • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Trump’s weird ass plans should be taken “into consideration"

          Bro, these weird ass plans are plans for ethnic cleansing. Here is a litmus test for you: take those “weird ass plans” and just replace the words “Gaza” with “Israel”, and “Palestinian” with “Israeli”. Are you outraged at how fucking nazi the plans sound now? Do you now understand why what Felix Klein said is just unacceptable?

        • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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          2 days ago

          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.

            • Genosse@feddit.orgEnglish
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              1 day ago

              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.

                • Genosse@feddit.orgEnglish
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                  1 day ago

                  Die politische Betätigung darf weder zu persönlicher Begünstigung, etwa einer schnelleren Karriere, noch zu einer Benachteiligung führen. Stichwort: Ämterpatronage. Für die Besetzung öffentlicher Ämter gilt mit Verfassungsrang, Art. 33 Abs. 2 GG, das Leistungsprinzip. Öffentliche Ämter sind nach den Kriterien Eignung, Befähigung und fachliche Leistung zu vergeben.

                  https://www.dbb.de/beamtinnen-beamte/status-dienstrecht/beamte-und-politik.html

                  Federal workers have, as everyone else, the right to be politically active. The condition are, that you can’t be part of the parliament or the government and you have to be able to separate between your job and your political career. You are also not allowed to be active in a party that is against the constitution. Someone who is politically active should not face repercussion for this, as long as he remains neutral in his position as federal worker.

                • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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                  1 day ago

                  Maybe quote the first paragraph too:

                  (1) Beamtinnen und Beamte dienen dem ganzen Volk, nicht einer Partei. Sie haben ihre Aufgaben unparteiisch und gerecht zu erfüllen und ihr Amt zum Wohl der Allgemeinheit zu führen. Beamtinnen und Beamte müssen sich durch ihr gesamtes Verhalten zu der freiheitlichen demokratischen Grundordnung im Sinne des Grundgesetzes bekennen und für deren Erhaltung eintreten.

                  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.