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Sorry, but you are misinterpreting that rule. What I said is perfectly compatible with the rule. The extension that this also applies to Jews is solely to preempt the common "equal rights and the Jews are free to leave" dogwistle.

And you are highly mistaken that there are no people advocating for the destruction of Israel, in fact it is quite common.

Right, people arguing to not expose others to the risk of police raids are "asckually Nazis". You realize how absurd that is? Anne Frank was found during a police raid...

I see no reason to move instances as it is absolutely allowed to discuss what is happening in Gaza and Israel here (in so far as there is a direct relation to Europe). The restrictions are basically that two wrongs don't make a right (or many more wrongs in this case), and it is a bit sad that we were forced to explicitly spell it out to make people aware that any genocide is wrong, not only the one that is currently happening.

How about you start your own instance instead of complaining? 🙄

I didn't make those laws, and I agree that the German government should make more of a distinction between antisemitism and anti-zionism. But it doesn't and honestly in your above example you could just say:

“Zionism is a settler-colonial ideology, and Israel should become a state that provides equal rights for Palestinians”

An no one would object 🤷

This singular and persistent focus on the destruction of the (unfortunatly) already existing state of Israel, really makes it likely that many people rather use that as a dogwistle for antisemitism.

Where did I say posts about the middle-east are not allowed here if they are in relation to Europe? They are allowed and we do not remove them as off-topic.

But this topic is only a very minor topic for this community which is primarily about EU domestic news and such topics, so when creating this community there was absolutly no reason to avoid feddit.org as the hosting instance over legal concerns specifically related to the state of Israel.

Yes and as I explained already there is a very specific legal reason for that, but this doesn't mean you can't critizise Zionism or call it a terrible settler-colonialist project.

As for learning from past mistakes... I think you of all people should not throw the first stone there 😅

If this was a community specifically about the middle-east I would agree with you that it would have been unwise to host it on feddit.org due to the legal situation affecting its admins and some of the moderators here.

But it is not, and generally speaking Germany is not an autocratic state with severe repression of political activism, so for most topics it is a better place to host communities that might involve such.