OP fails to recognize the immense, irrational fear of German politicians to be viewed as anti-Israel and therefore antisemitic.

I like the French, but sometimes they can be a little French.

As a German it’s completely mind boggling to me that some societies tolerate an ideology that is responsible for plunging the world into its biggest humane catastrophe (so far), for the sake of free speech. Nazi ideology wants to kill free speech. If you truly want to protect free speech, you have to at least limit it to all the things that do not threaten it.

Mein bescheuertes Gehirn macht jedesmal aus dem Wort “Faktencheck” “check den Fuck”. Und ich kann nicht zulassen, dass ich damit alleine bleibe.