Belgium's Foreigners' Office has instructed dozens of municipalities to strip children born in Belgium to Palestinian parents of their Belgian nationality, L'Echo reports.
This was all supposedly planned before the events of October 7th, but continuing with the plan regardless of the situation in Gaza just seems like a shitty thing to do. Maybe hold off for a year, or at least a few months…?
No European country does (Ireland was the last country to abolish it in 2004). The question here is if Palestinians are legally stateless or not, since the law gives Belgian nationality to stateless minors.
Which seems to be what they're taking advantage of here. Palestinians currently fall under Jordan's nationality laws, which dictate that
Individuals born to a Jordanian father are automatically Jordanian nationals at birth regardless of birthplace. The status is not transferrable by descent to children of Jordanian mothers unless the fathers are stateless or their nationalities are unknown. For nationality purposes, Palestinian fathers are never recognized as stateless whether they hold citizenship of any state or not.
From my limited understanding, purely because they are the children of Palestinian refugees, Belgium can't make them stateless.
Are you suggesting that Belgium may counter-rule that any adult stepping foot in their borders automatically loses Jordanian nationality, in direct opposition to the latter country's own internationally recognized laws and to the immediate detriment of Belgium?
.....Sure, that might as well happen. Nothing else makes any sense on this goddamn planet.
"Fuck you!" *foreign country forcibly claims you as a citizen* Wait, I think I just reinvented colonization
In what fucked up world does stripping a child of their nationality (of a country they were born in) make any sort of sense? Georgia is already racist, you don’t need to show up for it too.
Well. That will teach me not to scroll before reading the article. Thought everyone was real chill about strip searching Belgian kids for some reason.
What the fuck, by the way. What are they even trying to accomplish aside from A Racism? The kid's parents being refugees, they still retain indefinite residency with an option for citizenship down the line.
The child itself would be growing up there for at least a few years and could do the same once they hit adulthood. They're still able to reunite with family like the Foreigners' Office is complaining about.
I could see closing a loophole for anchor babies even if I don't entirely approve of such, but this is brazenly, solely Palestinians?
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