A new German law requiring immigrants to recognise Israel’s right to exist as a condition to gain nationality is Berlin’s attempt to whitewash its brutal Nazi past at the cost of Palestinian lives, a leading political expert tells TRT World.

A parliamentary group made up of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) passed into act a bill to “prevent the naturalisation of anti-Semitic foreigners” on Friday.

The bill states that it is “pushing for the acquisition of German citizenship to be dependent on a commitment to Israel’s right to exist and a declaration that the naturalisation applicant has not pursued or will pursue any endeavors directed against the existence of the State of Israel”.

The bill, however, doesn’t clarify what the “commitment” entails or involves.