Editing Renate Künast (section)

==Controversy==
===Hate speech===
Künast was personally extremely insulted  by hate speech on the net; mostly on Facebook she got sexually insulted.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Hetze im Netz: Künast nach Hasskommentaren vor Gericht erfolgreich|language=de|work=FAZ.NET|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/renate-kuenast-nach-facebook-hasskommentaren-vor-gericht-erfolgreich-17772615.html|access-date=2 February 2022|issn=0174-4909}}</ref> Künast fights more consistently than almost any other German politician against these form of violent by anonymous persons. 

The Berlin Regional Court initially found that these were all permissible expressions of opinion, Künast had provoked these comments because of a misleading statement in 1986 about sex with children. Künast lodged an appeal. As a result, the district court obliged Facebook to provide information about the authors of some comments, so that the politician could take legal action against these people. 

All this has been annulled by the [[Federal Constitutional Court]] (BVG) in February 2022. The Berlin courts had not weighed properly. The Berlin court had always evaluated all comments in the context of the discussion, BVG said. But even with a reference to a public debate, not everything is allowed.<ref>{{Cite web|last=tagesschau.de|title=Klage wegen Hasspostings: Karlsruhe gibt Künast recht|url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/kuenast-klage-101.html|access-date=2 February 2022|website=tagesschau.de|language=de}}</ref>

===Antisemitism===
In July 2009 Künast was accused of antisemitism by the ''[[Jerusalem Post]]'', after she had allegedly been overheard calling the pro-Israel "[[Stop The Bomb]]" organisation a "[[Mossad]] front", which she denied.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1225910058551|title=German Kristallnacht events marred by reported rise in anti-Semitism|newspaper=[[The Jerusalem Post]]|author=Benjamin Weinthal|date=9 November 2008|access-date=28 September 2009}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1246443779016|title=German pro-Israel group labeled 'Mossad front'|author=Benjamin Weinthal|date=12 July 2009|access-date=28 September 2009}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

===Domestic security===
In October 2015 Künast advised the police officer Tania Kambouri during a talk show that the police should take their shoes off before raids in mosques. Kambouri had published a book about her experience with the rising violence by Muslim men against law enforcement and especially against women.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bizarre Forderung von Plapper-Künast: Polizisten sollen im Einsatz bei Muslimen die Schuhe ausziehen|url=http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/irre-gruenen-forderung-bei-maischberger-kuenast-fordert-im-einsatz-bei-muslimen-sollten-polizisten-die-schuhe-ausziehen_id_4997083.html|access-date=21 July 2016|publisher=Focus}}</ref>

In July 2016 Künast posted a Tweet in which she questioned the shooting of an Afghan refugee and ISIS sympathiser who [[2016 Würzburg train attack|severely injured]] five people with an axe. She was criticized for publicly accusing the police of wrongdoing without knowing the details and before the official investigation was started. Members from her party distanced themselves from the statement and said that they trusted the German police.<ref>{{cite news|title=Kritik an Polizei-Schüssen: Künast bereut Würzburg-Tweet - ein bisschen|url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/renate-kuenast-bereut-wuerzburg-tweet-ein-bisschen-a-1103717.html|access-date=21 July 2016|work=Spiegel Online}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wie Renate Künast ihren Würzburg-Tweet verteidigt|url=https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article157194670/Wie-Renate-Kuenast-ihren-Wuerzburg-Tweet-verteidigt.html|access-date=21 July 2016|newspaper=Die Welt}}</ref> Police union chief Rainier Wendt called her a "parliamentary smart aleck".<ref>{{cite news|title=German politicians slow to react to Würzburg attack|url=http://www.dw.com/en/german-politicians-slow-to-react-to-w%C3%BCrzburg-attack/a-19410203|access-date=24 July 2016|publisher=Deutsche Welle|date=19 July 2016}}</ref>