Jewish community leader calls for German anti-Semitism commissioner
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[QUOTE]A leading figure in Germany's Jewish community, Charlotte Knobloch, said renewed hostility to Jews needs a visible counter-signal. She was speaking on the 72nd anniversary of the freeing of the Dachau concentration camp.
Jews in Germany need a clear signal that their worries and warnings are being taken seriously amid a recent spate of anti-Semitic incidents in the country, a leading Jewish figure said on Sunday, calling for an "anti-Semitism" commissioner in the chancellor's office.
Charlotte Knobloch, the former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said it had to be made clear that hostility toward Jews was not seen only as a problem of the Jewish community.
Knobloch, who is now president of the "Israelitische Kultusgemeinde München und Oberbayern" (Israelite Religious Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria), noted that 70 years after the Holocaust, Jewish people were again becoming victims of exclusion and hostility. Verbal and physical violence directed at Jewish people and institutions were on the increase, and the word "Jew" had again become an insult in schools and football stadiums, she said.
She also criticized authorities for not taking anti-Semitism among Muslims living in Germany seriously enough.
With elections coming up in a few months time, Knobloch also took aim at right-wing nationalist parties and movements that have been gaining support of late not only in Germany but across Europe, saying that the word "populism" was being misused.
"Neither PEGIDA and their ilk nor the AfD [Alternative for Germany] nor National Front are populists," she said, warning that the term was too weak to cover dangerous phenomena that threatened to destroy the "peace project of the century," the European Union.[/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.dw.com/en/jewish-community-leader-calls-for-german-anti-semitism-commissioner/a-38648434[/url]
Not completely sure whete this belongs to the politics or news section, so please forgive me if I posted it in the wrong section.
Same thing is happening in France.
[url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/jews-are-leaving-france-in-record-numbers-amid-rising-anti-semitism-and-fears-of-more-isis-inspired-a6832391.html[/url]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/22/middleeast/france-israel-jews-immigration/[/url]
[media]https://youtu.be/gZYBBWba9Mg[/media]
Shouldn't be surprising that anti-semitism is on the rise with how the immigration/the migration is going. The regions these groups come from still have anti-semitic views and an unperturbed nature by historical events like the Holocaust.
[QUOTE=Tudd;52171617]Same thing is happening in France.
[url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/jews-are-leaving-france-in-record-numbers-amid-rising-anti-semitism-and-fears-of-more-isis-inspired-a6832391.html[/url]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/22/middleeast/france-israel-jews-immigration/[/url]
[media]https://youtu.be/gZYBBWba9Mg[/media]
Shouldn't be surprising that anti-semitism is on the rise with how the immigration/the migration is going. The regions these groups come from still have anti-semitic views and an unperturbed nature by historical events like the Holocaust.[/QUOTE]
But there is a considerable growing antisemitism from native europeans and americans who think the jews are behind the migration crisis right now aswell. You'd be blind to say the rise of the alt right is something jews shouldnt be afraid of.
Yeah saying antisemitism is just from Islamic migrants is pretty ignorant.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;52172389]Yeah saying antisemitism is just from Islamic migrants is pretty ignorant.[/QUOTE]
Who said that? I don't read anyone in this thread suggesting that.
[QUOTE=DogGunn;52172415]Who said that? I don't read anyone in this thread suggesting that.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Tudd;52171617]Shouldn't be surprising that anti-semitism is on the rise with how the immigration/the migration is going. The regions these groups come from still have anti-semitic views and an unperturbed nature by historical events like the Holocaust.[/QUOTE]
To be fair I probably inferred that.
[QUOTE=ImUnstoppable;52172378]But there is a considerable growing antisemitism from native europeans and americans who think the jews are behind the migration crisis right now aswell. You'd be blind to say the rise of the alt right is something jews shouldnt be afraid of.[/QUOTE]
People other than neo-nazis, got any sources for it otherwise?
[QUOTE=Lambeth;52172418]To be fair I probably inferred that.[/QUOTE]
Not an unfair thing to infer considering who we're talking about.
I Sleep in Hitler's Room is a great book about anti semitism in Germany that was written before the refugee crisis, I recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning more about the topic.
Unfortunately a lot of people are more interested in just blaming it on refugees.
[QUOTE=ImUnstoppable;52172378]But there is a considerable growing antisemitism from native europeans and americans who think the jews are behind the migration crisis right now aswell. You'd be blind to say the rise of the alt right is something jews shouldnt be afraid of.[/QUOTE]
Well if you can find recent documentaries and articles that quote Jewish leaders and locals saying this I would be interested.
As of now, you will find that they point to recent terror attacks and immigration as being the commonly cited problems that people downplay.
I have watched several documentaries on the matter (France24's, Vice, etc) and I have yet to see any of the Jewish subjects point to right-wing extremism as the reason why they are leaving.
[editline]1st May 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Lambeth;52172389]Yeah saying antisemitism is just from Islamic migrants is pretty ignorant.[/QUOTE]
It's also ignorant to act like they are equal in scale or effect on the Jewish community.
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