{"id":62942,"date":"2018-08-18T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=62942"},"modified":"2018-08-09T18:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T16:58:39","slug":"01-05-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=62942","title":{"rendered":"13 million declared anti-Semites in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>13 million declared anti-Semites in Germany<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Noah Klieger<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Op-ed: Sixteen percent of German population declared in a recent survey that they don\u2019t like Jews, but president of Central Council of Jews in Germany\u2014who advised Jews to avoid wearing a skullcap in big cities\u2014wants us to take comfort in the fact that \u201980 percent are not prejudiced against Jews.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk a bit about today\u2019s Germany. Nearly 83 million residents, one of Europe’s biggest countries. Between 100,000 to 200,000 Jews, most of whom arrived from Russia several decades ago after the German authorities invited them and helped with their absorption.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGermany needs a Jewish population,\u201d the authorities announced at the time. By the way, some of the \u201cinvitees\u201d weren\u2019t even Jews or weren\u2019t Jewish according to Halacha. In Russia, after all, there was no problem purchasing certificates and permits of all kinds. I remember cases in which the husband received financial support from the Jewish community, which included some 28,000 people at the time, and his wife received aid from the Catholic Caritas organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Skullcap march against anti-Semitism held in Berlin in April (Photo: EPA)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

And now to anti-Semitism. In a recent survey, 16 percent of the population\u2014about 13 million people\u2014declared they didn\u2019t like Jews, to say the least. About 70 percent of the respondents further stated that they were strongly against the oppression of Palestinians by Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no surprise here, if we know, for example, that two Muslim rappers\u2014Kollegah and Farid Bang\u2014recently won the Echo award, a sort of \u201cOscar\u201d for the country\u2019s most popular artists. The two, who always perform in front of sold-out crowds, often ridicule Holocaust survivors and their songs are littered with anti-Semitic expressions. After their win stirred a public row, the prize was cancelled, but the committee that delivers the award found no fault in their selection.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if a leading newspaper like S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung publishes a cartoon of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with all the \u201ccharacteristics\u201d that Joseph Goebbels gave the Jews (a long, crooked nose and big ears), and the paper\u2019s editors decide to bid farewell to the cartoonist only after an uproar from Jewish circles, that says enough too.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now to Dr. Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, who recently advised observant Jews not to wear a skullcap in big cities to protect themselves. I\u2019m having trouble accepting the arguments presented by \u201cthe No. 1 Jew in Germany\u201d to Itay Mashiach, Yedioth Ahronoth correspondent in Berlin. His explanations prove that he fails to understand the situation or doesn\u2019t want to understand it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-Semitic German rapper duo Kollegah and Farid Bang (Photo: AFP)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

On the one hand, Schuster says Germany\u2019s Jews are in no danger and have no reason to consider leaving. On the other hand, when he is asked whether the fact that anti-Semitism is still present in Germany in 2018\u2014despite politicians\u2019 efforts\u2014isn\u2019t evidence of the failure of Jewish life in Germany, Schuster replies: \u201cDefinitely not a failure. There has always been hostility towards Jews among 20 percent of the population, even when the community was much smaller. But we must also remember the opposite conclusion, that 80 percent are not prejudiced against Jews.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s an argument I have yet to hear. It\u2019s like saying that in a certain country \u201conly 20 percent are criminals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Addressing the immigration of Jews from Germany, Schuster said: \u201cThank God, there is no such danger.\u201d Thank God?<\/span><\/p>\n

Schuster also argued that anti-Semitic manifestations were more common in big cities like Berlin, Cologne and Munich, but that the situation was different in the small cities. As someone who has visited hundreds of school classrooms and addressed thousands of students, mainly in Germany\u2019s small cities, I would like to reveal to Dr. Schuster that he is wrong and that the truth is actually the opposite. Berlin and Cologne don\u2019t represent Germany. The small cities do, and anti-Semitism is much more common there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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