{"id":66865,"date":"2019-01-17T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=66865"},"modified":"2019-01-17T11:31:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:31:30","slug":"22-00-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=66865","title":{"rendered":"Will migration pact endanger German Jews?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Will migration pact endanger German Jews?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Orit Arfa, JNS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nChildren stick white roses into a Star of David sculpture at the construction site of a new synagogue in Potsdam, eastern Germany, on Nov. 9, 2018, the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht.<\/em><\/span>
\nBERND SETTNIK\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

On Dec. 10, the same day that the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) reported growing feelings of vulnerability among European Jews, Germany\u2019s Chancellor Angela Merkel led the signing in Morocco of a 34-page U.N.-sponsored document called the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.<\/span><\/p>\n

The non-binding pact was the subject of fierce debate in Europe, which has been embroiled in debate over the impact of Merkel\u2019s decision to allow more than 1 million Muslim migrants into Germany since 2015. Analysts and critics have argued that it would sanction migration as a \u201chuman right,\u201d providing migrants, largely from African and Middle Eastern countries, with generous benefits and protections regardless of their legality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among Jewish advocacy organizations (such as the European Jewish Congress, which did not return comment), nary a word has been said about the pact, even as polls and experience show that Islamic anti-Semitism is a rising source of concern among Europe\u2019s Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

A leading Jewish critic of the pact, well-known German writer, Henryk Broder, believes that the European Jewish establishment underestimates or denies problems that mass Muslim migration poses for Jewry.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCNN and the Americans and stupid German Jews and the German media have a very clear idea, definition and framework of anti-Semitism, and it\u2019s one word: the Holocaust,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Broder, who has researched anti-Semitism since his book The Eternal Antisemite came out in 1986, is skeptical of polls that suggest traditional anti-Semitism is increasing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt least two or three times a year, there is news saying anti-Semitism is on the rise,\u201d he said at an interview at a Berlin cafe. \u201cThat is absolutely not true. There is a constant anti-Semitism, but what has risen is the coverage of it. What has risen, which is true, is the number of anti-Semitic incidents since our beloved chancellor invited half the world to come to Germany.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He says one must differentiate between anti-Semitic attitudes, reports and incidents. Not all incidents, at least in Germany, are tagged as anti-Semitic. For example, a German court ruled that a 2014 firebombing of a Wuppertal synagogue by Palestinians was just a protest against Israeli policies. Reported anti-Semitic acts with no known source are automatically labeled \u201cright-wing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe main obstacle in this kind of intellectual exercise is that anti-Semitism is still being defined by the Holocaust and Auschwitz. And they defend the notion that everything else is \u2018Israel-Kritik\u2019 \u2014 criticism of Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the E.U.\u2019s recent FRA survey on anti-Semitism, the American Jewish Committee has again called on governments to do more to combat anti-Semitism. According to the AJC, anti-Semitism in Europe began to surge during the outbreak of the Second Intifada from 2000-2005, and is a manifestation of several factors.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are incidents coming from the segments of the Muslim community, as well as anti-Semitism generated ever more frequently by the far-right and far-left, mixed in with conspiracy theories and old-fashioned anti-Semitic tropes dating back to age-old Christian stereotypes and to European racist theories of the 19th century, and we have today\u2019s highly potent mix,\u201d said Deidre Berger, director of AJC Berlin.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA more recent wave of migrants to Europe as of 2015 are coming from Muslim majority countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan that propagate deeply anti-Semitic stereotypes on all levels of society,\u201d she continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are understandable concerns in the Jewish community that the new immigration can further exacerbate rising anti-Semitism if the issue is ignored or glossed over. That is why we advocate that governments take the issue of integration and language classes more seriously in terms of the values that are being inculcated in the new arrivals. This includes knowledge of Jewish life in Germany and respect for the essential nature of the German-Israeli relationship, which Chancellor Merkel has declared to be raison d\u2019\u00e9tat for the German government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fighting anti-Semitism and promoting democracy requires a substantial boost in curricula development and teacher training in Germany, not just in programs for immigrants, but also for German schools in general.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Broder, on the other hand, is pessimistic about the successful integration of Muslim migrants, saying \u201call efforts to enlighten them, inform them, educate them \u2014 are failing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He dubs polls on rising anti-Semitism as \u201cjob-creation machinery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Appointing \u201canti-Semitism czars,\u201d like Felix Klein, Germany\u2019s recently minted commissioner on anti-Semitism, he said, is ultimately fruitless in the face of continued Muslim migration and suppression about the anti-Semitism they generate.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the pact, said Broder: \u201cThere should be concern for the Jewish community, but not because of the treatment. Because they\u2019re coming anyway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Practical effects of the pact remain unclear. The United States, Australia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Israel are among those who voted against it, diminishing the chances that it will evolve into soft-law, said Yonatan Jakubowicz, executive director of the Israeli Immigration Policy Center (IIPC). (Brazil pulled out this month.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jakubowicz ran a campaign urging Israel to vote against the pact, arguing that it would harm Israeli security, sovereignty and humanitarian conditions for citizens and migrants alike, given the death toll involved in increased illegal migration to Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some clauses in the compact that are very radical, like Clause 17, which tries to regulate speech on immigration,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are some additional clauses that we see as very problematic.\u201d These include ones on family reunification, decriminalizing illegal immigration and minimizing detention.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll these are tools that are necessary to control irregular immigration,\u201d said Jakubowicz. Case in point: Israel stemmed the tide of irregular African migration in 2012 using such methods, which has been a hot-button issue in Israel since the government cracked-down on illegal migration mostly from Sudan and Eritrea.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jewish views on the pact, he said, will invariably be divided along political lines. Some Jews fear that anti-Muslim sentiment will embolden the growing far-right, which may hold reflexive anti-Semitic attitudes. Jakubowicz argues that the pact would actually fuel far-right actors.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have an irresponsible, uncontrolled immigration policy, putting aside anti-Semitism emanating from Muslim migrants, the direct affect of that is a rise of the far-right,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the only way to stop the far-right is to have a balanced, responsible, fact-based, center-conservative discourse on migration, which is non-existent in Europe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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