Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said migrants are a factor behind the rise of antisemitism in Germany, vowing to combat "this problem." Meanwhile, Lufthansa says it will restart flights to Tel Aviv on June 23.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said migrants are a factor behind the rise of antisemitism in Germany, vowing to combat "this problem."
We don't hate outsiders, it's just those dirty outsiders that do! /s
I mean, sure, there's a grain of truth here. Arabs and Muslims more generally tend to be suspicious of Jews, because of the history around the establishment of Israel (the relationship was way better than Christians-Jews before that). It doesn't make this not ironic.
I’m not antisemite BUT the Israeli government are a bunch of hypocrites and criminals . And the world is still looking to the other side… and now blaming on immigrants?
Again and again this flawed logic where you either approve of everything Israel does or you are an antisemite... it's high time we start distinguishing between the country of Israel and people of Jewish descent (Jewish people should learn the distinction too, seeing how this "antisemite" argument has been repeated by Jewish communities outside Israel).
As for Merz (and Germany, and Europe, and - alas - apparently the world in general), it's a real shame that the moronic dichotomy of humanity into arbitrary "us" and "them" (and subsequent blaming of everything on "them") is becoming mainstream rather than staying relegated to the far right (and groups of kids that bully other kids).
Ironically, this is the same exact world vision that gave us that nazi-fascism that so thoroughly embraced antisemitism and so methodically acted on it.
Crazy how literally everything is the migrants fault. You have to wait for your dentists appointment? Migrants fault! Nazis are the party with the second most votes? Migrants fault! Arson attacks against refugee homes? Believe it or not: migrants fault!
So stupid to redefine what antisemitism means and then to blame the migrants.
I'd be one of those 'immigrants' who he would call 'antisemitic', but once you look into it you realize I'm anti authorianism and anti genozide in any part of the world, not anti Jews.
says the guy from a country known/infamous for thier anti-semitism.
i think peoples misinterpretating this comment: im saying hes the one to talk calling people antisemties, when his country was the hotbed for it in the past. hence the word infamous.
That says more about the ADL than it does about Germany. You really don't have to look hard to find good old Christian antisemitism. Shit 20% of the country votes for the openly Nazi party.
Sincerely, somebody who lives in Germany and who wishes he could unlearn German