Posted on 05/10/2017 5:51:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Ahead of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s visit to Israel on Saturday, a German government study revealed that nearly 33 million Germans, 40% of the population of 82 million, are infected with contemporary antisemitism — hatred of the Jewish state.
The report, which was published on April 24, details in a section titled “Agreement to Israel-related antisemitism” that 40% of Germans who were polled showed approval for the following statement: “Based on Israel’s policies, I can understand people having something against the Jews.”
The federal government’s antisemitism report found that the proportion of Germans who agreed with the antisemitic statement increased from 28% in 2014 to 40% in 2016. The poll was commissioned by the Social Democratic Party think tank the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. […]
Critics contend that German politicians, universities, trade unions and NGOs have initiated assaults on Israel’s right to exist and its products over the years. Germany’s Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who was embroiled in a controversy last week over his decision to meet with left-wing NGO Breaking the Silence, told the Hamburger Abendblatt in late April: “The current government is not Israel.” In 2014, he called Israel’s presence in Hebron an “apartheid regime.” …
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Still, it makes no sense to turn Germany toward Islam.
Eevverybody in Europe hates Israel and the Jews.
NOT just the Krauts.
$AUDI MONEY ha$ been very well $pent over there acro$$ the pond. Their pre$$ is very well bought off. (NOT to mention OUR press over here!)
Those same anti-Semites are okay with foreign funded Islamists in their midst. Because the policies of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Indonesia, Libya, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, et al are so worth emulating.
Saudis bought into the media and squash negative news and documentaries.
Look at the Democratic Party, it certainly has its share.
And yes, other countries in Europe, perhaps not all, have similar sentiments.
Any American Jew who thinks they’ll be safer in Germany than in the United States is a moron. At least here they can defend themselves.
People often dislike people that have Foundations that constantly accuse people of disliking them.
Anything under the sun is anti-Semitism, it’s a kind of religion.
it’s an industry that constantly publishes books, screens movies.
they hit you over the head with it, it ends up creating anti-semites which is probably the whole goal.
Sounds like there is someone who’s not going to agree with Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia this month to stress our strong ties to that country. I don’t know if I agree with that but I gather, it is a geopolitical interest. KSA certainly has backroom ties to Israel as well.
As bad as that is in Germany, I suspect the true numbers are slightly worse in the United States. We are in for some ugly times in the West. The bigoted snowflakes of today might not recognize “The Producers” and their “Springtime for Germany” as farce.
Jewish passions on the events of wwII are now working against them as it is not to Israel’s advantage for germany to go islamic.
Wahhabi Islam is a virulent social disease which needs to be bombed, shot, strangled and starved into extinction.
for the same reasons the democrat party is turning islamic because its hopeless to force non jews to live in the moral ovens of nazi germany forever—because this brings death.
Curiously Jesus was killed and rose again by similar persecutors. People who believe in him get life.
I think one famous German wrote a whole book about it. The name of it translates to “My Struggle”
Inside every German there is a nazi heart.
Hmmmm...
lets invert that:
“Inside every Jewish soul is a Christ-killer heart”.
What would you call that? If you would call that anti-Semitic and unacceptable, well I would tend to agree.
But then why is the converse acceptable? You cannot say one of those statements is OK and the other is not.
Something to ponder.
About half of Germans thought that Israel was conducting a “war of extermination” against the “Palestinians” over a decade ago. This trend is independent of the hijrah.
What is the What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need; self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money.Marx’s review of and thoughts on The Jewish Question by Bruno Bauer did indeed inculcate antisemitism among all forms of the left for all time.
Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money—consequently from practical, real Judaism—would be the self-emancipation of our time. An organization of society which would abolish the preconditions for huckstering, and therefore the possibility of huckstering, would make the Jew impossible. …
— Karl Marx, “On ‘The Jewish Question’”, 1843
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