Posted on 06/01/2011 10:28:04 AM PDT by King_Corey
Pressure is growing within Germany's Left party to take decisive action against alleged anti-Semitic tendencies among the socialists.
“If the basic values of the party are neglected, there must be consequences, up to separation,” the party’s parliamentary whip in the Bundestag, Dagmar Enkelmann, told the Wednesday edition of Der Tagesspiegel newspaper.
The call comes as The Left faces continuing criticism that some members of the socialist party have anti-Semitic and anti-Israel leanings.
The Left has also been embarrassed by a series of questionable incidents involving Israel and the Jewish community.
In April, a flyer featuring a swastika and the Star of David was found on the website of the party's regional chapter in Duisburg, prompting national outrage.
And in May, Hermann Dierkes, a party member in Duisburg, compared the Israeli government to Nazis.
More criticism has come after the Frankfurter Rundschau wrote about an academic report from University of Leipzig and University of Giessen professors labelling The Left party having an anti-Semitic problem.
"A power has established itself within the parliamentary spectrum of The Left party, which tolerates anti-Semitic positions," the report said.
Enkelmann told Der Tagesspiegel that The Left had a responsibility to ensure there was no attempt to qualify the crimes of Holocaust and that there could be no questioning of Israel's right to exist in peace next to an independent Palestinian state.
"I'm sick and tired that some things are continually questioned," she said.
Jan Korte, an MP for The Left, said there must be an "unambiguous discussion" about the issue, but he said that did not mean that Israel could not be criticized.
Meanwhile Petra Pau, a Bundestag vice president for The Left said she had the feeling some party members were being provocative "with intent." But others "think too little about how small symptoms can become full blown," she said.
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Obambi (the muslim), Hitlery (the felon), and the rest of the dummycrats are wholly anti-Semitic, and yet most Jews I know of will stand behind them all the way until they’re executed by them. Go figure!
Obambi (the muslim), Hitlery (the felon), and the rest of the dummycrats are wholly anti-Semitic, and yet most Jews I know of will stand behind them all the way until they’re executed by them. Go figure!
They have a common [perceived] enemy - Christians.
Once that enemy is dispatched, then they’ll work out their differences.
Lefties work for the prince of this world, whether knowingly or unknowingly. His Enemy has a chosen people, and it is not really any mystery why the prince of this world encourages his people to hate and destroy his Enemy’s people.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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And here I thought the Reich was a creation of German conservatives. It actually defies right/left designations as we speak of them today, rather a function of where totaliarians meet, Hitler, let me introduce Stalin
The first verse of the Nazi party antherm goes like this:
Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen!
SA marschiert mit ruhig, festem Schritt.
Kam'raden, die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen,
Marschier'n im Geist in unser'n Reihen mit.
...comrades killed by Red Front and Reactionaries....
language gives a lot of clues.
The name of the party is NSDAP National SOCIALIST German Workers Party.
Hitler was NOT a conservative by any measure. He was SOCIALIST.
NSDAP was fringe leftist party brought to power by Wall Street financial backers, J.P. Morgan and others.
Totalitarian state was considered an opportunity, just like China today. When we think of over hundred million murdered by Nazis and Communists we should never forget who bankrolled it.
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