Posted on 09/23/2023 4:23:58 PM PDT by FarCenter
According to a public media report, people connected to the extremist "Reichsbürger" movement have founded fake Jewish nonprofits in Germany. Their intentions remain unclear, yet their efforts may not have been illegal.
For centuries, Jews have debated what it means to be one. One thing all Jews can probably agree on is that a connection to extremists with antisemitic views and aims to overthrow the German republic is a disqualifier.
But that hasn't stopped some from trying.
At least 10 associations calling themselves Jewish received official, nonprofit status, only to be revealed to have links to Germany's "Reichsbürger" (literally, "citizens of the German Empire") scene.
ARD, the German public broadcaster that first reported the story, spoke to self-proclaimed "chief rabbi" Iwan Götz, a known fraudster with Reichsbürger links. The 75-year-old from the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania appears to be behind several of the so-called Jewish associations, according to the report.
Götz claims to have converted to Judaism decades ago in Russia. Jewish community leaders have their doubts, and it is unlikely that other initiators of the associations in question are Jewish, or have anything to do with Jewish life or Jewish communities in Germany.
On the contrary, people who identify as Reichsbürger reject the German republic founded in 1949 and thus its Basic Law, which serves as Germany's constitution. In their minds, the German Empire, which existed in various forms and which victorious Allied powers legally ended following their defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, is the only legitimate form of German statehood.
Germany's domestic intelligence describes the Reichsbürger as conspiracy theorists, who often spread antisemitic tropes. The more extreme and violent among them faces charges related to plotting to overthrow the government.
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
How about a gigantic shakedown that never gives money to actual holocaust survivors?
https://www.amazon.com/Holocaust-Industry-Reflections-Exploitation-Suffering/dp/1781685614
Oh, you mean Democrats!!
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