JEWS IN GERMANY: IT'S TIME TO FLEE. BUT WHERE?
In the country, the degree of anti-Semitism is growing, Merkel does not know what to do.
On the eve of Catholic Christmas, German social networks exploded with comments on the 6-minute video laid out by Camilla Thomas
An important circumstance: on the occasion of Hanukkah Feinberg exhibited in the window of his restaurant a menorah and an image of the star of David.
To Feinberg and Thomas drinking coffee, a handsome, well-dressed middle-aged German came up (later it was informed that he was 60 years old, but who was he-the police did not specify), and calmly asked:
"And what are you doing here ... Your place is either in Palestine, or get the hell out of the gas chambers. What are you looking for in our country after what we did with you in 1945? "(In German this all sounds extremely categorical).
Even after his first words, Camille began to shoot what was happening on her cell phone. Yoray tried to reason with the "visitor", but he only got excited, shouting anti-Semitic insults.
The incident ended with the fact that Yoray, noticing the police car passing by, stopped her and called the patrolmen to help. Seeing the custody of the order, the pensioner yelled: "All Jews are pigs, all Jews are lying about the Holocaust," and rushed to Feinberg. But the police instantly knocked him down and handcuffed him. Reportedly, the detainee was previously known to the police to be unlawful, but not anti-Semitic, and "common-law" antics.
Camilla Thomas posted a 6-minute video on her Facebook page, over the first two days it was viewed by over 600,000 users who left everything, as one - sharply negative comments about the old Nazi ("Our authority - the police, the prosecutor's office - should to categorically suppress any manifestations of anti-Semitism! "" Anti-Semitism must be punished. "" I did not know what Jewish cuisine was, but now I'm basically going to the Fainberg restaurant. "" These statements make it clear that such thoughts are not unique to Muslims, but also to our racists of middle age and middle class "). But then the network moderator removed the video, for which the Facebook administration later apologized: "It was a mistake to delete this story. We thought that it is stirring up ethnic strife "(the plot is returned to the network).
Yes, in politically correct, it would seem, Germany, which made - it would seem, - the proper conclusions from its Nazi past, the degree of anti-Semitism is growing.He is warmed, first of all, by local Muslims, but in a purely German environment, as can be seen from the incident with Jorai Fainberg, such sentiments are gaining momentum. In any case, in schoolyards, the abuse of their Jewish peers by Muslim children and adolescents has been actively supported by their German classmates for several years ...
After the announcement on December 6, 2017 by US President Donald Trump ofrecognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Muslims living in Europe staged a series of mass protests. They began under the guise of anti-Israeli protests, but quickly acquired an openly anti-Semitic character. So, in Swedish Gothenburg, two dozen Muslims threw fireworks at the local synagogue. This incident was reported not only by Swedish, but also by European media.
The anti-Israeli actions held in Berlin also had a pogrom character.
On Friday, December 8, about a thousand Arabs and Turks protesting against the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, first tried to break through the police cordon off the US embassy, and when that failed, they burned two Israeli flags near the neighboring Brandenburg Gate. Followed the police officers detained 10 people (later released - there were no arrests).
The German police behaved quite differently in the evening of Sunday, December 10th. Then, during the riots again organized by the American embassy (over a thousand Arabs and Turks tried to break the barrier at the embassy, which prevented the police), a group of "Protestants" again set fire to the flag of Israel.But this time the guards of order to detain the perpetrators did not. As law enforcers later claimed (as Deutsche Welle reported), "burning the national flag, unless it is on the embassy territory, is a crime."
German Foreign Minister Zigmar Gabriel "entered the position" of the police.Dutyfully condemning the actions of the demonstrators, he promised to "initiate the adoption of a new law providing for responsibility for burning flags of foreign states."
Interestingly: but for the destruction or damage of such a flag in another way will not be held accountable? Or will there be a separate law for every kind of outrage against the foreign flag?
But this is so, by the way. The main thing is different: the anti-Israeli character of the actions announced by the organizers of Berlin's actions only covered their anti-Semitic essence. On December 8 and 10, the demonstrators filmed the actions of a roused crowd shouting out anti-Semitic crooks on their mobile phones and immediately posted these footage on the Internet. And on the page of the Federal Government in the social network Facebook there were thousands of (!) Vicious comments of a pogrom nature (this was reported by Die Welt, Die Zeit, etc.).
In this situation, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Germany, Thomas de Mezier, could no longer keep silent. But in his statement, he considered it only possible to say that "we do not agree that someone insults the Jews or the state of Israel in such a shameful way."
More broadly de Maiziere said only after a few days: "Every crime motivated by anti-Semitism is a search and shame for our country," he said in an interview with Bild am Sonntag. "We are also talking about an increased number of dismissive comments, inappropriate jokes and discriminatory attitudes toward our Jewish compatriots. Hostility towards Jews should never spread to Germany. " And in the end the Minister proposed to establish under the new government of Germany, which for the fourth month is not in a position to form Angela Merkel , the post of state commissioner for combating anti-Semitism.
It may seem to a person uninformed that the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reacted quickly to the outbreak of anti-Semitism in the country. But the need to establish the post of such a state commissioner, the independent expert commission under the Ministry of Internal Affairs pointed out in April. And in July, as Bild reported, "the chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster reproached the Federal Government for" excessive hesitation about fighting anti-Semitism. " In particular, in the fact that "in the current legislative period, the state commissioner to combat anti-Semitism was never appointed."
This statement was made by Schuster after a previous wave of anti-Israeli, or more precisely, anti-Semitic demonstrations swept through Germany's cities. Then the columns of swarthy, bearded men passed through the main streets of Berlin, Dortmund, Kassel, Frankfurt and other major German cities, chanting pogrom slogans. Behind the scene the police watched impassively - in none of the cities did any of the "demonstrators" be arrested. But all the leading German media - Die Welt, Die Zeit, Focus, Bild, FAZ and other "whales" have sounded the alarm:
"Anti-Semitism among Muslims in Germany is becoming an increasing problem," the media wrote. - For a long time in the Muslim schoolchildren are brought up hatred of the Jews. In mosques and Muslim communities, imams have such an impact on children that they become haters of other religions, especially Judaism, as well as secular Muslims. As a survey of teachers in 27 schools in Berlin showed, young Salafis from families of Turkish and Arab immigrants insult those who do not belong to their faith or dress inappropriately (the second concerns girls). Even educators who touch on the topic of democracy and the rule of law get it. "
The media then quoted the chairman of the TSEC, Josef Schuster, who stated that "in some areas of major cities, I would recommend not showing their belonging to the Jews. Experience has shown that the open wearing of a bale or chain with a star of David can lead to verbal threats or even physical attacks. "
I repeat: all this was written and said in July 2017. And half a year ago, as Minister de Mezier finally admitted that the post of state commissioner on combating anti-Semitism is really needed. But from the recognition of its necessity before the beginning of the work of the new structure, the "distance of a huge size".
The incident with Feinberg, called the German media "Six Minutes of Hatred", flew, without exaggeration, all the central and regional publications of Germany. It was reported that Jorai Feinberg came from a large Polish rabbinical family whose members only survived the Holocaust by his father, who was then 4 years old (he was hiding in a pit under a barn). In an interview with the German media, Feinberg said:
"Such attacks, unfortunately, become commonplace. I love Berlin. But I often ask myself the question that this man asked me: but really, what am I doing here? I'm uncomfortable here. I often think about my future, and every time I come to the fact that we must escape from Europe. But where? .. "
The incident was commented by the representative of the Jewish community of Berlin Mike Samuel Delberg : "It is possible that you will become the object of aggression only because you openly live as a Jew," Delberg quotes the Berliner Zeitung. "Unfortunately, such incidents are part of everyday life in Germany. This is a reality that is far from normal. "
But that "this reality is far from normal" the leaders of the Central Council of Jews in Germany spoke in the face of Chancellor Merkel back in October 2015! Then, at a meeting at the Berlin headquarters of the CDU Konrad-Adenauer-Haus, members of the party's presidency with the board of the TSECG, Schuster explicitly called for "intensifying the efforts of the interreligious dialogue to overcome existing prejudices, especially anti-Semitism deeply entrenched among young Muslims. Many refugees come from countries in which Israel is perceived as an enemy, and this feeling is spread to Jews in general. "
Later, a stingy release about this meeting was published by the party (CDU) press center. But that was not included: as a friend who was participating in that meeting told me, after Schuster expressed his fears, deathly silence reigned in the conference hall. The Chancellor scribbled something in her notebook and, after a moment's thought, said: "Yes? Well, then we should do it. "
That is, it looked as if before the statement of Schuster, neither the chancellor, nor her administration (Kanzleramt), nor the numerous advisers with consultants at all were aware of anti-Semitism in Germany!
Now January 2018, but there was no state solution to the problem, and no.
Yesterday, two days later, the head of the Ministry of Justice of Germany, Social Democrat Haiko Maas reacted to the Feinberg incident with a very restrained response : "This absolutely inexplicable and unforgivable incident in Berlin shows that we should all participate in the fight against anti-Semitism. Those who incite anti-Semitism, we must not leave alone ( reportedly 60-year-old neo-Nazi, nakinuvashiysya to Feinberg, prosecuted for inciting ethnic hatred -. SD ).Because first words are spoken, and after them things come, "- wrote the minister in his" Twitter ".
The Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany Thomas de Mezier this incident preferred not to comment at all
In the meantime, the situation worsens: if more recently the case was usually limited to "verbal threats" from the Muslim youth, now these young people began to openly poison and beat their Jewish peers just because they are Jews.
As Deutsche Welle reported on January 6 referring to the newspaper Die Welt, "the block of Christian parties CDU / CSU on the eve of the International Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust will submit on January 27 to the Bundestag a draft package of measures to combat anti-Semitism. As follows from the document drafted at the disposal of the newspaper Die Welt, from which it quotes, special attention will be paid to countering the hostility towards Jews observed by a number of migrants. Anyone who rejects Jewish life in Germany or calls into question the right of the State of Israel to exist, there can be no place in our country, "the document stresses.
The CDU / CSU block insists that those provisions of the law on the residence of foreigners in Germany, which relate to deportation from Germany, first of all the deprivation of their residence permit, should be fully applied to persons calling for hatred based on anti-Semitism. The Bundestag should send recommendations to this effect to the German government.