IT can be a mitchell and sbb sketch – a person who has a very good German accent and a different nazi grandfather complaining: “These foreigners, who come here, import their antisemitism. “It’s just a comedy. The man is the chancellor in Germany, Friedrich Merz, and he make his complaint last month in an interview with Fox News In the US, recognizes an increase in antisemitism in Germany in “many numbers of migrants within the past 10 years”. How does Merz manage to miss joke – besides being german of course?
Chancellor is not the only German politician who makes a distressed connection between foreign and antisemunism. Hubert Aiwan, the representative premier in Bavaria, makes the headlines 2023 if there Antisemitic leaflet He said that writing to school – more known as Auschwitz’s pamphlet – arrived in light. Aiwaser ordered the writing of leaflet. Then his brother joined the fray, claiming author, and almost no one else mentions it. However, it does not stop the aiwanger from expressed After that year: “We have an imported antisemitism in Germany.”
How is “imported antisemitism”, a Far from anti-immigrantu buzz phrase,, make it primarily in politics? Then, the Germans do not really need to import antisemitism. But this is the way we can see it in Germany: If you don’t get annoying you can’t be good enough to admit to it. I don’t make it. You can’t do it. In fact, political science mentions Esra Özyürek the faith in his good book 2023 Subcontractors in guilt.
The thinking behind it is that because of our history, we teach the next generation to make sure it will never happen again. At school we studied the Holocaust every year. We do not know to analyze antisemitism, but we know it is very careful about it – or as the writer Max Czollek put it: “Now the German knows something about the Jews: that they killed them.”
Germany immigrants should be aware of more than they want to become German citizens. They need to know when the state of Israel was established, and who was allowed to be a member of one of 40 Maccabi Sports Club. If you are not born in Germany you need to prove you are not antisemolic by learning the facts about the Jews.
But even if you were born here, like me, statistics still talking to you as an immigrant If one of your parents comes from different country. And so, you look at suspicion when it comes to antisememontism you can “import”. In the last election, Merz suggested that German citizenship from Dual Nationals if they has committed a crime. When asked if that means, for example, riding a bus without a ticket, he explained it It is relevant UNTO antisemitism.
However antisemitism is not a criminal violation of German law, so we can see it anywhere. The Jews were arrested for Hold signs reading “Jews against genocide”. A protester in Ireland Berlin arrested For the Irish speaking of a demonstration for Palestine because authorities have no translators who are in an exploration if they are “importing antisemitism. It is lost so far that the human rights council Booked Germany For criminal protest against Gaza’s war – including controlling Arabic use in protests. In the end Merz was not, but he sent the message to the house: the Germans like me in foreign heritage were Germans to try.
In 2024 the German parliament adopts a controversial No resolution is now to fight antisemontism. One of the examples quoted is “Berlinale Scandal”. When There is no other land Won the documentary award at Berlin Film Festival, the film-Merval Yuval Yuval, who killed thousands of people in my people who were celebrated by the Gaza “. Claudia Roth, did not feel forced to be forced to be compelled to be compelled to be compelled to be forced to be forced to be compelled to be forced to be compelled to be compelled to be forced to announce that he There is only applause Israel’s film film, not his counterpart in Palestine.
On the contrary, the resolution does not mention the 2019 Yom Kippur Attack in Halle, where a terrorist tried to enter a synagogue to make a massacre (he failed to enter, but killed two passes). Nor is the resolution saying certainly important that 85% of all German antisemolic violence has become Perpetrators of the rightand rather promise to prevent antisemontism By “exploit the options of resistance” in asylum and law of citizenship. In other words: they have a problem with antisemunism, we are not.
When I went to school we read Friedrich, a novel of Hans Peter Richter, with the Moto: “Now it is people, it’s people, and the Christians.” We do not think that all forms of racism are similar to Hitler’s antisitism, but this is how we understand “without again”.
The German replacement problem it means we cannot learn from Holocaust. In fact, in April a woman was fined 1,500 in a German court Preventing a token Outside of a governmental building read: “We don’t know anything from Holocaust?” That week, the German Legal System decided to scream “Piss off, aliens! Germany for Germans” is not a problem.
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An additional rise is that many of the people accused of importing antisemitism in Germany may have grandparents fighting for the allies against the Nazis. I hope we know about school. As I wanted us to teach children – and politicians – that the kind of eliminating antisemitism fell during the Holocaust was a change in Europe. That doesn’t mean no antisemitism beyond European boundaries, in the world of Arab or otherwise, but there is a different history. Some tropes of antisemolic tropes, for example the idea of an international conspiracy of the Jews, found their way to the cement During World War II.
Perhaps speaking of exported antisemitism is more correct.
Mithu is a novel, academic, critic of literature, columnist and broadcaster.
