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Anti-Semitism: Israel's ambassador to Germany asks authorities for protection

2021-05-14T09:59:21.675Z


Again and again, Jewish people in Germany are attacked by anti-Semites for the policies of the Israeli government. Ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff calls for community safety to be guaranteed.


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Israeli Ambassador Issacharoff: "2000 rockets are not an argument in a discussion"

Photo: Michael Kappeler / DPA

The ongoing escalation of the Middle East conflict is also leading to further violence in Germany.

After anti-Semitic marches in front of synagogues in Gelsenkirchen, Bonn and Münster, among others, a window with an Israel flag was thrown in the night near Hildesheim.

According to the police, the resident of the apartment on the first floor was not in the affected room at the time of the crime, the state security is investigating.

The attacks on Jewish institutions in particular prompted the Israeli ambassador in Berlin to call on Germany to act.

"I urge the German authorities to do everything to ensure the security of our community here," said Jeremy Issacharoff in the ARD "Morgenmagazin".

Regarding the marches in front of synagogues in Germany, he added: "We are concerned about anti-Semitic acts, but the conflict in the Middle East has nothing to do with the Jewish community here in Germany."

Daughter of Holocaust survivors: "I don't understand at all how something like this can happen again"

On Wednesday night, for example, Israeli flags were lit in front of synagogues in Münster and Bonn.

In Solingen, strangers burned an Israeli flag hoisted in front of the town hall on Thursday night - and in Gelsenkirchen dozens of people chanted "fucking Jews".

Representatives of Jewish communities in Germany have expressed their alarm.

The chairwoman of the Jewish community in Gelsenkirchen, Judith Neuwald-Tasbach, told the newspaper Die Welt, "As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, I don't understand at all how something like this can happen again."

For the members of her community, the incidents are "frightening and emotionally difficult to cope with."

The chairwoman of the Bonn Synagogue Community, Margaret Traub, told the newspaper that anti-Semitism comes from all sides, including the right, left and the center of society.

“I don't care what people believe in.

But unfortunately it is always young Islamist men who attack us Jews. "

According to the North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Herbert Reul, the riots are not solely attributable to Palestinians. "These are not just Palestinian groups," said the CDU politician in "Morgenecho" on WDR 5. Although the cases have not yet been fully determined, they are all about people from the Arab region, from Syria - and in the case of a suspect from Gelsenkirchen to a German-Lebanese. "There is a lot going on here."

The 26-year-old was identified as the first suspect after anti-Semitic chants near the synagogue in Gelsenkirchen on Thursday after a chain of police stopped the anti-Semitic demonstration.

The police spoke of around 180 people who had gathered unannounced. In addition to Palestinian flags, Turkish and Tunisian flags were also waved.

Maas calls on citizens to take action against anti-Semitism

Interior Minister Reul described it as "frightening, unacceptable, unbearable when anti-Semitic slogans are chanted on German soil."

Jewish life in Germany should be a matter of course.

The initiative against anti-Semitism Gelsenkirchen has called for a solidarity rally in front of the synagogue today.

Meanwhile, with increasing violence between Israel and the Palestinians in the Middle East, concerns about further riots in Germany are growing, and the police presence in front of synagogues has already increased in numerous places.

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced that he would not tolerate anti-Semitism in this country.

Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas also called for better protection for Jewish institutions.

"As sad as it is that this is even necessary: ​​the state must guarantee the security of the synagogues without any ifs or buts," said the SPD politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group.

At the same time, he appealed to all citizens not to accept "when people of the Jewish faith in Germany are held responsible for events in the Middle East - on the street as well as on social media."

Israel's ambassador Issacharoff said that he did not consider the Israeli settlement policy to be the cause of the dispute with Hamas.

“There are various points of contention between the Israelis and Hamas.

But you can't rain thousands of rockets down on Israel and then relate that to settlement policy, ”he said.

Settlement policy could of course be discussed in a serious political dialogue.

"But 2,000 missiles are not an argument in a discussion."

apr / dpa / Reuters

Source: spiegel

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