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Laschet: I am ashamed of anti-Semitism and racism

2020-03-01T11:12:09.719Z


It is the first visit by the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia after he announced his candidacy for the CDU chairmanship. Armin Laschet finds strong words against anti-Semitism and racism in Jerusalem.


It is the first visit by the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia after he announced his candidacy for the CDU chairmanship. Armin Laschet finds strong words against anti-Semitism and racism in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem / Tel Aviv (dpa) - NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) has assured Israel that state and society will take decisive action against anti-Semitism, racism and extreme right-wing violence.

Again, there is anti-Semitism and right-wing violence in Germany, Laschet said on Sunday at a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem. He emphasized: "I am ashamed that we are experiencing this again in Germany 75 years after the liberation from Auschwitz."

Laschet, who announced his candidacy for the CDU presidency on Tuesday and could also become the Union's next candidate for chancellor, said it was German rationale to ensure the security of the state of Israel. He added: "But the state rationale is also to guarantee the security of Jews in Germany." With his visit, he also wants to signal: "In Germany there is a strong state, a strong civil society that will fight racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination."

Rivlin called Laschet a great friend of Israel and one of the most important and promising personalities of his party in Germany. In Israel, the latest right-wing extremist and racist crimes as well as the AfD's actions in the Bundestag and Landtag are being watched with great concern.

Laschet said in the presence of Rivlins after visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, where he visited a photo exhibition and laid a wreath: "The memory of this human crime still moves every day." Anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination should never again exist in Germany. The Nazis had murdered around six million people of Jewish faith across Europe in the Holocaust.

Laschet said that he not only wanted to keep an eye on the past, but also to develop relations between the two countries. For this reason, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is opening an office for culture, science and cooperation of start-ups in Tel Aviv.

Source: merkur

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