As a child, I saw what follows ethnic cleansing. That’s why I am speaking out about my new home’s silence over Palestinian deaths, says author Lana Bastašić
I really feared that this would be a stupid article about how Germany cannot criticise Israel or how they have an obligation to support the eradication of Palestine.
But I actually agree with some of the assessment of the dangers.
Yet while artists and writers are cancelled for their alleged antisemitism, real neo-Nazism is on the rise, with the far-right party AfD, Alternative for Germany, winning local elections and mainstream politicians float the idea of doing deals with them.
This is clearly the danger about the whole Antisemitism debate
The Nazis are living their dream right now. They get to incite hate against both Jews and Muslims.
With the latest set of their stances being taken into mainstream politics, mass deportations, limits to the human right of refugee, talks about cultural homogenity, defining the green party as the main enemy, etc. we see a rise of fascist violence against all minorities.
Instead of seeing the danger to democracy our center and right political parties are eager to help them and it is taken conveniently to blame Muslims for antisemitism in German society.
Just two month ago there was a scandal with the vice-prime minister of Bavaria, one of Germanys largest state, who wrote political pamphlets demanding another Holocaust, made antisemitic remarks while visiting a concentration camp and did other Neonazi things as a teenager. Instead of this harming his political career it helped him in the most recent elections. Now the “conservative parties” are all to eager to gloss over the fact that being a straight up Nazi as a teenager and still a xenophobic violent inhumane asshole as an adult, is beneficial to a political career in Germany now.
I really feared that this would be a stupid article about how Germany cannot criticise Israel or how they have an obligation to support the eradication of Palestine. But I actually agree with some of the assessment of the dangers.
This is clearly the danger about the whole Antisemitism debate
The Nazis are living their dream right now. They get to incite hate against both Jews and Muslims.
With the latest set of their stances being taken into mainstream politics, mass deportations, limits to the human right of refugee, talks about cultural homogenity, defining the green party as the main enemy, etc. we see a rise of fascist violence against all minorities.
Instead of seeing the danger to democracy our center and right political parties are eager to help them and it is taken conveniently to blame Muslims for antisemitism in German society.
Just two month ago there was a scandal with the vice-prime minister of Bavaria, one of Germanys largest state, who wrote political pamphlets demanding another Holocaust, made antisemitic remarks while visiting a concentration camp and did other Neonazi things as a teenager. Instead of this harming his political career it helped him in the most recent elections. Now the “conservative parties” are all to eager to gloss over the fact that being a straight up Nazi as a teenager and still a xenophobic violent inhumane asshole as an adult, is beneficial to a political career in Germany now.