Angela Merkel promised to make Israel’s security the centerpiece of her policy. But that was then. And this is now.
The newest appointee to Germany’s Foreign Office is a Muslim woman, Nurhan Soykan, who is not just a Muslim, but a fanatical antisemite who supports the al-Quds Day rally in Germany, supported by Iran, which call for the destruction of Israel. Her story is here.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Foreign Ministry has been plunged into a devastating new antisemitism scandal for the hiring of a radical Islamist who defends the annual Iranian regime-sponsored rally al-Quds Day calling for the obliteration of Israel.
“Andreas Görgen, the director of the Foreign Ministry’s department for culture and communication, welcomed the Islamist Nurhan Soykan on Monday on his Twitter feed, writing that Soykan will be on “our team Religion and Foreign Policy” at the Foreign Ministry.
How exactly will this Al-Quds Day supporter, and visceral hater of Israel, fit into what Andreas Görgen fulsomely calls “our team” at the Foreign Ministry? Will she do outreach to Muslims in Germany? Is her task to represent Germany to the Muslim world, or is it, rather, to represent the Muslim world to Germany? Will she try to convince the German government to rethink its imposition of a ban on the “political wing” of Hezbollah? Will she urge the German government to win the support of the Muslim world by allowing in still more millions of Muslim immigrants? Will she urge Germany to support a weapons embargo on Israel if it refuses to be squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines? Or, in the alternative, will she urge Berlin to support the “one-state solution” that some Arabs now favor, that is, a country consisting of present-day Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, which due to demography would mean the end of the Jewish state? There are so many possibilities for the malevolent Nurhan Soykan, now burrowing deep within the German state.
And among the many millions of Muslims now in Germany, why did Andreas Görgen appoint this particular Islamist? Were there no “cultural Muslims” to be found? Not a single Muslim could be located in all of Germany who did not wish so ardently for the destruction of the state of Israel? Did Andreas Görgen try and fail to find them, or more likely, did he, whose support for the academic Achille Mbembe (see below) shows he is not troubled by antisemitism, deliberately want such an Islamist on his “team,” as a true representative of the faith?
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Jerusalem Post that the “German government bemoans antisemitism, then appoints secretary-general of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, Nurhan Soykan, as a consultant for the Foreign Ministry’s Religion and Foreign Policy team. So she can promote more antisemitic al-Quds marches and justify hatred of Jewish state.”
In her defense of the antisemitic al-Quds rally, Soykan told German radio station Deutschlandfunk in 2014 that opponents of Israeli politics “who want to show their anger sometimes” must be given the opportunity “to clear the air in the way of a demonstration.”
A “demonstration” is one thing. A rally where participants ceaselessly scream antisemitic slogans, call for the mass murder of Israelis, and demand the total destruction of the Jewish state, is quite another. Yet that is what Soykan supports. Did her interviewer at Deutschlandfunk not think to make the distinction for her?
German politicians and Jewish organizations have called for the al-Quds rally to be banned.
But now a supporter of that very rally has become part of the German government.
The Post first revealed in April that Görgen sent out at least seven tweets in support of an alleged antisemitic academic, Achille Mbembe, who has trivialized the Holocaust and supported Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) activity against Israel.
This Foreign Office functionary, Andreas Görgen, the director of the Foreign Ministry’s Department for Culture and Communication, is clearly a moral idiot. His tireless support for Achille Mbembe, as profound an antisemite as Louis Farrakhan or Hassan Nasrallah, should have cost Andreas Görgen his job. Here’s a small sample of Achille Mbembe’s “discourse” on Israel: “The occupation of Palestine is the biggest moral scandal of our times, one of the most dehumanizing ordeals of the century we have just entered, and the biggest act of cowardice of the last half-century. And since all they [the Jews] are willing to offer is a fight to the finish, since what they are willing to do is to go all the way—carnage, destruction, incremental extermination—the time has come for global isolation.” When people objected to Mbembe’s appearance as a main speaker at the music and cultural festival (in the end it was cancelled because of the coronavirus) Ruhrtriennale, Andreas Görgen stoutly defended him. That ought to have been more than enough for Merkel to rid her government of Görgen. She did not. Here’s a rule for Merkel to remember: a stout defender of a vicious antisemite is himself an antisemite. She did not rid her regime of him, and Görgen remained, not merely unapologetic but downright proud that he has now appointed, as a consultant on Islam to the German Foreign Office, the celebrator-of-genocide Nurhan Soykan.
When asked about the criticism of Soykan, the Germany Foreign Ministry told the Post that “The Federal Foreign Office has been supplementing its classic foreign policy between states for many years with a foreign policy of societies, since 2016 specifically also in the field of religion and foreign policy. Over 80% of the world’s population profess a religion.”
The German Foreign Ministry did not reply to the complaints about Nurhan Soykan. It simply answered with a vague announcement about how the Federal Foreign Office now includes representatives of various religions to supplement its “foreign policy between states” with a “foreign policy of societies.” No doubt that “foreign policy of societies” will provide “in-depth” and “holistic” studies of how best for Germany to be friends with the world’s Muslims. Let me guess what Nurhan Soykam will propose: “It’s long past time for Germany to stop being blackmailed by Israel, with those Zionists instrumentalizing the so-called ‘Holocaust’ for their own nefarious purposes. It’s time to recognize that whatever the Nazis did to the Jews – and there are many versions of that story — the Jews are now doing worse things to the Palestinians. Let’s not be afraid to say it. It’s time to recognize that Palestinians, too, have rights – why should they be made to pay for what happened to Jews in Europe? And in any case, whatever happened in Europe has been greatly exaggerated by the Jews to make the world feel sorry for them and overlook the crimes of their colonial-settler state. It’s Palestinian land that the Zionists stole, first in 1922, then still more in 1948, and still more in 1967, and now they propose to formally annex more of the land they have already stolen. And they will continue to expand inexorably, until they attain their dream, which is to rule an empire from the Nile to the Euphrates, unless they are stopped by the civilized world. That means Europe and the Muslims acting together. Germany can play a key role in persuading other European nations to join such a coalition. And that is what I intend to say and to repeat, to the other members of ‘our team’ working under Dr. Andreas Görgen in the Department for Culture and Communication at the German Foreign Office, where I am now proud to serve, as the first Muslim woman – and there will be many more, I’m sure — appointed to fulfill such a solemn task.”
mortimer says
Merkel’s bad judgment on the Islam file is surely evidence to Germans that she should be replaced. Germans have been scrupulous about avoiding a hint of anti-Semitism, so this lapse of judgment should be a sign that Merkel should be put out to pasture. Doesn’t everyone realize that Islam is SYSTEMICALLY ANTI-SEMITIC? If they don’t, they are not even trying to learn anything … that sort of person in power is SPONTANEOUS and very dangerous.
Merkel has cost Germans billions and billions with her dictatorial, undemocratic mass-Muslim-migration policy.
Ever since, Germany has been trying to evict as many of her fake refugees from Germany as possible.
Merkel talks like a regular person, but that’s deceptive … she has a screw loose.
lehi48 says
It’s not ignorance nor stupidity on the part of Merkel. It’s very much calculated that she is having an underling execute a strategy that she owns and found the ‘right’ Anti-Semites to carry-out. People forget that in another World Merkel was a Stasi Officer then moved over into Our World to become Head of State. This was no accident. It was training and determination that got her to her position. Her infatuation with Muslims? I’m sure it’s a means to an end that doesn’t cramp her life style.
Chuck Wintner says
Did anyone really think German attitudes toward Jews had changed? War never changes anyone’s mind.
Antiislamicman says
Suicidal behaviour employing someone that openly wants you gone, so they can take over your country.
Islam is evil and a lie. Merkel has got to know this, she’s the enemy of Germany
mortimer says
To call the Jewish homeland of Israel an ‘occupation’ is absurdly false. The vicious propagandist Nurhan Soykan knows that Arabs have the option of living in Jordan if they don’t accept Israel. No one in Germany should suggest that Israel is not a duly constituted country.
‘Palestine’ or Ottoman-owned Lower Syria was ‘occupied’ by the British Imperial and French armies in 1918 and the League of Nations decided that it would become a Jewish homeland. This was an international decision that was not to everyone’s taste, but the decision was made by a lawful international body.
However, in 1923, Arabs were illegally granted 76% of Mandatory Palestine by the Colonial Office, but that didn’t satisfy all Arabs. Some wanted ALL of Mandatory Palestine for Arabs.
The current border of Israel was more or less granted in 1923 by the Colonial Office with the intention of making that the Jewish homeland.
The United Nations Organization has not rescinded the Jewish homeland, thus, it is not an ‘occupation’, but a land grant by that international body. Nurhan Soykan knows that. It is a lie for her to call Israel an ‘occupation’. No one in Germany should deny that Israel is lawfully constituted.
medforth says
Düsseldorf Mayor criticized after Farid Bang video
Despite massive criticism, the Mayor of Düsseldorf Thomas Geisel (SPD) had a video of the controversial rapper Farid Bang published with an appeal for respect for the corona rules. However, Geisel decided not to publish a second video, in which the mayor wanted to appear together with the Düsseldorf rapper. He knew that Farid Bang was a “very controversial figure,” said Geisel on Wednesday. “I think some of what he did is disgusting.” But the musician regretted his earlier lyrics.
The anti-Semitism commissioner of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, sharply criticizes the 34-year-old musician’s choice for a public project. “There is no place for what Farid Bang represents in public and democratic life in North Rhine-Westphalia,” said the state commissioner. The rapper propagated anti-Semitism and provoked with violence-glorifying and misogynistic texts, said Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger of the “Rheinische Post”. She spoke of a fatal sign of Jewish life in Germany.
https://medforthblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/23/dusseldorf-mayor-criticized-after-farid-bang-video/
gravenimage says
Thanks for that appalling information, Medforth.
RichardL says
Doctor Mehrkill was handed the German flag by her party’s secretary and looked at him with disgust and threw it away. When about 25 cameras were rolling on live TV. How do you know she lies? Her lips are moving. She has created a unity party in Germany with socialists and communists. She was the propaganda secretary of the East German communist youth movement. She has broken the German constitution so often that by now nobody in any government feels bound by it. And of course she loves islam because it speeds up her goal of destroying Germany. But the devil is requiring her to pay up already: she cannot stand during the national anthem because she does a devil’s dance (Veitstanz) and her dirty fingernails are bleeding all the time. I bet she doesn’t sleep well and needs to take drugs.
James Lincoln says
RichardL,
To your point:
“Angela Merkel’s disrespect for the German flag”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t5fH_ywo_g
RichardL says
and, yeah: she hates Jews. The sad thing is that the Jewish Central Committee is a government organisation and they support her in everything: paying for Jew killers, voting against Israel, import Jew killers by the million and denouncing real Jews.
Daniel Bielak says
Yes.
Germany:
“Meet the new boss
“Same as the old boss”
Herb Allen says
Mutti Merkel is a no good worthless Nazi morally no different from Himmler, Hitler, Heydrich, or Mengele.
Her Jewish enablers are today’s Kapos.
DH says
Sometimes openly hating Jews will disqualify a person from a job. But often it’s overlooked. Successful minorities in general have a hard time being heard or represented. That would include Jews, most Asians, and any hard working, intelligent, sub-Saharan African. They are overlooked, of course, because they don’t fit the “narrative” (that’s sadly gaining traction right now). It’s a tragedy because this creates a culture that tells all these people that they cannot and will never succeed without government intervention. I saw it with my own eyes, here in the U.S. when the Democrats locked up the minority vote and began the “war” on poverty. This “good enough” way of looking at life is so demoralizing that families fall apart, lives remain without purpose for their entirety, and anger and outrage become virtues. In fact being a non-white loser in an Anglo country renders that person impervious to responsibility, at least in their eyes as well the eyes of their “allies”.
tgusa says
With the fall of the Berlin wall and a year later the reunification of Germany most everyone was celebrating but I had a bad feeling about the goings on there. If I had said anything everyone would have called me crazy so I just kept my thoughts to myself.
James Lincoln says
tgusa,
If it had been possible, East Germany should have joined the Visegrad Group…
tgusa says
Looking forward, those countries dodged a bullet by that not happening James.
James Lincoln says
tgusa,
Good point.
I was thinking that if East Germany had remained a totally separate country – and had retained values shared by the other Visegrad countries – maybe a deal could have been made.
Granted, a lot of “if’s”…
gravenimage says
German Foreign Ministry Hires Hijab-Wearing Muslima Who Defends Israel’s Destruction
……………
Just sickening. I’m just glad that this is an actual scandal, rather than being considered business as usual.
And what else do we know about Nurhan Soykan?
Five years ago she cited the hideous Jihad massacre at Charlie Hebdo, but only in the context of hoping this would not “fan the flames of the flames of the far right movement”–in other words, anyone who dares to recognize Jihad terror as a threat to us. She then lauds those who “stand up for Muslims”. No condemnation of this Muslim atrocity at all.
She vaguely said, when asked about freedom of speech, that Muhammed “has endured much ridicule and mockery himself, and we must also bear this. Even if it hurts.” Actually, this sounds more like a future threat than any sort of ringing support for freedom of speech.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-muslims-denounce-paris-attack-as-abuse-of-the-religion-of-peace/a-18183086
This from 2011 is also chilling:
“Criticism of Islam by German Church Official Angers Muslims”
The chairman of the Protestant Church Nikolaus Schneider has criticised Islam in Germany, stating that Islam appeared “in our society unimpressed by Enlightenment and criticism of religion”. The Central Council of Muslims strongly disapproved of the remark. General Secretary Nurhan Soykan said that no one had the right to criticise a religion and to evaluate whether or not it needed Enlightenment.
https://more.bham.ac.uk/euro-islam/tag/aiman-mazyek/page/3/
*Of course* people have the right to do this in a free society. That this Muslimah does not is deeply troubling for Germany.
FYI says
It’s mutti merkel and the muttafaqqirs of islam.
open borders,mass islamic immigration to Germany:how could this be happening?
mutti merkel was the Coudenhove-Kalergi prizemedal winner 2010
{That’s the mass-immigration Globalist plan behind the great EU project;merkel is a key promoter of this.after all that is why she won that shiny Coudenhove-kalergi medal for her work in promoting and facilitaing the Coudenhove-kalergi program,the program that calls for replacing Europeans:ideally by destroying national identity and flooding the West with islamic immigrants.It’s a REAL program BTW,not a conspiracy theory.You can even get a medal for being associated with it like mutti merkel did}
So it is no coincidence mutti merkel panders to the muslim muttafaqqirs.
OLD GUY says
Merkel: have we seen this kind of leader rise up before in Germany? What is her plan? World power through globalism. If she thinks she and her cronies can control the islamic/muslim world domination plan she is taking a huge risk that will end in a disaster for mankind.