Mustn’t make the favored and protected groups look bad.
“German Police Downplaying Antisemitism From Muslim Community, Say Experts, Following Latest Outburst of Jew Hatred,” by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, May 21, 2021:
Antisemitic acts committed by Muslims or left-wing activists are under-represented in the records of the German police, Germany’s top antisemitism official has admitted, amid continuing antisemitic demonstrations in German cities sparked by the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas.
“Israel-related antisemitism has penetrated into the middle of society,” Felix Klein — the German federal government’s commissioner tasked with combating antisemitism — said in an interview with German radio on Friday.
“About 40 percent of society agrees with sentences like: ‘With what Israel is doing, I can understand if someone has something against Jews,’” Klein observed. “So an environment has been created that might not have existed in this form seven years ago [during the Israel-Gaza war of 2014].”
While Germany has registered sharp annual increases in antisemitic hate crimes for most of the past decade, police statistics assign responsibility for a full 90 percent of these offenses to neo-Nazi groups. As Klein remarked in his radio interview, the demonstrations witnessed in recent days would seem to “counteract” this statistical picture….
Lamya Kaddor, a Muslim writer living in Germany, said in a separate piece that she had been “stunned” by the willingness of young Muslims in Germany to participate in angry pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
“I am stunned that so many people from a Muslim family background can be mobilized for this at such short notice,” Kaddor wrote in an article for broadcaster NDR. “There is no other occasion when they flock to the streets in such large numbers. This power of mobilization in the Middle East conflict can only be explained through antisemitism.”
RichardL says
what is worse: all anti-Jewish acts that are not provably committed by the hard left or Muslims, is automatically counted as right-wing. Arabic language messages and swastikas on synagogues are thus right-wing crimes.
gravenimage says
Also true that many–most–of these crimes are misattributed to a largely fictional “far right”.
alberto gorin says
was there not in 2016 a truck attack on a Christian market for Christmas in Germany?
by muslims
Michael says
The official police position seems to be: “Ze Choos are not ze frentz of Churmany!”
LB says
And thus, Germany comes around full circle once again. What is it with Germans and their extreme radical swings in politics? Can’t they just tone down the rhetoric and be in the center for a while? Perhaps tearing down the wall was a mistake after all…
RichardL says
read Dr Faustus by Thomas Mann. Best explanation of Germany. They search for a breakthrough. I fear them. I am German and carry this horror in me.
Infidel says
Or maybe split them into what they were before Bismarck, or maybe into their various provinces – Bavaria, Saxony, North Rhein Westphalia… oh, and bring back Prussia. Make them all independent countries, albeit German speaking
DavidR says
People who never think about politics fall into line when the topic is Jews who are hands down the most hated ethnicity in the World. I think there are 2 reasons for this. 1) tradition 2) envy
But really I don’t know the reason anti semitism marches on through generation after generation. On the contrary it appears obvious to me that Jews should be admired for their persistence, generosity, creativity, tolerance and intelligence. But these are the traits their detractors may lack and would rather hate Jews than work harder (if at all) to be like them.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Germany: Official admits that antisemitic acts by Muslims or leftists are often not reported in police records
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An open admission that these crimes are being hidden from the German public. Just appalling.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“An open admission that these crimes are being hidden from the German public. Just appalling.”
Yes, and makes one wonder what else they are hiding…
gravenimage says
Good question, James.
andra says
While Germany has registered sharp annual increases in antisemitic hate crimes for most of the past decade, police statistics assign responsibility for a full 90 percent of these offenses to neo-Nazi groups.
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Each antisemitic hate crime and each crime against a Muslim which are not solved get counted as right crimes. So you must not take this statistic for true.
Example: Some years ago in Bavaria. A house was renovated to become a home for refugees. Some day before someone moved in it was burnt an in the ruins there were many Hakenkreuze. The traitor was not found for a long time. So it was counted as a right wing hate crime. But months later the Macedonian ownder of the house was convicted as the arsonist. It was insurance fraud. But they do not change the statistics, it is still counted as a right wing hate crime.
Example: The synaggue in Düsseldorf was set on fire. The then Bundeskanzler Schröder started the “rebellion of the Decent” an a government fund against right wing criminaltiy. Back then it was a big thing that jew-hatred was back in Germany, back in the country of “Never-again!”
And some months later, all quiet and without a government reaction: The traitors were a Palaestinian and a man from Morocco with German passport. Both were Muslims.
And the fire of the Düsseldorf Synagogue even today is counted and treated as a right-wing crime in the MSM and politics.
gravenimage says
Yes–this kind of thing is not uncommon.
Fred van de Bunt says
Muslims kick the shit out of Rabbi’s, as they explained many times, not because of any bad feeling against the Rabbi being a Jew, but because of him representing Israel, that suppresses people. So they have as it appears a humanitarian and with that a Leftist progressive motive.
The Left call themselves progressives, so they strife by definition for a better and progressing society, so any act they commit, also against Jews, is always to make society better.
It might sound pretty twisted, but it convinces the German police that their acts are okay, I suppose.
OLD GUY says
That’s it sweep it under the rug, stick your head in the sand, neither have ever worked out. But then is there a hidden agenda? Germany did try to exterminate the Jewish people, is that still hanging on in some? Lets report crimes accurately good and bad.
Hoi Polloi says
Hmmm. All very convenient for Germans who want to appear to be stamping out Nazism while rebuilding themselves into a highly anti-Semitic country. Especially given the above comment about refusals to reclassify crimes even in the face of hard evidence. A friend who’d been stationed in Germany years ago warned me then that it was still entrenched there. I was loath to believe it and now must give him credit for being right.
Andrew Blackadder says
I have an (ex) friend living near Munich who will have nothing more to do with me because I told her that islamic teachings are even worse that Hitlers teachings as muslims have been taught to hate Jewish people for 1400 years and Hitler only started his hate around 1935 or so…
These are friends I knew in the 1970s, and now no more, as she told me she speaks with the muslim women at the Market and they are all friendly towards her, so I asked if she has engaged any of them in a discussion about islam and what it teaches… She then called me a racist, fascist, and the all time favourite of the day… drum roll please. An islamop… you know…. the thing…
This woman is from Garmisch,Bavaria,on the southern border with Austria, and her Mother was a real old Nazi and her Father was in the SS, but she was always ashamed of them for what they were involved in all those years ago, however today she seems to embrace muslims.
FYI… At the highest peak in Germany, outside Garmisch, on top of the Mountain known as The Zugspitize is an islamic prayer room with a toilet beside it that states, “For use by muslims ONLY”, in German of course… So, a toilet in Germany that the German people are not allowed to us but foreigners can…So by islamic law, Germany has been conquered by islam and I suggest you ask ANY German if they are aware of this prayer room…
Hoi Polloi says
Wonder what would happen to me if I wandered into one of the many islamic prayer rooms in German airports? What western government can justify establishing spaces forbidden to its own citizens in an age when said governments proscribe any use of even bathrooms and showers as anything but complete and absolute free-for-alls?